Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 1018
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Now I sound like 'bop, but...
[Read the article: The NYT's Michael Cooper demonstrates what real reporting is]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...I really AM leaving after this. Had to peruse the comments. BTW, jayackroyd@ 12:55? I second WT's standing O. Guess I'm incapable of consuming only one in the Saloon. Speaking of which...
Are any of you lot going to [whatever the hell they've renamed Yearly Kos] in Austin this summer? You ought to, Austin's a fun town. I'll bring the requisite IPA or whatever else floats your boat. Plenty of people here I'd like to quaff a brew with. Maybe we could collectively convince the right hon. Mr. G. to join us for a meal.
Later
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O/T, but I live in Texas, and...
[Read the article: The NYT's Michael Cooper demonstrates what real reporting is]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...this is how bass ackward this place is, for fock's sake!
http://tinyurl.com/2wr2dp
"The state's director of science curriculum has resigned after being accused of creating the appearance of bias against teaching intelligent design..."
(-6.25, -7.13) "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King, Jr.
(I left my Kos sig in for the benefit of those engaging in self-pwn3ge) 8')
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O/T FISA
[Read the article: National Review reporter caught fabricating; where is the "liberal media"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Marty Lederman (Balkinization} provides this link to a "comprehensive" FISA analysis
http://tinyurl.com/2l2gmm
I haven't waded through it yet, and I'm no Ondolette, et al, so no comment from me.
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ASIDE
[Read the article: Time magazine refused to publish responses to Klein's false smears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was never aware of (until just this moment) the extent that GG rules Kos' world.
All kidding aside, it's great to see his posts featured so prominently in the front page diaries over there.
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'must
[Read the article: Time magazine refused to publish responses to Klein's false smears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Google "Lakoff" for more on that.
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RE. Guantanamo
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]GG's all over this, I'm sure, but for the rest of us...
Boumediene v. Bush (Is Habeas Corpus dead yet?)
http://tinyurl.com/2oh6aq
I’ve never listened to an oral argument in front of the Supreme Court, before. Really, really interesting, I thought. But that’s me…
Transcript is here.
http://tinyurl.com/yvm8k3
I read along and listened.
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@Arne
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Arne, will you please head over to Balkinization and give HWSNBN what for? He's such a tool. His first quote in the comments begins "Roberts and Scalia's questions unsurprisingly indicated that they are not buying the argument that the common law as incorporated into the Constitution provides foreign aliens with the right to challenge their designations as POWs via habeas corpus."
The Gov'ts argument hinges on the fact that the Gitmo prisoners are NOT classified as POW's fer chris'sake!
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ondelette
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I posted links to the audio & transcript earlier.
Gov't argues they're "unlawful combatants". If they were POW's the Geneva Convention would apply and etc. But it doesn't, says Clement. Then again, IANAL.
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'lette
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I went beck and reread your post, which I initially skimmed, and now I get yer gist. Blame my density on my massive headache.
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I just railed @ David Gregory...
[Read the article: "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...on the Diane Rehm show. [My comments were with respect to the NIE reassessment, Admin. war-mongering, and Corp.media enabling] My mic was off after my comment, so I couldn't rebut the f*cking assh*le. I'll post the link when it's available in an hour or so.
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Little help?
[Read the article: "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Damn, I have steam coming out of my ears! Can anybody help me find David Gregory's email address?
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Thanks
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hadn't found that. I instead ran across some other link saying that messages wouldn't be forwarded directly to (I think the term used was) "personalities"...
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OK, my buddy just sent me this.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dunno about Posner's credibility. And, unknown provenance, but the source is generally very trustworthy. All I can say is, Holy SH*T!
A Question About Those Destroyed CIA Tapes
The prevailing assumption is that the tapes were destroyed to conceal harsh CIA interrogation methods. Gerald Posner suggests another possible explanation:
Re the breaking news that the CIA destroyed the videotapes of interrogations with 2 terror suspects, you might have seen that the tapes of the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah were destroyed.
You might also recall that in my 2003 NYT bestseller (reached #2), Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, my last chapter was titled, "The Interrogation." Based on two active US intelligence sources, I was the first to disclose Zubaydah's interrogation. To date, I am the only reporter to have printed the info about what happened to him.
Zubaydah, wounded when he was captured in Pakistan, was fooled in a fake flag operation to believe that the Saudis held him. Instead of being afraid of the ‘Saudis,’ he demanded to talk to three Saudi princes (one, the nephew of the King, who happened to be in the U.S. on 9/11). He gave his interrogators the private cell phone numbers of all 3. He did the same regarding the chief of Pakistan's air force.
After the U.S. told the Saudis and Pakistanis of Zubaydah's finger pointing, all four men had tragic 'accidents.' The King's nephew died of complications from liposuction at the age of 43. A day later, the 41 year old Prince named by Zubaydah died in a one-car accident on his way to the funeral of the King’s nephew. The third named prince, age 25, died a week later of "thirst," according to the Saudi Royal Court. And shortly after that, the chief of Pakistan’s air force died when his plane exploded with his wife and 15 of his top aides on board
When my book was published, CIA officials trashed it 'off the record,' but made no public comment. I have always held the same position. There is (or was) firm evidence of what transpired, of whether my reporting was accurate or not. Make the interrogation tapes public and then we'll know whether one of the top al Qaeda operatives accused leading Saudi royals and a top Pakistani military man - now all dead - of being his sponsors. And accused two of them – the King’s nephew and the Pakistani air force chief – of having advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks. Now, suddenly coincidence of coincidence, the CIA says the Zubaydah interrogation tapes are destroyed. How convenient.
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And, it's O/T, but
[Read the article: "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...here's the link to the DR show:
http://wamu.org/programs/dr/07/12/07.php#18236
My comments start @ ~ 38:15 in.
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@L.W.M
[Read the article: "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Apropos of alpha males, and base jumping, check this!
http://www.biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=4262