Silly citizen, accountability is for the little people, not for us serious Beltway types.
general hospital is more interesting ! This all sounds to familiar, Big bad bush is finally going to get it! Yea sure
and who cares? You people can't and the democrats can't and I can't... So hurry up and get g.h. on and enjoy something really tantalizing like sonny finally retiring from his overdue post as head of the most popular soap in the u.s.a. thats what really matters to americans today!
They should have prevented this shit from happening in the first place, in order to save time now.
But they didn't, and now they have to cover their asses.
I'm cynical enough to state that not only has this stuff gone on, it will continue forever, because the bar has been lowered enough for anything to happen.
Reform isn't one of those things, and an investigation will lead absolutely nowhere, after years of legal wrangling, court orders, and committees.
Besides, there's the one option Bush will have-the power of the pardon. I can safely say that he will undoubtedly give everyone in his administration, past and present, blanket pardons for crimes they may or may not have committed, and then seal all papers dealing with said crimes in his private library.
We'll never know where all the bodies and the secrets are in our lifetimes.
Mike Ruppert has written extensively about the history of PROMIS at his now orphaned website From The Wilderness.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/052401_promis.html
So, if the telecoms were feeding this nasty beast Main Core, then retroactive immunity seems a bit more problematic, eh?
So, we're all willing to accept that this neo-con cabal - Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Kristol...the PNAC gang...has been willing to wage illegal, aggressive wars based on lies, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousand of Iraqis, tortured terror suspects around the globe, and carried out a MASSIVE spying program against American citizens, with the possible "detention" of people deemed a "threat to national security" in the event of a national emergency. We've witnessed the end of Habeas Corpus with the Military Tribunals Act of 2006, and we're seeing more attacks on the Constitution every week.
We're willing to believe all this of our "leaders"...murder, torture, illegal spying, massive databases of American citizens for potential detention...but questioning any element of the "official 9/11" conspiracy is completely off limits? It's tin-foil hat territory.
The former President of Italy - Francesco Cossiga - has stated that all of the European intelligence agencies are aware that 9/11 was orchestrated by rogue elements from within the US intelligence agencies and the Mossad.
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/12/former-president-of-italy-911-was.html
The former German Minister of Defense, Andreas Von Bulow has publicly stated that 9/11 was orchestrated by the United States as a False Flag event. It gave Bush and the neo-cons carte blanche to pursue their imperial plans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_von_B%C3%BClow
In fact, there is a huge, growing list of highly credible people - top military leaders, intelligence professionals, scientists, structural engineers, architects, members of Congress, legal scholars, first responders, family members of 9/11 victims...even 9/11 Commission members - who have raised serious questions about the "official story".
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/11/911-roster.html
Read David Ray Griffin - 9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press. It illustrates 25 serious internal contradictions within the official 9/11 story, which render it completely untenable.
http://www.amazon.com/11-Contradictions-Letter-Congress-Press/dp/1566567165
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz...this whole shadow government needs to be exposed and brought out into the light of day. They have gone way too far, and the masses are awakening to the stench of treason. They should be put on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The only way the US will continue as an actual credible democracy is for these CRIMINALS to stand trial and be held accountable for every murder they've committed, and every prisoner that they've tortured.
Go ahead Trolls...have at me. Just know that the filthy, vile scumbags whom you're defending and protecting do not give a shit about you. You are simply their slaves, and will be treated as such. So, get back to trollin' you little piss-ant bitches!
We need to force our "representatives" to start the impeachment process or history will not look kindly upon any of us. Our democracy is broken badly and may never recover.
Impeachment? That's just for dalliances with portly pepperpots, don't you know.
Wasn't the Bush family run out of Britain following some sort of failed coup attempt? Didn't Bush's evil grandfather attempt to stage a coup in this country? I think I heard something about it on Fox News.
Remember how he was killed/commit suicide over the Inslaw case, and how it was just a patent dispute between Ed Meese and Inslaw at the time? Always wondered why it would be so important to keep a scandal reporter quiet that they had to resort to Amiram Nir style strange death tactics.
Canuckistan Bob: Software gets upgraded and ported. But you knew that, right?
Sure the democrats and republicans are all complicit in undermining our constitutional liberties. Big intelligence operations aren't run by any one person or agency. That's part of the problem - how do you ascertain any kind of accountability for something so amorphous? And who is the knight in shining armor who hasn't been compromised by the information collected, either personally or indirectly (close family, etc.)?
This article smacks of X-Files conspiracy idiocy. Just look at the scary cover image! Boo! There is no database uber alles; there are many databases, all interconnected using various ever evolving interfaces. Vast databases of information on ordinary Americans? You bet. An evil mastermind behind it all? Ridiculous. Public contempt for bureaucratic malfeasance? Not anytime soon. The President is not in charge of this. The VP is not in charge of this. Career unelected bureaucrats are in charge of this. The information collected is backed up, distributed, and all but indestructible, bet on it.
You don't have to break into someone's office to steal the files anymore, the files are all electronic. It's ever so much easier to be surreptitious these days. Breaking and entering is something ordinary Americans can sink their teeth into. Data mining and data warehousing not so much, even though the magnitude of what's happening is so much greater.
The big story here is one of mass technological illiteracy and a consequent apathy toward government run data mining programs; not that a small cadre of evil puppeteers runs a sooper sekret domestic surveillance program.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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