Letters to the Editor
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Shooter... the slow rat is the last one in and a rotten egg
White House struggles to fill senior key posts
“The Bush administration is facing growing difficulties in filling a rising number of high-level vacancies following a recent spate of senior departures. In the last 10 days alone Mr Bush has lost four senior officials and more resignations are expected to follow. ‘I wouldn’t describe this as disintegration,’ said one senior official. ‘But there are worrying large gaps opening up and it is very hard to recruit high-quality people from outside.’
Maybe if you stay in a Holiday Inn tonite, Shooter, you can get a job with the maladministration. You could be the last rat to leave the sinking ship.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3828401e-fd89-11db-8d62-000b5df10621.html
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Pooty
One guy has pleaded guilty to doing something Pat Leahy did
In Leahy's case, the information was not classified and it was determined there was no ethical or criminal violation. Leahy leaked unclassified non-sensitive information to an American journalist, not agents of a foreign power. The leak to the press in the Franklin case came from the administration so the FBI would be forced to act, forestalling any further investigation. Franklin was sacrificed, like Plame, to protect the real criminals in our government and other Israeli covert agents.
and providing classified information was also applauded by the left in the NSA leaks to the NY Times.
Since 2000 the amount of non-sensitive information being classified by the government has reached astronomical proportions. It's a canard to claim this is onlyn a concern of "the left" but you know that. It's not OK no matter what party or political alignment you adhere to. It's only applauded by authoritarians, hypocrites and criminals with something to hide. We've been over this before. None of what the NYTimes published was news to anyone. NYTimes, 7/2005:
Driven in part by fears of terrorism, government secrecy has reached a historic high by several measures, with federal departments classifying documents at the rate of 125 a minute as they create new categories of semi-secrets bearing vague labels like "sensitive security information."
Keeping Secrets
A record 15.6 million documents were classified last year, nearly double the number in 2001, according to the federal Information Security Oversight Office. Meanwhile, the declassification process, which made millions of historical documents available annually in the 1990's, has slowed to a relative crawl, from a high of 204 million pages in 1997 to just 28 million pages last year.
The increasing secrecy - and its rising cost to taxpayers, estimated by the office at $7.2 billion last year - is drawing protests from a growing array of politicians and activists, including Republican members of Congress, leaders of the independent commission that studied the Sept. 11 attacks and even the top federal official who oversees classification.
The other was found guilty of perjury, to which the JURORS thought he should be pardoned.
The jurors thought he was a fall guy, sacrificed, like Franklin and Plame and many others before them. They wanted Rove, Cheney and Bush, and not so they could pardon them, so they could convict them.
I'll stack that up against Feinstein, Reid and Cool Cash Jefferson D-La any old time.
And yet, with a DoJ salted with political partisan hacks from Liberty University, not one conviction. Has Jefferson even been indicted yet? Maybe that's the problem, Incompetent political partisan hacks.
And some say Glenn Greenwald's trolls are the classiest on the internet. If you guys are the cream of the crop, no wonder you couldn't hold onto power.
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Cool!
And some say Glenn Greenwald's trolls are the classiest on the internet.
I had no idea we were the subject of discussion elsewhere in the blogosphere, but I for one will accept the compliment.
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I'm VERY Confused!
L.W.M.
White House struggles to fill senior key posts
“The Bush administration is facing growing difficulties in filling a rising number of high-level vacancies following a recent spate of senior departures. In the last 10 days alone Mr Bush has lost four senior officials and more resignations are expected to follow. ‘I wouldn’t describe this as disintegration,’ said one senior official. ‘But there are worrying large gaps opening up and it is very hard to recruit high-quality people from outside.’
Since when has "heckuva job, Brownie" Bush been interested in hiring (a) quality people (b) from outside?
This does not compute!
Wait, I know!
It must be that ole librul media we always hear so much about. Tryin' to stir up trouble where there really is none.
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I don't recall defending anyone
All I did was point out that your heroes, if anything, are as untroubled by 'law' justice. and decency as anyone else. But please please, go on. You amuse me with your snarling.
It was funny to watch in ZA a few years ago when Mandela was at the apotheosis of his influence and then it turned out that his wife was stealing from the government and had a hand in assassinating a few people as well. Public opinion was rather divided on it. Many people fummfummed and tried to distance themselves but an equal number of ANC partisans actually supported her under the rubric that, well, in a revolution, sometimes you just have to kill a few innocent people. These are the people who run ZA today. I guess 'rule of law' depends on who get to enforce the law.
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Nothing to deflect....
Indeed there is nothing to deflect. Glenn presented his case, made the appropriate disclaimers in the fine print at the end, and there is no argument from me about trial verdicts.
The Bush administration has pushed the limits of executive power, and the Supreme court pushed back. Remedies required by law have been followed, signing statements notwithstanding. The strategy in Iraq has changed, spending was vetoed, and the current round of investigations about USAs is stalled.
Economic growth is continuing, and the world is voting in (more)conservative leaders in Europe. And, there STILL have been no attacks on American soil since 9/11. In short, life is good, and you people just can't stand it.
This is a wonderful example of how liberals, by definition, cannot ever be happy. Life will never be perfect, liberals think they are perfection, therefore the imperfectness of the world is someone else's fault.
That inherent negativity is why Air America fails. No one wants to hear "doom and gloom" all the time. But I suppose you folks just can't help yourselves, it must be like Tourette's syndrome.
So, we don't care about the yapping of pit yorkies. It's all just noise. Meanwhile there are interesting things going on in the world, much more interesting than the latest paroxysm of petulance, practiced by pusillanimous partisans. And I am here to help.