Letters to the Editor
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typo
It's Kean, not Keane. Love your column Glenn!
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Yeah, Glenn, I'm Not Holding My Breath
It would be lovely if this administration was brought to heel on this and many other matters, but it looks like the prevailing attitude is to let them slide off into quiet retirement. A job well done for the PNAC.
Remember, any uproar over this would be contrary to the spirit of bipartisanship.
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What another good nutritious pot of hot soup. You gonna have us burn our lips yet...
A you a helpin' us survive.
It's good victual 'food for thought' that's essential for a fair, meaningful, and balanced healthy lifestyle.
~ a do always remember a Holocaust survivor. A Pol Pot (etc.,) survivor. A survivor anywhere in these abusive war times...
~ defining 'adversity' for future children...You all care now, as the singer said, "Adults mess the world up. And it's okay for us kids to get a bit pissed and say poop." Remain controlled and respectfully angry at the GOPS...
You keep a making a little "stink-stew." It's a sweet aroma to real citizen people.
Thanks again. Be watchful. Remain calm. Health.
Don't accept any wooden nickles from politico's.
GOPS really are stinking bums. Respect? Why, No!
Why should anyone? Never give up. I'll just listen.
I'll visit the neighbors and eat left over snacks.
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Glenn,
As I try to keep from throwing-up, I can't imagine how awful people like you, who make a living and thus must respond to these atrocities on a daily basis must feel and how often you too are nauseated by the compliance the democrats illuminate as they play weak sister to the lemmings supporting the lawless Bushit administration. I really do feel for you and the rage and dumbfounded-ness you must feel as you scratch your head in wonderment at how far down the hill this republic has slid over the past seven years. It is truly remarkable that there are so many followers that support the unlawful antics of our dysfunctional government. I for one do not see hope on the horizon. The Jay Rockefellers of the worlds who are/were supposed to be our bastions of hope are in it as deep as the Bushits. Nauseating, pure nausea...
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They may as well accuse them.
Given Pelosi's stance on impeachment, we could have 17 smoking guns, evidence of a multitude of high crimes and misdemeanors, and it won't make a damned bit of difference. We have a Democratic majority that has willingly sacrificed LIVES (by failing to do everything possible to stop the Iraq conflict), our RIGHTS (by continuing to enable the Adminstration's trampling on them), and our VOTES (by ignoring the mandate they were given), all in an attempt to cement its gains in the 2006 election and consolidate its power. If these are the principles - self-interest and political expediency - that the new majority intends to be guided by, may they fail miserably. Every new discovery of lawbreaking by this Administration no longer makes me angry at them, but rather the Democratic majority leaders who refuse to hold them accountable for their own selfish reasons. A pox on both their houses.
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Powerful language
but will anyone listen?
I think we all need to contact our Congresscritters and demand appointment of a special prosecutor. Maybe this would be a good opportunity to write a new special prosecutor law. Lord knows we will need a new law and many prosecutors to sort through all of the mess Cheney, Addington, Bush and Gonzales have created. Let's see lots of frog-marching in 2008.
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This has been another edition....
What possible justification is there for the White House to refuse to say what the role of Addington, Gonzales, Bush and Cheney was in all of this?
None.
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re: until....
Someone is willing to do something about this lawless administration its good to know you keep connecting the dots Glenn. The stench which prevails from DC today will one day be eliminated or this country will become a parody of itself. I feel like I'm in a western waiting for Clint Eastwood to show up.
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John Podhoretz -versus- the "fetishists"
http://commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/1553
Is Jose Rodriguez a Hero?
John Podhoretz - 12.11.2007[...] One will doubtless wait in vain to see the anti-waterboarding fetishists struggle in the reverse — struggle with the revelation that the use of the technique actually did interrupt Al Qaeda terror plots and how that calls into question the dogmatic certainty of their view. The decision Rodriguez made — not to give ammunition to those who might use leaked copies of tapes as anti-American propaganda and to protect those Americans whose faces appeared on those tapes — appears to have been, at least in the early reckoning, a genuinely principled and patriotic act. If he is forced to create a defense fund to help pay his legal bills, I’ll be the first to send in a check.
- - John Podhoretz
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Empty Posturing
the 9/11 commission is a JOKE.
My understanding was that there had never been a day in US history when more war games were being staged on the East Coast as on the morning of 9/11/2001.
Lots of covering up to do in Washington, I imagine, if the so called 'terrorists' (those who had been let into this country by our so called leaders and allowed to train in CIA flight schools) are so closely associated to the US para-government.
All this is empty posturing about videos so they can claim to have been interested in preserving human rights.
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John McCain, principled maverick
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/mccain-on-the-destroyed-cia-tapes
December 7, 2007
McCain on the Destroyed C.I.A. Tapes
By Marc SantoraSitting on the back of his campaign bus Thursday night, Mr. McCain quickly scanned The New York Times account on a BlackBerry as the story broke. He shook his head gravely.
“I am astonished,” he said. “But am I surprised? No.”
He said that he wanted to know who ordered their destruction and what was on the tapes and that people needed to be held accountable. But, he said he did not endorse the Democrats’ calls today for an investigation into the matter [...]
- - John McCain, as reported by Marc Santora
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Why they destroyed the tapes...
From Kean and Hamilton, two key excerpts:
"The commission did not have a mandate to investigate how detainees were treated; our role was to investigate the history and evolution of Al Qaeda and the 9/11 plot."
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" A second set [of questions], even more important in our view, asked for details about the translation process in the interrogations; the background of the interrogators; the way the interrogators handled inconsistencies in the detainees’ stories; the particular questions that had been asked to elicit reported information; the way interrogators had followed up on certain lines of questioning; the context of the interrogations so we could assess the credibility and demeanor of the detainees when they made the reported statements; and the views or assessments of the interrogators themselves."
Points once again to the idea that it is not so much a case of trying to cover-up how these two Al-Qaeda captives were treated; but rather a case of what they told interrogators.
In the case of Abu Zubayda, there has been a theory kicking around for a while that he tied the 9/11 attacks back to senior figures in the Saudi and Pakistani governments. Here's one article reciting the theory:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,480240,00.html
So while I can understand the argument that the destruction of the tapes was to destroy evidence of waterboarding and other techniques that the government argues are not torture, I don't fully buy it. The tapes - and clear answers from the CIA about what was obtained from the interrogations - were witheld from the 9/11 Commission. The gaps in the 9/11 Commission report were conspicuously surrounding Saudi connections to the 9/11 attacks, and this appears to be more of the same.
And that's the issue to pursue, not whether Jose Rodriguez was trying to protect CIA agents or the agency's reputation.