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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
As long as questions are being listed, how about a straightforward, yes-or-no question for ABC:
Was Ivins one of the four people who told ABC that tests revealed the presence of bentonite in the anthrax?
And while this is going on, Debbie Howell at the WaPost is more concerned about the unusually high number of photos of Obama:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080102874.html
Glenn, you and Josh Marshall are providing the best news coverage there is these days. Thank you for digging into this cesspool and being a real journalist.
Go get 'em!
This time we have to engergize the public to the point that they will not accept anything less than full exposure of the facts. Congress has to be ready to insist on a meaningful penalty for a contempt of congress. The M$M has to stand up and be counted for the manipulation they have accepted and realize the damage they have done to our nation and the opportunity that lays at their feet.
The most vital question is how the manipulation of facts by the Bush Administration about an anthrax threat coming from Iraq, which was totally false as were so many other pieces of propaganda put out by the Busheviks, led us to a tragic, unnecessary war. This can be the alternative to impeachment or a means of carrying "impeachment" into an Obama Administration.
Glenn, I know you sense the opportunity for truth with this issue and your leadership will be vital in its success or failure.
I have always "believed" (actual evidence to support such belief being impossible to obtain), that the anthrax attacks were a government operation, intended to take advantage of post-9/11 fears (and I am NOT a "9/11 Truth" subscriber). According to footnote 18 to the Bruce Ivins story in Wikipedia "no autopsy" is "necessary." This all smells very bad, to say the least.
Barack Obama should call for a full Congressional committee investigation of the anthrax case.
The MSM has been reporting as of yesterday that the DOJ "expects" to come to a decision mid-week or so about releasing their case against Dr. Ivins with the MSM's thrust that the DOJ will indeed release it.
What will we be fed this time?
It is likely, even hightly probable, that the case against Dr. Ivins will have no "smoking gun" as evidence. No evidence that could concretely and unabiguously link the anthrax attacks directly to Dr. Ivins and to no other.
If the government had such a "smoking gun", one can be sure that the government would have made its case long ago.
Instead, we are likely to get conclusions based on "inference", and as is typical of our government in this day and age, we are unlikely to get the raw data by which they "infer" their conclusions.
The "case" the government is likely to make will be gussied up with pretty pink ribbons and bows; all substituting for "facts" the government either does not have or "facts" the government chooses to link together where no explanation will be forthcoming on just how those links could be connected.
Perhaps I am being too hopeful or even naive, but I expect there to be serious scrutiny focused on this subject. If not by the few parts of the MSM remaining who still believe in their craft (Hah!), it will certainly be undertaken by the blogosphere!
I really applaud your call Glenn for a serious Congressional investigation. Given the timing of the political season however, I suspect that if a Congressional investigation is to occur, it is not likely to be until after the 1st of the year. Electioneering takes precedence almost everything else in the life of politicians.
At least, not yet.
A confidentiality privilege is just that, a "privilege," one that our esteemed M$M has not proved they deserve to wield, since they persist in doing so at our expense on so many of the really big stories.
Perhaps one problem is in using the word "cover," to describe reporting on a story.
"Source confidentiality is premised on a model of journalism where the media is adversarial to the Government..."
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That model is long-dead, replaced by a vertically integrated infotainment corporate oligarchy.
When the anthrax attacks hit, the Democrats went running for cover and demanded answers, because they knew they were being targeted.
The Republicans, by contrast, went quietly about their business, because they knew they were not.
There's only one dot to connect here, people.
It is now upto the rest of us to get our representatives to pay attention, and demand answers to these questions.
My job is easy :) my rep. is Rush Holt!
Glenn,
I have not finished reading today's post yet and i won't have time till later when I'll check out the 580+ responses (wow! lots of activity yesterday.)
I suggested late last night on your previous post that Accountability Now and other strategic partners might orchestrate a campaign to elevate the noise level in pressuring the network and/or Ross to give up the four identities.
Maybe it's just me but I view this as an issue that wants to have a righteous outcome.
...and HE can't get an investigation going?
Oh yeah, he's the Chmn. of the Judiciary Committee. Out of his jurisdiction.
I think the main danger is that the media, in the corporate role model, has spoon fed it's audience with juicy entertainment distractions to help the MSM transgress from a viable delivery vehicle of truth into just sidelined, well paid and groomed folks who now are simply regulated to being the arbiters of nothing more than a conventional wisdom type of fairness. The details are just too disturbing and change really means pain. And of course loss of the golden knee pad connections for the beautiful talking heads.
No one could have predicted!
There's a reason we call you Glennzilla...they're afraid of you. Well, as afraid of you as they are of anyone, I guess.
Oh yeah, he's the Chmn. of the Judiciary Committee.
In a dictatorship that means about as much as being the host of a bridge club.
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
Salon headlines in your mailbox
