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Wednesday, January 7, 2009 12:00 AM

The DOJ pursues the "real criminal" in the NSA spying scandal

While the high-level lawbreakers are protected from consequences by our political class, only the courageous whistle-blower is subject to criminal prosecution.

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009 04:11 PM

@ Lotsa Feet

[T]rue believers like you who accept no criticism and brook no opposition are exactly why our Founding Fathers did their very best to create a complicated government structure which would hopefully forever bar dangerous nut cases such as yourselves from ever winning power.

Oh, yes. They specified that election by popular majority would be a hallmark of the system. That keeps far-out fringe moonbats like us from co-opting the system and putting in our own favourite Hitlers into the Oval Office. Oh, wait....

Cheers,

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 04:23 PM

RE From: No Comment, without comment

by launching a massive manhunt, headed by an FBI Special Agent named Lawless

Agent Lawless? Are you fucking kidding me? Isn't that one of those '40's or '50's serials?

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 04:32 PM

@ lotus feet . . .

we'll allow any type of disagreement around here so long as it's rooted in objectively observable factual reality. Opinions based on delusions and blind faith not so much. That doesn't make us intellectually intolerant it simply means we base our decisions generally on fact and reason. You want to believe in the tooth fairy more power to you but that doesn't make your opinion on the "question of whether or not tooth fairies exist in the reality" entitled to much deference or respect. You want to slap down some evidence the tooth fairy exists we'll argue the merits fairly.

Oh and by the way----what in the hell are you going on and on about here all day? Your troll insult capacitor/resistor setup must be all miswired because I can't make heads or tails of what your saying to even be able to take offense. Come with some real game or shove off cause your schtick is real LAME.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 04:36 PM

@ rrheard

@ lotus feet . . .

we'll allow any type of disagreement around here so long as it's rooted in objectively observable factual reality.

Actually, Glenn even lets the compleat froot-loops comment (as witness Lotsa's and Rocky's screeching here). And then we ridicule them mercilessly.

Cheers,

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 04:36 PM

Strangely Enough

Yep. As Horton phrased it at: http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/12/hbc-90004022

Now he’s the target of a ruthless and abusive federal criminal investigation–at the direction of a former Tennessee prosecutor turned FBI agent named Lawless. Nomen est omen.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 04:42 PM

Or, why you never name a horse "Snake."

Nomen est omen.

Literally "Name is omen." Implies that the name is fitting for the object or person.

from: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Latin_proverbs

Which, BTW, is a pretty cool page. I bookmarked it.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 04:44 PM

@ Little Brother

Sadly, I was forced to unsubscribe from Harry's love letters........they were giving the Prilosec a run for my stomach. ;-}

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 04:48 PM

Lotus feet

If the people who disagree with you are innately evil, then it's a OK to murder them, right? - Lotus feet

It probably wouldn't hurt you to Google or Wiki the term, logic, before submitting your next post.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 04:54 PM

@ Jim Montague

To continue your list:

40. The Pat Tillman "friendly fire" fiasco.

41. The Moussaoui trial.

42. The 2004 election problems including corrupted voting machines, diverted data in Ohio, caging, deleted voter registrations and other voter suppression, etc.

43. The 9/11 Commission report and its recommendations ignored(and the "investigation" that was an underfunded whitewash).

44. The Iraq Study Group - whose recommendations were ignored.

45. Gasoline prices over $4 a gallon in the midwest and higher on the coasts.

I suppose I can think of more. There must be at least 50.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 04:57 PM

Oh!, -- Lotus Breath

If the people who disagree with you are innately evil, then it's a OK to murder them, right?

If you're trying to drag us back to the entire basis of your argument of yesterday, it's not going to work.

Or, more likely, you're in the wrong thread. Since you seem to be in your own universe, it wouldn't surprise me a bit.

Hint: today's topic is the NSA spying scandal, yesterday's was about Israel murdering innocent Palestinians.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 04:59 PM

c_o on Reid

"We [Senate] determine who sits in the Senate. And the House determines who sits in the House. So there's clearly legal authority for us to do whatever we want to do. This goes back for generations."

A revealing slip that ties in with Glenn's early December post on nepotism among our political class. Carolyn Kennedy leaps to mind at the moment.

One wonders......

Did Reid have a nepotistic mentor? Or did he just have to work extra hard to become a superior felatiateur?

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 05:01 PM

Horrible spelling

'fellatioteur'.

Obviously.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 05:01 PM

Whistle Blower

And, (though she was upset by the Panetta nomination), DiFi signed off, without apparent protest, on most of the physical and legal atrocities of the criminal conspiracy headed by Bush and Cheney.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 05:03 PM

Pure, unadulterated idiocy

You are doing a very good job in making my case that true believers like you who accept no criticism and brook no opposition are exactly why our Founding Fathers did their very best to create a complicated government structure which would hopefully forever bar dangerous nut cases such as yourselves from ever winning power. -- Lotus Feet

You are fool. The founding fathers were the dangerous nutcases you fucking moron.

There is no opposition to brook. You are not making criticisms, you are spewing delusional idiocy. I realize you can't help yourself. Like shooter and your other compatriots, it is simply who you are. Most of the people that comment on these threads are superior to you. You are - simply - contemptible.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 05:06 PM

100% Just Like the Behavior of the Third Reich

Truth must be crushed at all costs ....... and those arrogant enough to proclaim it must be punished.

When will people discover they are living an illusion ...... the illusion of democracy portrayed by two parties.

When these two parties no longer reliably control the masses, the moneyed interests behind the charade will step forward to bring the curtain down on the show itself.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 05:11 PM

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"While the high-level lawbreakers are protected from consequences by our political class, only the courageous whistle-blower is subject to criminal prosecution."

"Political Class" .......... the most worthless "class" ever produced by this culture ........... "power wannabees" ..... toadies and sycophants ....... willing to betray their own values and the public for a little attention and the chance to feel "big" ........ beggars dressed as kings and queens ...... the unspeakable ........ running dog lackeys for their corporate masters .....

Anyone should feel a need to spit after saying the two words together.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 05:24 PM

@-- casual_observer

The same tactics were used by the FBI during the peace marchers in Washington in the late 60's ......... nothing new ..... the FBI has no honor and they can always find a weak weasel looking for validation to lie and entrap.

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