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CIA VS. THE WHITE HOUSE: TY COBB AIN'T NO BENCHWARMER
Fred Fry: Probably Mary McCarthy's books already are being gone over. Waiver of personal financial privacy is, or so I have heard, a condition of employment. So likely, Ms. McCarthy is just an idealogue.
Comment Posted By tyk On 25.04.2006 @ 11:30
DEFEND DISSENT: PUNISH THE LEAKERS
I'm weary of Ms. Sheehan. Maybe we all should start pretending she doesn't exist. Pretty close to the truth. It seems the MSM is done with her.
Comment Posted By tyk On 24.04.2006 @ 13:30
CIA VS. THE WHITE HOUSE: McCARTHY AND THE DC REVOLVING DOOR
Mona. Thanks for the post. A Pulitzer is not much of a certificate, but that aside: it is obvious that such prisons exist (how could they not?) and that they are located in jurisdictions where CIA "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" are not a violation of local law. It is too bad that such things offend your sensibilites, but then you might also have been offended had you been, say, on Flight 93 (the movie opens Friday. Be sure you don't miss it; it likely is a good antidote for bad cases of sentimentality). The government's job, Mona, is to protect its citizens (that includes me, and I presume it includes you). Its job is not to deal delicately with non-citizens against whom there is evidence of murder or intent to murder.
Comment Posted By tyk On 23.04.2006 @ 13:49
Rick/Mona. Human Rights Watch has a list of people arrested and unaccounted for, but no suggestion that anyone died of mistreatment. I also have never heard of or read of the 'chained to a freezing floor' death.
Comment Posted By tyk On 23.04.2006 @ 11:54
Question for Mona: Could you give us cites please on "black prisons'" illegality. Or maybe you could start by defining the term. Does it mean an off-shore lockup for enemy combatants arrested in a war zone? To be sure, it would be unconstitutional to hold American citizens in such places. But foreign nationals? Suspected of killing or conspiring to kill Americans?
Comment Posted By tyk On 23.04.2006 @ 11:22
CIA VS THE WHITE HOUSE: THE LONE PARTISAN?
I love my left-wing friends and neighbors (living in a big university town, I have plenty of them) and I wish them all the best -- except political power. What annoys us middle of the roaders (and right of the roaders) is, I think, the feeling that they and their policies would endanger our lives. But what the hell, they aren't in power and so can do no harm. Mary McCarthy, however, does not qualify for this neighborly love if, for personal and partisan advantage, she has compromised our elected government's efforts to protect all of our lives from those who would kill us and, in fact, have killed about 3,000 of us. Unless she is granted immunity for grand jury testimony, my guess is that she's in a heep of trouble.
Comment Posted By tyk On 23.04.2006 @ 12:31
CIA VS. THE WHITE HOUSE: PROCEED WITH EXTREME CAUTION
Looks like a momentum-shifter for the GOP, which now make actually pick up seats in November. Expect the misdeeds to unravel very, very slowly, however, right up into October. Karl Rove, just like a good basketball coach, knows all about momentum swings. Dems seem not to, since they've been beating the hell out of their drums the last several months (months before the elections). Some political movements just no sense of timing.
Comment Posted By tyk On 22.04.2006 @ 20:50
CIA VS. THE WHITE HOUSE: WALKING BACK SLOWLY
If this was a sting, the WaPo and the Lefties may have to revise their estimates of Dubya's IQ.
Comment Posted By tyk On 22.04.2006 @ 10:01
P.Aaron...Jesus Christ...read your stuff before you post it.
Comment Posted By tyk On 21.04.2006 @ 13:23
Excellent post, Rick. The assertion in the original post that "punks" pulled off 9/11 is downright silly. Punks don't have the money to travel to and from US, the money to take flying instructions. The hijackers were cultivated, fed, and housed by sponsors. Many more who did not directly sponsor hid them. Many, many more who could have revealed chose not to do so. The culpability runs into the millions.
Comment Posted By tyk On 21.04.2006 @ 11:22
