Posted on 08/29/2009 5:38:59 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative

The more I do my own "watch-dogging" of progressive "watchdog" Media Matters the happier I am that I never got the researcher job that I applied for with them years ago when I was still a leftist.
What a painfully boring, mind-numbing job it must be to be one of their "researchers" having to try and create something out of nothing. I can only try and put myself in the shoes of "J.K.F." the researcher who wrote up yesterday's "Conservative Media Call Review of Interrogations a 'War on the CIA":
Following Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement that a federal prosecutor will be conducting "a preliminary review into whether federal laws were violated" during interrogations of detainees suspected of terrorism, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) asserted that the investigation would be a "declaration of war against the CIA, and against common sense." Several conservative media figures have similarly advanced the claim that by looking into interrogation abuses, the Obama administration or the Justice Department has "declared war" on the CIA.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsrealblog.com ...
Let’s hope for mutually assured destruction.
You don’t comment much, do you?
if the c.i.a. were to purge all of the liberal harvard intellectuals, it would be a much better organization. if “wild bill” donovan were still alive, one has to wonder how he would handle the current problems. :)
oops! i forgot to place quotations around intellectuals.
Considering the OSS/CIA is the brainchild of the elite, that’d be sortof like taking that clown guy from McDonald’s and hoping that would make the burgers taste better. I wish we’d just stick with Army and Naval intelligence. The CIA has caused alot of harm and blowback (by their own admission) as well as burned through endless amounts of money.
are republicans going to fight for the cia? are there any democrats that care?
It’s not a “war against the CIA”. That’s just one of the many battles in the war against the United States.
I do when I feel moved to.
Did you read my piece? That’s one of the points I make in it.
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