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Yes, Media Matters, There is a “War on the CIA” Whether You Want To Admit It or Not
NewsReal Blog ^ | August 29, 2009 | David Swindle

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

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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 ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: antiamerican; cia; newsrealblog; theleft

1 posted on 08/29/2009 5:38:59 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Let’s hope for mutually assured destruction.


2 posted on 08/29/2009 5:46:28 PM PDT by RAO1125 (Neoconservatism:Failed. Socialism:Failing (again). Next up: Libertarianism)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

You don’t comment much, do you?


3 posted on 08/29/2009 5:47:06 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Obama's Blackberry, who's on the other end?)
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To: RAO1125

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. :)


4 posted on 08/29/2009 5:54:53 PM PDT by robomatik
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To: robomatik

oops! i forgot to place quotations around intellectuals.


5 posted on 08/29/2009 5:55:44 PM PDT by robomatik
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To: robomatik

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.


6 posted on 08/29/2009 6:00:12 PM PDT by RAO1125 (Neoconservatism:Failed. Socialism:Failing (again). Next up: Libertarianism)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

are republicans going to fight for the cia? are there any democrats that care?


7 posted on 08/29/2009 6:23:34 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: HorowitzianConservative

It’s not a “war against the CIA”. That’s just one of the many battles in the war against the United States.


8 posted on 08/29/2009 8:15:40 PM PDT by Salman
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To: Las Vegas Ron

I do when I feel moved to.


9 posted on 08/30/2009 7:55:37 AM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
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To: Salman

Did you read my piece? That’s one of the points I make in it.


10 posted on 08/30/2009 7:56:58 AM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
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To: HorowitzianConservative
Well I'm glad I “moved” you....profound retort, btw
11 posted on 08/30/2009 8:18:36 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Obama's Blackberry, who's on the other end?)
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