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Predator drones flown from base in Pakistan, U.S. lawmaker says [Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)]
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Posted on 02/13/2009 5:05:23 AM PST by Sub-Driver

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To: Mojave

Didn’t you read the article? And my previous posts ask:”Is this true?” I can’t quote the story, and was asking if anyone had more info about it. It’s mentioned a couple of times in the linked article. So, I want to know, “Is it true?” I’m not absolving the witch of anything! But,,, I want the facts to be correct.


41 posted on 02/13/2009 6:43:43 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Sub-Driver

feinstein is a threat to National security.

The following is a Radio Interview that I arranged for Dr. Orly Taitz regarding her lawsuits against BO with Matthew Hill at the NRB Convention in Nashville on 2/10/09

http://www.irnusanews.com/our-programs/matthew-hill-show


42 posted on 02/13/2009 6:48:46 AM PST by FreeManN (DefendOurFreedoms.US)
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To: mbarker12474

What else is she going to tell the enemy!


43 posted on 02/13/2009 6:58:33 AM PST by tob2 (Fox News Fan)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
But,,, I want the facts to be correct.

Then go find them. Don't dismiss criticism based on sourceless speculation.

44 posted on 02/13/2009 7:06:39 AM PST by Mojave (Barack Obama is a joke)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
I respectfully acknowledge and fully understand your contention; however, those who repeat the information are every bit as guilty as the first to reveal it.

Ivan #1 to German commander: “Our Katyusha battalions are massing behind the tree line for a daybreak assault on your position.”

An hour later . . .

Ivan #2 to German commander: “Our Katyusha battalions are massing behind the tree line for a daybreak assault on your position.”

Two hours later . . .

Ivan #3 to German commander: “Our Katyusha battalions are massing behind the tree line for a daybreak assault on your position.”

Three hours later and T-minus 15 . . .

Ivan #4 to German commander: “Our Katyusha battalions are massing behind the tree line for a daybreak assault on your position.”

Which ONE is guilty of treason? Where and what is the difference? I am stumped.

45 posted on 02/13/2009 7:24:35 AM PST by shoutingandpointing
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To: Sub-Driver
At a hearing, Feinstein expressed surprise at Pakistani opposition to the ongoing campaign of Predator-launched CIA missile strikes against Al Qaeda targets along Pakistan's northwest border. "As I understand it, these are flown out of a Pakistani base," she said of the planes.

The idiot has not yet learned that a Government in a tinderbox region might need to publicly say some things for domestic consumption while they are, behind the scenes, providing concrete support to your war effort.

Feinstein has now compromised the viability of this mission.

Without adult supervision, Democrats are too stupid and naive to survive in the Real World. We are in for some dangerous times.


46 posted on 02/13/2009 7:32:34 AM PST by Polybius
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
“We strongly object to Sen. Feinstein’s remarks being characterized as anything other than a reference” to a article that appeared last March in the Washington Post, LaVelle said. Feinstein did not refer to newspaper accounts during the hearing. Is this true?

It doesn't matter.

A claim reported in a newspaper is merely a claim reported in a newspaper. Is is useful for lining your bird cage.

A statement made by the chairperson of the Senate Intelligence Committee is a statement that has just been confirmed at one of the highest levels of the U.S. Government.

47 posted on 02/13/2009 7:42:45 AM PST by Polybius
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To: Mojave

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=alate0108abulaith

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/03/27/ST2008032700935.html


48 posted on 02/13/2009 7:46:55 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Yet she says nothing about using them on the Michigan Canadian border...

Yes they are....

Land wrong at Grosse Ille Airport and you will find out....

49 posted on 02/13/2009 7:49:52 AM PST by taildragger (Palin / Mulally 2012)
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To: Polybius

I agree completely! I just wanted to know if that’s where she got her information, as they are claiming. Those two links above were all I could find, but I’m not too great with computers. Tried to go to C-Span earlier, and it locked my comp up solid! Had to unplug it.


50 posted on 02/13/2009 7:51:37 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: shoutingandpointing; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
I respectfully acknowledge and fully understand your contention; however, those who repeat the information are every bit as guilty as the first to reveal it. Ivan #1 to German commander: “Our Katyusha battalions are massing behind the tree line for a daybreak assault on your position.” An hour later . . . Ivan #2 to German commander: “Our Katyusha battalions are massing behind the tree line for a daybreak assault on your position.”

Most importantly, you have to consider the source. See Post 47.

A report by Ivan #1 can be totally worthless as Private Ivan #1 could be repeating the latest scuttlebutt being circulated by other Privates that may or may not have a clue about what is really going on.

Once that report comes from an intercepted, careless communication from one of the highest officers in the Russian intelligence services, it changes the entire character of the information.

51 posted on 02/13/2009 7:52:09 AM PST by Polybius
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
I agree completely! I just wanted to know if that’s where she got her information, as they are claiming.

She got the information because she is the chairperson of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

All talk about "newspapers" is after-the-screw-up CYA on her part.

52 posted on 02/13/2009 7:54:45 AM PST by Polybius
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To: Polybius

That’s also what I’m thinking. But, that’s also why I wanted to find the article. I wanted to know if it actually existed. Unfortunately, it does. So many will believe in her excuse. Too bad it wasn’t a total fabrication. If it had been,,,,,?


53 posted on 02/13/2009 7:59:01 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Apparently, she wants us to lose.


54 posted on 02/13/2009 8:13:36 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Here’s many more.

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=&ie=UTF-8&q=”predator+drones”+pakistan&sa=N&sugg=d&as_ldate=2008&as_hdate=2008&lnav=d0b&ldrange=2001,2006

Like the links you provided, they do NOT say the Predator drone strikes were launched from an airbase within Pakistan.


55 posted on 02/13/2009 9:24:16 AM PST by Mojave (Barack Obama is a joke)
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To: Polybius
“Once that report comes from an intercepted, careless communication from one of the highest officers in the Russian intelligence services, it changes the entire character of the information.”

I think I understand where you are coming from. I said, "think." My point is EVERYONE who has at any time/point revealed the information in question is culpable. And any "insider" who revealed/confirmed what was made known previously by other or "lesser" sources is guilty of additional, more serious offenses.

Intel: I happen upon or obtain the information on my own.
Espionage/treason/aiding and abetting: Someone on the other side knowingly reveals or furnishes that information to me.

I do not care if the source is the local crackhead “snitch” in a holding cell, the local librarian, or a be-starred general, the discarded carbon paper in the wastebasket, wall-scrawlings of the anonymous public restroom poet, or an encrypted radio signal that I grabbed with the latest and greatest in SIGINT technology. If it is fact, then it is fact; it matters not the standing/rank of the source or the sophistication of the conduit from which I gain the information.

“Degrees of truth” are like “degrees of pregnancy.” Either it do be so or it don't be so. Verify and cross-source away, but doing so makes no given bit of information any more or any less accurate, valuable, critical than it was “a priori.”

56 posted on 02/13/2009 9:48:32 AM PST by shoutingandpointing
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To: Sub-Driver

She’s an idiot.


57 posted on 02/13/2009 10:06:27 AM PST by RU88 (The false messiah can not change water into wine any more than he can get unity from diversity.)
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To: Mojave

The first link I provided says this:
“ Some of the Predator attacks are launched from secret CIA bases near the Pakistani towns of Islamabad and Jacobabad. The bases are first publicly mentioned in February 2008, and next to nothing is known about them. “

The second link says this:
“ But senior officials in Pakistan’s leading parties are now warning that such unilateral attacks — including the Predator strikes launched from bases near Islamabad and Jacobabad in Pakistan — could be curtailed.”

I was hoping to catch her revealing secret information, and lying to cover her butt.


58 posted on 02/13/2009 10:24:57 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Is it time to hit the Islamo-Fascists with the Neutron Bomb?


59 posted on 02/13/2009 2:35:37 PM PST by FreeManN (DefendOurFreedoms.US)
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To: ErnBatavia

So much for the rule of law.
You disclose a secret, if this indeed was or is a secret?—who knows—you go to jail, lose your clearance etc..


60 posted on 02/13/2009 5:41:50 PM PST by ottersnot (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants)
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