[TomGuy]

They don't call it their 'silver bullet' for nothing.

They will dig dirt on the and anything related as long as they can.

Remember, they vetted GWB's National Guard service in 2000, and they've done it twice in 2004, each time getting a good week or more of negative PR.

As long as they can keep any negative PR going on the Iraqi prison abuse scandal, tney will. And why not, the other side is staying quiet and letting them.

[TexKat]

Looks as though they are digging for any and everything they can find.

Excerpt:

Senate wants Gitmo 'torture' videos, too

By Shaun Waterman

UPI Homeland and National Security Editor

Published 5/19/2004 8:01 PM

Videotapes that ex-inmates say show guards beating prisoners at the U.S. military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been reviewed by the inspector general of the Navy and will be provided to senate investigators, a military spokesman told United Press International.

U.S. officials insist that detainees are treated and interrogated humanely at Guantanamo and that any abuse is immediately reported and punished. Nonetheless, news of the existence of the tapes raises the prospect of more images of alleged U.S. brutality emerging, broadening and deepening the scandal over what Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld called the "radioactive" pictures of detainees being abused at the now twice-notorious Abu Ghraib prison complex in Iraq.

One set of the Guantanamo allegations centers on the actions of the Immediate Response Force, a special team of guards tasked to deal with detainee misconduct and violence. In recent media interviews and letters to U.S. senators, three Britons who were held at the camp until their release in March 2004 described several incidents in which they say the team savagely assaulted inmates.

[CasearianDaoist]

I don't know, people are starting to complain, even here in New York about the media. They are outing themselves. This may be a fatal campaign for Old Media. Going after Rudy, the NYPD and the FDNY was very, very stupid. It might just be wishful thinking on my part by I am seeing the scales start ot fall of of some eyes yonder. Of course, one will never move the radical crowd or the media/artsy-fartsy crowd but those "reasonable" left of center Liberals, the more "political sentimental" liberals, the "unpolitical" left of center liberals that are mostly mildly conformist and the older New Seal/Great Society social dems all seem to be given pause by this nonstop, petty and often questionable assault. I certainly have never seen anything like it. in the many decades I have been watching AMerican politics - it beats both the 60's and the Reagan years. At least that is what I see. Some of these folks are swing voters and of course there are the honest "moderates" as well.

I wonder if they might not have overplayed their hand. We shall see. I think the fact that the "abuse scandal" did not have the legs they imagined it would nor the seemingly small damage it caused Bush may bear my notion out.

But you are right - the GOP needs to understand what Nancy boys they look like in their inability to react in a united and rigorous counter attack.