[ScaniaBoy]

Excellent analysis by Andrew McCarthy (link in post#23).

Unfortunately I think he is correct. The "suicide ethos" which can be traced back to the 70s (Church committee etc) has struck again. In a way this is much more damming of the Clinton administration and the liberals than anything else.

Quite clearly the Democrats have shown themselves quite unsuitable to handle defence and security matters. Not so much for the short term decisions made by the policy makers, but for the climate they created, both during the Ford/Carter administrations and later during the eight years with Clinton.

Unfortunately, it is very unlikely that MSM media will pick up (and understand) what actually happened. But let's not lose faith. Hopefully some juicy truths will still be revealed during the October hearings.

[ScaniaBoy]

Rereading what I wrote I guess I should make one thing clear: Yes, I know that Ford was a Republican, but he was hamstrung by the Democrats who controlled both the House and the Senate, and of course the Watergate legacy.

[Peach]

From McCarthy:

The Pentagon is allowed to collect information on U.S. persons. Indeed, the very regulations Ms. Downs was referring to — Army Regulation 381-10, which is a regurgitation of DoD Regulation 5240.1-R — say so explicitly.

Moreover, contrary to this gibberish, when language is "interpreted very strictly," that means you limit yourself to doing exactly what it says — no rhythm, no wiggle room, no going the extra mile. A "strict interpretation" does not mean something which says "you may do this" is somehow read as if it said "you may not do this." Unless of course, we are back to the antinomian heyday of Clintonism (when the purge at issue, not coincidentally, took place) — talking points in hand as we ask what the definition of "is" is.

This is what I don't get. I don't get the CURRENT administration spouting the same sort of nonsense as the former administration. And not just nonsense. But outright lies.