Henican Forgets There's a War On - Pinkerton Reminds Him

Fox & Friends Weekend/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[binkdeville]

Wonder how Henican would feel if one UNMONITORED phone call led to a chain of events that allowed a terrorist to blow up his kids or mother or boyfriend ?OHHHHHH then it would be "Bush didn't protect us " See, it's all a set up . Bush is wrong either way it goes.

[binkdeville]

Only 64% of Americans favor legal surveillance of AL Queda
That is REALLY hard to believe. WHO in their right mind would oppose listining in on the enemy .
It seems to me that many in the US have forgotten 9/11..that it was never real to them in the 1st place..just a TV show

[Congressman Billybob]

The breaking of the Japanese Naval Code had NOTHING to do with the imprisonment of 110,000 Japanese-Americans without charges or trial. The purpose of the imprisonments was to carry out the xenophobia and racism of the people of California, lead by their then Governor, Earl Warren, and promoted by the Commanding General on the West Coast, General deWitt.

Ultimately, the federal courts decided, forty years later, that Roosevelt's Executive Order to round up the Japanese-Americans was unconstitutional. A link earlier in this thread has both of the Korematsu decisions, the original one in which the Supreme Court (to its eternal shame) upheld that order, and the final one which expunged the conviction of Fred Korematsu for violating that Order.

The now-unclassified documents, some of which I got declassified for my book, make it clear that there was no justification for that imprisonment, as does the action of the Commanding General on Hawaii who avoided the order to ship "his" Japanese-Americans to the mainland on grounds of lack of transportation.

(0% of the carpenters on Hawaii then were Japanese-Americans, and the General needed them to rebuild from the attack on Pearl Harbor, and to do the construction required for the war effort build-up there. And he was right. They were essential, able, and loyal workers.

Your assumption that the round-up had any real (as opposed to claimed at the time) connection with espionage is wrong. General deWitt actually submitted a report saying that the lack of espionage before the round-up was an indication that the Japanese-Americans were "well-organized" and were "holding off on their attacks."

You are perpetuating the kind of wrong and racist thinking that was prevalent then. You should read my book. It contains the photograph of a Lt. from the 442nd, the "Christmas Tree" Regiment that fought with great honor and many casualties in Italy, returning to Manzanar to visit his parents, who were being held behind garbed wire by other American soldiers. Think about that.

John / Billybob

[mewzilla]

At least twice I heard Hennigan (sp) tell viewers the information reporters got leaked to them was "the truth".

A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.

William Blake

[USS Alaska]

"[The government's] job is to keep the secret, our job is to tell the truth."

The TRUTH, they can't identify, let alone, tell the TRUTH.
The truth of the msm is subjective and if facts do not align with the story, change the facts. Remember danblather and marymapletree, the facts were fraudlent, but the story was still true. And they want a shield law to cover all of thier lies.

[ErnBatavia]

He looks like he knows his way around a bathhouse...

[Christian4Bush]

I'm hearing how "heroic" the "whistle-blowers" (yes, they're using that term!!) were from lots of libs on the screaming head shows. I wish I could recall which columnist, though, said that if we lose this war, there won't BE any civil liberties. These libs don't seem to realize that this is what is at stake. If we lose, those loud-mouthed fish-wives, swishy gays, and media wh*res will be silenced, burka'ed, and in some cases, beheaded or otherwise put to death.

You nailed it. See new tagline. Can't wait for Rush's return on Tuesday.

[LiteKeeper]

The moral bankruptcy of the Left continues to amaze me. Just when you think you have heard it all...along comes another clueless, fellow-traveling idiot!!!!!

[stylin19a]

"Frankly I'm much more interested in the government spying perhaps illegally on American citizens than trying to blame the people who revealed and told the truth about it

Except when it comes to a Repub staffer, who finds documents on a shared server, implicating Rats(Ted Kennedy) in influencing elections & judge-ships. THEN it's about the person who revealed the truth

[Beckwith]

Only 64% of Americans favor legal surveillance of AL Queda operatives during a time of war? That's not stellar IMHO.

64% in favor
23 % against
13% unconscious

Actual it is quite stellar! That 23% represents the rabid anti-Bush, anti-America crowd.

Another way to look at it is less than 1 out of 4 are against electronic surveillance. That's terrific!

More results from Rasmussen here

[gusopol3]

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[Galveston Grl]

**So even in a time of war, Henican views the media as the government's antagonist on national security matters. Wonder how during WWII the administration of liberal-icon FDR would have dealt with a Henican trying to undermine secret programs aimed at the enemy?**

Let's get real here. The old media would not be doing this anti-government thing if a Democrat was president. During the Clinton Administration they cheered on, spun and covered up all degrees of power violations by the Clintons - from collecting FBI files on enemies, using the IRS against enemies, campaign finance abuses including illegal entanglements with foreign governments, committing perjury and destroying documents while under investigation, to Elian, to frying the women, children and men at Waco. The old media's sudden concern about the government respecting rights is brand new with Bush. They loved the Clintons using power to abuse Americans that the old media consider to be political and social enemies.