Posted on 04/23/2006 4:11:03 AM PDT by backhoe
Someone ought to tell John Kerry that Mary McCarthy didn't leak just once, but on numerous occasions. She was a serial leaker with a political bent. She was in effect a traitor. And if she can get away with it there will be no secret safe in the US Government. And, if the government had the will it would go after Dana Priest -- just to remind the media that we are at war.
Their verbages po's a lot of us when they talk about our men/women in service and anyone connected with GW.
I don't have Comcast. We have Dish.
I will not be buying any more of his group written books. Some serious readers wonder if he has written a book by himself for years.
Clancy and a lot of liberals, who hate GW and band against him are basically removing about 60 million potential customers for whatever they produce.
It will sort out eventually, given so many people examining the stories. Thanks for looking. Updates will be posted.
Thanks for looking- I only have a few minutes to stay online, will be back in the AM.
I miss PKD- I used to look forward to new releases by him with great enjoyment. An odd bird, perhaps, but when he was "on," he could write up a storm.
Also liked Cordwainer Smith's weird stories of the animal people and the Instrumentality.
Got it bookmarked. Impressive amount of work to put all of this together. Rush can do his Monday show prep just from this one link.
A little more on L. Britt Snyder.
http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/gaffney021402.shtml
CIA Whitewash
No way to run an investigation.
Frank J. Gaffney Jr. held senior positions in the Reagan Defense Department. He is currently the president of the Center for Security Policy.
February 14, 2002 9:10 a.m.
o much for a rigorous review of the policy and other failures that contributed to the U.S. intelligence community's inability to detect and prevent the deadly attacks of September 11. No sooner had members of the House and Senate intelligence committees decided that these problems required a comprehensive review — a review that would almost certainly implicate CIA Director George Tenet for his role in implementing defective policies, if not in every case initiating them — than they turned over its conduct to one of Tenet's most trusted subordinates: L. Britt Snyder.
This personnel decision sets the stage for a whitewash of epic proportions — as if Sen. Sam Ervin had hired John Erlichman to run the Watergate investigation or Ken Lay's general counsel were tapped to run all the congressional investigations into the Enron debacle.
These invidious comparisons are hardly exaggerations. Britt Snyder was, until last year, the inspector general of the Tenet CIA. From 1997-98 he served as special counsel and adviser to Tenet. From 1989 to 1992, he was general counsel of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence when Tenet was its staff director. It is hard to imagine how such an individual could bring the sort of independence and objectivity to the task that the committee so clearly requires.
It is, moreover, unclear at this writing whether Snyder will be allowed to hire the rest of the staff charged with conducting this investigation. If so, it is entirely possible that none of those retained will be able or willing to find fault with the intelligence community's past direction, priorities, or conduct — let alone that of the elected and appointed officials whose political and policy proclivities appear to have contributed to the Sept. 11 failure.
If the House and Senate intelligence committees are determined to give a complete pass to George Tenet and the direction he gave the community over the past five years, they might as well spare the taxpayer the expense of going through the motions of an investigation. If, on the other hand, they really do want to learn and apply the lessons of Sept. 11, they would be well advised to secure the services of those who have at least as much expertise in the field of intelligence as Snyder, but not his disabling baggage of past institutional and personal loyalties.
WOW, everyone should be passing this list of links around everywhere, far and wide, especially to news media and bloggers, commentators, etc. The MSM will have to be dragged along kicking and screaming and lying, but let's hope they can no longer ignore all of it.
Mega-kudos, what a superb link compilation, backhoe!! My oh my, it gets even more nauseating when you can view all the dirty players together. I suspect there is soooo much more to come, if only Porter Goss can keep the heat on and not allow the weasels to find cover. I'm still waiting to learn that Valerie Pflame and Joe Wilson are being prosecuted, but I'm not holding my breath.
Of course, even loathsome Joe and Valerie are just bit players in a drama involving numerous high-level Clintonistas in and out of government. I sure want to see Joe and Valerie knocked off their unearned pedestal, but we have bigger fish to fry such as Sandy Burglar and everyone around him, all of the Demagogues who have sponsored, defended, and enabled this type of behavior, etc.
Thanks for the ping. I am going to just wade through the latest and see what should be saved/book marked. Have to wind down somewhere this evening.
Links 'R Backhoe
backhoe is one of FR's very special treasures! His links are not only fulsome, but incredible.
Add a firm handshake and a pat or two on the back to Howlin's smooch. Awesome summary, as always. We need to work up a special keyword or even a forum category to hold these gems.
Now, it's up to the rest of us, here, to get this info out to the general populace and off to Conservative talk show hosts and columnists.
In other words Clinton.
Thanks. Great work!
Brain is like scrambled eggs from all this. Taking a break to watch Sopranos.
EXCELLENT WORK!!!
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