It's the anti-American, terrorist supporters' fallback to make their anti-Americanism sound patriotic. But it won't wash anymore either. Like monkeys, they must be SHOWN new tricks or they simply keep mimicking the same ones over and over.
Re: the Liberty and the Pueblo. Yeah, tell us about how the NSA deliberately cut the ship off from normal command and control without telling the Navy in order to play stupid spook games. Notice that the USN no longer operates that kind of ship--they told the NSA to go have an improper relationship with themselves. That won't be an issue this time around.
Posted on 10/04/2001 05:31:59 PDT by Poohbah
To: Poohbah
Re: the Liberty and the Pueblo. Yeah, tell us about how the NSA deliberately cut the ship off from normal command and control without telling the Navy in order to play stupid spook games. Notice that the USN no longer operates that kind of ship--they told the NSA to go have an improper relationship with themselves.
These are the facts. Why haven't they appeared from some of you in the know types on the rotten Librty threads that permeated FR blaming Israel for what the NSA did? The NSA never even informed the Commander of the Liberty what they were doing or why...let alone the crew. They boarded in secret and set up shop restricting any crew members from entering their lair. They knew exactly what they were doing, but the innocent crew did not. And the NSA never has come clean, preferring to allow the entire world to blame Israel for an unprovoked attack. They allowed the Pueblo's crew to be imprisoned for their (NSA's) incompetence and then blamed the Captain for *confessing*. Jeez!!!
161 Posted on 10/04/2001 06:05:10 PDT by NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh
[ To: NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh
It's in several of the books--and acknowledged in the various investigations--that when the spooks came aboard, the first thing that happened was the skipper getting told that any signal that came in over the military communications network was to be considered for information only, and that orders could only travel over certain Top Secret channels.
164 Posted on 10/04/2001 08:48:49 PDT by Poohbah
To: SKYDRIFTER
I did mention the Liberty. You just chose to ignore it. Apparently the NSA gets a pass on criminal activity in your world.
165 Posted on 10/04/2001 09:16:02 PDT by Poohbah