Posted on 04/19/2007 9:37:28 PM PDT by STARWISE
.. MD:.. I watched some of Tuesday's House testimony by former CIA analyst and head Bin Laden hunter Michael Scheuer on C-SPAN.
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.. he made a vitriolic attack on your work on the secret prisons story. His basic viewpoint could be summed up as "people are trying to kill Americans -- we have to kill those people and if innocents suffer along the way, tough."
I did some Internet research and the guy seems to run with an odd mix of people -- including antiwar.com, a libertarian site that sees all war as a tool of state expansion. Yet Mr. Scheuer's own comments seem to be heartily pro-war. Can you enlighten me as to what his beliefs are?
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Priest: Unapologetic annihilation of suspected jihadists(suspected is good enough, and everyone in their neighborhood too). No sense of the cost of that to the strategic goal though. Still, he's written a couple of books that are very interesting so you might want to take a look at those. He's always been very nice to me in person and when we do media interviews together. He seemed to have come unhinged yesterday.
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Va.: .. If, this afternoon, you bumped into Michael Scheuer -- *snip-- what would you say to him?
Priest: Okay, last one on Mike Scheuer. I would say to him that he obviously has terrible sources and he should go check with senior management. Yes, this has been a pain for them to explain away. Yes, there are still reverberations. But cooperation on counterterrorism remains very good, very lucrative.
Despite the public pronouncements. Scheuer left the agency several years ago. The "less safe" part is just so wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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This moonbat is SUCH a raving leftist, and will continue to do everything in her and her husband's power to hurt US.
Dangerous lefty ‘journalist’ PING!
They are sympathizers.
She’s a traitor, in my book.
And how do you defend those values, by farting in their general direction?
How many societies with good core values have been swarmed and obliterated by ruthless tyrants in human history? By Muslims alone? More than I can possibly recall.
If you’re referring to this statement:
Our strength—and ultimate security —is not derived from the actions of our CIA or military, its from our core values, of which human rights and the rule of law are central.
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It’s from Ms. Lefty Priest.
Sorry I didn’t qualify that, was indeed referring to Mz. Priest. Sorry about confusion.
BTW, what a perfect last name for someone who spouts that much pontification.
The journalist as news, syndrome.
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