Posted on 10/24/2005 7:17:02 AM PDT by Quilla
We must demand the same treatment the White House has gotten for the CIA leakers.
It is clear the real treason is, and has been happening there.
Plame and Wilson of course should be the first, but no where near the last to be indicted from within the CIA.
bttt
The MSM is the new Deep Throat. They will swallow anything, as long as it's anti-Republican or anti-Conservative.
There is a major difference between your two examples. If it is charged, the Bush administration's obstruction will be tried by a competent court.
Clinton's obstruction, however, was tried by the U.S. Senate.
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Great article!
me too
"No doubt the first step of a resurgent Left in the United States would be to try to control talk radio and the internet, to regain its media monopoly."
Frightening!
"No doubt the first step of a resurgent Left in the United States would be to try to control talk radio and the internet, to regain its media monopoly. It could happen."
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Including: "Perhaps Richard Nixon should have been made to resign for abusing power. But Watergate was more than a tale of high-level corruption.It also marked the rise to power of the monopoly media that has dominated the United States for the last thirty years. No event, other than Vietnam, has so shaped our world today. No doubt the first step of a resurgent Left in the United States would be to try to control talk radio and the internet, to regain its media monopoly. (my bold) It could happen."
I wonder if you could please put this in your "CIA Leak (Plame)" section.
;-)
Joe told me that happened on their 4th date.
We (America) are between a rock and a hard place.
Should there be yet another "coup", resulting an a shooting conflict within the U.S. we (America) will, undoubtably, be attacked by outside forces.
Should this administration react to the "intended" coup with massive arrests and military [?] actions, they will be seen as tyranical and will be brought down.
This war of "ideology" can be fought with words for only so long.
Sooner or later the "boil" will have to be lanced.
Quite right!
In my humble opinion, the CIA was most likely involved in the JFK deal, they certainly were involved in the Nixon fiasco, and they're at it again. It just may fly (be successful) again with the great, strong, and helpful hands of the Washington Post, NYT, and of the other con artists and co-conspirators.
I'm conflicted on the question of whether "It could happen":The real issue is talk radio. Internet posters count on having their issues picked up and amplified on talk radio and FNC. FNC (Rupert Murdock) might turn on us, and it's just a question of turning the FCC back to the "fairness" doctrine to knock out talk radio again.
- It is true that there seems to be no limit to the leftist propaganda that seemingly sensible fellow Americans will swallow - and the conceit that Karl Rove was trying to get covert CIA agents killed is "Exhibit 'A'."
- OTOH it's really quite easy to justify that the internet is covered by the First Amendment. Judging by the fact that my uncle the commie pinko readily accepted that argument.
Putatively "fairness" is about balancing air time for the left and the right, but since journalism which claims to be objective is leftist, "objective journalism" fills market for leftist commentary. Leaving only a slight niche for an Air America, which can't raise money via advertising.
It is arrogant to claim a virtue, which is why the philosopher claims only to love wisdom and not to possess it. But the "objective journalist" claims the virtue of objectivity (which I take to be indistinguishable from wisdom), and is therefore not a philosopher but a sophist. Any governmental policy, such as the "Fairness Doctrine" or McCain-Feingold, which is based on the acceptance of the journalist's arrogant claim of wisdom is either foolish or malicious.
It is worth noting in addition, that the framers of the Constitution considered that the Bill of Rights was implied within the text of the Constitution without the First Amendment; it is not proper to construe the First Amendment narrowly. If public flag-burning (scarce to be distinguished from an attack on constitutional government) and payment of government funds for the desecration of religous symbols are taken to be constitutionally protected, how much more so should be the exercise of prudent citizenship entailed in communicating with those whose political opinions we respect!
Media bias bump.
Conquest's Second Law (formulated by the Sovietologist Robert Conquest):To "the British secret service," it appears, we must now add the CIA.The behavior of an organization can best be predicted by assuming it to be controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies. Examples: virtually any conservative party anywhere, the Ronald Lauder for Mayor campaign, and the British secret service.O’Sullivan’s First Law
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