Posted on 04/24/2006 8:36:42 AM PDT by 68skylark
later
Good work. I like Belmont Club, but posting him on FR with all the hyperlinks is a chore. Thanks.
Formatted text (with reference links) can be helpful at times. If you view the HTML source for a webpage, sometimes you can do a simple cut and paste.
The Declining Terrorist Threat
By LARRY C. JOHNSON
July 10, 2001
WASHINGTON — Judging from news reports and the portrayal of villains in our popular entertainment, Americans are bedeviled by fantasies about terrorism. They seem to believe that terrorism is the greatest threat to the United States and that it is becoming more widespread and lethal. They are likely to think that the United States is the most popular target of terrorists. And they almost certainly have the impression that extremist Islamic groups cause most terrorism.
None of these beliefs are based in fact. …
I'm sure that before she went to the press, she went to congress and the AG to complain, and I'm sure it's documented. And I'm sure that the Easter bunny hid those eggs in the backyard.
Bush's biggest mistake was not cleaning house on Clinton political appointees immediately. - Sleeper cells would be a more appropriate title.
Also the EU AG says he can't find a trace of the prisons whose exposition won a Pulitzer prize - or is that now the Chrles Foster Kane award for creative journalism.
She deserves the Rosenburg Treatment.............
Statement from Daniel Ellsberg
The Truth-Telling Project encourages whistleblowing in the national interest. It urges current and recently retired government officials to reveal the truth to Congress and the public about governmental wrongdoing, lies and cover-up. It aims to change the norms and practices that sustain the cult of secrecy, and to de-legitimize silence that costs lives.
It is becoming increasingly clear that a dominant practice of the Bush administration is cover-up, on urgent matters of life and death. Cover-up of the real motives for the war and of the foreseeable costs and problems of the occupation. Cover-up of Presidential inattention before 9-11 to warnings of imminent attacks by Al Qaeda. Above all, concealment of the judgment of the Administrations own counter-terrorism chiefs that war in Iraq is a disaster for the war on terrorism.
There are surely hundreds if not thousands of officials within the Bush administration who know about these and other cover-ups and the dangers they conceal, but who have not spoken out. I am now leading an effort, called the Truth-Telling Project, to encourage such insiders to go to Congress and the press and tell the truth, with documents. I believe we are in a national crisis, which justifies and requires acts of unauthorized truth-telling. I am calling for such patriotic whistle-blowing to take place right now.
I am devoting myself full-time to encouraging patriotic revelation of the lies, cover-ups, and abuses of the Bush administration. The Truth-Telling Project aims to reach current insiders, as well as journalists, lawyers, lawmakers, and the American public with a message transcending party or administration:
Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to the Constitution, the rule of law, and the sovereign public. It is a courageous, patriotic, and effective way to serve our country. The time to speak out is now.
Daniel Ellsberg, August 2004
Kent Tyler ...
Kent Tyler ...
He wants national security secrets to be given to the press on a regular, sustained basis. That kind of advocacy should probably be a crime, IMHO, if it isn't already illegal.
I wonder why that was omitted from the story...
How about that NO PRISONS HAVE BEEN FOUND. The EU did an investigation and found no evidence. Now does this mean she lied to the reporter, and will the reporter have to give back the Pulitzer?
So when will someone release FDR's still classified papers?
We'll see. If a trial would do more harm than good to national security, it might not happen.
For example, those known to exist transcripts of the FDR-Churchill trans-oceanic telephone calls would be very interesting.
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