LYNCH-MOB America. Brought to you by the demagogue Right-Wing, Treacherous NY Times, Cowardly Democrats, and the Lying Wash. Post...
LYNCH-MOB America. Brought to you by the demagogue Right-Wing, Treacherous NY Times, Cowardly Democrats, and the Lying Wash. Post...
NOTHING better illustrates how the Right-Wing has been ABLE to IMPOSE *LYNCH MOB* standards on America, than the fact that the Bush administration and their sycophantic media prostitutes are wailing and shouting about a "LEAK SCANDAL!" by the NEW YORK TIMES, just mere, short, weeks after Karl Rove got a "get out of indictment for LEAKING a CIA undercover operative's identity" FREE PASS from the Independent Counsel prosecutor... WHILE charges in that case are STILL PENDING against Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the Vice President's former chief of staff.
Get that?!
The Righty LYNCH MOB, led DIRECTLY FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, shouts "TREASON!" and "AIDING THE ENEMY!" and "UNDERCUTTING the war on terror!"
For... "LEAKING A STORY!"
....at the NEW YORK TIMES, for a story that was PUBLISHED by the WALL St. Journal and LA TIMES as well; an article DOZENS of media commentators have detailed DID NOT even tell us anything 'new' about the case that perceptive readers couldn't already find all over the web and various news services.
(The organization that the US government is now WHOLESALE COPYING ENTIRE DATABANKS from... S.W.I.F.T.... just happens to have the super-secret, obscure website..... "SWIFT.com" ALREADY UP and RUNNING on the web... for years!)
Indeed, the ONLY "new" aspect of this story - that the US government is DATA-MINING the financial transactions of EVERYONE in America - is that so much effort is going into spying_on ordinary American's financial transactions.
Which is precisely why the DEMAGOGUES of the Bush White House, from Mr. Cheney to Mr. Bush on down, are in such a lather.
BUT, even as the Bush Administration and their lying, savage flunkies are shouting "TREASON!" "LEAKERS!" and "GAS CHAMBER!" against the New York Times, they are THROWING A MONSTER WET-BLANKET on the Valerie Plame CIA outing investigation.
HAD this investigation been ongoing in a timely manner during the 2004 elections, there would have been a lot more attention paid on Mr. Rove and Mr. Libby's role in outing - LEAKING - an undercover CIA operative's identity. Such a story, played on the FRONT PAGES of the New York Times, alone, would have severely impacted the Republican's vote count on election day.
AS USUAL, it was a story that the New York Times SAT ON all through election season 2004, "liberal media bias" notwithstanding.
And don't let the administration's PROPAGANDA mislead anyone... not only was Valerie Plame "outed," but SO TO WAS HER ENTIRE CIA COVER ORGANIZATION, Brewster-Jennings Energy Consultants Co.; and thereby ANYONE who EVER DEALT WITH THAT COMPANY.
A company which just happened to be dealing with NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION in Iran and other Mideast countries.
****************************************************
That is, the Bush administration, via the ILLEGAL LEAKING of an entire SECRET CIA organization, DEMOLISH that organization's capabilities to PREVENT or even document WEAPONS PROLIFERATION.
******************************************
WHILE the Bush administration simultaneously shouts "CRIMES AGAINST AMERICA;
TO LEAK is to AID THE ENEMY!"
against the New York Times for publishing a ROUTINE story that other papers, and other sources, have ALREADY made public.
********************************************
THIS IS PURE LYNCH-MOB politics,
.....brought to America by the Cowardly Democrats (who let Valerie Plame, Ambassador Joe Wilson, the Anthrax terror murder victims, federal whistleblowers, Enron fraud victims, Army General Eric Shinseki, Iraq war veterans and reservists, Florida disenfranchisement victims 2000, Diebold disenfranchisement victims 2004, and COUNTLESS OTHER AMERICANS TWIST IN THE WIND.
(Another example of Americans LEFT TO TWIST IN THE WIND by COWARDLY DEMOCRATS and the sycophantic press whores? How about MILLIONS of California rate-payers EXTORTED by ENRON... Enron operating under the PROTECTION of the Bush-Cheney administration and Tom Delay/Bill Frist Congress and Senate, respectively.)
WE REPEAT, LYNCH-MOB POLITICS, America 2006, brought to us by COWARDLY DEMOCRATS who are constantly seeking new ways to "HEAR NO EVIL, SEE no evil, and god forbid, SPEAK NO EVIL" of Republican crooks, criminals, fraudsters, and smear-job demagogues.
(Along with the treacherous media prostitutes who play along with this chilling DISINFORMATION game - even if they must play the whipping-boy for a spell. The New York Times being slapped around by Right-Wing demagogues in this instance, even as the Times PLAYS TO the Right-Wing fundamentalist, neo-con, disenfranchisement, secrecy, torture, wars, war-profiteering, & etc. agenda.)
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The Leak None Dared Call Treason
by Jpol
OpEdNews.com
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_jpol_060716_the_leak_none_dared_.htm
In the heat of silly season attacks from the right against The New York Times for its "exposure" of Bush administration surveillance of international banking transactions, the public and mainstream media have forgotten about another highly publicized leak just two years ago. That story, which also ran in the Times, dealt a serious blow to the fight against terror. It exposed a mole that had penetrated Al Qaeda, and it crippled a sting operation, allowing numerous subjects of investigation to escape. Some of those subjects may have participated in a major terrorist attack a year later. Unlike the bank records "revelations" of 2006, which were not really secret at all, the leak of 2004 jeopardized national security, and almost certainly cost lives. Yet the right wing Republican spin machine -- now calling for prosecutions under the Espionage Act, death in the gas chamber for Times' Managing Editor Bill Keller, and investigations of the media and of leakers in the name of "national security" -- were strangely silent in 2004. That leak, which occurred in the middle of a Presidential campaign, was clearly designed to advance a purely political agenda, and the leakers were unidentified sources within the George W. Bush administration.
The stage was set for this other leak in the early summer of 2004. The presidential campaign was heating up. The Democratic National Convention was just around the corner. And George W. Bush was sinking in the polls. His job approval ratings, which had been in the 80's and 90's just two years earlier in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, had fallen below 50% for the first time. The American public was even beginning to lose faith in the ability of the Bush Administration to protect it from terrorists. Most polls now showed more than 40% of Americans disapproved of Bush's handling of the war on terror. Significantly, a June 2004 ABC News/Washington Post poll even had John Kerry inching ahead of George W. Bush on the question of which one was better able to deal with terrorist threats, an issue where Bush had once held a formidable advantage.....
NOTHING better illustrates how the Right-Wing has been ABLE to IMPOSE *LYNCH MOB* standards on America, than the fact that the Bush administration and their sycophantic media prostitutes are wailing and shouting about a "LEAK SCANDAL!" by the NEW YORK TIMES, just mere, short, weeks after Karl Rove got a "get out of indictment for LEAKING a CIA undercover operative's identity" FREE PASS from the Independent Counsel prosecutor... WHILE charges in that case are STILL PENDING against Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the Vice President's former chief of staff.
Get that?!
The Righty LYNCH MOB, led DIRECTLY FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, shouts "TREASON!" and "AIDING THE ENEMY!" and "UNDERCUTTING the war on terror!"
For... "LEAKING A STORY!"
....at the NEW YORK TIMES, for a story that was PUBLISHED by the WALL St. Journal and LA TIMES as well; an article DOZENS of media commentators have detailed DID NOT even tell us anything 'new' about the case that perceptive readers couldn't already find all over the web and various news services.
(The organization that the US government is now WHOLESALE COPYING ENTIRE DATABANKS from... S.W.I.F.T.... just happens to have the super-secret, obscure website..... "SWIFT.com" ALREADY UP and RUNNING on the web... for years!)
Indeed, the ONLY "new" aspect of this story - that the US government is DATA-MINING the financial transactions of EVERYONE in America - is that so much effort is going into spying_on ordinary American's financial transactions.
Which is precisely why the DEMAGOGUES of the Bush White House, from Mr. Cheney to Mr. Bush on down, are in such a lather.
BUT, even as the Bush Administration and their lying, savage flunkies are shouting "TREASON!" "LEAKERS!" and "GAS CHAMBER!" against the New York Times, they are THROWING A MONSTER WET-BLANKET on the Valerie Plame CIA outing investigation.
HAD this investigation been ongoing in a timely manner during the 2004 elections, there would have been a lot more attention paid on Mr. Rove and Mr. Libby's role in outing - LEAKING - an undercover CIA operative's identity. Such a story, played on the FRONT PAGES of the New York Times, alone, would have severely impacted the Republican's vote count on election day.
AS USUAL, it was a story that the New York Times SAT ON all through election season 2004, "liberal media bias" notwithstanding.
And don't let the administration's PROPAGANDA mislead anyone... not only was Valerie Plame "outed," but SO TO WAS HER ENTIRE CIA COVER ORGANIZATION, Brewster-Jennings Energy Consultants Co.; and thereby ANYONE who EVER DEALT WITH THAT COMPANY.
A company which just happened to be dealing with NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION in Iran and other Mideast countries.
****************************************************
That is, the Bush administration, via the ILLEGAL LEAKING of an entire SECRET CIA organization, DEMOLISH that organization's capabilities to PREVENT or even document WEAPONS PROLIFERATION.
******************************************
WHILE the Bush administration simultaneously shouts "CRIMES AGAINST AMERICA;
TO LEAK is to AID THE ENEMY!"
against the New York Times for publishing a ROUTINE story that other papers, and other sources, have ALREADY made public.
********************************************
THIS IS PURE LYNCH-MOB politics,
.....brought to America by the Cowardly Democrats (who let Valerie Plame, Ambassador Joe Wilson, the Anthrax terror murder victims, federal whistleblowers, Enron fraud victims, Army General Eric Shinseki, Iraq war veterans and reservists, Florida disenfranchisement victims 2000, Diebold disenfranchisement victims 2004, and COUNTLESS OTHER AMERICANS TWIST IN THE WIND.
(Another example of Americans LEFT TO TWIST IN THE WIND by COWARDLY DEMOCRATS and the sycophantic press whores? How about MILLIONS of California rate-payers EXTORTED by ENRON... Enron operating under the PROTECTION of the Bush-Cheney administration and Tom Delay/Bill Frist Congress and Senate, respectively.)
WE REPEAT, LYNCH-MOB POLITICS, America 2006, brought to us by COWARDLY DEMOCRATS who are constantly seeking new ways to "HEAR NO EVIL, SEE no evil, and god forbid, SPEAK NO EVIL" of Republican crooks, criminals, fraudsters, and smear-job demagogues.
(Along with the treacherous media prostitutes who play along with this chilling DISINFORMATION game - even if they must play the whipping-boy for a spell. The New York Times being slapped around by Right-Wing demagogues in this instance, even as the Times PLAYS TO the Right-Wing fundamentalist, neo-con, disenfranchisement, secrecy, torture, wars, war-profiteering, & etc. agenda.)
===============================================
The Leak None Dared Call Treason
by Jpol
OpEdNews.com
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_jpol_060716_the_leak_none_dared_.htm
In the heat of silly season attacks from the right against The New York Times for its "exposure" of Bush administration surveillance of international banking transactions, the public and mainstream media have forgotten about another highly publicized leak just two years ago. That story, which also ran in the Times, dealt a serious blow to the fight against terror. It exposed a mole that had penetrated Al Qaeda, and it crippled a sting operation, allowing numerous subjects of investigation to escape. Some of those subjects may have participated in a major terrorist attack a year later. Unlike the bank records "revelations" of 2006, which were not really secret at all, the leak of 2004 jeopardized national security, and almost certainly cost lives. Yet the right wing Republican spin machine -- now calling for prosecutions under the Espionage Act, death in the gas chamber for Times' Managing Editor Bill Keller, and investigations of the media and of leakers in the name of "national security" -- were strangely silent in 2004. That leak, which occurred in the middle of a Presidential campaign, was clearly designed to advance a purely political agenda, and the leakers were unidentified sources within the George W. Bush administration.
The stage was set for this other leak in the early summer of 2004. The presidential campaign was heating up. The Democratic National Convention was just around the corner. And George W. Bush was sinking in the polls. His job approval ratings, which had been in the 80's and 90's just two years earlier in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, had fallen below 50% for the first time. The American public was even beginning to lose faith in the ability of the Bush Administration to protect it from terrorists. Most polls now showed more than 40% of Americans disapproved of Bush's handling of the war on terror. Significantly, a June 2004 ABC News/Washington Post poll even had John Kerry inching ahead of George W. Bush on the question of which one was better able to deal with terrorist threats, an issue where Bush had once held a formidable advantage.....
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