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ABC News Outs CIA Contractors Behind Interrogation Program
ABC News has done what I’m sure they consider some kind of public service by outing two CIA contractors who allegedly designed the enhanced interrogation program.
Let’s face it, there’s no such thing as a secret anymore. People flap their gums about everything now regardless of our national security and regardless of consequences.
The media are a bunch of anti-American scumbags. They do more to damage this country than any single institution in the world. ABC News is a disgrace.
When the hell are we going to start prosecuting people who blab classified information to reporters?
The first time some paper pusher with a security clearance gets 10 years in federal prison for flapping his lips to reporters we might finally put an end to this crap.
We are in the middle of a fucking war and nobody seems to give a damn.
-Chris Jones
Hey Media, KSM Was NOT Waterboarded 183 Times
The media has been frothing at the mouth over the recently released torture interrogation memos.
The NY Times has devoted as much ink as possible to deceiving the public into believing terrorists were tortured and Bush is a war criminal.
However, the only thing criminal are the lies the nearly bankrupt NY Times prints.
One of their favorite lies of late has been that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times.
That’s the kind of red meat The Times has been dreaming about for years and has been only too happy to peddle it.
Unfortunately for The Times, it isn’t true.
That 183 figure represents the number of times water touched his face. Since the object of the technique is only to scare, water is only poured on the face for maybe 5 or 6 seconds at a time.
Then KSM was allowed to catch his breath briefly before more water was poured. But each time the water is poured counts separately.
So a single waterboarding might consist of 15 or 20 pours, maybe more.
The Justice Department memos don’t explain all that, because they were never meant for public consumption. The CIA never dreamed those documents would be plastered all over the Internet and the evening news.
The real outrage here has nothing to do with interrogations and everything to do with the outrageous irresponsibility of Obama for releasing the documents.
Our president doesn’t give a f*ck about national security, and would rather placate the ACLU then do what is necessary to protect this nation.
-Chris Jones
Gasoline Prices – Countdown To Rip-Off
Calendars have all the official seasons and days conveniently pre-printed. No calendar has, or even attempts, to have them all. For instance, you have to write in your boss’s day off.
Only very special calendars have “driving season” indicated. It’s our oil producer’s favorite holiday- and it’s on the way. The clock is already ticking.
For them, “the driving season” is a cherished ritual. Are you ready?
Last year they ran the price up above one hundred and forty dollars a barrel. That was a new record. Although they run this scam every summer, 2008 exceeded their wildest hopes. Prior to our “sky is falling” episode last September, it was the number one topic; some even had the temerity to suggest that it could cause a recession. Imagine!
Now that we have a real recession, will they have the nerve to run the racket again, even though demand is clearly down? Despite the obvious oil glut, will interests still find a way to jack us up again?
Well, that’s not really a serious question, is it? They’re certainly going to try. These are very bright boys and girls; and they’ve got the eggs. Who knows, maybe this year they will convince us that higher prices are good for us! Perhaps an “oil rescue” plan?
While it’s less than a year since oil prices had us by the short hairs, very little notice has been taken by official punditry of the fact that the price of a barrel has increased from around thirty five dollars to fifty dollars in the last several weeks. While all the media hasten to remind us of how much better off we are than last year, independent thinkers must wonder what market forces are at work to raise prices in the face of declining demand.
OPEC is ready. As with other producers, they have begun to manipulate supply. Hugo Chavez is hopeful; and Amadinejad is wearing a hole though his prayer rug. In the various financial towers that grace this great land, the “Wall Street” types are at it again with schemes of buying and storing oil until this artificial withdrawal causes the price to rise. Already, so much oil has been diverted that the planet is running out of places and tankers to stash the stuff. They’re all puffing as hard as they can to inflate the “summer bubble”.
We can predict with confidence that, once again, in broad daylight, the theft of trillions of dollars will be attempted this year. Must we also expect the canned banal response from both the mainstream media and the blogosphere that we usually get? That is, the dreary after-the-fact and impotent post-mortems?
In a way, it does take your breath away. You have to admire the spectacular nerve it’s going to take this year, in the face of the suffering caused by the crash, to squeeze us again.
Maybe, like good little chumps, we should just sit back, relax, and have a good time? You’ve probably heard that old joke? Don’t drop the soap at the pump? We’re such good people. Maybe we could make a game of it, or a lottery?
The average “Joes” from “Main Street” could try to guess how high the price will go this year. Two seventy-five? Three dollars? Three seventy five? Four forty? Five sixty eight? Good clean fun; a diversion, a game to keep our minds off our emptying pockets. Something like an election.
Yet, it doesn’t have to be that way again. This is the perfect opportunity for an independent-minded alternative press to earn the respect and gratitude of the public. For, this is the ideal issue: Everyone will benefit from the effort. Democrats and Republicans, Conservatives and Liberals, every color, every religion, every creed, and every individual will stand up and applaud if somebody finally comes to the rescue.
Will this be the year that we stop them before they get over? Dead in their tracks- the first ever populist pre-emptive strike? Like a war that doesn’t start, sometimes the best story is the story that doesn’t happen.
This year, we can either spend the summer wringing our hands and protesting the hardships at the pump, or we can be the story, and stop this crime before it occurs.
There has to come a time when our efforts show effect.
The time is now.
-Richard Hirschhorn
New GOP Attack Links Specter To Bush
The overwhelming support that former republican Arlen Specter received in 2004 from president Bush is coming back to haunt him — maybe.
The GOP has launched an attack campaign against Arlen Specter aimed at highlighting his conservative record.
The effort includes a Web page featuring YouTube clips of Specter’s positive comments about conservatives like Rush Limbaugh and Rick Santorum, and criticism of Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid. It also involves robocalls to Pennsylvania voters to "help you welcome your newest Democrat senator" that use audio from Specter’s old campaign ads — audio featuring what the NRSC describes as "glowing support" from former President George W. Bush.
"I’m here to say it as plainly as I can, Arlen Specter is the right man for the United States Senate," says Bush in comments included in the new call. "I can count on this man — see, that’s important. He’s a firm ally when it matters most. I’m proud to tell you I think he’s earned another term as the United States senator."
Here’s a video:
I don’t know how successful this tactic is going to be for the GOP. This looks a little desperate. Regardless of what Bush said about him, everybody knows how enraged Specter always made the conservative base, so I don’t know if this holds much water.
-Chris Jones
Video: Sarah Palin On “American Chopper”
Look at the size of that bear on the couch! Nice.
Scheuer Shreds Obama On National Security
If there’s one man who probably knows more about national security and radical Islam than anyone it’s Michael Scheuer. He spent 22-years as an analyst at the CIA and spent a large amount of that time tracking radical Islamic groups and studying their words and actions.
In 1996, the CIA took the unprecedented step of creating an in house unit whose sole purpose was to to track one man — Osama Bin Laden. From 1996 – 1999 Mike Scheuer was head of the Bin Laden Unit (formally known as Alec Station, named after Mike’s son Alec).
Scheuer also designed the CIA’s Rendition program which was used to snatch terror suspects abroad and fly them back to the U.S. for prosecution or to another country for interrogation.
Beyond his unparalleled expertise, Michael Scheuer has no political ax to grind. He’s fond of ripping into both Bushes, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and now Barack Obama. His only interest is to see that America is protected and that we have a competent national security policy.
In short, If Scheuer says Obama’s national security policy is f*cked up — we should listen.
In a scathing Washington Post editorial, Scheuer doesn’t hold back. He says the way Obama is playing politics with interrogation and our national security in general is going to get people killed.
I’m actually surprised the WaPo even printed the Op-Ed it’s so brutal and frank. I’m guessing the couple of shots he took at Bush soothed liberal hearts on the editorial board.
Here’s a taste:
Now, in a single week, President Obama has eliminated two-thirds of that successful-but-not-sufficient national defense troika because his personal ideology — a fair gist of which is "If the world likes us more we are more secure" — cannot tolerate harsh interrogation techniques, torture or coercive interviews, call them what you will. Surprisingly, Obama now stands alongside Bush as a genuine American Jacobin, both of them seeing the world as they want it to be, not as it is. Whereas Bush saw a world of Muslims yearning to betray their God for Western secularism, Obama gazes upon a globe that he regards as largely carnivore-free and believes that remaining threats can be defused by semantic warfare; just stop saying "War on Terror" and give talks in Turkey and on al-Arabiyah television, for example.
Americans should be clear on what Obama has done. In a breathtaking display of self-righteousness and intellectual arrogance, the president told Americans that his personal beliefs are more important than protecting their country, their homes and their families. The interrogation techniques in question, the president asserted, are a sign that Americans have lost their "moral compass," a compliment similar to Attorney General Eric Holder’s identifying them as "moral cowards." Mulling Obama’s claim, one can wonder what could be more moral for a president than doing all that is needed to defend America and its citizens? Or, asked another way, is it moral for the president of the United States to abandon intelligence tools that have saved the lives and property of Americans and their allies in favor of his own ideological beliefs?
There is no question in my mind and in the mind of experts like Scheuer that president Obama’s reckless ACLU national security policy has put us all in danger.
-Chris Jones
Video: Capt. Phillips Describes Lifeboat Standoff With Pirates
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Arlen Specter Becomes A Democrat
Republican Sen. Arlen Specter who’s long voted like a democrat has decided to actually become a democrat. Fortunately, Specter says his opposition to Card Check will remain intact regardless of his new party affiliation. Let’s hope that holds.
-Chris Jones
Video: FBI Employee Faints During Obama’s Remarks To The Agency
The person probably fainted after realizing how much damage Obama is doing to our national security.
Americans Bought Enough Guns In 3 Months To Outfit Entire Chinese And Indian Army Combined
According to AmmoLand.com, Americans bought enough firearms in 3 months to outfit the entire Chinese and Indian Army combined. Moreover, Americans bought more than 1.5 billion rounds of ammunition in the month of December alone.
Whenever I think all might be lost for this country, I read statistics like that and I know we’ll be fine. Americans are smart to buy as much firepower as they can, because contrary to his rhetoric Barack Obama is the most anti-gun president we’ve ever had.
(hat tip Free Republic)
Fox Declines To Air Obama Press Conference
President Obama is celebrating his first 100 days in office by scheduling another prime-time press conference next week. This time however, The Fox Network isn’t playing ball. Fox says it will not carry Obama’s press conference and instead will premiere a new episode of “Lie To Me.” (That title is purely coincidental I’m sure)
Considering how much time Obama’s head is on our television screens with words coming out of his mouth, I really don’t think it’s gonna be any great loss. The president should celebrate his 100 days in office by doing something unexpected — like not coming on TV and bloviating for an hour.
-Chris Jones
Video: Blago Looking Dumber Than Ever
This guy truly has no shame…
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