Mitt Romeny for President!
I don't care if he is Mormon, I want him to be our President in 2008. He is the only candidate who doesn't suffer from the 'ostrich syndrome' and has the guts not to be in denial... Read his comments on Iran and ABC's lack of corporate responsibility(bordering treason) here.
Unfortunately, treason is now seen as "exercising your 1st amendment rights" in a way that the 1st amendment was never meant to be abused. In the early days of the country, the framers would have strung up the editors at ABC for this kind of treason as well as the likes of Pelosi et al who demand to give the terrorists our exact date of withdrawal so they can plan ahead and kill more Americans more efficiently...Unbelievable!
H/T to Frieda
ABF, for the promotion of human rights and democracy in Iran
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This is so true about treason, and Abe Lincoln did just that! (He had them improsined.) Duncan Hunter also was out in front of Iran and China. Syria and Saudi Arabia, too!
PS. You're name came up 'anonymous' on my comments. lol. Just thought I'd let you know in case you did not. :)
I certainly agree with him on this. still not sure who I will go for...waiting to see how it plays out.
Huh. I wonder how "classified" this presidential directive is if "current and former officials in the intelligence community" came forward. Refusing to confirm or deny media allegations of covert operations is a standard operating procedure for the military and intelligence agencies.
We knew this was coming from the Franklin-AIPAC spy scandal, although it's not exactly the same thing:
In August it was revealed that one of Feith's Middle East policy wonks, Lawrence Franklin, shared classified documents – including a draft National Security Presidential Directive formulated in Feith's office that outlines a more aggressive U.S. national security strategy regarding Iran – with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Israeli officials. The FBI is investigating the document transfer as a case of espionage.
I'm pretty sure an executive directive was issued to counter N.K.'s counterfeit operations, and we don't make our anti-Castro propaganda activities a secret. The IRI has been harping about these operations for a while now, and ABC confirmed it. Then there is the matter of a "Pakistani official" official talking to ABC. He can't be charged with treason. And we've known about Bush's non-lethal presidential finding against Hezbollah for a while.
I am skeptical of ABC breaking a law for two reasons. One, you can bet your behind their staff includes First Amendment lawyers that advise journalists on national security and defamation law before potentially damaging news (for the U.S. and the network) is published. More than anything, ABC doesn't want to be fined in district court and/or loose their broadcasting license from the Federal Communications Commission.
Secondly, there is the matter of Bush's Executive Order 13292, which according to the White House, gives Bush and Cheney the right to classify and declassify any thing they damn well please. That was the rational used for disclosing Valerie Plame's identity, even though according to the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 forbids disclosure of covert operatives under any circumstance.
If they declassified Plame, why not this? The problem is one of accountability. The administration has exploited this E.O. to leak information to the media like a sieve when it wants to push a message. But because there is no accountability involved, no process, the media has used this loophole against the White House to get away with leaks in the past.
Anyway, there is either some formal process within our intelligence agencies that ABC acted on—perhaps a mandatory expiration date for classified directives—or a lot of current and former "U.S. officials" (read: White House wonks) and current and former "intelligence officials" are going to jail.
After reading all this, would you still think ABC acted recklessly without assurances from the White House? Methinks Romney is huffing and puffing to excite the hawks.
Lesly: All valid points. This is what I really think of the Bush Adminstration. They are all bunch of C student who hate college and rather be doing something else but they know they need a degree to make money...I really don't think they know what they're doing or care much to know. When you don't have any motivation to learn something or don't have thorough knowledge about a topic, you can't possibly get A's, no matter how much you want to...Now, I'm going to contradict myself here. Remember the $75 million allocated for the regime change. I thought it was really stupid too to advertise that but on the other hand, it was brilliant too because it illicited the desired response (paranoiand the ensuing increase in repression and brutality)...or perhaps I'm reading too much into it...lol
Lesly: forgive my typos...so embarassing. too many to correct.
What typos? :)
This is what I really think of the Bush Administration. They are all bunch of C student who hate college and rather be doing something else but they know they need a degree to make money...I really don't think they know what they're doing or care much to know.
Ooh I'm going to get into trouble with someone by saying this. A friend of mine (well, really more an online debater) once said a master of business administration degree was so worthless in his opinion that he always automatically dumps those resumes in the trash. :-O
Remember the $75 million allocated for the regime change. I thought it was really stupid too to advertise that but on the other hand, it was brilliant too because it elicited the desired response (paranoia and the ensuing increase in repression and brutality)...or perhaps I'm reading too much into it.
Yeah I remember that, and I didn't understand why they advertised it, either. The only thing that concerns me about the paranoia and repression is that I'd be concerned about opposition groups being able to counteract or respond to the repression in some way. Maybe not physically because there's not much people can do in cases of sporadic police brutality, but I assume advertising the $75 million also makes it harder, not to mention riskier, for democratic elements within Iran to network.
Voila:
In a statement ABC News said, "In the six days since we first contacted the CIA and the White House, at no time did they indicate that broadcasting this report would jeopardize lives or operations on the ground. ABC News management gave them the repeated opportunity to make whatever objection they wanted to regarding our report. They chose not to."
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