The Stupid Continues to Burn
Un frickin’ believable! Copies of ‘torture’ report hand delivered to terror suspects, blocked from CIA officials: Full disclosure took a back seat to the CIA’s green movement last week when …
Waterboarding Hypocrisy?
The hunt for James Foley’s killer: On Sunday, the British ambassador to the United States said Britain was close to identifying Foley’s killer. A number of possible identities have been …
What if you don’t like your President? Do you still have to keep him?
They are ubiquitous. They stink. They constitute the pile of excrement known as Obama promises. Fix the economy in three years “I will be held accountable,” Obama said. “I’ve got …
To Force Feed or Starve?
Remember when Christopher Hitchens and “Mancow” requested to be waterboarded so that they could experience how unpleasant the whole sensation is? Well, enter Actor and rapper Mos Def: Rapper Mos …
President Obama’s Counterterrorism Policy Speech Yesterday: “Let me be unclear…”
Just a roundup of a few analyses by others of the president’s counterterrorism policies speech that I believe are notable and astute; namely, two writers at Lawfare Blog (a series of posts by Benjamin Wittes and one post by John Bellinger).
“Listen to what I say; not see what I actually do.”
While segments of the mainstream media have adopted President Obama’s excuses yesterday that he’s tried hard to close Guantanamo’s detention facilities since day two, but for Congress standing in the way, Benjamin Wittes at Lawfare Blog cuts right to it:
I respect Greenwald’s right to dissent from Obama administration policies. I do not respect Obama’s right to dissent from his own administration’s policies.
~~~ he described himself as fighting against a policy he has, in fact, adopted.
Obama ‘The Peaceful’ To Keep Gitmo Open
Drones over sovereign countries killing innocents Going to war without Congressional approval. Assassinating American citizens. And now Gitmo to remain open for business. The State Department on Monday reassigned Daniel …
“Zero Dark Thirty”: Dramatized Fiction on CIA “Torture”
How accurate and realistic is the portrayal of CIA interrogation in the film? The movie, after all, opens with a statement saying “based on firsthand accounts of actual events”; then goes on to show the fictionalized brutal abuse and torture of a fictional high value terrorist, including waterboarding.
Well, one “firsthand account” not utilized as an expert consultant to the movie is Jose Rodriguez, former head of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, author of Hard Measures, and unapologetic defender of the CIA’s “torture” program….
Embracing Anarchism Is Like Making Love To A Cactus, Prickly At Best
An OWS activist and his pregnant girl friend were arrested on bomb paraphernalia charges. The arrests have brought forth images of Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, the friends …
Obama's Failure
“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
John Burroughs