While the world is reacting to leaks indicating that Saudi Arabia is funding Al Qaeda and Clinton ordered diplomats to engage in espionage, Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) have called for the prosecution of those responsible for the leaks.
The leaks also show the Saudis pressuring the United States to attack Iran — once again having the United States do the dirty work for regional interests. Then there is the revelation that Iran smuggled weapons in ambulances to Hezbollah.
Graham insists that the matter is clear “we’re at war . . . If you can prosecute them, let’s try.” McCaskill agreed, stressing “I hope we can find out where this is coming from and go after them with the force of law.”
As with the disclosures of the torture program, some of these disclosures are likely not new information for Senators. Members of the intelligence committees have often been criticized for knowledge of abuses or even crimes in our government without making them public or taking significant action. Thus far, there has not been a single suggestion of public hearings on these allegations — only a demand to prosecute the person responsible for making them public. The problem is that some of this information shows that the public has been given false or misleading information on major policies. I guess this is an example of what Senator Rockefeller said was the harm of media coverage denying the public of its sense of happiness and contentment in their government.
I am a firm believer in the need to maintain secrecy in areas of national security, but some of these leaks raise (again) a growing lack of confidence in Congress in serving as a true check and balance on abuses.
Save bdaman?
No. That would be his job.
I am the road sign, not the traveler on that path.
Thanks for confirming your identity though.
Bdaman:
are you under the influence of the forces of darkness? Don’t worry Capn Buddha will save you from Andy Brietbart and his paid hoard of capitalist trolls.
Bitterness?
No, bdaman. You mistake mockery for bitterness. The less obnoxious and patently Neocon your fabrications, the less mockery you’ll get. It’s just another feedback loop.
You know I think you’re a troll only because you’ve consumed too much propaganda. True paid trolls have been here and I think you’re smart enough to know of whom I speak. As far as trolls go, you are not true trollkind, merely troll infected. That makes you considerably less culpable for your actions. If I have any bitterness related to you – other than the Christ Killer thing and that evokes disgust, not bitterness – it’s bitterness related to those who have poisoned your mind.
Bdaman,
“How did Greenland turn into Iceland.”
Greenland didn’t turn to Iceland. Iceland is a different country–a country with a lot of geothermal activity and hot springs…a country of “fire and ice.”
Bdaman:
he’s been fighting the “greedy capitalist hoard” on the Thanksgiving Thread.
Ms. Elaine thank you. Anon Nurse to you as well.
Buddha thank you too. I know we disagree on every subject but it is nice to read a post from you to me without all of the bitterness.
How did Greenland turn into Iceland.
Global warming creates not just hot weather but rather unstable weather, i.e. unusual highs and lows.
Like century record low temps outside the norm Sweden.
These kinds of extreme events are becoming more frequent. They will become more frequent as more heat is added to the system. Heat is a measurement of entropy within a system. Heat is a form of chaos as are all entropic processes. More chaos means more instability and unpredictability.
Like century record low temps outside the norm Sweden.
Eventually that instability will hit a tipping point and throw the system into complete chaos, ruining our ability to grow food in a predictable manner. Inability to feed people predictably will in turn lead to social dischord and violence.
Feedback loops are a bitch.
Bdaman,
“P.S. are we gonna burn to death or freeze to death.”
I don’t know. Which would you prefer?
FIRE AND ICE
By Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
oops — that would be “your views”…
Bdaman,
You’re a likeable guy, in spite of some of you views. 🙂 Thanks for making me smile…
P.S. are we gonna burn to death or freeze to death. I find it hilarious that last year during Nopenhagen the Northern Hemi was setting record cold temps and snow and now they just start COP 15 in Cancun and the Northern Hemi is freezing again.
Stockholm is forecast to experience its coldest seasonal temperatures for over 100 years this week as winter weather takes hold of the country, according to the Swedish Meteorological Institute. SMHI forecasted that in southern and central areas the cold will ease off somewhat come Friday. Northern Norrland will however drop to minus 14-17 degrees Celsius in the middle of the day.
The sub-zero temperatures are here to stay though, even in the south, Alexandra Ohlsson said.
“It looks like the sub-zero temperatures will persist,” she said.
http://www.thelocal.se/30516/20101130/
This is after over 200 record snow and temperature records were broke here in the U.S. in the last two weeks.
I know, Global Warming actually creates Global Cooling, your right.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton says that he does not believe UN officials were directed to spy at the United Nations. Bolton told Talk Radio Netowrk co-hosts John McCaslin and Amy Holmes, “I don’t believe that cable…. I think it probably came from somewhere in the intelligence community. I wish we could find that out because it’s obviously very damaging.”
WikiLeaks: Interpol issues wanted notice for Julian Assange
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/nov/30/interpol-wanted-notice-julian-assange
Buddha if you look directly above your post you’ll see I posted the time article. Thats O.k. though cause your still right.
Larry:
I’ll give you hint I aint Jewish and I dont eat ham.
There is no e.
Larry:
No, have you?
Mo(e),
Seen Curly anywhere?
Anon Nurse:
Noam Chomsky hates republican democracy even more than our elected officials do.
He likes pure democracy because of the possibility of mob rule.
Sorry for the duplication in the previous comment.
When everything’s said and done, he’ll probably end up being Time’s Person of the Year… I only half kidding…
Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal “Profound Hatred for Democracy on the Part of Our Political Leadership”In a national broadcast exclusive interview, we speak with world-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky about the release of more than 250,000 secret U.S. State Department cables by WikiLeaks. In 1971, Chomsky helped government whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg release the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret internal U.S. account of the Vietnam War. Commenting on the revelations that several Arab leaders are urging the United States to attack Iran, Chomsky says, “latest polls show] Arab opinion holds that the major threat in the region is Israel, that’s 80 percent; the second threat is the United States, that’s 77 percent. Iran is listed as a threat by 10 percent,” Chomsky says. “This may not be reported in the newspapers, but it’s certainly familiar to the Israeli and U.S. governments and the ambassadors. What this reveals is the profound hatred for democracy on the part of our political leadership.” [includes rush transcript]
Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal “Profound Hatred for Democracy on the Part of Our Political Leadership”
“In a national broadcast exclusive interview, we speak with world-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky about the release of more than 250,000 secret U.S. State Department cables by WikiLeaks. In 1971, Chomsky helped government whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg release the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret internal U.S. account of the Vietnam War. Commenting on the revelations that several Arab leaders are urging the United States to attack Iran, Chomsky says, “latest polls show] Arab opinion holds that the major threat in the region is Israel, that’s 80 percent; the second threat is the United States, that’s 77 percent. Iran is listed as a threat by 10 percent,” Chomsky says. “This may not be reported in the newspapers, but it’s certainly familiar to the Israeli and U.S. governments and the ambassadors. What this reveals is the profound hatred for democracy on the part of our political leadership.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/30/noam_chomsky_wikileaks_cables_reveal_profound