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preempting more SubGenius Spam

Here's more spam that I'm taking glee in:
NEWSWEEK: In the Months Before 9/11, Justice Department Curtailed Highly Classified Program to Monitor Al Qaeda Suspects in the U.S.
Sunday March 21, 10:51 am ET


NEW YORK, March 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Newsweek has learned that in the months before 9/11, the U.S. Justice Department curtailed a highly classified program called "Catcher's Mitt" to monitor Al Qaeda suspects in the United States, after a federal judge severely chastised the FBI for improperly seeking permission to wiretap terrorists. During the Bush administration's first few months in office, Attorney General John Ashcroft downgraded terrorism as a priority, choosing to place more emphasis on drug trafficking and gun violence, report Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff and Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas in the March 29 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, March 22).

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040321/nysu007a_1.html

And yes, I'll be posting it on other threads, if I choose, where issues overlap, even though, according to our hall monitor, it may not be "directly on topic".
Lights out nobody home.
 
... but your zeal in posting every rumor casting Bush in a poor light, regardless of corroborating evidence, tells us quite a bit about you.
 
crackmonkey said:
... but your zeal in posting every rumor casting Bush in a poor light, regardless of corroborating evidence, tells us quite a bit about you.
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Make a list of every rumor that I posted without corroborating evidence, or your accusation may tell "us" quite a bit about you.
 
You may note that I'm the only one who has posted criticisms of Clarke thus far.
You see and hear what you expect to see and hear.
 
And more of the other side, from of all places, the other side! Those nasty Dems what evil do they have up their sleeves?

"Sen. Joe Lieberman (news - web sites), D-Conn., said Sunday he doesn't believe Clarke's charge that the Bush administration — which defeated him and former Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) in the 2000 election — was focused more on Iraq than al-Qaida during the days after the terror attacks.

"I see no basis for it," Lieberman said on Fox News Sunday. "I think we've got to be careful to speak facts and not rhetoric."

And Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that while he has been critical of Bush policies on Iraq, "I think it's unfair to blame the president for the spread of terror and the diffuseness of it. Even if he had followed the advice of me and many other people, I still think the same thing would have happened."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...ap_on_go_pr_wh/terrorism_adviser_18&printer=1
 
subgenius said:
If you say so.
Do you give his view any weight? Are you happy?
You can't read my mind. What you are saying is insulting.
But apparently it gives you some comfort, and distracts from the issue. And says more about you than me.
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Your actions belie your words. That you would make such an effort to get everyone to see the shows makes clear your views. You disagree with the administration. Also, You're posts are almost always witty and you love to poke fun at the administration. To suggest that you are not happy at the prospect of getting rid of Bush is IMHO disingenuous on your part. I can't read your mind but I can read your posts. If you want to insist that you take no pleasure in the fact that you are being proved right (assuming that you are) then fine. I will leave you alone. I don't have to buy it though.

Too much fun.
 
I happened to think it was a matter of national importance. So did you watch, and what do you think?
It might be better to discuss in the GWB Better Terror Fighter thread......we seem to be avoiding the point here.
 
Richard Clarke's Legacy of Miscalculation
In 1986, as a State Department bureaucrat with pull, he came up with a plan to battle terrorism and subvert Muammar Qaddafi by having SR-71s produce sonic booms over Libya. This was to be accompanied by rafts washing onto the sands of Tripoli, the aim of which was to create the illusion of a coming attack. When this nonsense was revealed, it created embarrassment for the Reagan administration and was buried.

In 1998, according to the New Republic, Clarke "played a key role in the Clinton administration's misguided retaliation for the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which targeted bin Laden's terrorist camps in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan." The pharmaceutical factory was, apparently, just a pharmaceutical factory, and we now know how impressed bin Laden was by cruise missiles that miss. [/b]
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It was all Clarke's fault anyway. He was supposed to be the expert and develope the plans.
The buck stops with him.

And I never liked American Bandstand.
 
Bad job on terror? haha. Yes they did a bad job on terror prior to 9/11. They totally sucked at it.

But then they did follow the previous administration's policies until 9/11. after 9/11 they opted for a different sort of response.

I wonder who has a response that had more meaning? Clinton and the "send a tomahawk their way", or Bush and the "go in and kill or capture them" methods

Personally, if you swing at me I'll swing back and beat your ass down before getting nailed in the back by your wussified ass as I turn to call the cops (UN) who may in fact side with you anyhow
 
NEWS FOR SALE: CBS PUSHED BOOK IT OWNS; '60 MINUTES' DID NOT REVEAL PARENT COMPANY'S FINANCIAL STAKE IN CLARKE PROJECT

CBSNEWS did not inform its viewers last night that its parent company owns and has a direct financial stake in the success of the book by former White House terror staffer turned Bush critic, Dick Clarke, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.
http://drudgereport.com/cbsrc.htm

Seems I'm way ahead of the administration supporters here.

I guess we can all ignore this story now. Carry on.
 
subgenius said:
NEWS FOR SALE: CBS PUSHED BOOK IT OWNS; '60 MINUTES' DID NOT REVEAL PARENT COMPANY'S FINANCIAL STAKE IN CLARKE PROJECT

CBSNEWS did not inform its viewers last night that its parent company owns and has a direct financial stake in the success of the book by former White House terror staffer turned Bush critic, Dick Clarke, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.
http://drudgereport.com/cbsrc.htm

Seems I'm way ahead of the administration supporters here.

I guess we can all ignore this story now. Carry on.
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That as it may be, I don't think Mike Wallace would let 60 minutes shill a book for Viacom's sake. However, the segment did remind me more of a Dateline book segment (which barely qualify as news imho).

If Leslie Stahl hadn't been lazy I don't think anyone would be thinking that there was a real conflict of interest. Mass media being what it is, its hard to avoid media incest.
 
crackmonkey said:
... but your zeal in posting every rumor casting Bush in a poor light, regardless of corroborating evidence, tells us quite a bit about you.
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Got even one yet?
 
crackmonkey said:
... but your zeal in posting every rumor casting Bush in a poor light, regardless of corroborating evidence, tells us quite a bit about you.
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Care to issue a correction yet? Your refusal to admit that you might be wrong tells us quite a bit about you.
 
Originally posted by crackmonkey

I'd forgotten all about the rumors thing. I'll look into it if it'll make you feel better...
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It actually might restore my faith in humanity....that people generally don't make baseless accusations.
 
subgenius said:
It was all Clarke's fault anyway. He was supposed to be the expert and develope the plans.
The buck stops with him.

And I never liked American Bandstand.
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That's crap!
Frankie and Annet were..uh......um....Where's my prozac
 
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