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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Cover and Uncover


White House denies misleading in CIA video feud
Hayden said the recordings, made in 2002, were destroyed to protect the identities of CIA agents, but the news outraged lawmakers and human rights groups who charge that the agency may be covering up possible torture.
Recapping

CIA tapes that may (let's get real here) show agents torturing suspects are destroyed.

More graphic evidence of torture (recall Abu Ghraib) would not be desirable for the present administration.

The head of the CIA is claiming that the tapes were destroyed to protect the identities of agents.

Valerie Plame was outed by the administration because she was married to Joe Wilson.

Wilson embarrassed the Bush administration by showing that their claims that Iraq had a nuclear weapons program were utterly false.

CIA tortures = protect the identity of agents and destroy the evidence.

Bush lies = out the identity of an agent and blame it on Libby then pardon Libby.

4 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

How did u like Time Mag. ( rt. wing rag) making Putin man of the yr.? Maybe, their being a bit to wistful don't u think? Too bad our little tyrant (W) didn't work out but their's did, or something along those lines. Dictator envy.

Jim Sande said...

I think when Time fired Kristol and Krathhammer its because they realize that it doesn't make economic sense for the magazine to continue with them. Bush's star is not just sinking its basically drowned and fizzled excepting the 24 percenters. So K and K get the boot for someone less obviously connected but still in their ball park, as far as I know.

This stunt with Putin, yeow, bad move. I don't see the positive, if the person isn't standing in the light then they are not anything of the year except dangerous.

Glynn Kalara said...

Look Time had Hitler once as the man of the yr.1938, that says enough about where they're taste has always been. TIME loves the Dictator de jure doesn't it? I stopped reading SLIME and NEWWEAK many yrs. ago. In fact I don't read any MSM newspapers or watch any MSM TV news anymore. I get most of my info online and read all the way across the political spectrum for balance. The MSM is so absurdly tipped to the right now its a joke. Its hilarious to read how wrong the rt. wing blogosphere has that one. They're still screaming about the LOL librul media. I gues when you see Hitler as a socialist and Attila the Hun as a librul anyone to their left is a commie right?

Jim Sande said...

I don't read any of those mags either. This last war sealed it for me. No NBC or anything, I can daydream and be better informed.

The closest I get to reading from the right is going to Antiwar.com which is libertarian. I can't hack Limbaugh or any of that crap any more. No more hate radio I've had enough.