I guess that we're headed toward that actual big-brother society that the wingnuts claim could never happen...
The White House is maintaining extraordinary restrictions on information about the detention of high-level terror suspects, permitting only a small number of members of Congress to be briefed on how and where the prisoners are being held and interrogated, senior government officials say.
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By law, the White House is required to notify the House and Senate Intelligence Committees of all intelligence-gathering activities. But the White House has taken the stance that the secret detention program is too sensitive to be described to any members other than the top Republican and Democrat on each panel.
RULE OF LAW! RULE OF LAW!
Bwahahahaha...Just kidding.
A former senior intelligence official said the main reason for the secrecy was to prevent information about where the prisoners were being held from being publicly disclosed. Such a disclosure, the official said, would almost certainly cause host governments to force the C.I.A. to shut down the detention operations being carried out on their soil.
Because we would never want to embarrass anyone in the Coalition of the Inhumane, or that friendly gub'mint in the sand that's got all that oil now would we?
posted by Jo Fish on 04.06.05 at 03:14 AM
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Amazing, isn't it? I just shake my head and wonder how so many people could approve or just not care about this stuff.
Intelligence gathering- dep't of energy, oh unocal-chevron merged this week. Afghan Pres and VP are regional UNOCAL execs, the pipeline deal Mike Moore talked about just became reality again.
Condie(Chevron) Rice was in on the deal. how often does a double buyout turn into a loss for both companies? Securities and exchange commission lets a loss-loss deal go through as tax write offs at public expense?
Bush's trip to Europe was an oil putsch. He has the Ukarain President visit then flies to Europe.... hmmm.
posted by: Mr. Murder on 04.08.05 at 05:38 PM [permalink]
Mr Murder's remark's remind me of a bad spy novel, events unfold that are so immoral and ridiculous that at best its pulp entertainment. Yet they're not poorly written fiction, they're true. Not much difference at this point between Bush and the old Soviet Politburo. All these years of the wing-nuttery accusing the real patriots of grand conspiracies was just a projection of their own extremists goals.
Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood of his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"- with his mouth.
- Mark Twain-"The Lowest Animal"
Needless to say , follow the money. look at the countries who lbobied the leaders, and you'll see exaclty where the terra suspects are being held at.
The Putin move was too obvious. There are others, look along the lines of people that Bush brothers or Cheney children take lobby donations from. They do not really try to hide things.
Alberto Gonzales has a School of the Americas profile if ever there was one. He has no legal experience outside of Bush appointments and Enron work.
To drop out of nowhere is unusual. There's a reason he was a nobody before he was a somebody.
posted by: Mr. Murder on 04.11.05 at 02:20 AM [permalink]
