Friday, July 07, 2006
"A much more dangerous world...."
"Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked and denounce the pacifists for somehow a lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.' I think that was Jefferson. Oh wait. That was Hermann Goering. Shoot." -- Jon Stewart while emceeing at Peabody Awards for broadcasting excellence
Rolling Stone on The [Holland] Tunnel of Fear. Raw Story deflates the hype too.
One year on [from the 7/7 bombings], a London bomber issues a threat from the dead.
Bartcop on the leaking of "secret" banking records surveillance program story:
Then:
"We will follow the money as a trail to the terrorists and freeze the money to disrupt their actions." -- Dubya, September 24, 2001, unveiling his new "terrorist asset tracking center"
Now:
"If you want to figure out what the terrorists are doing, you try to follow their money. And the fact that a newspaper disclosed it makes it harder to win this war on terror." -- Dubya, too stupid to remember HE revealed this program five years ago
Disclosed what exactly? "Former CIA and State Department terror official says bank spying already known to terrorists."
What makes it harder to win the "War on Terror"? Maybe when the "C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden." By the way that unit was started 10 years ago during the Clinton adminstration and shut down unannounced last year by Bush.
Greg Sargent on why the right wing is going hard attacking The New York Times but not the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times both of whom reported on this story at the same time here. Alex Koppelman breaks down the right wing f-ckery here too.
AMERICAblog on how Bush, who just turned 60, is building a legacy of a more dangerous world.
