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  1. It’s a leading item in German news programs tonight, and there is no attempt to provide a dateline or any context. Also mentioned was the bind that some in Poland are in because of having cooperated with black sites. The Polish government, now in need of our military to protect itself from Putin, doesn’t seem to be giving in to the criticisms.
    I expect we will feel like we are reading Davids Medienkritik once again. Thanks Dianne.

  2. “[A]ll but one Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to approve the probe in March 2009. However, all of the committee’s GOP members withdrew their support six months later when it became clear that this inquiry would be a witch hunt against the Bush administration and the CIA and not a balanced, bipartisan investigation.”

    I can barely contain my disgust.
    SHOUTING now, at the top of my aging lungs . . .

    This was 2009, not 1959. These imbecile Republicans in 2009 were still that effing *clueless* as to what the Democrats were going to do???
    Not effing rocket science, morons.

    No longer shouting now, just quietly resigned . . .

    They’re called the Stupid Party for a reason, you know.
    We are finished.

    ——

    KJV John 19:30,32-34 . . .
    “When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. . . . Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.”

  3. Knowing Cosmic Bob for a long time, his opposition to that report is quite a rebuke.

    Bob is lots of things, but he is dead serious about national security and knows what we are up against.

    DiFi should be ashamed of herself.

  4. Wolf Blitzer of CNN asked her about the report leading to retribution against Americans overseas and allies and, in response she verbally attacked him. No shame evident, ideology trumps all and that is prima facie evidence of a knowing betrayal of her oath of office.

    But its not just Feinstein, all the democrats on that committee are equally culpable in their betrayal of America. And in their silence which condones, the entire democrat leadership shares in that betrayal.

  5. M J R:

    What I don’t get is why they didn’t release a dissenting report.

    Or maybe that would have been too much work.

  6. DiFi should be ashamed of herself.

    Ha. She’s probably in physical ecstasy, she’s so happy with herself.

  7. Geoffrey Britain and others:

    I addend an addendum with video of the Blitzer/Feinstein interview.

  8. neo-neocon, 3:42 pm — “M J R: What I don’t get is why they didn’t release a dissenting report. Or maybe that would have been too much work.”

    It certainly would have been principled and justified. But would it have been an efficacious use of their energy?

    I mean, FoxNews would cover it; ElRushbo, Hannity, Levin, all would cover it, yea, shouting it from the rooftops; but would NBCABCCBSPBSNPRCNNetc cover it? Seems to me, the low information voter would be just as low information after the report is released as s/he would be before.

    If a tree falls in the forest and all that.

    It’s very discouraging, you know?

  9. neo-neocon, 3:48 pm — “I addend an addendum with video of the Blitzer/Feinstein interview.”

    Kewl! I like “addend” as a verb. [ smile ] [ poke ]

  10. M J R:

    Oops! I meant “I added an addendum…”.

    But I think I’ll keep it the way it is 🙂 .

  11. Torture, in principle, is wrong; but, so is premeditated murder (e.g. elective abortion) without cause. Not to mention the expansion of wars (e.g. regime change) and torture (e.g. assassination) policies under Obama; establishment of an Islamic state in Europe under Clinton; etc. The cognitive dissonance must be deafening. At least Republicans maintain an appearance and practice of acceding to international law and order, to civil and human rights.

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