"The Crazies Are Back"

[Singlecoil]

Many of us on this board were making these points before the war, but were generally shouted down as being cowards or ignorant of the intelligence community's desire to protect "sources and methods". I thought it interesting to hear former senior CIA officers who served under Reagan and Bush raise similar points recently.

"RAY MCGOVERN: Well, when Wolfowitz prepared that defense posture statement in 1991, where he elucidated the strategic vision that has now been implemented, Jim Baker, Secretary of State, Brent Scowcroft, security advisor to George Bush, and George Bush said hey, that thing goes right into the circular file. Suppress that thing, get rid of it. Somebody had the presence of mind to leak it and so that was suppressed. But now to see that arise out of the ashes and be implemented. while we start a war against Iraq, I wonder what Bush the first is really thinking. Because these were the same guys that all of us referred to as ‘the crazies’."

Full Article

 

[flywithastick]

"Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 140 stations in North America.Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, community, and National Public Radio stations, public access cable television stations, satellite television (on Free Speech TV, channel 9415 of the DISH Network), shortwave radio and the internet."

Sounds like a good source to me... and they're quoting Charles Schumer as calling for an investigation. Now that's a shocker!

hey, isn't Wayne's World on public access cable television?!

 

[VivaZapata]

hey, isn't Wayne's World on public acces

sorry, that's analogy is inapplicable (even as a joke). "Public access TV" and public broadcasting are entirely two different mediums.

 

[bart]

Zapata is right!

Public Access and NPR, there is no comparison

Public access implies no editorial control over content, while

NPR guarantees only leftist content.



Even a blind hog stumbles over an acorn every now and then.

 

[Timebuilder]

and National Public Radio stations, public access cable television stations, satellite television

As you can see above, "public access" was one of the listed outlets for this program.

Amazing how the opinions and anecdotes of former "analysts" become the holy grail for left wing positions.

Even more amusing, were it not so sad, is Amy Goodman's long preamble in an "interview" format, directed both at her far left audience and toward her "interviewee", capsulizing the intent and foregone conclusion of her article.

Ray Mc Govern has learned well how to "indict by question and allusion" in this wonderfully crafted statement:

Quote:
What this indicates, I mean, this is all sort of in the weeds until you step back and you say why is all this happening? It is all happening because there are lies upon lies, deceit upon deceit that have been used to justify this illegal war on against an unprovoked enemy, or an enemy that does not provoke us. Once the lies start unraveling, and people see they can speak out, that is going to be real trouble for the administration, and so what do you do? You do all you can to intimidate them. And how you intimidate them is to try to hurt them in a personal way. Going after somebody’s wife, I mean, not even Richard Nixon stooped to that.

Merely by making a reference to "lies upon lies" (oh, yeah, he's just innocently asking a question) and saying that " not even Richard Nixon stooped to that" he is able to pretend that he has enough information to question the charater and the intent of others, as if these are immutable facts and not mere speculation.

If you find this kind of article entertaining, fine. Amy and this website she writes for can put this kind of stuff out for liberal consumption all they want.

But please, don't mistake this kind of stuff for any degree of truthfulness or investigative reporting. This is a group that has many axes to grind and agendas to advance, despite the nice name that they have chosen for their organization.

A far better name would be "Socialist workers unite now!" At least they would get points for being honest about their biases.