Saturday, July 28, 2007
The Decider's Dissembler
A few out there are catching on to the update I added to Tuesday's post about Gonzales trying to have it both ways with his testimony.
From the left: TPMMuckracker.
From the right: National Review.
My take? Technically, Attorney General Gonzales is right. He's been careful to answer questions specifically about the program "described by the President" in January 2006. The lie is that his questioners have always been asking about the broad scope of spying activities, long before it became public and got a big fancy Orwellian name - "Terrorist Surveillance Program."
National Review suggests Mr. Gonzales is parsing to keep details of classified activities classified. They're wrong. He's parsing to keep presumably illegal activities classified.
And no one seems to remember that when all of this started, the big liarhead wasn't even under oath.
Jesus. Thanks, Senator Specter.
If the dumbest semi-retired soul-rocker in Delmar can figure this crap out, why hasn't anyone in the meanstream media stumbled on it?
UPDATE 1: Wow. I wrote "meanstream" instead of "mainstream." Paging Dr. Freud.
UPDATE 2: Here comes the meanstream with some choice leaks: the New York Times and some careful whistleblowers remind us about the "other activities" that top DOJ officials were ready to resign over: domestic data mining.
Tip. Of. The. Iceberg.
Keep those leaks coming, y'all.
From the left: TPMMuckracker.
From the right: National Review.
My take? Technically, Attorney General Gonzales is right. He's been careful to answer questions specifically about the program "described by the President" in January 2006. The lie is that his questioners have always been asking about the broad scope of spying activities, long before it became public and got a big fancy Orwellian name - "Terrorist Surveillance Program."
National Review suggests Mr. Gonzales is parsing to keep details of classified activities classified. They're wrong. He's parsing to keep presumably illegal activities classified.
And no one seems to remember that when all of this started, the big liarhead wasn't even under oath.
Jesus. Thanks, Senator Specter.
If the dumbest semi-retired soul-rocker in Delmar can figure this crap out, why hasn't anyone in the meanstream media stumbled on it?
UPDATE 1: Wow. I wrote "meanstream" instead of "mainstream." Paging Dr. Freud.
UPDATE 2: Here comes the meanstream with some choice leaks: the New York Times and some careful whistleblowers remind us about the "other activities" that top DOJ officials were ready to resign over: domestic data mining.
Tip. Of. The. Iceberg.
Keep those leaks coming, y'all.
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