Ron Suskind is glad not to be Solzhenitsyn
Posted by brianS on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
otherwise, he'd be hanging by his thumbs in a Gulag right about now. Am I the only one who was listening to his interview this morning on NPR's Morning Edition?
Sure, he's shilling a new book. But wow. Accusing the W.H. of ordering the CIA in 2003 to fabricate and back-date to 2001 an incriminating letter from the then-head of Iraqi intelligence about WMDs and the training of one of the 9/11 hijackers?
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What makes anyone think this is impossible? And to think
wethe radical right wingers in Congress impeached Bill Clinton for lying about a blow job!btw, I can't get enough of this "I can't quit you" photo.
There is no question from all sides that the letter is a forgery. The question is did the White House order its forgery? Suskind has two sources from the CIA saying it was. So Suskind isn't really alleging the forgery, he's reporting that two CIA agents maintain that it did.
Depends on whether you believe the two CIA agents who may have an ax to grind. But given this Administration's record on (ahem) stretching the truth on Iraq, you have to give those guys credence.
By the way, it was seven years ago today that the Presidential Daily Brief was entitled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." Coincidentally, today is the 63rd anniversary of the day that we dropped the big one on Hiroshima.
Oh, I'm not disputing the existence of the forged, back-dated letter (I'm ignorant of that). I'm just saying "wow". Because those are allegations of Watergate smoking-gun type offenses at the Impeachable level.
meh. These allegations need to get in line. Until Congress capitulated, the Administration all but admitted that they broke the law regarding warrantless wiretaps.
I guess W is going to go down in history as the Teflon II president.
On no. He's going to be very poorly regarded in the history books.
piffle. nobody seems to care too much about warrantless domestic spying in the name of "national security". Unless you want the terrorists to win.
and while I agree with you in principle about the blatant disregard for FISA, the feds trying to data mine bazillions of phone calls each day seems pretty minor in the world of civil rights violations.
now, falsifying documents to justify a war of aggression, that's some serious shit. He should have to face the mother of every dead and maimed soldier, one by one, to explain why his lying about Iraq's WMD program and involvement in 9/11 was justified, and why that mother's son/daughter did not die simply to feed his deluded ego.
How about outing CIA agents? Is that serious? I agree this is serious, but we have serious abuse of the Constitution fatigue. This is truly a sad time in our history.
You just don't get it, do you? The world changed on 9/11. The old way of doing things, with laws and rights and shit just won't cut it anymore. Besides, aren't we pretty close to End of Days anyway?? So there'll be a reckoning as St. Pete does some serious cleansing at the pearly gates.