Senator Russ Feingold will introduce a resolution to censure George Bush on the matter of his illegal NSA wiretapping in the Senate today.
In the 23 March 2006 issue of The New York Review of Books, David Cole offers an epilogue to his piece, Are We Safer, in which he slices and dices Bush’s claim the wiretapping successfully foiled a terrorist plot to take out LA’s Library Tower.
The information was actually gathered during interrogation of captured al-Qaeda leader Khalid Shaikh Mohammed long after the threat of this alleged attack had passed. The plan never progressed beyond just talk and saying that it did is ludicrous, according to one official familiar with the case.
In the current issue of The American Conservative, James Bovard reviews State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration by James Risen. I’m tempted to lift the Lily Tomlin quote for this blog’s header that Bovard used to close his excellent analysis, “No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.”
Censuring Bush on this matter alone is akin to prosecuting a shoplifter for stealing a candy bar and excusing them for killing the shopkeeper in the process.
Impeaching Clinton didn’t stop him from bombing Iraq in ’98, in fact, it seemed to give him more reason to do it.
Millions should be marching to D.C. to fire the whole lot of them, or engaging in a national strike that did not end until the lying, duplicitous thieves in this govt., who are in the final stages of attacking yet another country that poses no imminent threat to the United States, are sent packing.
Neither of which will ever happen. Rolling Stone is urging readers to embrace the foreign policy insanity of DLC poster child Evan Bayh. What next? Recruitment drives for the military? At this point in the game, Congress will need to suit up to deal with the blowback that would come from slaughtering thousands of Iranians for no legal or justifiable reason.
The current issue of Monthly Review offers, Why the United States Promotes India’s Great-Power Ambitions, and it explains why India was recently handed the keys to nuclear proliferation. It also examines how the framework of current U.S. foreign policy is shuddering in its fragility. One big huff and the house of cards could come tumbling down.
MEMRI posted this on Friday, 10 March:
Purported “Al-Qaeda Undercover Soldier, U.S.A”: Last Warning to American People – Two Operations Will Occur; Your Homeland Security Agency Must Surrender; States Far Away From Washington, D.C. Such as Arizona Will Be Hit; We Await Orders From Our Commander Osama Bin Laden; America Will Be Brought to its Knees.
I trust MEMRI as far as I can throw George Bush out of office. But the “warning” illustrates how ill prepared the country is to deal with another terrorist attack. Handle a nuclear event? Goodbye, world, or maybe just your piece of it.
Raimondo is right. It’s enough to make a reasonable person want to chuck it all and find a beach somewhere to live out what could be the final days. But I’m stuck here with my fellow nihilists, seemingly so bored with life itself, gambling against destruction of massive proportions even as its engineered by sociopaths who line their fallout shelters with the skins of the dead is the best effort we can muster. And we aren’t even kicking and screaming as they drag us to the precipice.