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Memory Hole Un-Redacts Redacted DOJ Memo
DrDNA writes "After a Freedom of Information Act request, the US Justice Department released a study on workplace diversity. However, nearly half of the memo was blacked-out. In what was apparently an incredible goof, it was posted in a PDF format called Image+Text. The folks at The Memory Hole simply removed the image, revealing the redacted text. The redacted text was highly critical of the DOJ's diversity efforts, as the New York Times reports." Folks, if you're going to be sneaky, at least do enough research to make sure you're really being sneaky.
On one hand their shouldn't even be a diversity report on the DoJ, the idea that a lack of diversity means that discrimination is prevalent is ludicrous (sp?). Maybe the most competent employees happen to be white males? Ever consider that?
On the other hand W and his cronies are continuing to look like cowards due to silly, dumb actions like this. Conservatives are looking like the whiny bitches that we all know liberals are what with stuff like this and Fox news suing Al Franken. Conservatives shouldn't do stuff like this because we. are. better. than. they. are.
How about 1998, when your pal Bill Clinton told the world that Saddam was flouting the sanctions against him? Regime change in Iraq has been our stated policy since then. That he failed to act on the information and opportunities that presented themselves to him (such as Sudan offering bin Laden on a plate) will forever remain a black spot (one of many) on his administration.
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
The term "accuse" doesn't just mean "state impartially", it carries a notion of ethical or legal disapproval that both the speaker and the audience share.
So is it absurd for someone to "accuse" a convicted felon of possessing a handgun if he himself has a handgun?
"It doesn't."
I am glad you admitted that.
"I see no mention of "written records" of the destruction of the WMD."
If you recall the UN inspection regime collected thousands of docouments and turned them over to the US, UN, Russia and a handful of other countries. Many of these documents dealt with the destruction of WMDs. It did not however account for 100% of the known WMDs which the iraqis claimed were destroyed but somehow lost the documentation. Thus another round of inspections were put in place which was abruptly ended when the US told the inspectors to get out lest they get killed by our bombs.
All this was widely reported by the US news media as well as international press. I am shocked that you are ignorant of them.
War is necrophilia.