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US Democrats Accidentally Publish Whistleblowers' Email Addresses
iluvcapra writes "The US House Judiciary Committee recently emailed all of its potential whistleblowers information about how it was restructuring its whistleblower program. Unfortunately for its sources, it emailed them this information with their addresses in the "To:" field (and not the Bcc: field) It also cc:'d this email to the Vice President.
I'd like to think think this is some sort of ingenious subterfuge, but I'm doubtful."
Some other political party would have intentionally revealed a whistleblower's identity.
playing the right wing left wing crap is just that, crap.
Let me get you to demonstrate:
hold your arms straight out parallel to the ground, you left arm being the left wing and your right arm being the right wing.
Now since the right wing and the left wing are typically on opposite sides of any issue, move you right arm up while you move your left arm down.
And since the right wing and the left wing over a period of time actually reverse their position on issues, now move you left arm up and your right arm down. Now pretend you are passing thru time, moving your arms up and down opposite each other to represent the left wing and right wing.
Our national bird is the Eagle. Have you ever seen an eagle fly like that?
This whistle blower leak, it was intentional and expresses the whistle blower on whistle blowers. Nobody likes a tattletale.
One more step closer towards dictatorship under the illusion of democracy.
We have already seen the bush admin desire for "rat on family and friends promo".... as they may be terrorist....
Really? A year 2000 joke?
If there's one thing that bothers me about slashdot, is that for all the tendency we have to stay on the edge of tech, we are behind even Fark in terms of "funny" memes.
I don't think you understood it correctly. Clinton (well member of the CIA and military while he was president) had Binladen in custody back in the 90's and let him go for various reasons. Not being able to pin some things on him was one of the excuses but it wasn't/isn't the only one. There is even a story of the state department hanging up on the people charged with taking binladen out at one point in time. They had him in their sites and only needed the go ahead to deal with him.
Also, the anti terrorism strategy wasn't implemented when Clinton was in office because it needed improvements. When the 9/11 commission brought this up, it was told that the strategy wasn't implemented because it was still being developed and bush's teams were supposedly working on them when 9/11 hit. But that wouldn't have made a difference in 9/11 because it had done nothing to close the figurative wall between state agencies that could have actually put 2 and 2 together with enough time to do something about it. So even if it was in full force, we still would have the FBI knowing bit and pieces while the CIA and the military knowing other bits and pieces that after the fact makes it look like we should have known about the plans before hand. It is one of those things that make the conspiracy theorist so active.
So yea, I guess when just bits and pieces of everything is pointed out, things do look different.
Well, I'm DEFINITELY not too young! I'm a political history buff and I'm sorry, but if you seriously think that the Democrats are in ANY WAY as corrupt as the Republicans, you're just mistaken. If it's "Blackwater vs. Whitewater", then this one is an EASY call. I'm not being partisan here, the Democrats have LOTS of skeletons rattling around but the GOP has nothing BUT closets and they are ALL FULL, from floor to ceiling. You don't know much about it because they've completely OWNED the press since William Randolph Heart hired Adolph Hitler as a paid newspaper columnist. Sure, the Dixiecrats were horrible - but they all became Republicans after LBJ signed the civil rights bill - and starting way back in the 1930s - with the Industrial-Fascists coup d' etat against the FDR White House in 1934, the corporate interests and their ideological shock troops commanded by Reverend-Operatives within the mega-churches - the wealthy and powerful "justice us" crowd have had free reign with the GOP. The 100% pro-Republican business interests have overthrown and replaced elected governments, be they liberal, socialist or "communist", all over the planet with right-wing fascist dictators trained at The School of the Americas. The *Christian* part of the political far-right (values voters, my ass!) actually owned and operated more than 50 ACTUAL HITLER YOUTH CAMPS right here on American soil! How's THAT for keeping secrets!? Money = Corruption - Follow the Money - or follow the yellow (gold) brick road - to find "the wizard". The RNC has had absolutely no competition for their corporate overlords' attention and financial largesse. Criminal CEOs and wealthy ibterest only buy politicians for what they can DO for them, and quite frankly, the Democrats haven't been "worth buying" for quite some time now. However, NOW the Democrats ARE being actively and DESPERATELY courted by the religious-right AND by the modern-day corporate robber-barrons. They realize that they've OBVIOUSLY driven their LAST POLITICAL PARTY off of the cliff, so NOW they're looking for a new group of "privatizers" and "billionaires-only-tax-cutters" to do their bidding. See the Flash animation here ~> www.ByeGeorge.Org and then see the old black and white film footage of a true American hero here ~> http://tinyurl.com/2eabaq Related Google Queries: Fascist Coup against FDR, General Smedley Darlington Butler, The Shadow of the Swastika, Camp Nordland, Camp Siegfried, Camp Hindenburg and American corporate fascism. ...the more ya' know, the less ridiculous WE ALL look ! ...
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Don't let your political views and biases mystically skew the facts. The supposed operatives who were hung up on verified the story.
And an association with Rush Limbaugh or Bush shouldn't be enough alone to invalidate something. Otherwise we would be able to invalidate everything that we don't agree with by mere association with a disagreeable person. Unfortunately, most everything we don't agree with is connected to someone who is disagreeable. It is the nature of the game. If we were to allow that, then the face of empirical evidence can be questioned just for someone's skewed political gain. There are certain levels of truths that should be impervious to spin.