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Attorney General Won't Force New York Times Reporter To Reveal Source
schwit1 (797399) writes Attorney General Eric Holder has decided against forcing a reporter for the New York Times to reveal the identity of a confidential source, according to a senior Justice Department official. The reporter, James Risen, has been battling for years to stop prosecutors from forcing him to name his source for a book that revealed a CIA effort to sabotage Iran's nuclear weapons program. The government wanted Risen's testimony in the trial of a former CIA official, Jeffrey Sterling, accused of leaking classified information.
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Eric Holder not acting like a person drunk with power? Wow, that's a change for an Obama Administration official.
My biggest fear is that Iran attacks us with nuclear weapons.... and the POTUS surrenders.
Luckily, he is James Risen from the New York Times and he only tipped off terrorists to how they were being tracked, so the Obama administration sees no need to press him further. If he were James Rosen from Fox News trying to keep watch on our own government, then he would be labeled a criminal co-conspirator and flight risk by Eric Holder so that they could trace his phone calls and emails.
Let the CIA do what they need to do...
The mission of science is *fact*. Truth is the domain of the philosophers and the religious.
Nero played the violin as Rome burned
OK, try and pay attention now; the violin was developed in the 16th century, 1500 years AFTER Emperor Nero died. This is ancient propaganda.
Another day closer to redwood heaven
with some fava beans.
and a nice chianti
FOR THE LOVE OF BABY JESUS
And fact as is a subset of truth which is also a core of mathematics. Validity, equality, sameness and truth.
However, I would argue the mission of Science is the recording and analysis of observations and measurements. Of course then it all comes down to proving whether the hypothesis is true or not.
While it is in debate whether he played music, listened to it, sang or whatever, there was an instrument called the Cithara at the time which was wooden and comprised 4 to 7 strings. Ancient Egyptian tombs depict lyres, lutes (quite similar to a violin really) and harps. The most correct translation in English involves fiddling and violins. The rest is history.
Wouldn't it have been better to point-out the original translation was "Nero fiddled while Rome burned", which doesn't say what Nero was fiddling with.
"Man In Black"
Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,
Why you never see bright colors on my back,
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.
Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on.
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.
I wear the black for those who never read,
Or listened to the words that Jesus said,
About the road to happiness through love and charity,
Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me.
Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose,
In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes,
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back,
Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black.
I wear it for the sick and lonely old,
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold,
I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been,
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.
And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,
Believen' that the Lord was on their side,
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,
Believen' that we all were on their side.
Well, there's things that never will be right I know,
And things need changin' everywhere you go,
But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right,
You'll never see me wear a suit of white.
Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything's OK,
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black.
Good reason to avoid any unwanted attention...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
The administration depends on cheerleading by the press; they are going to try to avoid making enemies if they can.
And then as the fire burned he felt a fire in his loins and began to Masturbate furiously.
You obviously aren't a whore and don't know any. Whores don't try to poach customers from each other. Whores don't take it personally when a customer chooses another whore. I could go on, but it's off-topic. But I can assure you, professional courtesy definitely exists among whores.
Mathematics is not truth. It is in a sense logical consequences. If certain premises hold, then certain consequences follow. The premises need not be true in our reality in order for us to study them mathematically.
You still have to show that the premises (such as your hypotheses) hold. That is beyond the ability of mathematics and leads you into some variation of empiricism such as scientific observation.
Language and clear thought matter. If you don't think clearly, you end up with tripe like "oh, well they MADE me betray my ethics and principles, I didn't WANT to".
Neither the Attorney General nor anyone else, nor any agency, can "force" anyone to reveal anything. All they can do is coerce and demand in an ATTEMPT to get him to reveal something, and failing that, punish him for not revealing it. Yes, the coercion can be very powerful, but no one can train a magic ray on you and make your lips and larynx form words you don't want to form.
You know what...fuck it, just look at nincompoops that posted the first posts, who the hell am I suppose to get this message across to.
My -1 Troll is actually a +1 funny. And my -1 flame is actually a +1 insightfull.
If it's a Fox News reporter, Holder tears the guys life apart and even runs phone taps on his mother and threatens Fox News. In the case of a reporter for the New York Times, he publicly says it's okay. The difference being he already tore apart the NYT times reporter's life. Holder should be in jail for violating the privacy rights of both reporters and attempting to intimidate the press from monitoring and reporting the corruption of Holder and Obama.
Ahem, you must have missed the kerfuffle about "enhanced interrogation techniques".
Perhaps he was just burning CDs or DVDs.
"Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
Why do you say that?