Stephen Hayes lists ten documents the Bush Administration should insist be de-classified. Ten verrrrry interesting documents, but I doubt they’ll ever be released. It might screw up the “Bush lied” meme.
Alexandra has a provocative piece of art up, along with some very insightful thoughts on the Islamification of France.
Varifrank has a really good, fiesty retort to the endless doomsaying all around us.
I have been meaning to link to this piece for days: Why people are Conservative. Very smart, well-thought out and provocative!
In the midst of so many good posts on Mary Mapes, Victoria at Sundries gives us a unique and thoughtful perspective.
The Vatican wants to re-evangelize European culture. This is good, I guess. Better late than never? Some say it might be too late? Meanwhile Brutally honest is being well, brutal, here.
A powerful Conversion story.
Unearthing some proof that Goliath existed? Cool.
I don’t recall ever laughing at a single joke of Al Franken’s. Ever.
Jack Kelly’s wife has written an interesting book A Jealous God: Science’s Crusade Against Religion. It sounds interesting, anyway, check out the bookshelf in the sidebar!
If you have been following the MD4Bush “scandalette” there is more news here.
Larry Elder writes of a California teacher who kinda makes my flesh crawl, among other things.
In case you missed it, the military is made up of mostly middle class folk.
November 11th, 2005 at 8:50 am
Stephen Hayes lists ten documents the Bush Administration should insist be de-classified. Ten verrrrry interesting documents, but I doubt they’ll ever be released. It might screw up the “Bush lied” meme.
-Anchoress, you need to have some more coffee, get your mind clear, and do some serious thinking.
-I have let the dark hints of conspiracy against GWB by his own intelligence agencies pass. Nobody can prove that conspiracies like this don’t exist any more than they can prove that no gunman was ever on the Grassy Knoll at the Kennedy Assasination.
-The fact that nobody can prove such things is the basis for half the popular bestsellers among middlebrow readers.
-But the Bush Administration is in charge of the classifying. The President and his security cleared staff can see those documents any time they want, just by asking. Nobody can refuse them or claim to them that the documents don’t exist, since Senator Levin and the press already know about them.
-They can also declassify them anytime they want.
-Why don’t they do so? Well, putting all conspiracy theories aside for the moment, whether yours or Carl Levin’s, it is highly probable that those documents contain information about active sources still in place, or active operations still going on.
-I know that the Plame Affair has created so much cognitive dissonance among Conservatives that they will grasp at any straws to somehow avoid the ugly fact that publishing her name inevitably compromised the intelligence she gathered.
-But this is grasping at a straw that cannot possibly be there because of how governments actually work.
November 11th, 2005 at 9:25 am
I have to laugh when I read the amount of words needed to defend what is clearly an agenda, as opposed to truth.
Joe Wilson lied- again- and got caught- again, as he feigned outrage at getting caught, lying.
Andrea Mitchell’s remarks put to rest another lie, re the ‘outing of Plame,’ confirming that her identity was known long before Scooter even heard of her.
I could on- the NYT editorial that first drew atention to Wilson- because, as is his, style, he lied- and a hundred and one other such matters.
Now, the liars are lying about lying- and there is a plethora of evidence to that effect.
It is a sorry state of affairs when deceit has to be the planks on which an agenda must stand.
Know what I mean? Sure you do.
November 11th, 2005 at 10:40 am
Well, SC&A, I have never denied that I am prolix. If it bothers you, don’t read me. Go read William Buckley in National Review online. He was a spook himself way back when, a patriot and not just a fruitcake like so many I encounter, and he knows WHY the agent outing law is in place.
All of Georgetown might have known VP’s employer and the Novak article would still have damaged live intelligence. The law is about outing a covert agent, past or present. And I doubt very seriously that even those who knew her employer knew anything about her covert business there.
November 11th, 2005 at 1:33 pm
Thanks for the dual linking to my “Why People are Conservative” and the Mapes posts, Anchoress!
If you’ll allow, I will be reporting on the President’s monumental speech this Veteran’s Day, when he gave what I consider the 3rd best speech of his Presidency:
What a Speech
…after the 9/11 address to Congress, and the very recent one, on the aims of US Foreign policy — which as you noted here, went extremely underreported.
I tuned into CNN smirked at the speech because he made mention of John Kerry in passing.
“You know a White House is in trouble when the President is referencing the opponent he defeated the year before”.
You know when CNN was in trouble? When Blogosphere was created.
Cheers,
Victoria