Comments on: BushCo Drops All Charges against Andy Card’s Cousin

By: jdmckay

jdmckay — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:40:37 +0000

This whole episode reminds of circumstances surrounding Changeling’s account of LA DA’s incarceration in mental institutions, shock treatment & drugging… all to CYA for beyond sloppy police work (lies) masquerading as fact. In other words (according to movie’s version of events), 100% political.

I never investigated truth of that account, but was amazed & shocked at very (IMO) minor consequences for the folks involved in that episode… from institution’s shrink, to DA, to involved cops.

By: ohioblue

ohioblue — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:23:11 +0000

Unfortunately, if the new AG DOJ is too chicken to prosecute them, there will be no reason for the Bushies to decamp for Paraguay en masse.

By: acquarius74

acquarius74 — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:07:58 +0000

Well, if the new AG DOJ is too chicken to prosecute them, I hope there is a mass exodus of Bushies on the first means of transportation outbound for Paaraguay.

By: R.H. Green

R.H. Green — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:06:17 +0000

Having looked further, that is into the link EW provided to the Scoop article (link in line 1) and subsequent articles by the same author, I found one that provides a critical review of the NYT reporting from last summer. I have to admit I now regard what was reported today with much greater sketicism.In today’s treatment there were oblique references to the state of Lindauer’s home, her appearance, and to her emotions. I now think I was set-up, and fell for it like a ton of bricks. Thanks for the critical comment about the reliability of the reported data.

By: Palli

Palli — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:46:50 +0000

no extradition; a little community of ex-pat administration employees

By: sunshine

sunshine — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:26:30 +0000

Maybe he has copies of these papers.

The investigation is aimed at finding who leaked the name of the CIA operative, possibly in an attempt to punish the officer’s husband, who had accused the administration of manipulating intelligence to exaggerate the threat from Iraq.

Most White House employees discovered the probe was under way when they turned on their computers and found an e-mail timed at 8:46 a.m. that said: PLEASE READ: Important Message From Counsel’s Office.

“You must preserve all materials that might in any way be related to the department’s investigation,” counsel Alberto Gonzales ordered. Officials indicated that would include telephone logs, e-mails, notes and other documents.

http://media.www.bsudailynews......2170.shtml

By: acquarius74

acquarius74 — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:13:26 +0000

Loo Hoo, I can’t figure that Paraguay land purchase. What do you think is really going on down there?

By: acquarius74

acquarius74 — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:04:05 +0000

I bet you’re right, reader OfTeaLeaves. Chaney is absolutely paranoid about anything being written down. That first Torture Briefing was not taped, video’d, and no scribe recorded it. He doesn’t take notes and doesn’t use e-mail. Gonzo had the audacity to try to put one past Darth.

By: acquarius74

acquarius74 — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:50:03 +0000

US troops are already stationed in Israel. First time ever. Happened last summer or early fall, same deal gave them that X-Radar equipment.
You’ll find info if you Google: X-Radar to Israel.

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:00:29 +0000

I only perused the cousin’s letter, not yet the MSM journalistic reportage. In the civilian sphere, states have various forms of screening which is supposed to balance the ‘detainee’s’ freedoms with other factors and typically does so. Psychiatrists have a checklist. Some allusion in the recounting evoked the specter of new generation atypical antipsychotics as part of the regimen, but haloperidol in literature I have scanned is a fast knockdown with wide applications besides some of the graphic contexts a few threadWriters noted already, some innocuous and life saving. There was a study this week noted in MSmedia about cardiovascular risk as an offset to some of the behavioral benefits for haloperidol and some of the other classical regimens. Most of this is only incidental information I have seen in fragments rather than an organized understanding. The photos of the Sunday brunch August 26, 2007 seem all to be from one, maybe two, photojournalists; Judge looks like he did a lot of work while AG in the image.