One of the most irritating aspects of the Kane/Warrick article on the ‘elusive’ definitive account was the 24 point headlines on the A6 continuation of the article, which attempt somewhat to change the subject:
‘Pelosi Refuses to Answer More Questions on CIA Briefings.’

Background Note

The Obama administration has dropped officially the discourse of a ‘war on terrorism’; it claims to be fighting ‘two wars’ but neither of them is a war on terrorism. The Post is beating the drum for new wars on nouns in editorial after editorial.

It might be that the paper as a whole is now following the editorial page editor GWOTer Hiatt because the new senior editor, Marcus Brauchli, taken on in July 2008, had come from the WSJ – where he had overseen the paper’s transition to Murdoch. Shortly after Brauchli’s appointment was announced in 1991 at the WSJ, Murdoch’s News Corp. disclosed a takeover offer for Dow Jones & Co., the Journal’s parent, and Brauchli remained as editor through the acquisition. Four months afterwards, on April 22, 2008, he announced his resignation from the Wall Street Journal, after just more than a year in office. The Post announced on July 8 that it had hired him (cf Wikipedia).

Hence the drumbeat for GWOT has taken over the whole paper. Torture is just one element of the Washington (Gone) Post (al)’s transition ‘long war’ plan on the model in which Murdoch has taken over the WSJ.

thanks Ew and freepatriot

The fact that Bush sent his wife and daughter into one of these threatened areas was the biggest “tell” of all that they knew the information was utterly unreliable. Remember that Cheney would have been cowering in the basement of the WH, while Bush would be ferried around in AF One if there was any chance it was a real threat.

Meanwhile massive amounts of public money was spent to play into the fear-propaganda that they Bush-Cheney regime wanted to put out. State budgets lost billions in these charades.

Btw, thanks to JohnLopresti for the link.

[Sen. Bob] Graham says that even if Shelby had leaked information about the intercepts to the press, Graham believes with some degree of certainty that certain executive branch officials did so as well. Although CNN broke the story, the next-day stories in The Post and USA Today contained details that Hayden had not disclosed to the Intelligence committees, Graham said. “That would lead a reasonable person to infer the administration leaked as well, or what they were doing was trying to set us up… to make this an issue which they could come after us with.”

jes say, is all

hey, somebody is gonna have to remind me if this ever comes up, so keep that in mind, okay guys …

it isolates and targets Shelby as a particularly deceptive, duplicitous and destructive character on the current scene.

on it’s face, the article does no such thing

saying that we all know we’re reading “Pravda” isn’t a defense

most Americans don’t know that we’re reading “Pravda”

an the point of making comments is to advance the dialog, make corrections, throw in additional information, question the premise, or just to state the obvious (my favorite). It’s a lot like school. You either stand out, or ya stand in the corner. nobody is keepin score, but you will be graded constantly

an btw, I habitually flunk playground etiquette, but they make exceptions cuz I’m funny while I’m doin it