Comments on: Richard Shelby Contradicts the CIA and Everyone Else http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/ Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:48:32 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: rapt http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161396 rapt Mon, 25 May 2009 22:06:43 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161396 <p>I seem to recall from some Hopsicker stories that Doss Aviation is big in drug importing. Notice how quiet it is on the enforcement front after a couple of quick flashes in the Mexican press showing multi-million $$ busts.</p> <p>This is the first I knew of Shelby’s ownership stake in Doss - it totally explains his active role in any necessary coverup. What blinkers me is how close all this crime is/has been to being open feature news and yet nobody talks about it. Even Hopsicker, whose bestest subject is aviation/smuggling/cia, has been dead silent on it for months. Others have unfortunate accidents. Press says nothing.</p> I seem to recall from some Hopsicker stories that Doss Aviation is big in drug importing. Notice how quiet it is on the enforcement front after a couple of quick flashes in the Mexican press showing multi-million $$ busts.

This is the first I knew of Shelby’s ownership stake in Doss – it totally explains his active role in any necessary coverup. What blinkers me is how close all this crime is/has been to being open feature news and yet nobody talks about it. Even Hopsicker, whose bestest subject is aviation/smuggling/cia, has been dead silent on it for months. Others have unfortunate accidents. Press says nothing.

]]> By: oldtree http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161370 oldtree Mon, 25 May 2009 17:16:25 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161370 <p>think it translates to “culo”, en Espanol, or perhaps, “pindeho”. Although Dupa is just “ass” colloquially from the Polish?, someone please correct me?</p> think it translates to “culo”, en Espanol, or perhaps, “pindeho”. Although Dupa is just “ass” colloquially from the Polish?, someone please correct me?

]]> By: oldtree http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161369 oldtree Mon, 25 May 2009 17:11:07 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161369 <p>This one is the story we await to see. There are pawprints that can’t be explained about that company’s activities, and no answers forthcoming, correct? Is anyone keeping track of that one?</p> This one is the story we await to see. There are pawprints that can’t be explained about that company’s activities, and no answers forthcoming, correct? Is anyone keeping track of that one?

]]> By: freepatriot http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161351 freepatriot Mon, 25 May 2009 15:26:57 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161351 <blockquote><p><strong>but you could tell me anything about Richard Shelby and I’d believe it</strong></p></blockquote> <p>are you willing to wager on that ???</p> <p>$10 says you wont believe this:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>richard shelby is a decent, honest man</strong></p></blockquote> <p><a href="https://secure.firedoglake.com/page/contribute/MarcyWheeler" rel="nofollow">send my $10 here</a></p> <p><em>I’m pretty sure this site does not condone gambling, so let’s not tell the IRS what this particular donation was about, okay ???</em></p> <p><em>(wink)</em></p>

but you could tell me anything about Richard Shelby and I’d believe it

are you willing to wager on that ???

$10 says you wont believe this:

richard shelby is a decent, honest man

send my $10 here

I’m pretty sure this site does not condone gambling, so let’s not tell the IRS what this particular donation was about, okay ???

(wink)

]]> By: alabama http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161316 alabama Mon, 25 May 2009 02:47:56 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161316 <p>Call me naive, but you could tell me anything about Richard Shelby and I’d believe it. His fellow citizens in Alabama, Republicans and Democrats alike, have always regarded him with a special blend of contempt and amazement. I’ve never heard anyone say a good word about the man, and I’ve lived here since before he was a senator. (This is not to say that folks refuse to do business with him. It’s just that they won’t admit to it. And, by Alabama standards, he looks and acts like a conventionally boring banker, but strictly so. He’s always up to something or other.)</p> <p>And thanks to you all for the very kind birthday salutes….</p> Call me naive, but you could tell me anything about Richard Shelby and I’d believe it. His fellow citizens in Alabama, Republicans and Democrats alike, have always regarded him with a special blend of contempt and amazement. I’ve never heard anyone say a good word about the man, and I’ve lived here since before he was a senator. (This is not to say that folks refuse to do business with him. It’s just that they won’t admit to it. And, by Alabama standards, he looks and acts like a conventionally boring banker, but strictly so. He’s always up to something or other.)

And thanks to you all for the very kind birthday salutes….

]]> By: freepatriot http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161305 freepatriot Mon, 25 May 2009 01:46:22 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161305 <blockquote><p>Jeez is Alabama an incestuous cesspool!</p></blockquote> <p>only for the last 200 years or so</p> <p>it was just a cesspool before the Alabamans got there</p> <p>(cue the banjo wink)</p>

Jeez is Alabama an incestuous cesspool!

only for the last 200 years or so

it was just a cesspool before the Alabamans got there

(cue the banjo wink)

]]> By: bmaz http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161301 bmaz Mon, 25 May 2009 01:14:50 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161301 <p>Yes. Sure. I dunno. Dr. Pepper is 10 - 2 or 4.</p> <p>Chicago Transit Authority sings of 25 or 6 to 4.</p> <p>But Full Committee to Gang of 8 to Gang of 4 to whichever corrupt pricks in Congress we choose to deceive…. Well, that is a different matter.</p> Yes. Sure. I dunno. Dr. Pepper is 10 – 2 or 4.

Chicago Transit Authority sings of 25 or 6 to 4.

But Full Committee to Gang of 8 to Gang of 4 to whichever corrupt pricks in Congress we choose to deceive…. Well, that is a different matter.

]]> By: damagedone http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161298 damagedone Mon, 25 May 2009 01:02:58 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161298 <p>Watching General Powell on Face the Nation today, I wondered whether his recollections of events comports with that of the others? He seems to comfirm the gist of the timeline of what I have read here, if I heard him correctly.</p> Watching General Powell on Face the Nation today, I wondered whether his recollections of events comports with that of the others? He seems to comfirm the gist of the timeline of what I have read here, if I heard him correctly.

]]> By: emptywheel http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161296 emptywheel Mon, 25 May 2009 00:51:52 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161296 <p>There’s a very very very sloppy habit even among the best journalists to just assume that briefing means Gang of Eight or at least Four. So that might have been a factor, too.</p> There’s a very very very sloppy habit even among the best journalists to just assume that briefing means Gang of Eight or at least Four. So that might have been a factor, too.

]]> By: emptywheel http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161295 emptywheel Mon, 25 May 2009 00:51:14 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/richard-shelby-contradicts-the-cia-and-everyone-else/#comment-161295 <p>Possibly. But I think it much much more likely, given the intended spin, of that article to be Jose Rodriguez or someone close to him. (Which might mean that Shelby talked JR before this morning).</p> Possibly. But I think it much much more likely, given the intended spin, of that article to be Jose Rodriguez or someone close to him. (Which might mean that Shelby talked JR before this morning).

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