Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
I linked this over at Unfogged but nobody should miss it, so go read Beyerstein et al about the overt criminalization of the Bush Justice Department, now manifesting in burglaries and arsons against targets of politically motivated federal probes and various witnesses across Alabama and Mississippi. It goes without saying that this is standard operating procedure for Republican DoJs, having been tirelessly practiced all through the Nixon and Reagan administrations. And this, I suspect, is exactly the reason they have pushed back so hard against revealing even the tiniest details of their warrantless wiretapping and domestic surveillance programs, because they always had less to do with national security than opposition research and good, old-fashioned ratfucking. It is, after all, the only thing they do with even the tiniest shred of competence.
But this, much like the nearly unreported story that the news networks didn't bother to tell anybody that their bemedalled "military analysts" have almost uniformly been paid administration plants, pales in significance to the fact that Obama's former preacher (whom the media would like to remind you is blackblackblackityblack) said something inflammatory. And black.
Carl Rove said that Simpson was a full-of-shit lunatic, and he has the select domestic surveillance records to clear his good name!
The Patriot Act sounds a little better than the Rat-fucking Act…
... I thought that Obama was a Muslim terrorist. But now he's a disenchanted, dangerously-angry black Christian? We keep flip-flopping! Which one is it?
Posted by: Joel at May 2, 2008 12:21 PMThe Bush administration is criminal and will stop at nothing? Surprahs, surprahs, surprahs...
Posted by: waldo at May 2, 2008 07:31 PMYet another reason to bring back the punishment of tarring and feathering. Send forth a good old American mob upon all these criminals, and parade them through the Imperial Capital in tar and feathers.
Posted by: Jon at May 3, 2008 12:54 PM"[W] are contractors. That is how things are done here now. We contractors, we work for the government, yes. Except when we don't."
"They are working for someone in the government, perhaps, but not on government business. But they don't necessarily know that. They wouldn't want to know that, would they? Sometimes, these contractors find it most convenient to know nothing at all."
Posted by: shpx.ohfu at May 3, 2008 01:44 PMIn related news: FBI Raids Home, Office of Office of Special Counsel
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at May 6, 2008 02:47 PMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1nCKHdU33c
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Remain calm, do not panic.
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Stay in your homes, remain calm.
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