Archive for the 'secrecy' Category

Jan 01 2009

Gonzo as victim

..of the Bush administration, a casualty of the war on terror, troubled and victimized soul that he is.

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Dec 19 2008

Deep Throat is dead:

W. Mark Felt obituary in the Washington Post.
“As Deep Throat, Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land,” the prosecutor, John W. Nields, wrote in The Washington Post in 2005. “Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs, he seems [...]

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Oct 18 2008

Quick review of the W movie:

Details after the cut.

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Sep 23 2008

Power grab:

From the Bailout plan: Sec. 8. Review. Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.
So we give you 700 billion dollars without any kind of accountability or oversight?  To spend [...]

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Sep 18 2008

Tradition! Tradition! yadaddadada Tra-dit-tion!

Seems that the lack of vetting that McCain did was the same that Bush did. (starts singing from Fiddler on the Roof here)
Next time around, I suggest that they use a divining rod or the Urim and Thummim - especially if it’s Romney.

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Aug 14 2008

Spies I never knew:

Published by jrittenhouse under USA, history, secrecy, security, ww2

Julia Child, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and Arthur Goldberg - spied for America. Amongst others…

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Jul 28 2008

The limits of China:

Very good article that explains the real limits of Chinese power down the road.  Here’s a mix of his points and some of my thoughts on the matter:

Cheap labor and fair access to markets is about their main strengths.  Quality is not as important if the manufacturers can slide by.

Labor is starting to [...]

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Jun 02 2008

Black Box Voting:

Susan and I recently added HBO onto our cable lineup to catch RECOUNT and the JOHN ADAMS series, amongst other stuff.  The RECOUNT-connected documentary HACKING DEMOCRACY was on, and we found it fascinating and troubling.
The story of the documentary was about a woman who founded a citizen’s group called Black Box Voting, which concerns itself [...]

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May 05 2008

That reminds me of my time in the Fourth Tower of Inverness:

Published by jrittenhouse under cool, fantasy, home, housing, secrecy, weird

Want a secret passage in your house so that you can decamp off to your Batcave or private library?  Try these guys.  They Don’t Work Cheap.
(h/t to Ysabetwordsmith, who is a golden god of blogging neat stuff.)

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Apr 21 2008

Supporting the troops, part 45:

The Veteran’s Affairs Department’s head of mental health states that there’s no suicide epidemic amongst returning Iraqi War vets - and gets caught with top-secret internal emails that admit that the stated amounts are BS, and that around 1000 suicide attempts a month take place:
But in this e-mail to his top media advisor, written two [...]

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Mar 11 2008

Felony Stupidity:

Yes, the man’s a ferocious hypocrite, and what he did was unethical and illegal and he prosecuted people running prostitution rings as a DA.
But why isn’t David Vitter’s butt similarly on the line?  Both of their involvement was as johns only, and both portrayed themselves as Defenders Of What Is Good and Right.   The [...]

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Mar 02 2008

Well, this settles it:

The real reason that Bush is demanding the Telco immunity clause in the FISA-oid act has nothing to do with suits against the telcos that helped him spy on people - in regard to the telcos being hurt monetarily by the suits.  The telcos were indemnified by Bush.   What the result of the suits [...]

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Feb 07 2008

I thought this was too odd to be coincidence, too:

Someone page Dick Cheney and the Glomar Explorer. Five undersea cables that carry internet traffic in the Middle East have been cut one by one in sequence. I thought this was weird, and Terry Karney is telling us what his thoughts are - as in someone wanted to tap the suckers. Can’t [...]

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Dec 19 2007

Trying to stay on top of things:

Published by jrittenhouse under cheney, secrecy

There was a fire in Cheney’s office this morning. The shredder must have overheated with all those tapes from the CIA going through it.
The reviewers say: two thumbs up with special merit for sinking fast in the Potomac.

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Dec 09 2007

Taping problems:

“It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer has done what has been done.”
Cardinal Richelieu, in The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
See inside for an analysis of the fallout  I expect from the CIA  torture tapes destruction. 

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