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2006-01-01 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-01-01 13:05|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A bit of better than average propaganda by Newsweek. Lots of good information, but if you look for it, you are never disappointed by the lie that will be buried within.

The legal justification, in addition to the commander in chief's warmaking power under the Constitution, was a congressional resolution that was shouted through in September 2001, three days after the attacks. Most members of Congress seem to have assumed they were voting to authorize an attack on Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.....

When the NSA eavesdropping story leaked, the Bush administration immediately claimed that it had briefed congressional leaders on several occasions. But the briefings appear to have been sketchy and ultra-secretive [um, Duh]
Sen. Tom Daschle, the Senate Democratic leader at the time, recalled being briefed in 2002 and again in 2004. Interviewed by NEWSWEEK, he was reluctant to get into classified details, but he did say, "The presentation was quite different from what is now being reported in the press. I would argue that there were omissions of consequence.". At his briefing in the White House Situation Room, Daschle was forbidden to take notes, bring staff or speak with anyone about what he had been told. "You're so disadvantaged," Daschle says. "They know so much more than you do. You don't even know what questions to ask."

poor widdle Tom!

Not to say the Dem's won't milk every last drop of this in sad and pathetic attempt to relieve the glory of their Watergate days, but they can see that not only do the majority of sane Americans not care that Bush did this, but they are annoyed that the NYT and Dems are giving the terrorists information.

So this is a pretty little Newsweek tale makes nice but assures the deranged faithful that the Dems who were informed about this program were, again tricked, tricked by the stupid evil genius chimp.

Posted by 2b 2006-01-01 16:21|| 2006-01-01 16:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Newsweek is part of the donks Public Relations committee, along side the rest of the MSM.

Posted by Captain America 2006-01-01 16:29|| 2006-01-01 16:29|| Front Page Top

#3 I would think the "absolutists" and "hard-liners" are the people on the anti-wiretapping side of this, since they are the ones who are against bending the rules. They are the ones who want to hold a "hard line" on the rules about warrants. But then it wouldn't do to call them the absolutists and hardliners, because MSM dictionaries specify these terms can only be used for their political enemies.

Posted by HV 2006-01-01 16:55|| 2006-01-01 16:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Newsweak takes every opportunity to trash American values and Christianity. Remember the revelations a year or so ago that they were trashing America in their foreign editions? I cancelled my subscription years ago after I realized how they trash Christianity every year on the week before Easter.

Posted by Darrell 2006-01-01 17:10|| 2006-01-01 17:10|| Front Page Top

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