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2005-01-17 Fifth Column

DoD Slaps the Beast (Seymour Hersh covert-ops betrayal)

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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-01-17 1:28:19 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I really hope that we are conducting recon into Iran. If not whay the hell not? They are a threat to Iraq, the U.S. , and part of the axis of evil. With due respect to Mr. Hersh, we are spying on a lot more countries beside Iran...BFD. Saying that we have boots on the ground might endanger those people on covert ops. Wasn't that the big brew haha about Plame? Here is a guy giving more information than was disclosed on Plame and I don't see the LLL crying for a full investigation and criminal charges.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2005-01-17 1:53:52 PM|| 2005-01-17 1:53:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Has Hersh produced ANYTHING worthwhile in the last thirty years, or is he still coasting on his Boomer, anti-Vietnam record?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-01-17 2:16:58 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-01-17 2:16:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 AC - Utterly agree - that is the most direct, unmitigated, catgorical smackdown I've ever seen issued by any US Gov't entity. In this regard, alone, Hersh has finally achieved something of note in his worthless existence.

Posted by .com 2005-01-17 2:35:01 PM|| 2005-01-17 2:35:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I hope this is a sign of things to come. It's about time these conspiracy theories get nipped in the bud.

Posted by Bill Nelson 2005-01-17 2:41:53 PM|| 2005-01-17 2:41:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 By his own admission, Mr. Hersh evidently is working on an âalternative historyâ novel. He is well along in that work, given the high quality of âalternative presentâ that he has developed in several recent articles.

That's gonna leave a mark.

Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-17 2:44:06 PM|| 2005-01-17 2:44:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 He might consider collaborating with Dan Rather on the novel since it is fiction.

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2005-01-17 2:47:13 PM|| 2005-01-17 2:47:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 This has been my biggest complaints against the military that they don't deal strongly or effectively enough with the fifth column press. However in this instance it has and it is long overdue

Posted by badanov 2005-01-17 3:05:39 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2005-01-17 3:05:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 It appears that DoD is finally fed up with hostile media and their Vietnam-era license for treason and is beginning to stand up to them.

I sure as hell would be.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-17 3:28:32 PM|| 2005-01-17 3:28:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I hope this is a sign of more-- and worse-- to come for Hersh and his traitorous ilk. These people need to be spanked.

Posted by Dave D. 2005-01-17 3:45:05 PM|| 2005-01-17 3:45:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Sy is one fantasic fiction writer. And I bet you all thought he was writing non-fiction.

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-17 3:46:35 PM|| 2005-01-17 3:46:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I sent this to Hugh Hewitt a - I hope to hell he mentions it, has the Blogs validate. If all of this were proven BS - it would be another serious blow to the MSM.

Rantburg and blogs like them will save this country via grassroots.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2005-01-17 4:11:50 PM|| 2005-01-17 4:11:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 OTHER military secrets intelligence officials have recently entrusted to Seymour Hersh

1. By 2009, Syria will be âa super big Wal-Martâ with âsome really great deals on chick peas"
2. Once the US has puppet control over Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, the next move is to instigate a velvet revolution in Pakistanâculminating in a pro-Democratic Islamic country that will gratefully change its name to âMargaritaville"
3. Israelâs so-called âatomic capabilitiesâ? Nothing but lava lamps wrapped in tin foil
4. âNatural" disasters in the coastal areas of Southern California and New York will ensure Republican control of the White House and Congress for at least a generation. Trust us on this
5. Todd Beamer? A CIA plant. âLetâs Rollâ? Code for âscramble the fighter jets and shoot this puppy down. But make it look like we did it, okay?"
6. Usama bin Laden has been dead for years, his remains kept in a shoebox at Langley; his recent âappearancesâ were actually staged using an actor whose previous credits included âGoofyâ and âHillbilly Bearâ at Disney World, Orlando
7. "John Ashcroftâ is actually an animatronic unit completed in 1983 by Lockheed Martin; modeled after âThe Robot Gunslingerâ character in Michael Crichtonâs Westworld, âAshcroftâ was modified to fit then-President Reaganâs request to âmake the thing more Christiany"
8. Ayman Al Zarqawiâs birth name is actually Schlomo Edelstein, born Yonkers, NY, 1963, and up until 1991 a social studies teacher in Fairlawn, New Jersey.
9. The real reason for the breakup of Ellen Degeneres and Anne Heche? Two words: Condi Rice

Posted by Jeff Goldstein
http://www.celluloid-wisdom.com/pw/index.php?/weblog/entry/17684/

Posted by doc 2005-01-17 4:25:17 PM|| 2005-01-17 4:25:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 doc - ROFLMAO!!! I've only made it to #4 and have to stop to wipe the tears out of my eyes! Bravo!

Posted by .com 2005-01-17 4:30:12 PM|| 2005-01-17 4:30:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Kudos to Mr. DiRita. It's so rare that anyone in a bureaucracy will actually have the balls to say something straight out like that.

Posted by jackal 2005-01-17 4:30:45 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-01-17 4:30:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 jackal - Can you imagine the staff meeting where this response was drawn up? Probably much like watching an SNL production meeting, but with everyone's evil Republican twin attending, heh.

Or, ruminating further along that track, it's probably like a peek into PJ O'Rourke's mind ala Being John Malkovich, lol!

Posted by .com 2005-01-17 4:35:31 PM|| 2005-01-17 4:35:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 C'mon, guys...just trying to make a buck here. Hasn't this DiRita guy heard of "embellishment"?

Posted by Sy Hersh 2005-01-17 4:35:48 PM|| 2005-01-17 4:35:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Sure, Sy. Heard of Bubba? He's that 320 pound tatooed lifer over there who can't wait for you to join him. Here's to that day.

Posted by .com 2005-01-17 4:38:28 PM|| 2005-01-17 4:38:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Amen to that .com baby!

I'd like to see a whole buncha those folks in prison for their seditious/treasonous activities, along with their sources, with John F. Kerry at the head of the line.

Posted by badanov 2005-01-17 4:43:04 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2005-01-17 4:43:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Chuck Graner for a cellmate.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-01-17 4:51:59 PM|| 2005-01-17 4:51:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Ohhh, Mrs. D! How creative! How eeeevillll!
I love it! I genuflect respectfully at the feet of genius!

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2005-01-17 5:31:52 PM|| [http://www.sgtstryker.com] 2005-01-17 5:31:52 PM|| Front Page Top