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2005-12-07 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve White 2005-12-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I wish the gloves were off - to include the handling of the seditious asstards in our Govt.

Posted by .com 2005-12-07 02:58|| 2005-12-07 02:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Colin Powell when he was US secretary of state, said last week that he knew of more than 70 âquestionable deathsâ of detainees under US supervision up to the end of 2002, when he left office. That figure, he added, was now around 90.

sounds like bar stool agenda BS.

Posted by Red Dog 2005-12-07 03:04|| 2005-12-07 03:04|| Front Page Top

#3 I can't believe they aren't arresting Wilkerson, he has to be either violating the terms of his security clearance or making false statements.

Posted by BillH 2005-12-07 05:30|| 2005-12-07 05:30|| Front Page Top

#4 If Wilerson's statements are true, and if the activities he discusses are illegal, then he may be protected by 'whistleblower' laws regardless of any oaths or secrecy laws.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2005-12-07 08:22|| 2005-12-07 08:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Washingotn Sketch - Dana Milbank
Thursday, October 20, 2005; Page A04

As Colin Powell's right-hand man at the State Department, Larry Wilkerson seethed quietly during President Bush's first term. Yesterday, Colonel Wilkerson made up for lost time. He said the vice president and the secretary of defense created a "Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal" that hijacked U.S. foreign policy. He said of former defense undersecretary Douglas Feith: "Seldom in my life have I met a dumber man." Addressing scholars, journalists and others at the New America Foundation, Wilkerson accused Bush of "cowboyism" and said he had viewed Condoleezza Rice as "extremely weak." Of American diplomacy, he fretted, "I'm not sure the State Department even exists anymore."

Notice how he "seethed" but didn't resign or retire in disgust. More convenient to wait until you retire, then throw a grenade through the door as you walk out, feed the media, and trash everybody. Right or wrong, I have no use for whores like this fellow.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-12-07 08:49|| 2005-12-07 08:49|| Front Page Top

#6 GW will be as effective dealing with this as he's been on getting the message of real progress in Iraq out to the public.

Hes has been a miserable failure communicating to the public and dealing with the rogues in the CIA upt o this point. Why would he change anything now?

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2005-12-07 11:34|| 2005-12-07 11:34|| Front Page Top

#7 These leakers should be rounded up imprisoned no bail gaged and tried for Sedition or Treason. Wether they agree with current methods or not disclosing publicly those methods knowing full well they are clasified and harmfull to those methods sucess is ciriminal treason and should be procecuted. Also the reporters who print these stories should be rounded up and forced to reveal these sources if not imprisoned gaged and held until source is revealed. National security trumps all this publbic need to know crap. Poland and Romania strong allies are paying for these leaks and by that we are paying as-well. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson wether he directley leaked classified info or not the fact of his postition makes his loose accusations sound factual and thereby he is either leaking or lying either way its Sedition or Treason.

I do agree Bush's doing what the media wont do on Iraq and the WOT making the case pointing out success but he is starting to now hopefully when he finally turns the moral back around I suspect will be back by Febuary I hope he keeps the momentum and keeps the people rallied to the point were any oposition will be a suicide mission.

Posted by C-Low 2005-12-07 13:01|| 2005-12-07 13:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Might be a good time for layoffs at:
CIA
State
FBI
Anybody a registered dem.

Posted by 3dc 2005-12-07 13:46|| 2005-12-07 13:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Catch these treasonous scumbags and break their fingers - all the way up to their collarbones.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-12-07 15:14|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-12-07 15:14|| Front Page Top

#10 I can see why DOD went with Able Danger. They had to get beyond the game playing and get reliable, hard intelligence, and all the BS PC games being played at the FBI and CIA was impeding national security. Someone had to get the job done. Someone had to do the real work.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-12-07 15:30|| 2005-12-07 15:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Sounds like an over promoted Smithers.

Posted by Shipman 2005-12-07 15:53|| 2005-12-07 15:53|| Front Page Top

#12 IM(H)O the problems with the CIA will get worse until the new National Clandestine Service (NCS) takes over and the Negroponte/Ross team complete the "cleaning" process. Maybe all these leaks and things show that the process has started and is working.

Posted by SwissTex 2005-12-07 15:58|| 2005-12-07 15:58|| Front Page Top

#13 Tex

I agree the cleaning process is working, however a few agents in jail and on trial with no bond gaged and a few reporters who run these stories in the same boat until they rat out thier sources would go along long long way real quick. It would only take a handfull of heads for everyone to get the point. no tolerance We Are At War

Posted by C-Low 2005-12-07 18:29|| 2005-12-07 18:29|| Front Page Top

#14 We are - they are at war with US.

Posted by sadly true 2005-12-07 20:01|| 2005-12-07 20:01|| Front Page Top

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