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TGIF/Weekend edition - May 15-17, 2009
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Graham: CIA Gave Me False Information About Interrogation Briefings
Huffington Post - 5-15-09
In testimony that could bolster Speaker Nancy
Pelosi's claim that the CIA misled her during briefings on detainee
interrogations, former Senator Bob Graham insisted on Thursday that he too
was kept in the dark about the use of waterboarding, and called the agency's
records on these briefings "suspect." |
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Pelosi accuses CIA of lying in torture timeline
San Francisco Chronicle - 5-15-09
(05-15) 04:00 PDT Washington - -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently said
her motto is "The best preparation for combat is combat. |
CIA denies Cheney request
CNN - 5-15-09
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The CIA has rejected former Vice President Dick Cheney's
request to declassify records of abusive interrogations of suspected
terrorists |
Oh,
a horrible day today. Man, stocks were falling like Miss California’s top.-
Jay Leno
The-World-Will-Be-A-Safer-Place-Without Saddam
Connect The Links
Finding a "smoking
gun" linking Iraq and al Qaeda
became
the main purpose of the abusive interrogation program the Bush
administration authorized in 2002, a former State Department official told CNN
on Thursday.
Crystal-clear Hubble image shows TARP money in
middle of black hole. - Grant "Bud" Gerver,
www.seriouskidding.com
Disturbing News
Saudi
Arabia held its first beauty pageant over the weekend. And already they’re
embroiled in their own scandal. Seems topless photos of the newly crowned Miss
Saudi Arabia surfaced today. You could see her entire forehead.- Jay Leno
"That Jew"?
A Republican
Senate challenger in Arkansas
called Sen. Chuck Schumer "that Jew" at a campaign event and has spent a
week backtracking, apologizing, and digging himself in deeper.
Republican-Shenanigans News
Rove To Testify Today
Former Bush administration
official
Karl Rove is scheduled to be interviewed Friday about why a number of U.S.
attorneys were fired in 2006, according to an attorney in private practice
familiar with the case.
Last
night, President Obama hosted a poetry slam at the White House. A poetry slam is
when poets stand up and read poems. They try and outdo each other. It’s
groundbreaking to have a poetry slam. It’s never happened before. I think Dick
Cheney once held a torture slam. “There was a young man from Nantucket. I put
his head in a bucket.” - Craig Ferguson
My Homage To
Feigned Outrage
By Madeleine Begun Kane
The CIA’s under attack
By the Speaker who gave it a smack.
She accused it of lying.
The GOP’s crying:
She’s mean and must take it all back.
Rock-The-Voter News
Drug
officials are saying that because of the bad economy, the international cocaine
market is suffering. It’s not just affecting cocaine. It’s trickling down.
Today, Obama asked for a bailout of the tiny spoon industry.- Jimmy Fallon
David Letterman's Top
Ten Surprises in the Sarah Palin Memoir
10. She's already completed her 2012 presidential concession
speech.
9. Her husband Todd is a person of interest in dozens of unsolved snowmobile
hit-and-runs.
8. State troopers have been instructed to taser Katie Couric on sight.
7. "Memoir" is misspelled.
6. Not only can she see Russia, earlier today she saw the astronauts working on
Hubble.
5. The entire thing, plagiarized word-for-word from Artie Lange's "Too Fat To
Fish."
4. Cover shows her in a passionate embrace with a shirtless Fabio.
3. Sworn in as Governor with her left hand on a copy of "Guns & Ammo" magazine.
2. Claims she had three-way sex with Michael Phelps and a stripper.
1. She voted for Obama
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Biz-Tech News
Oh, the
F.D.A. now scolding General Mills for claiming that Cheerios can lower your
cholesterol by 10 percent. They say that would be considered an unauthorized
health claim. The F.D.A. also said there is no evidence that Lucky Charms are
magically delicious.- Jay Leno
"I'll tell
you how bad the economy is — today I saw a Republican driving a Prius."
--Jay Leno
Bush-Prison-Torture News
"Dick
Cheney, the former vice president, said that President Obama went too far with
the jokes at the correspondents' dinner. By too far, does Cheney mean like
waterboarding a guy 183 times?" --David Letterman
Go-F**k-Yourself News
AHNC weekend commentary
Torturous debate over torture
puts nation in stressful position
What did
Nancy Pelosi know about waterboarding of terrorist suspects and when did she
know it?
That is the momentous issue now being postulated by conservative defenders of
the Bush Administration and its use of “enhanced interrogation techniques.” CNN
anchor Lou Dobbs solemnly picked up the refrain a few nights ago, obviously
relishing the chance to take a swipe at a Democratic nemesis on Capitol Hill.
Needless to say, fair-and-balanced FOX News, was all over the story about House
Speaker Pelosi and whether or not she lied about knowing of waterboarding by the
U.S.
Never mind that the practice was promulgated by Team Bush, and backed up with
self-serving legal memos supplied by White House and pet Justice Department
lawyers.
Never mind that waterboarding had been previously defined as torture by U.S.
legal experts and other Western governments and international bodies.
Never mind that many of the U.S. military brass opposed it because it would lead
to mistreatment of American service members if they were captured. And that many
law enforcement and intelligence officials opposed it because it does NOT lead
to much useful information.
No, the vital, burning question that extremist conservatives want answered is:
What did Pelosi know and when?
Better to drag a Democrat into the Bush cabal of torture-backers than to answer
the simple question of how and why the U.S. ever engaged in such despicable
action in the first place. And who, precisely, should be held accountable?
The path to those answers, of course, is slowly winding back to the office of
former Vice President and Grand Inquisitor Dick Cheney. A news report this week
stated that Cheney’s office specifically suggested waterboarding for one Iraqi
prisoner who had been an official in one of that country’s intelligence
agencies.
All of this became further complicated in recent days when President Barack
Obama backtracked on a previous commitment to release photographs of the
questionable interrogation sessions. Obama now says that he opposes release of
41 photos in particular because they would seriously harm the nation’s
international image and possibly threaten security.
Those photographs must be pretty damn chilling. After the leaking to news media
over the past several years of photos that showed prisoners being stacked naked
in heaps, menaced by guard dogs and placed in stress positions for hours, these
photos must be some real hum-dingers.
And of course there is the distinct possibility that some of the photos include
U.S. officials participating in or observing the interrogation sessions.
Remember the news a while back that then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
witnessed a waterboarding session or two?
AHNC believes that the photos should be released, and it would be better for
Obama to do it now than to wait for their inevitable leakage to the media.
Put the national dirty laundry out for the world to view, face the firestorm of
international criticism, prosecute those responsible for the illegal activity,
and be done with it.
The astronauts got in the shuttle, and they went
up and they're tightening up the Hubble Space Telescope, doing some repair work
on the Hubble Space Telescope. And the mission is going great. Earlier today,
they buzzed the statue of Liberty." --David Letterman
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Dancers with the company Momix perform a scene from Botanica called "Snakes"
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