CIA Director Leon Panetta today released a statement defending his agency from charges that it mislead mmeber of Congress: There is a long tradition in Washington of making political hay out of our business. It predates my service with this great institution, and it will be around long after I’m gone. But the political debates […]
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Dead People Get Stimulus Checks???
Ever the model of inefficiency and incompetence the Federal Government is apparently sending dead people stimulus checks.
Barack Obama: U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’
From Bloomberg News: May 14 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries. “We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. […]
Joe Lieberman: ‘I Totally Disagree’ With Pelosi Assertion that CIA Lies
I disagree with Joe Lieberman on a lot of things but I like him and I respect him… and this is an example of why: MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell: “Speaker Pelosi came out today and essentially when asked if the CIA is lying, she said, ‘they mislead us all the time.’ Do you agree with that? […]
AP: Stimulus not Stimulating
The AP’s Matt Apuzzo yesterday examined Vice President Joe Biden’s first quarterly report of the Stimulus plan and found the picture to a bit more cloudy than the White House claims: Capturing the full effect of the stimulus at this early stage is difficult, but the administration has set high bars for success. In championing […]
CNN: Aide Told Pelosi Waterboarding Had Been Used
CNN reported yesterday that a source close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has confirmed her intelligence aide, Michael Sheehy, told her in early 2003 that waterboarding had been used on CIA detainee Abu Zubaydah: WASHINGTON (CNN) — A source close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now confirms that Pelosi was told in February 2003 by […]
Stupidity: FDA Calls Cheerios a Drug
This is a joke right… The FDA can’t be serious about this? From AFP: WASHINGTON (AFP) – Popular US breakfast cereal Cheerios is a drug, at least if the claims made on the label by its manufacturer General Mills are anything to go by, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said. “Based on […]
Laughable: Pelosi Didn’t Object to Waterboarding in Order to Respect “Appropriate” Channels?
This is laughable… Madam Speaker if you’re going to lie at least try to make it convincing. From the Politico: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned in early 2003 that the Bush administration was waterboarding terror detainees but didn’t protest directly out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels, a confidant of the San Francisco Democrat said […]
Golf Analyst David Feherty Apologizes for Pelosi Joke in Dallas Magazine
Fox News is reporting that CBS Sports Golf analyst David Feherty has apologized to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for a joke in a Dallas magazine: PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — CBS Sports golf analyst David Feherty apologized Sunday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid […]
Top Pelosi Aide Briefed on Enhanced Interrogations in 2003
The Washington Post on Saturday reported that a top aide to Nancy Pleosi attended a briefing CIA briefing on Enhanced Interrogations, including waterboarding in 2003: A top aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attended a CIA briefing in early 2003 in which it was made clear that waterboarding and other harsh techniques were being used […]
Reminder: Clinton Tea Party
“It does not take a majority to prevail…but rather an irate, tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom and liberty in the minds of men.” -Samuel Adams Just a reminder to readers the Clinton Tea Party is tomorrow (Saturday, May 9th) morning. The rally kicks off at 10:00 a.m. at Clinton Town Hall, 54 […]
Debra Burlingame: The President isn’t Sincere about ‘Swift and Certain’ Justice for Terrorists.
Debra Burlingame has must read Op Ed in today’s Wall Street Journal: In February I was among a group of USS Cole and 9/11 victims’ families who met with the president at the White House to discuss his policies regarding Guantanamo detainees. Although many of us strongly opposed Barack Obama’s decision to close the detention […]
CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of ‘Enhanced Interrogations’
The Washington Post and ABC News are reporting that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed on Enhanced Interrogations Techniques and their use on on Abu Zubaydah. From the Washington Post: Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against […]
Feinstein: Closing the Gun Show “Loophole” Will Reduce Gun Violence
CNSNews.com is reporting that Reps. Michael Castle (R-Del.) and Carolyn McCarthy, (D-N.Y.) have introduced a bill aimed at closing the so called “gun show loophole”: Democratic lawmakers and one Republican told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that the so-called “gun show loophole” — sales between private individuals, which never require a background check — ought to be closed. Republicans, […]
First Nevada, Now Pennsylvania: 7 ACORN Workers Facing Voter-form Charges
Just days after Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and Secretary of State Ross Miller announced that voter registration fraud charges had been filed against ACORN and two of it’s employees in that state comes news that 7 ACORN works are being charged voter registration fraud in Pennsylvania: PITTSBURGH (AP) – Seven Pittsburgh-area ACORN workers […]