On Jul 8, 7:34*pm, 0baMa0 Tse Dung wrote:
This is about as disgusting as Palin Derangement Syndrome can get.
A blog just published at the Huffington Post is disgracefully titled
"Palin Will Run In '12 On More Retardation Platform."
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sh...uffposter-pali...
HEIL HITLER! *Indeed!
On Jul 1, 6:34*pm, Barry wrote:
From the LA Times:
'Reporting from Washington — President Obama suggested at a town hall
event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop
expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are
about to die and don't stand to gain from the extra care.'
'In a nationally televised event at the White House, Obama said
families need better information so they don't unthinkingly approve
"additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not
necessarily going to improve care."'
'He added: "Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking
the painkiller."'
There's an interesting contradiction here. According to the pro-choice
perspective, it's outrageous for the state to interfere in a woman's
decision to terminate a pregnancy. But it's pragmatic and reasonable
for the state to consider terminating a person, if some money can be
saved.
http://liberalfascism.nationalreview...UzZTZiY2JmMjQ4....
HEIL HITLER! *[get used to it, Liberal Fascists]
perhaps pelosi was telling the truth, will the conservatives and
republicans apologize?i doubt it:House Intelligence Committee said the
head of the CIA admitted the agency misled Congress since 2001 about
significant actions
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=ah8z1B.aYuBA
CIA Admits It Misled Congress in Past, Lawmakers Say (Update1)
By James Rowley
July 8 (Bloomberg) -- Six Democrats on the U.S. House Intelligence
Committee said the head of the CIA admitted the agency misled Congress
since 2001 about “significant actions.”
In a letter to CIA Director Leon Panetta, the six members said he had
“recently” testified that “top CIA officials have concealed
significant actions from all members of Congress” and “misled members”
from 2001 until this week.
The letter, released today, didn’t describe what CIA actions were at
issue. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Republicans have been
feuding over her claim that the CIA misled Congress in 2002 about
harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists.
The letter called on Panetta to “publicly correct” his May 15
statement that “it is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress.”
Separately, the House committee’s chairman, Democrat Silvestre Reyes
of Texas, said in a statement tonight that “in rare instances’’ CIA
officers “have not adhered to the high standards’’ that the agency
sets for “truthfulness in reporting’’ to Congress.
Praise for Panetta
Reyes, who wasn’t among the six lawmakers who signed the letter to
Panetta, praised the CIA chief’s “recent efforts to bring issues to
the committee’s attention’’ that “had not been previously conveyed’’
to it.
Reyes was blunter in a July 7 letter to the panel’s top Republican,
saying that the CIA had lied to the committee at least once.
Information Panetta gave the panel June 24 “brought to light
significant information on the inadequacy of reporting to the
committee,’’ Reyes wrote to Representative Pete Hoekstra of Michigan.
The information provided by Panetta “led me to conclude that this
committee has been misled, has not been provided full and complete
notification and (in at least once case) was affirmatively lied to,’’
Reyes said in a letter, first reported by Congressional Quarterly.
The disclosures came on the eve of a scheduled House debate on an
intelligence spending measure. It would expand the number of lawmakers
who must be notified of covert intelligence operations from eight
congressional leaders to more than 35 members of House and Senate
intelligence panels.
Pelosi’s Charge
In May, Pelosi charged that when she was a member of the House
intelligence panel, the spy agency gave her misleading and inaccurate
information whether it had waterboarded suspected terrorists. The CIA
has acknowledged that it used the interrogation technique on three
detainees suspected of being al-Qaeda operatives to simulate the
sensation of drowning.
House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio has challenged Pelosi to
either produce evidence to support her claim or retract her assertion
that the CIA “misrepresented every step of the way” its use of harsh
interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists.
The lawmakers’ letter said Panetta’s recent testimony disclosed
concealment by the CIA that is “similar to other deceptions of which
we are aware from other recent periods.” The intelligence committee
regularly receives private briefings from U.S. officials.
CIA spokesman George Little said in a statement that Panetta “stands
by his May 15 statement” because “it is not the policy or practice of
the CIA to mislead Congress” and that “Director Panetta’s actions back
that up.”
The agency went to the panel with the new information, the agency’s
statement said.
“As the letter from these six representatives notes, it was the CIA
that took the initiative to notify the oversight committees,” Little
said.
The letter was signed by Democrats Anna Eshoo of California, John
Tierney of Massachusetts, Rush Holt of New Jersey, Mike Thompson of
California, Alcee Hastings of Florida and Jan Schakowsky of Illinois.
To contact the reporter on this story: James Rowley in Washington at
.
Last Updated: July 8, 2009 22:36 EDT