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karenj503 commented on the blog post Obama White House Tries To Distance Itself From AP Spying Scandal By Citing Support For Bill It Lobbied Against
I’m surprised I have to translate the “headline” I provided for you.
But in terms a 6 year old can understand, here goes:
1) A year ago there were leaks of classified information (which turned out to put a double agent in lethal danger).
2) Everybody and his brother wanted a thorough investigation, and almost everybody actually followed through (the FBI, the DNI, the DoJ, Congress).
3) Congress wanted to know if legislation would plug the holes through which sensitive information was leaking.
4) Now Congress is bemoaning the investigations it was so eager to have done to plug intelligence leaks last year.I’m sorry if my former comment was too obtuse for you.
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karenj503 commented on the blog post Obama White House Tries To Distance Itself From AP Spying Scandal By Citing Support For Bill It Lobbied Against
Gee, do you think Jay Carney might have been talking about 2013, not 2010?
Holder confirmed during his testimony Wednesday that the Obama administration is backing a federal press shield law that would provide greater protections for reporters who refuse to provide information on confidential sources. He said he didn’t support going after journalists or news outlets for publishing information.
“The focus should be on those people who break their oaths and put the American people at risk, not the reporters who gather this information,” Holder said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/15/james-cole-ap-subpoena_n_3280527.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/us/politics/under-fire-white-house-pushes-to-revive-media-shield-bill.html?_r=0 -
karenj503 commented on the blog post Obama White House Tries To Distance Itself From AP Spying Scandal By Citing Support For Bill It Lobbied Against
Perhaps this headline should run alongside yours, DSWright:
Meanwhile, Congress Tries to Distance Itself From AP Spying Scandal by Forgetting They Asked for Halt to ‘Cascade of Leaks’ Last Summer.
So, AFTER the death of that bill in 2010, along comes “a ‘cascade’ of leaked classified information” in 2012 that concerned the Obama administration and the Senate Intelligence Committee enough that a bipartisan effort was made to pass legislative changes to prevent future leaks.
June 7, 2012: http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/07/politics/white-house-leaks
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karenj503 commented on the blog post Saudis Explicitly Warned U.S. Intelligence Agencies About Tamerlan Tsarnaev
There’s a reason why I respect your opinion, TBogg. I came to the same conclusion you did (actually, I did yesterday when I first saw this article and the first 20 or so comments – it was like reading at InfoWars).
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karenj503 commented on the blog post Saudis Explicitly Warned U.S. Intelligence Agencies About Tamerlan Tsarnaev
FireDogLake should really be more discerning about reports traced back to an article at the UK Daily Mail Online. It’s as yellow a rag as the Boston Herald or the New York Post, a tabloid.
The headline of that story changed 2 hours ago (PUBLISHED: 22:46 EST, 30 April 2013 | UPDATED: 11:43 EST, 1 May 2013) to “Saudi Arabian ambassador in Washington now DENIES his nation warned the United States about Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2012″ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2317493/Saudi-Arabian-ambassador-Washington-DENIES-nation-warned-United-States-Tamerlan-Tsarnaev-2012.html#ixzz2S3ovN0UT
Read up on one of the “contributors” to that UK Daily Mail article — the American Media Institute — especially the “About Us” part.
http://americanmediainstitute.org/Don’t be so gullible next time.
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karenj503 commented on the blog post Saudis Explicitly Warned U.S. Intelligence Agencies About Tamerlan Tsarnaev
I feel like I’ve accidentally stumbled onto InfoWars by reading the article and the comments here.
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karenj503 commented on the blog post Trail Goes Cold In Boston Marathon Bombing As Third Victim Identified
At the risk of being stoned here at FireDogLake, let me remind you who wrote that obnoxious article: David Sirota.
An Emoprog as wacked as Glenn Greenwald. I’ll bet the right wing wackos are rubbing their paws in glee at his craziness.
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karenj503 commented on the blog post Talking Boob Talks About Boobs
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karenj503 commented on the blog post Talking Boob Talks About Boobs
Speaking of, watch the video of her sucking on that Big Gulp straw. There isn’t anything Palin says or does that’s not suggestive.
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karenj503 commented on the diary post Obama’s Right-Hand-Man Offers Social Insurance Program Cuts, Again. by TomThumb.
Don’t any of you read Ezra Klein (who isn’t always right) or Jonathan Chait (who usually is)? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/02/this-is-why-obama-cant-make-a-deal-with-republicans/ (follow links to Chait http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/03/would-teaching-republicans-about-obama-help.html# and Klein’s previous article) Chait proved to Klein (and to me) that no matter what Obama or his “right hand man” offers in compromise or “reaching out”, the GOP is going to [...]
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karenj503 commented on the blog post Godfather of Tea Party Slams NRA School Safety Plan
Officials: NY gunman William Spengler — a [murderous]felon who wasn’t allowed to possess weapons — set ‘trap’ for firefighters.
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karenj503 commented on the blog post Late Night FDL: One Heckuva Week for Body Language
Toby, the Callista Gingrich 911 breastfeeding arrest story was a fake report. It was posted only on one blog, and was not in any legitimate news reports.
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karenj503 commented on the diary post Capitalists: Venture vs. Vulture by dakine01.
One tiny detail, (drat the English language, eh?):
Substitute “cue” for “queue” in the following sentence: “At this point, I guess I should queue the chorus of voices shouting “FREE MARKET! FREE MARKET!”
Entirely different meanings, spellings. Exact same pronunciation.
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karenj503 commented on the blog post I (Don’t) See What You Did There
I guess some Tweeting Santorum fans are pretty clueless, too:
sahlersmeyer Shelley Ahlersmeyer
Just confirmed – @RickSantorum’s website had record hits today! Big numbers from Iowa too! #momentum #iacaucus #santorum #iowasurprise
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karenj503 commented on the diary post Body Spray Dave: You’re Fired! — if you call Romney “weird.” by Teddy Partridge.
“enthusiasm gap”? You know, insane people and easily-led people often get enthusiastic about 10-car pile-ups and carnival side-shows. I imagine President Obama and his crew are trying to figure out a way to appeal to what he hopes are the majority of Americans; the sane ones who go to the carnival once with the kids, [...]
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karenj503 commented on the diary post Body Spray Dave: You’re Fired! — if you call Romney “weird.” by Teddy Partridge.
I’m glad I read down the page a ways before I asked the obvious. I’m out of the loop, too, don’t feel bad.
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karenj503 commented on the diary post Body Spray Dave: You’re Fired! — if you call Romney “weird.” by Teddy Partridge.
It WAS weird that Romney proved Team Obama was right by weirdly referring to corporations as people. We all know that’s stupid; just because 5 not-very-conservative active Supremes said so doesn’t make it carved in stone. As for “unnamed sources”, remember Sarah Palin’s monstrous aide Rebecca Mansour once worked as a volunteer for Obama. She [...]
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karenj503 commented on the blog post Majority of GOP 2012 Candidates Favor Amending US Constitution to Ban Gay Marriage
After listening to this laughable “debate” last night, the 7 GOPers appearing on stage seemed like septuplets, but without the individual personalities of 7 separate people.
(I don’t want to pull out the “7 Dwarves” analogy, because that would lead to “OK, who’s Snow White”? Because the missing female politician is in no way snow white in political terms.
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karenj503 commented on the blog post Breaking: Osama Bin Laden Is Still Dead
The message was translated into English. Do you think the translator would have translated every word but “Allah”?
Noooo, he translated that too = “God”.
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karenj503 commented on the blog post Anti-Public Employee Bill Passes Senate in Wisconsin; Only the Beginning of the Fight
“public employees should be non-partisan to begin with as they serve ALL citizens.”
Then the public ELECTED employees should be barred from accepting partisan campaign contributions — if they purport to serve ALL citizens.
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