Thursday, April 06, 2006
This guy will definitely be wiretapped...
Check out this exchange during a Q&A at a forum Bush attended today:
The man was then escorted away by security and shipped to Guantanamo, where he was held without charges and without legal representation and was tortured.
Q: You never stop talking about freedom, and I appreciate that. But while I listen to you talk about freedom, I see you assert your right to tap my telephone, to arrest me and hold me without charges, to try to preclude me from breathing clean air and drinking clean water and eating safe food. If I were a woman, you'd like to restrict my opportunity to make a choice and decision about whether I can abort a pregnancy on my own behalf.
Bush: I'm not your favorite guy. Go ahead. (Laughter and applause.) Go on, what's your question?
Q: Okay, I don't have a question. What I wanted to say to you is that, in my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of, nor more frightened by my leadership in Washington, including the presidency, by the Senate, and I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and the grace to be ashamed of yourself inside yourself. And I also want to say I really appreciate the courtesy of allowing me to speak what I'm saying to you right now. That is part of what this country is about.
The man was then escorted away by security and shipped to Guantanamo, where he was held without charges and without legal representation and was tortured.
Leaker-in-Chief
From the Washington Post:
"A former top aide to Vice President Cheney told a federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA agent's identity that President Bush authorized him to disclose classified intelligence information about Iraq as a way of rebutting criticism from the agent's husband, according to court papers filed by prosecutors."
So Bush, who has publicly criticized leaks, turns out to be the Leaker-in-Chief. Not only that, but he leaked information for purely political reasons--as payback for Joseph Wilson's challenge to his claims about WMD in Iraq (which we now know were justified challenges).
I agree with Howard Dean:
"The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe."
Former Cheney Aide: Bush Authorized Iraq Intelligence Leak
"A former top aide to Vice President Cheney told a federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA agent's identity that President Bush authorized him to disclose classified intelligence information about Iraq as a way of rebutting criticism from the agent's husband, according to court papers filed by prosecutors."
So Bush, who has publicly criticized leaks, turns out to be the Leaker-in-Chief. Not only that, but he leaked information for purely political reasons--as payback for Joseph Wilson's challenge to his claims about WMD in Iraq (which we now know were justified challenges).
I agree with Howard Dean:
"The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe."
Former Cheney Aide: Bush Authorized Iraq Intelligence Leak
