They lost intelligence, possibly congenitally, then decided that telcos would cooperate anyway, despite their best sky is falling bullshit rhetoric. It’s hard being part of BushCo these days. I’m not sure I’m down for a witch hunt in the federal civil service ranks like dday, but I am down for the American public coming to grips with how mind bogglingly mendacious the Bush administration as been in the last 7 years in a thousand ways great and small.
Hullabaloo – by dday
The intelligence leadership has been caught in an enormous lie, making false claims about lost surveillance gathering for purely political reasons. This cannot possibly be an isolated incident. Of coure, we KNOW it’s not an isolated incident. And indeed, many of the employees in the civil service who directed these lies and misstatements, not those at the top but the functionaries, will still be working in their same posts under a potential Democratic Administration. It needs to be extremely clear from the very beginning that they must be rooted out, expunged and turned over to the legal system for a determination. It should be a key part of the Democratic nominee’s platform. Only then can we truly “turn the page,” as our front-runner is likely to say.In the interim, it has to be clearly stated: the Bush Administration overtly and admittedly lied about lost intelligence to bully the House into expanding executive power. This is a memorable episode.
