Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Fox News, Spying, and State Secrets
Fox News, long a platform for right-wing smear attacks like the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, today added to its heinous legacy with the testimony of Sterling Burnett. This follows a counterattack by the “news” organ alleging, as predicate to the discussion, that Gore’s global warming movie is “hysteria.”
Peter Wehner, Karl Rove’s deputy, “debunks” the “myths” about pre-war intelligence being fixed in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal. I’ve been through this argument before on this blog many times. Suffice it to say that I’m not really interested in anything Karl Rove’s deputy has to say.
Libby will have to face down the testimony of two CIA analysts who are alleging he lied to them and that they provided him Valeria Plame’s identity.
That should do it for today…what’s this? The NSA is spying on all internet traffic, according to testimony in the EFF’s lawsuit against the NSA.
The Bush administration has used the “state secrets” excuse to dismiss lawsuits brought against it by individuals who have been “rendered” by the CIA to foreign countries for torture. A Canadian man who was beaten in Syria has had his lawsuit dismissed, and now a German has suffered the same fate.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 4:57 PM 
