Mike Lester for November 17, 2012

An Intelligence Service is doing an investigation of a possible terrorist incident, and you think that they want to allow the News Services to broadcast everything that they know?You know… Protect National Security versus The Right To Know?SURE! Tell the bad guys what you suspect. The cops ALWAYS hold a news conference to announce that the judge just signed the search warrant, so that the crooks can hide everything before they get there.

An abbreviation of pond scum is ML.

@Ima

Dubya lied, hundreds of thousands died. In case you forgot.

Saddam wouldn’t have had WMDs if we hadn’t sold them to him.

@ScottPM:

Thanks for the link. Will view when I have the time.

And thanks for the definition of BEFORE. Ima can tell you, I’m a moron.

So many questions: should we have taken out the leaders of India, Pakistan, and China before they developed nukes? And how about Charles Taylor, Idi Amin, Papa Doc Chevalier, and all the other despots we supported (Pat Robertson had a business deal with Taylor to mine diamonds while his thugs were killing his civilians)? Should we go after Mugabe in Zimbabwe, since he kills or maims anyone he suspects of planning to vote against him?

Try this one: start a bar fight. When the police come, state: “I thought he was going to hit me, so I hit him back first.” See if that will keep you out of the pokey.

And what of Ruby Ridge and Waco? “He killed his own people.” Would you have approved of a foreign army coming over here with the expressed desire of taking out our government when those events occured? They could use the same logic we used to invade Iraq.

Feel free to help me understand. Remember, until you helped me today, I didn’t understand the definition of “before”. Thanks in advance.

Lets see if any of the O idolizers in the media start doing their job.

I suppose now Lindsey Gay-ham and Mc Crazy will think it’s a good idea to release the names of all our covert folks in CIA, DEA, and SEAL teams, as well as all the security measures taken at our embassies and “outposts”? Fux News has a right to know, right??

I think the CIA should always immediately tell us everything they know about everything they are involved in. After all, it’s a democracy. We have a right to know. Right now. No matter what the consequences. And if they don’t tell us we should impeach Obama. Except that if Obama tells us something, that’s a breach of national security and he should be impeached.

What is the deal here? Obama never lied. Rice never lied. Hillary never lied. I really don’t get this supposed “scandal.” Is this like tax cuts creating jobs, where it isn’t true unless you’re in the secret club, and if you are in the secret club, it’s revealed gospel and can’t be subject to fact checking?

The connies have driven themselves insane over our President.From the Guardian:During the hearings, Petraeus – who has once been touted as a possible Republican candidate – appears to have undercut GOP arguments, saying the aftermath of Benghazi had not been a political issue and that there had been no attempt by the White House to distort the talking points in advance of Rice’s appearance before the media.Petraeus, who gave evidence to both the Senate and House intelligence committees, said that references to the group alleged to have been behind the 11 September attack were in the CIA’s classified talking points, which were classified, but removed from the unclassified memo relied upon by Rice. The reason, he said, was not to tip off the group about what the US authorities knew.

I guess Congressman Issa did not get this memo.

Now I know how Michael wme must feel.

Apology accepted. It’s hard to do satire when the limits of the outrageous have already been violated by those who are serious.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/world/africa/benghazi-not-petraeus-affair-is-focus-at-hearings.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/world/africa/election-year-stakes-overshadow-nuances-of-benghazi-investigation.html?pagewanted=all

What is the lie? Neither Rice or Clinton said terrorist were not involved. The attackers in Benghazi said they were motivated by the video. The Republicans are making a pathetic attempt to distract from important issues like the economy.