Monday, February 08, 2010

Where was I? Ah, the lying John Brennan,

Deputy National Security Adviser
...Problem is (and there's always a problem with the story of this gang) that by Brennan's own admission he didn't say anything about Mirandizing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
"On Christmas night, I called a number of senior members of Congress," Brennan said on NBC, specifically identifying Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, and House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, as well as the ranking Republicans on the Senate and House intelligence committees, Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., and Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich.

"I explained to them that he was in FBI custody, that Mr. Abdulmutallab was, in fact, talking, that he was cooperating at that point," Brennan said. "They knew that 'in FBI custody' means that there's a process then you follow as far as Mirandizing and presenting him in front of a magistrate. None of those individuals raised any concerns with me at that point. They didn't say, 'Is he going into military custody?' 'Is he going to be Mirandized?'"

So according to Brennan, a courtesy call on Christmas night is the one and only chance these four had to speak up. It was incumbent upon them to realize that 'FBI custody' meant 'Full legal rights' and that since they didn't instantly make that connection, they just need to shut the hell up now and forever.

Aside from the ridiculousness of that theory, it's just plain wrong. Writing at The Corner, Marc Thiessen demonstrates there was no reason for anyone to believe "FBI custody" automatically meant full Miranda rights because the Obama administration said it wouldn't.

just a few months earlier, the Obama administration announced that its new FBI-led “High-Value Interrogation Group” (HIG) would not necessarily Mirandize suspects it was questioning.
Etc.


So who or what got to Greenpeace to cause this change of mind?


Ok, this is just plain effing COLD!


And, recommended by Kevin, Is it Crazy to Call Obama a Socialist or a Fascist?, which includes this:
Read your history, they admonish us. Well I have. And it's apparent that either they haven't, or they're banking on the fact that a lot of people haven't and that we will just buy what they're saying, cower before their derision, and Shut Up. Fortunately knowledge is a good inoculation against such ridicule.

Nazi is short for Nationalsozialist … which was a term for supporters of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or the National Socialist German Worker’s Party.

Be very suspicious about any political movement with the word “workers” in the title. They're all brothers. Communism, Socialism, Fascism, and Nazism.

2 comments:

Keith said...

Ouch - frozen Jack Daniels - even nastier than the liquid stuff (there has to be a reason why so many of that Daniels family are tetotal).

Fascism = "Brown" = green + red

other combinations are possible too

Windy Wilson said...

Fascism = "Brown" = green + red
Good one, Keith.

A further indication he is fascist is his desire to regulate the life out of businesses, which continue to be owned by the ostensible owners.

Sadly, though I think there are a lot of fascist Assemblymen, State Senators, Congressmen and Senators out there, as virtually every one of them belives in goverment manipulation of the economy to provide jobs and economic security for the populace. THAT was a plank in the 1920 National Socialist party platform in 1920.
Ergo, there are a lot of fascists out there.