“I don’t want to spend the time executing a prime-time-ready post to languish in obscurity.”

I understand, but can you imagine the blowback Jane and Christy might get, as well as Ned?

Ned does not support Hillary’s opponent and had very specific reasons for not doing so. I heard him speak about it in a recent interview on NPR.

TeddySanFran @
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When California Rootsters went to visit both our Senators’ offices in April, we were met with incredulity when we said we were there to talk about how to avoid a War on Iran. We said we thought that a War on Iran was very possible, and that we worried the lessons from the War on Iraq had not been learned. We talked about how this Administration, and its allies in Congress, would again cook the intel and lie to the American people. We said we were concerned that Senate Democrats could get steamrolled again on the casus belli, this time for a War on Iran that might even be nuclear.

We were assured that could never happen, because our Senators were alert — and now accustomed to looking for the signs of flawed and fixed intel. We were told our concerns were over-wrought and that we should not fear War on Iran. And we were told, especially, that our concern that this war could entail the use of nuclear weapons was unfounded.

Nothing’s changed to alter my assessment — a War on Iran now seems likelier in August than it did in April. That it will need to be nuclear if waged seems assured, given our depleted, worn out and used up conventional military.

I sure hope my Senators are paying attention.

“Disentangling Israeli interests from the rubble of neocon “creative destruction” in the Middle East has become an urgent challenge for Israeli policy-makers. An America that seeks to reshape the region through an unsophisticated mixture of bombs and ballots, devoid of local contextual understanding, alliance-building or redressing of grievances, ultimately undermines both itself and Israel.”

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/746312.html

Guess what, FirePups?? DCCC made it very easy for you to take other action against the dorks who prepared this piece-o’-crap masquerading as intelligence reporting.

One of the signatories to the report is Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI). He also happens to be a recipient of DeLay’s ARMPAC funds. DCCC documented this and some other atrocities committed by Rogers at their GOP Auction House website — but look, at the right of the page there’s a great link to help you write letters to the editors of Michigan newspapers! Tell Michigan’s 8th District voters that this dork is hurting not only them but the rest of America!

What a coincidence, but the illustrious Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) is a DeLay bagman, too!!! For some horrible reason, Michigan has more than its share of stupid Republican puppets who are too eager to take money without asking questions about ethics. Help Michigan voters help you; remind them with letters to the editors that Hoekstra is threatening Michigan security as well as that of our country.

To be more focused, you should select the following papers for each of these reps:

Rogers: Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Ann Arbor, Lansing (8th District is between/overlaps these areas)

Hoekstra: Grand Rapids, Muskegon, both Detroit papers, Lansing (2nd District is on the west side of Michigan, but many folks there also read the Detroit and Lansing papers – as does Governor Granholm’s office.)

And remind Michigan voters that DeLay is a criminal from Texas, like a whole ‘nother country; DeLay’s political influence and corruption should not be permitted to have influence on Michigan, nor on our nation’s security.

Go for it!!

With thanks;

Rayne (from Michigan)

*Applauding* As soon as I read this post I knew you would come through magnificently and jump right on this. Being I’m in the 8th District, looking for anything on Rogers.

As an aside, wondering if Dave Camp was also in on the take for Dirty Delay money?

Thanks Peterr, for the http://noquarter.typepad.com/m….._chut.html link.
You say: “Hmmm . . . a member of the intelligence committee running against a former CIA officer, and a staff report slamming the CIA comes out of the Intelligence committee without being vetted and approved?”
The other underlying nuance is that Rogers is a former FBI agent, which layers the FBI – CIA ‘rivalry’ and blame game one step further in the whole mess.

egregious at 81 -
What’s the story of the cellphone call in (2)?

Going out of town again but the short version is all of our Iranian network was blown by an alleged “mistake” where one person thought she was sending an email or a cell phone call now I forget, but supposedly to one person but ended up to everybody in the country. They had to roll the network up and probably people were killed. Now we have even less intell about them. Way ta go Bush admin!