In one, opinion was manipulated as fact that contradicted the considered findings of the intelligence community based on known facts.

In stealing elections, a small manipulation up for your supporters, coupled with a small “down” for your opponets, both within the limits of statistical error, produces a statistically significant “win” that cannot be checked against any paper trail. A thousand such little wins will offset a huge number of votes against your candidate. All done, sleight of hand, beneath the “radar” of statistical analysis.

Only one “super” computer, so programmed, can in real time, produce such results as are desired in a way that leaves no “foot-print” to be picked up by statistics. CIA has such a computer, GHWBush was in charge of CIA (and probably still is by proxy).

It worked so well in rigging elections in their favor,they thought it would do the same to “throw” valid information as well. With MSM a compliant party organ, who’d a known or believed.

Two things urgently need attention. 1. Get out to the Military and Intelligence that any nuclear attack upon a country that has not declared War on the U.S. will result in charges of Treason against the People and the Constitution of the U.S. being brought by Congress for all those instagating or participating in such an attack; and 2. any country that uses its assets to that end will be held by Congress to have declared War upon the interests of the United States.

One can only hope that a military commander will not put his investment in rank on the line to join General Arnold in the pages of history. It puts some distance between irrational fingers and certain buttons.

Mickey @ 256

kathleen @
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Mickey @ 243

The Pincus article on the IG report has been pulled from the Washington Post site!

is there any explanation for this?

It was off for about an hour with this brief note, “An article about a Pentagon inspector general’s report on pre-Iraq war intelligence is being reviewed by The Washington Post. Check back later for updates.” Then it returned rewritten with a correction note. Apparently the authors collated the IG report and Levin’s comments as if it all came from from the report. I’ll bet there was one hot phone call from somebody. I’ve never seen a Washington Post article pulled and rewritten.

There was another article about Feith on the front page of the Washington Post, but the link disappeared about the same time as the Pincus article from the main page, though the article is still online.

I wonder who called?

The Dick Cheney/David Addington/neocon unilateral executive theory of Presidential superiority wherein the laws are declared to be for the little people? Well, ooops, guess that’s not so true. The National Security Act of 1947 is a long and detailed…

Mickey @ 243

The Pincus article on the IG report has been pulled from the Washington Post site!

is there any explanation for this?

It was off for about an hour with this brief note, “An article about a Pentagon inspector general’s report on pre-Iraq war intelligence is being reviewed by The Washington Post. Check back later for updates.” Then it returned rewritten with a correction note. Apparently the authors collated the IG report and Levin’s comments as if it all came from from the report. I’ll bet there was one hot phone call from somebody. I’ve never seen a Washington Post article pulled and rewritten.

There was another article about Feith on the front page of the Washington Post, but the link disappeared about the same time as the Pincus article from the main page, though the article is still online.

I wonder who called?

You bet your bottom Christy! I literally put in thousands of hours working for Senator Sherrod Brown in southern Ohio.

When he was here in Athens Ohio before the election I asked him about holding people accountable for the false pre-war intelligence. Senator Brown’s response was “we don’t want to be about retribution” I responsded “since when did holding people accountable start being defined as retribution instead of being defined as JUSTICE?

We keep hearing versions of this bi-partisan theme song being repeated ” Move on” “This is not about the Blame Game” “Everybody plays the fool sometime”. If the newly elected congress does not do their job and INVESTIGATE…DE-ESCALATE…THEY WILL LOSE IN 2008 AND OPEN THE DOORS TO INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES

Cone on Gore I dare you to run as an independent candidate.

It’s the word that rhymes with the nickname for a press secretary…and two words instead of one don’t seem to trigger the filters…at least not as frequently.

Hope that helps.

And here’s Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, on the IG Report:

(snip)

“[linking Saddam to al-Qaeda] was the argument that was used to make the sale to the American people about the need to go to war,” said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan. He said the Pentagon’s work, “which was wrong, which was distorted, which was inappropriate … is something which is highly disturbing.”

(snip)

Levin has asserted that President Bush took the country to war in Iraq based in part on intelligence assessments — some shaped by Feith’s office — that were off base and did not fully reflect the views of the intelligence community.

In a telephone interview Thursday, Levin said the IG report is “very damning” and shows a Pentagon policy shop trying to shape intelligence to prove a link between al-Qaeda and Saddam.

(snip)

Well, gee, if the report is “very damning” don’tcha kinda think Democrats might oughta DO SOMETHING about it, like impeach the bastards???

Bob in HI

The Pincus article on the IG report has been pulled from the Washington Post site!

is there any explanation for this?

I will r shorten my outrage with the findings of the Pentagons IG. and my outrage towards the U.s. congress’s twisted priorities on this website. Thanks for all the important work of the firedoglake folks. I have spread the word far and wide.

I think Jeff is arguing that it is this copy of Joe’s op-ed, on which Dick wrote nasty things about “the wife.” In the context, it would mean that Cheney et al didn’t turn over the op-ed in normal discovery, as they would have to, since it pretty fucking clearly has to do with Joe Wilson, his wife, and his trip to Niger.