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		<title>By: MarkH</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/09/rank-incompetence/#comment-1023705</link>
		<dc:creator>MarkH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1022812&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;nomolos @ 61&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A German citizen who claimed he was kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured by the CIA lost his appeal on Tuesday when the Supreme Court refused to review a decision dismissing the case because it would expose state secrets.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One is left wondering whether the International Courts can deal with this otherwise how in the hell can anyone get any bloody justice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;…
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If we don’t stop this then what is to protect any American citizen abroad from being kidnapped tortured and then dumped out in the backside of Albania or Kazakhstan or Namibia or in the outback of Australia?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bush obviously doesn’t care about that, but Congress should. After all, there are times they and their families will be traveling abroad.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1022812"><em>nomolos @ 61</em></a></p>
<blockquote><blockquote>A German citizen who claimed he was kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured by the CIA lost his appeal on Tuesday when the Supreme Court refused to review a decision dismissing the case because it would expose state secrets.</p></blockquote>
<p>One is left wondering whether the International Courts can deal with this otherwise how in the hell can anyone get any bloody justice.</p>
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<p>If we don’t stop this then what is to protect any American citizen abroad from being kidnapped tortured and then dumped out in the backside of Albania or Kazakhstan or Namibia or in the outback of Australia?</p>
<p>Bush obviously doesn’t care about that, but Congress should. After all, there are times they and their families will be traveling abroad.</p>
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		<title>By: That American Chap</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/09/rank-incompetence/#comment-1023121</link>
		<dc:creator>That American Chap</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Err……..guys?  That SITE site?  It’s completely bogus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I mean, come one!  Did you actually fall for the “Grecian Formula” Osama?  How many of you actually watched that “presentation”?  Not many, I would imagine, as if you did, you’d know that after this dubbed old video of a much younger Osama got to the point where he was referencing current events…the image froze, and all you heard was his supposed voice!  Do you not get how feeble this was as an attempt to pretend that Osama the boogy-man is still alive and well?  I’ve heard the most ridiculous notions advanced as to what was up with his beard but nobody bothered with the obvious:  It’s a very old video that they chopped up in the most ridiculous way, counting on the likelyhood that you wouldn’t bother to actually watch it and would simply accept the media telling you that it was all bona fide.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wake up folks.  SITE is a group whose intention is to advance and continue never ending war and it fabricates bin Laden videos.  End of story.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Err……..guys?  That SITE site?  It’s completely bogus.</p>
<p>I mean, come one!  Did you actually fall for the “Grecian Formula” Osama?  How many of you actually watched that “presentation”?  Not many, I would imagine, as if you did, you’d know that after this dubbed old video of a much younger Osama got to the point where he was referencing current events…the image froze, and all you heard was his supposed voice!  Do you not get how feeble this was as an attempt to pretend that Osama the boogy-man is still alive and well?  I’ve heard the most ridiculous notions advanced as to what was up with his beard but nobody bothered with the obvious:  It’s a very old video that they chopped up in the most ridiculous way, counting on the likelyhood that you wouldn’t bother to actually watch it and would simply accept the media telling you that it was all bona fide.</p>
<p>Wake up folks.  SITE is a group whose intention is to advance and continue never ending war and it fabricates bin Laden videos.  End of story.</p>
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		<title>By: peony</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/09/rank-incompetence/#comment-1023023</link>
		<dc:creator>peony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;By contrast, take a look at competence:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“”We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,” said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in Germany with Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Fort Hunt’s Quiet Men Break Silence on WWII&lt;br /&gt;
Interrogators Fought ‘Battle of Wits’”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;washingtonpost.com&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By contrast, take a look at competence:</p>
<p>“”We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,” said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in Germany with Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess.</p>
<p>“Fort Hunt’s Quiet Men Break Silence on WWII<br />
Interrogators Fought ‘Battle of Wits’”</p>
<p>washingtonpost.com</p>
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		<title>By: sona</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/09/rank-incompetence/#comment-1022980</link>
		<dc:creator>sona</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;NZ Expat, now in KS&lt;/em&gt; @ 94 - I watched a video of the game - my impression: France actually played a very strategic game and the All Blacks seemed somewhat clueless when it mattered most.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>NZ Expat, now in KS</em> @ 94 &#8211; I watched a video of the game &#8211; my impression: France actually played a very strategic game and the All Blacks seemed somewhat clueless when it mattered most.</p>
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		<title>By: sona</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/09/rank-incompetence/#comment-1022969</link>
		<dc:creator>sona</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1022821&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;nomolos @ 65&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Lhp France was spectacular against the All Blacks…what do ya think?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kiwis are in shock.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1022821"><em>nomolos @ 65</em></a></p>
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Lhp France was spectacular against the All Blacks…what do ya think?</p>
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<p>Kiwis are in shock.</p>
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		<title>By: sona</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/09/rank-incompetence/#comment-1022964</link>
		<dc:creator>sona</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Praedor Atrebates @ 35 - does that help to reverse the insanity of the last seven (so far) years?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Praedor Atrebates @ 35 &#8211; does that help to reverse the insanity of the last seven (so far) years?</p>
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		<title>By: sy</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/09/rank-incompetence/#comment-1022963</link>
		<dc:creator>sy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Its not incompetence, Christy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Its seditious opportunism.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This crew does not giving an ‘eff how many lives they endanger in prosecuting their propaganda war.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its not incompetence, Christy.</p>
<p>Its seditious opportunism.</p>
<p>This crew does not giving an ‘eff how many lives they endanger in prosecuting their propaganda war.</p>
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		<title>By: Christy Hardin Smith</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/09/rank-incompetence/#comment-1022891</link>
		<dc:creator>Christy Hardin Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Norske at 101 — Yes, I’ll get right on that in my copious spare time…  *g*&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Norske at 101 — Yes, I’ll get right on that in my copious spare time…  *g*</p>
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		<title>By: NorskeFlamethrower</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/09/rank-incompetence/#comment-1022882</link>
		<dc:creator>NorskeFlamethrower</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;1,622 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Citizen Hardin Smith and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Rank incompetence and utter lack of care for long term consequences to all of us,…slack-assed inattention to detail and long held security and need to know protocols.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don’t accuse me of bein’ a wigged-out paranoid, my tinfoil hat is firmly in place, thank you very much…but I want to know how long it’s gunna take for someone with your intelligence and experience in investigation to begin to question the “incompetence” or “poor dumb frat-boy” cover for a much more sinister reality.  It seems to me that we now have a pattern  that reeks of not incompetence but design, in fact, the “incompetence” cover is beginnin’ ta look a lot like the “one lone nut” theory of assinations and bombings.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let’s take a look:&lt;br /&gt;
   1. The president is warned &lt;em&gt;directly&lt;/em&gt; in August of 2001 that AQ is plannin’ ta run planes into stuff, then on 9/11/01 AQ runs planes into the Trade Center and the Pentagon.&lt;br /&gt;
   2.  Within dayz of the attack Bin Laden relatives and Saudi Royals and their cohorts are whisked outta the country under US government cover.&lt;br /&gt;
   3.  Bin Laden is pinned down and a dead duck in Afghanistan but the military is told ta back off.&lt;br /&gt;
   4.  The CIA operation directly responsible for monitorin’ nuclear proliferation and weapons of mass destruction is exposed by “incompetent” government politicos so now the only folks who now about illegal or threatening proliferation are the corporations who are sponsorin’ it.&lt;br /&gt;
   5.  The Pakistani operation controlled by the Brits that has direct connections to AQ in Pakistan is exposed by a US government leak.&lt;br /&gt;
   6.  After almost a week of warnin’ from the National Weather Service that a “5″ hurricane is likely, the “incompetent” federal government goes ta sleep and then assaults the wounded city and hundreds of thousands of its population with “incompetent” FEMA and highly competent Blackwater mercenaries.&lt;br /&gt;
   7.  The “incompetent” US government attacks a defenseless sovereign nation with inadequate forces, hollows out the military, contracts out essential military services and then looses all control of the corporate mercenaries who are put in charge of security for those personnel who may be in a position to blow the whistle on the whole corrupt operation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The situation we are in is not a consequence of “incompetent” political leadership, it is the result of a highly competent and terribly corrupt fascist intelligence that has been growin’ in place for over 50 years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;KEEP THE FAITH AND TELL IT LIKE IT IS!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1,622 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..</p>
<p>Citizen Hardin Smith and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:</p>
<p>“Rank incompetence and utter lack of care for long term consequences to all of us,…slack-assed inattention to detail and long held security and need to know protocols.”</p>
<p>Don’t accuse me of bein’ a wigged-out paranoid, my tinfoil hat is firmly in place, thank you very much…but I want to know how long it’s gunna take for someone with your intelligence and experience in investigation to begin to question the “incompetence” or “poor dumb frat-boy” cover for a much more sinister reality.  It seems to me that we now have a pattern  that reeks of not incompetence but design, in fact, the “incompetence” cover is beginnin’ ta look a lot like the “one lone nut” theory of assinations and bombings.</p>
<p>Let’s take a look:<br />
   1. The president is warned <em>directly</em> in August of 2001 that AQ is plannin’ ta run planes into stuff, then on 9/11/01 AQ runs planes into the Trade Center and the Pentagon.<br />
   2.  Within dayz of the attack Bin Laden relatives and Saudi Royals and their cohorts are whisked outta the country under US government cover.<br />
   3.  Bin Laden is pinned down and a dead duck in Afghanistan but the military is told ta back off.<br />
   4.  The CIA operation directly responsible for monitorin’ nuclear proliferation and weapons of mass destruction is exposed by “incompetent” government politicos so now the only folks who now about illegal or threatening proliferation are the corporations who are sponsorin’ it.<br />
   5.  The Pakistani operation controlled by the Brits that has direct connections to AQ in Pakistan is exposed by a US government leak.<br />
   6.  After almost a week of warnin’ from the National Weather Service that a “5″ hurricane is likely, the “incompetent” federal government goes ta sleep and then assaults the wounded city and hundreds of thousands of its population with “incompetent” FEMA and highly competent Blackwater mercenaries.<br />
   7.  The “incompetent” US government attacks a defenseless sovereign nation with inadequate forces, hollows out the military, contracts out essential military services and then looses all control of the corporate mercenaries who are put in charge of security for those personnel who may be in a position to blow the whistle on the whole corrupt operation.</p>
<p>The situation we are in is not a consequence of “incompetent” political leadership, it is the result of a highly competent and terribly corrupt fascist intelligence that has been growin’ in place for over 50 years.</p>
<p>KEEP THE FAITH AND TELL IT LIKE IT IS!!</p>
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		<title>By: Christy Hardin Smith</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/09/rank-incompetence/#comment-1022873</link>
		<dc:creator>Christy Hardin Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/09/fisa-the-constitution-needs-your-calls-today/#comments&quot;&gt;Fresh post for everyone&lt;/a&gt;, up and running if you want it…&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/09/fisa-the-constitution-needs-your-calls-today/#comments">Fresh post for everyone</a>, up and running if you want it…</p>
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