David Gregory had both Gingrich and Durbin on today's Meet The Press to debate the issues of Gitmo and Nancy Pelosi. The questions not asked were there front and center. It's amazing how many times that Newt followed the popular path of hammering home the thought of how scared we were after the September 11 attacks. You would think that the towers only contained GOP party members to hear Gingrich,Cheney et al. That this was even mentioned in the setting of discussing Guantanmo Bay prisoner camp is prime example of how our human losses seem to be used as a means of inciting our fears anger and desire for vengence. When is this independant "Fourth Estate" going to get
a backbone and ASK the question......what does holding hundreds of prisioners have to do with an attack on our soil?
Gingrich stated that there is a danger of the prisoners being released and told about their desire to blow up our cities to attack and kill us. He spoke of Cheney being terrified for his children and grandchildren. I would love to ask why an attorney....which is what Gingrich is......patently calls these people "terrrorists" and lays out their motives and desires but he states not a single bit of evidence
to support these statements?
Gingrich also was particularly unhappy with Nancy Pelosi whom he came very close to saying that she had "approved" of water boarding. He was never asked
how one member of Congress having been told about this (assuming that she was) would have made this practice LEGAL without a full Congressional vote and Presidental signiture? Our laws still demand that a person be FOUND guilty not DECLARED guilty in a court of law. Using the techniques of "beating it out of them" is still illegal no matter how awful a crimminal is. We do not approve of torture. You can call it "enhanced interrogation" techiques or "tango lessions" it is still TORTURE.
It was also intrigueing how Cheney AND Gingrich continue to complain about
how the CIA is getting falsely blamed for lying about Nancy Pelosi's knowlege
of waterboarding. This is hysterical that they are NOW getting concerned about
the CIA being at risk. Where was their concern when the twenty year career of Iranian WEAPONS expert for the CIA, of Valerie Plame was destroyed? Ronald Reagan ( whose name was incanted in the usual reverence by Gingrich) signed a bill in 1986 making the outing of a CIA agent a FELONY. Bush promised that
anybody from his administration found to be a part of this would no longer be working in that administration. Bush basically gave Libby a pass and he has never done any form of jail time. Plame's career is destroyed and the valuable work she was doing is set back. NOW would be a great time to know if Iran is building nukes. Explain how your aid doing THAT kept us safe Dick Cheney?
IF we are to believe that the previous administration was so concerned about
national security and protecting our CIA so that they can do their jobs, why
did they release the name of a CIA agent who worked without diplomatic immunity tracking WMDs in Iran? Her being outed not only affected HER ability to do her job in a field that has a lot to do with knowing how close Iran is to having dangerous weapons. By outing her he also outed everybody who could be identified as working with her in Iran as well.
David Gregory gets a barely passing grade. We need our media to ask the tough questions. This debate and questioning was phoned in without any sign that
research was done to validate the easy half truths and embelishments. Try again next Sunday. Tim Russert would want you to do better than this.
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