Andymatic

Category: 7. Obsession with National Security

  • Chris Wallace Fellates Cheney

    Now look: there are softball interviews; and then there are interviews like this. It cannot be described as journalism in any fashion. Even as propaganda, which is its point, it doesn’t work – because it’s far too cloying and supportive of Cheney to be convincing to anyone outside the true-believers. When it comes to Cheney, […]

  • CIA Used Power Drill in Mock Execution

    [S]uspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was threatened with a gun and a power drill during the course of CIA interrogation. According to the sources, who like others quoted in this article asked not to be named while discussing sensitive information, Nashiri’s interrogators brandished the gun in an effort to convince him that he […]

  • Fear as a Lever

    No observation will cause one to be ejected from acceptable mainstream company more immediately than pointing out that what the U.S. Government is doing is “terrorism” by definition. .. That’s because using Terrorist threats or civilian-destroying violence for political gain, or to keep a population in fear, is something that only other people do — […]

  • Tom Ridge Pushed to Raise Threat Level on Re-Election Eve

    Tom Ridge, the first head of the 9/11-inspired Department of Homeland Security …  was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush’s re-election, something he saw as politically motivated and worth resigning over. via Washington Whispers (usnews.com).

  • Gun Toting What-If

    Scenario: gun-toting person at Presidental town hall meeting actually draws his weapon for some reason. He is dropped by five sniper bullets coming from five different directions, all fired by secret service members. Other people present in the crowd with guns begin to fire back, not knowing what had just happened for certain. via Commenter […]

  • Do-It-Yourself Death Squad

    The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials. via C.I.A. Sought Blackwater’s Help in Plan to Kill Jihadists

  • UK's Orwell Nightmare

    The authorities made more than 500,000 requests for confidential communications data last year, equivalent to spying on one in every 78 adults, leading to claims that Britain had “sleepwalked into a surveillance society”. via A request to snoop on public every 60 seconds – Telegraph.

  • Republicans Can't Compute This

    They can’t compute that their white man-led conservative revolution is dead. They can’t reconcile their idea of themselves with the fact that white men like them don’t run the country any more — and never will again. To them the black president is leading a column of the “other” into their promised land. Gays, immigrants, […]

  • Helen Thomas: Obama Ignores Torture

    Many Americans heaved a sigh of relief last January when President Barack Obama banned the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It made the administration look more humane than the Bush-Cheney team. But that is not the whole story. via  Helen Thomas in Times Union

  • Sibel Edmonds: Bin Laden worked for US Until 9/11

    Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds dropped a bombshell on the Mike Malloy radio show, guest-hosted by Brad Friedman. In the interview, Sibel says that the US maintained ‘intimate relations’ with Bin Laden, and the Taliban, “all the way until that day of September 11.” These ‘intimate relations’ included using Bin Laden for ‘operations’ in Central […]