iPwN3d!
That’s a wonderful term coined for the disappointment some new iPhone customers are feeling, as AT&T lags in activating the things. It sounds like a wonderful device, once you actually get to use it.
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Robin Trower: “Bridge Of Sighs”
God Damn Them
From the CIA “Family Jewels” files:
Of all the heinous acts committed by the CIA in the name of national security, these experiments, done on the agency’s behalf by prominent psychiatrists on innocent victims - including children as young as four - may be the darkest.
“We have no answer to the moral issue,” former director Richard Helms infamously said when asked about the nature of the projects…
“The CIA bought my services from my grandfather in 1952 starting at the tender age of four,” wrote Carol Rutz of her experiences. “Over the next 12 years, I was tested, trained, and used in various ways. Electroshock, drugs, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and other types of trauma were used to make me complain and split my personality (to create multiple personalities for specific tasks). Each alter or personality was created to respond to a post-hypnotic trigger, then perform an act and (I would) not remember it later. This Manchurian Candidate program was just one of the operational uses of the mind-control scenario by the CIA…”
No answer to the moral issue? Surely today’s fans of unfettered governmental power have come up with some rationale.
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Stanley Clarke (bass): “Schooldays”
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“He’s compos’d of harshness.” —The Tempest, 3.1.9
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Elvis Costello and Emmylou Harris: “Love Hurts”
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Lewis “Scooter” Libby has been assigned an inmate number by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“As low as to thy heart through the false passage of thy
throat thou liest.” —Richard II, 1.1.124-25
You Got Served
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy may actually have had enough of White House contempt for Congressional oversight:
The Senate Judiciary Committee has served Vice President Dick Cheney and other officials in the White House and Justice Department with subpoenas over President George W. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping programs.
“Over the past 18 months, this Committee has made no fewer than nine formal requests to the Department of Justice and to the White House, seeking information and documents about the authorization of and legal justification for this program,” Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a statement released to RAW STORY. “All requests have been rebuffed. Our attempts to obtain information through testimony of Administration witnesses have been met with a consistent pattern of evasion and misdirection.”
The subpoenas were authorized last week by the Judiciary Committee by a 13-3 vote, and target “documents related to authorization and reauthorization of the program or programs; the legal analysis or opinions about the surveillance; orders, decisions, or opinions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) concerning the surveillance; agreements between the Executive Branch and telecommunications or other companies regarding liability for assisting with or participating in the surveillance; and documents concerning the shutting down of an investigation of the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) relating to the surveillance,” according to the release.
In the subpoena letters, Leahy made particular reference to the Bush administration’s attempts to roll back existing oversight of the domestic spying program conducted through the National Security Agency…
The letters were sent to the Justice Department, the Office of the White House, the Office of the Vice President, and the National Security Council. The recipients of the subpoenas are called on to comply with the subpoenas by July 18.
Watch how fast Cheney runs back to the Executive Branch, citing Executive Privilege.
10 Months
Another Abramoff sentencing, this time for the former number-two at Interior:
Steven Griles, who served as the No. 2 Interior Department official between 2001 and 2005, had hoped to serve his sentence at home working for a charity sponsored by Walt Disney Co. and several outdoor-equipment makers.
But Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle said Griles had refused to take responsibility for his actions and imposed a sentence tougher than the one sought by prosecutors. “Even now, you continue to minimize and try to excuse your conduct and the nature of your misstatements,” Huvelle said.
Griles, 59, is the highest-ranking Bush administration official convicted in the wide-ranging bribery scandal centered around Abramoff.
Griles pleaded guilty in March to obstructing the Senate Indian Affairs Committee as it examined Abramoff’s clout in the Interior Department.
Corruption is pervasive in the Bush Administration. The promised honor, dignity and accountability appear to have been used up many years ago, if it ever existed.
