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(Yahoo)   If you were wondering how long it would take someone to blame revelations of the CIA's past misconduct on President Bush, the answer is two days   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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Alacritous
2007-06-28 10:29:38 AM  
The blame for the CIA's behavior lies less with the agency than with presidents of both parties who misused it to do their dirty work.

Submitter fails at reading comprehension.
 
sailorman_glh
2007-06-28 10:36:55 AM  
No, subby is right. At the bottom of the article in the last three paragraphs, this OPINION author makes the assumption that crimes are being committed under the present administration. So, in essence, the author is calling out Bush as being responsible for crimes the CIA commits without any proof thereof.

So, Alacritous, it seems that you fail at the comprehension, not the subby.
 
7of7
2007-06-28 10:39:27 AM  
submitter: CIA's past misconduct on President Bush

iat says nowhere that the CIA's past misconduct is caused by President Bush. Its current misconduct is though.
 
kronicfeld
2007-06-28 10:40:18 AM  
Wait...is time still linear? I'm confused.
 
Alacritous
2007-06-28 10:45:56 AM  
submitter: blame revelations of the CIA's past misconduct on


Perhaps you missed that word.
 
flaEsq
2007-06-28 11:17:33 AM  
Lame headline. No vote for you
 
whitetrashcompactor
2007-06-28 11:21:22 AM  
Regardless, the documents lead to one inescapable conclusion: The blame for the CIA's behavior lies less with the agency than with presidents of both parties who misused it to do their dirty work.

Why does submitter hate the article?

Why does submitter fail at life?
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2007-06-28 11:21:50 AM  
1. Create misleading headline
2.
3. Profit (and greenlight)
 
meshman
2007-06-28 11:24:02 AM  
Bush can use all the blame that can be thrown at him.
 
whitetrashcompactor
2007-06-28 11:28:14 AM  
sailorman_glh: No, subby is right. At the bottom of the article in the last three paragraphs, this OPINION author makes the assumption that crimes are being committed under the present administration.

No. Re-read.

He is saying that if the pattern of abuse by presdents of both parties for the last 50 years continue then a future release of secret documents will show who is responsible for the current whispers of unlawful detentions and secret prisions. Those last few paragraphs look at the new information and speculate that with a long history of abuse and a post 9-11 environment it will be interesting to see current documents at sometime in the future.

/oh. i almost forgot the obligitory... eat a bag of dicks
 
spidergoat
2007-06-28 11:34:50 AM  
Subby didn't RTFA.

Why does Subby hate America?
 
liquid duane-o
2007-06-28 11:34:52 AM  
wasnt bush sr. the head of the cia during a lot of this?
 
cirby
2007-06-28 11:56:09 AM  
I'm still waiting for some explanation of how so many of the worst of the CIA abuses were under Saint President Kennedy.
 
mediaho
2007-06-28 12:01:16 PM  
Submitter and the admin who greenlit this need cockpunches.
 
FlashHarry [TotalFark]
2007-06-28 12:26:10 PM  
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FlashHarry [TotalFark]
2007-06-28 12:27:55 PM  
actually, i was wondering how long it would take for some paranoid cock-munching, jackbooted wingnut to claim that liberals blame the current president for past cia abuses.

right on time, submittwat!
 
jonathanpatt
2007-06-28 12:43:44 PM  
liquid duane-o: wasnt bush sr. the head of the cia during a lot of this?

No, George H. W. Bush was Director of Central Intelligence for one year, from 1976 to 1977. The recently released CIA documents cover was compiled in 1973 by James Schlesinger, the DCI at that time.

That said, Bush may very well have been an officer of the CIA during some of the time covered by the documents. A separate document release several months ago included a reference to his oil exploration company, Zapata Corporation, being a CIA front for South American operations, and there are FBI documents that refer to a "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency".

Back on topic, however, there will undoubtedly be another release of documents 30 years from now that will show all the illegal activities they're still doing at this time.
 
jonathanpatt
2007-06-28 12:46:47 PM  
Wow, bad typo there. That should read, "The recently released CIA documents were compiled in 1973 by James Schlesinger, the DCI at that time."
 
bwesb
2007-06-28 12:50:46 PM  
At what point do we - the roughly 72% of Americans - begin to understand that we have been lied to - repeatedly - by a great percentage of our leadership?

Until then I'm going to pretend that I know nothing other than Paris Hilton's jail cell number.
 
TheGreyPiper
2007-06-28 12:55:53 PM  
"kronicfeld 2007-06-28 10:40:18 AM
Wait...is time still linear? I'm confused."

No, time has no meaning when it comes to blaming Bush Vader and Republicans for everything and anything conceivable. I'm surprised W isn't blamed for the Spanish Inquisition.

/Wait, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition....
 
Manic_Repressive
2007-06-28 1:11:19 PM  
TheGreyPiper: Wait, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition....

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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Clarence Potter
2007-06-28 1:36:58 PM  
For sailorman_glh and submitter (presuming they are not the same semi-sentient being):

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Magruda
2007-06-28 1:57:06 PM  
Bush is resposible for Katrina.
Bush is resposible for Illigal Immigration.
Bush is repsosible for the war in Iraq.
Bush is resposible for the Inquisition.
Bush is resposible for the Kennedy assasination.
Bush is resposible for kitten deaths.
Bush raped the Statue of Liberty.

Some of these are true some are not.

Bush has sacrificed the lives of thousands of people for political gain he never got.
 
flaEsq
2007-06-28 2:03:02 PM  
mediaho: Submitter and the admin who greenlit this need cockpunches.

The harvest of politics articles selected by the PTB seem like an unintentional demonstration of everything Drew correctly railed about was wrong with the media.
 
binnster
2007-06-28 2:07:13 PM  
whitetrashcompactor

Why does submitter hate the article?

Why does submitter fail at life?

Why does admin greenlight blatantly incorrect headlines?
 
rynoon
2007-06-28 2:11:55 PM  
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Heck of a job, subby.
 
Wolf Flywheel
2007-06-28 7:02:04 PM  
I'll have to agree with all of you 14%'rs on this one. The headline is misleading which makes subby a douche.
 
bartink
2007-06-28 9:23:45 PM  
Subby just stupid. Move along.
 
Somacandra [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2007-06-29 1:50:39 AM  
The headline is stupid.

Having said that...

Its true that releasing all this data, with secret wiretaps and such under the Imperial Presidents Johnson and Nixon, may make people think more about what's going on now under the current resurrection of the Imperial Presidency under Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney.
 
fapage
2007-06-30 1:58:23 PM  
The article doesn't mention bush and is not critical of any particular administration. Its critical of the CIA having secret detention centres and releasing relatively mild (and long known) secrets from the past as a distraction from current activities.

Its absolutely unbelieveable how partisan US politics is... at least on the interweb. No critisism can be leveled at any political figure or agency without a bunch of dumbfarks crying about the liberal media or the conservative religious right etc. Get a farking grip.
 
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