Comments | bellatrys: Breaking: Old News - Our Current CIA Chief Is A Terrorist

bellatrys

Breaking: Old News - Our Current CIA Chief Is A Terrorist

Dec 03, 2005 21:49

Why do I have to keep finding these things? There's something wrong with this picture.

Okay, this isn't the post on Minitrue Ascendant or Condimelda going to put the screws to the EU or the reason why we need things like Blog Against Racism Day - or any of the other old things I keep trying to write about while new outrages keep cropping up, ( Read more... )

cia, cuba, porter goss, terrorism, nixon

Comments 5

anonymous December 4 2005, 19:45:41 UTC

You probably know the answer to the question you ask towards the end--why didn't the Serious Political Bloggers and the Capitol Hill people zero in on Porter Goss's past? It's simple--the closer you are to power the less honest you can be ( ... )

Well, that's *half* of it, yeah bellatrys December 4 2005, 22:50:25 UTC

I mean, I wasn't really surprised when I flipped over Final Days and read the NYT review blurb, "Mr. Nixon emerges as a tragic figure weathering a catastrophic ordeal...and weathering it with considerable courage and dignity." when to me he comes off like nothing so much as Kurtz in Apocalypse Now and/or the original Heart of Darkness, except in a palace rather than a jungle.

What is bothering me is that all these bloggers who have been following politics longer than I have, sometimes longer than I've been a legal adult, who knew who Woodward & Bernstein were and maybe even remembered Watergate when it was breaking, and ditto Iran-Contra, not as confused childhood memories (I kept having weird little flashback moments as I remembered vaguely overhearing my parents talking about "Mexican laundries" and trying to facetiously explain money laundering to me as a very young kid, or the name "Eagle Crow" [Egil Krogh] and thinking he must be an Indian) and how these politically-aware and involved, but as footsoldiers not DC insiders, not ( ... )

Serendiptity? anonymous December 5 2005, 00:13:18 UTC

"that thoroughly evil man Dulles, (for whom the airport that I ignorantly flew through years ago is named) - the one who carried out the US-UK-plotted overthrow of the democratically-elected head of Iran in the 50s to put a tyrant in power using the CIA in order to control their oil ( ... )

Re: Serendiptity? anonymous December 5 2005, 00:27:29 UTC

And last but not least ( ... )

Oh, and late for Blog Against Racism Day, I know... anonymous December 5 2005, 00:46:02 UTC

... but a review of a new book from that same issue of "BBC History Magazine ( ... )