Rachel Maddow started off her Tuesday show with one of those Historical Context pieces she's so fond of, and it was a doozy: the story of Yuri Nosenko, the KGB agent who defected to the USA in 1964. Despite Nosenko's having worked as a double agent and then voluntarily giving the CIA a trove of information, the agency -- hoping to get the real truth on Lee Harvey Oswald -- tortured Nosenko from 1964 to 1967, eventually deciding he'd been truthful after all. Then they gave him a nice pension, a new identity, and a new life somewhere in America. He died in 2008. You'd think maybe the CIA might have learned something about the value of torture in getting useful intelligence. But no, instead we got the Bush administration's torture program, the subject of yesterday's
Maybe they should have tortured the guy who wrote "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S." since he seemed to have accurate, actionable intelligence.
and yet there are millions of Americans that are convinced that what we did wasn't torture, that EIT worked and got us actionable intel and that yesterday's Senate report was just partisan mudslinging from Demoncrats who hate Murica. Behold the power of Fox and the RW echochamber and the efficacy of preying upon the primal fear of stupid people.
Why does that make me think of <a href="https:\/\/www.google.cz\/url\?sa=t&amp\;source=web&amp\;rct=j&amp\;ei=OISIVLHdDoe4OJmBgbgF&amp\;url=http:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch\?v=Qt0GNoEvV2Q&amp\;ved=0CCEQtwIwAA&amp\;usg=AFQjCNHR1mskgotyhM0_joK4iMAyOVvuBg&amp\;sig2=vUw1zQk-0z9ykH2CGVOzZw" target="_blank"> this</a>?
Am I the only one who immediately leapt to the conclusion that the &quot;secret identity&quot; the CIA gave Nosenko was Kelsey Grammer&#039;s dad?
And when people ask me why I don&#039;t want to do intelligence instead of data analysis, I just point them toward this. The CIA are a bunch of ring-and-run frat boys who somehow manage to end up paying for the pizzas they send to the rival football team. Not just evil, but <i>incompetent</i> evil.
We have a wInner!
That must be when Cheney jumped the shark.
How can you expect anyone else to believe your lies if you don&#039;t?
Maybe they should have tortured the guy who wrote &quot;Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S.&quot; since he seemed to have accurate, actionable intelligence.
Remind me again. What&#039;s the I in CIA stand for?
and yet there are millions of Americans that are convinced that what we did wasn&#039;t torture, that EIT worked and got us actionable intel and that yesterday&#039;s Senate report was just partisan mudslinging from Demoncrats who hate Murica. Behold the power of Fox and the RW echochamber and the efficacy of preying upon the primal fear of stupid people.
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Why does that make me think of <a href="https:\/\/www.google.cz\/url\?sa=t&amp\;source=web&amp\;rct=j&amp\;ei=OISIVLHdDoe4OJmBgbgF&amp\;url=http:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch\?v=Qt0GNoEvV2Q&amp\;ved=0CCEQtwIwAA&amp\;usg=AFQjCNHR1mskgotyhM0_joK4iMAyOVvuBg&amp\;sig2=vUw1zQk-0z9ykH2CGVOzZw" target="_blank"> this</a>?
Edited/fixed linkie, I think
Plus, the shark was horrified at the prospect.
Imbecile? Idiocy?
WWJW? Who would Jesus waterboard?
To include Dick himself, yes.
Dumbya was the amateur-in-chief: a privileged nimrod who&#039;d never even traveled outside the frickin&#039; US prior to his election.
Am I the only one who immediately leapt to the conclusion that the &quot;secret identity&quot; the CIA gave Nosenko was Kelsey Grammer&#039;s dad?
And when people ask me why I don&#039;t want to do intelligence instead of data analysis, I just point them toward this. The CIA are a bunch of ring-and-run frat boys who somehow manage to end up paying for the pizzas they send to the rival football team. Not just evil, but <i>incompetent</i> evil.