In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Thanks to a post at Atrios
Harris: Hundreds of Lies Told
Harris: Thousands of Votes Eliminated
oh... but she says: Harris: Hundred attacks thwarted
President Bush "has made our country safe" from terrorists, the U.S. representative says
VENICE -- U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris said Monday that the United States has "literally defeated 100 (potential) terrorist attacks on this country" in the past three years, some of which could have been as deadly as the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center.
Speaking Monday night in Venice at a rally in support of President Bush, Harris said the United States is winning the war against terrorism.
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In an interview after the speech, Harris said she learned from classified information about the 100 potential attacks that have been thwarted since 9/11.
"Actually, it's been more than 100," she said. "It's classified ? obviously not classified to me ? but things I can't go into detail about."
Harris continued: "Actually its 121 and I also learned about Bush's secret plan to eliminate terrorism, but it is secret, so I can't tell you, but you know me, I'm trust worthy, and let me tell you it is a really good secret plan; much better then Nixon's secret plan to end the Vietnam War. Also, I read this one classified report... Oh My God! I really wish I could tell you the details... but I can't, but let me just say this: Kerry, Osama bin Laden, Gay Marriage in Massachusetts."Harris told the audience that while she was in the Midwest recently, the mayor of Carmel, Ind., recounted how a man of Middle Eastern heritage had been arrested. She said hundreds of pounds of explosives were found in his home.
"He had plans to blow up the area's entire power grid," she said.
Pressed after the speech for details about the arrest, Harris said it had not been made public and she asked a reporter not to name the city she mentioned to the audience.
"I probably said too much," Harris said.
Contacted Monday night, Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard said a man was arrested two years ago and was sent to the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
He said he knew of no explosives or threats to blow up the power grid, however.
Carmel Police Chief Michael Fogarty said he had "no knowledge" of an arrest. "I don't know where that information came from," he said. "I certainly haven't heard anything about it."
Yeah she did tell the reporter "too much," she told him enough that he could verify that she's just making this crap up.
Classified documents are not about protecting national security in the Bush era... they are about protecting Bush's ass.
If you've got an enemy... declassify anything if it embarrasses them (security be damned). If you've got something that could embarrass the administration... classify it, it doesn't matter if it is about national security or not, simply say it is. If you want to just make things up say you're quoting classified information... No one can check up on you.
And now the Bush administration is classifying American Laws?
Ashcroft Tells Libraries to Destroy Citizen-Friendly PublicationsThe Department of Justice has called for these five these public documents,
two of which are texts of federal statutes, to be removed from depository libraries and destroyed, making their content available only to those with access to a law office or law library.
The topics addressed in the named documents include information on how citizens can retrieve items that may have been confiscated by the government during an investigation. The documents to be removed and destroyed include: Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedure; Select Criminal Forfeiture Forms; Select Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes; Asset forfeiture and money laundering resource directory; and Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA).
In America ignorance of the law is not considered a legal excuse, however under the Bush Administration promoting ignorance of laws is fine.
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