Back to Felt:

"He Put America First."

Duberstein, for those who don't know, is currently a Washington lobbyist, CEO of the eponymously named Duberstein Group. But, more significantly, he was Ronald Reagan's chief of staff after Nancy sacked Don Regan. And, it is because of that position that he has a unique perspective on the Mark Felt/"Deep Throat" saga.
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Duberstein said that, in reading all the media reports of the last few days, he put himself back in his shoes as White House chief of staff. He thought, with the information Felt had in front of him, "What options did he have?" "He couldn't go to the White House Chief of Staff (Haldeman or Ehrlichman); he couldn't go to the Justice Department (John Mitchell); he couldn't go to the White House Counsel (John Dean). He did something responsible. The congressional committees hadn't been formed yet. What do you do? Felt put America first."

Tapes: Nixon suspected Felt

In a conversation recorded on October 19, 1972, four months after the Watergate break-in, White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman told Nixon a secret source had identified Felt as the primary leaker.

"If we move on him, he'll go out and unload everything," Haldeman said. "He knows everything that's to be known in the FBI. He has access to absolutely everything."
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"You know what I'd do with him, the bastard?" Nixon replies.

The reply on the tape is inaudible and Nixon follows up by saying, "That's all I want to hear about it."

Ahhh... remember the days before Clinton... when there was dignity in the White House.

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The Other Bomb Drops

Watergate is in the news and we have a President who really needs to be impeached. It all sounds familiar.

Sorry, back to why the President needs to be impeached.

It was a huge air assault: Approximately 100 US and British planes flew from Kuwait into Iraqi airspace. At least seven types of aircraft were part of this massive operation, including US F-15 Strike Eagles and Royal Air Force Tornado ground-attack planes. They dropped precision-guided munitions on Saddam Hussein's major western air-defense facility, clearing the path for Special Forces helicopters that lay in wait in Jordan. Earlier attacks had been carried out against Iraqi command and control centers, radar detection systems, Revolutionary Guard units, communication centers and mobile air-defense systems. The Pentagon's goal was clear: Destroy Iraq's ability to resist. This was war.

But there was a catch: The war hadn't started yet, at least not officially. This was September 2002--a month before Congress had voted to give President Bush the authority he used to invade Iraq, two months before the United Nations brought the matter to a vote and more than six months before "shock and awe" officially began.

At the time, the Bush Administration publicly played down the extent of the air strikes, claiming the United States was just defending the so-called no-fly zones. But new information that has come out in response to the Downing Street memo reveals that, by this time, the war was already a foregone conclusion and attacks were no less than the undeclared beginning of the invasion of Iraq.

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Today's GOP: Logic - Meet Window

Women's Suffrage Opponent Seeks Office

TOPEKA, Kan. - A state senator who once said that giving women the vote was a symptom of weakness in the American family now wants to be Kansas' top elections official.

Sen. Kay O'Connor announced Wednesday that she is seeking the GOP nomination for secretary of state next year. O'Connor, 63, has served in the Legislature since 1993.

In 2001, O'Connor received national attention for her remarks about the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1920, which gave women the right to vote.

"I think the 19th Amendment, while it's not an evil in and of itself, is a symptom of something I don't approve of," she said at the time. "The 19th Amendment is around because men weren't doing their jobs, and I think that's sad. I believe the man should be the head of the family. The woman should be the heart of the family."

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A hero and a patriot
(at least when it comes to Watergate)

Look, If Felt gets Praise it is only a good thing. We need someone in the White House who isn't a brainwashed neoclone and knows what he sees everyday isn't right. Who doesn't want to see America treated this way, destroyed as a country and an idea. We need him to look at Felt and realize that even a person in a position of power was willing to risk everything to stop corruption.

Did Felt have his own motives (including revenge), probably, who knows. That is a small matter when compared to the abuse that he ended: The Nixon Regime.

But some (many) don't see it that way, such as this comment that appeared here at TCS in response to a post from a couple of days ago:

A patriot? Someone who (unethically and probably illegally) leaked investigative information simply because he had a grudge against Nixon for not naming him acting director upon Hoover's death? I'll grant you that Nixon needed to go and that change needed to take place. But the methods were wrong, plain and simple. To call this man a patriot is preposterous.

The methods? Steering a reporter in the right direction? Telling him not to give up? Telling him: yes follow up on that - look more into this?

Nixon was President, his people thought nothing of breaking into the Democrats' national headquarters. Nixon was trying to get the FBI to be his foot soldiers. The head of the FBI was a Nixon toady. "I'll grant you that Nixon needed to go" - how? Exactly what should his method have been?

Write a letter to the editor?

And with the minute men... what about their methods - destroying private property, breaking and entering, dumping tea into the harbor. No one mentions the cancelled high tea get togethers, do they?

I find that as soon as a fact comes to light the right suddenly is quite concerned about the niceties. "Oh sure it is good that we know that torture was taking place and we should stop that, but really we need to look into the fact that some soldiers had camera phones and that is wrong and we need to strongly consider imprisoning those people who are trying to save America's soul and image abroad. Their methods were unethical and illegal."

Two wrongs don't make a right, but a tiny wrong can sometimes make a great big huge wrong better. And that is a right.

Meanwhile for an entertaining back story, Woodward writes up his history with Felt. It proves that being paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

How Mark Felt Became 'Deep Throat'

oh and a legal take:


Were Felt's Leaks Illegal?Probably. But he still shouldn't have worried.

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Daily Kos :: Kerry to address Downing Street Minutes

Kerry, like his friend McCain, measures everything he does against the cutout of him becoming President elected in 2008.

But nonetheless:

"When I go back (to Washington) on Monday, I am going to raise the issue," he said of the memo, which has not been disputed by either the British or American governments. "I think it's a stunning, unbelievably simple and understandable statement of the truth and a profoundly important document that raises stunning issues here at home. And it's amazing to me the way it escaped major media discussion. It's not being missed on the Internet, I can tell you that."

For those of you who don't know, besides out right saying that Weapons of Mass Destruction was just the excuse for a war that was a done deal even in 2002, the minutes were printed on a reflective white material that can only be described as "stunning."

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To those who believe in Bush: How long have you been taking oxytocin supplements?

Tests reveal 'trust in a bottle' hormone

(AP) -- Swiss and American scientists say they have successfully manipulated subjects in an experiment to take risks they might not otherwise take by giving them a squirt of the hormone oxytocin to stimulate trusting behavior.

Their finding could have beneficial applications in treating mental disorders, but they acknowledge the possibility of abuse.

Abuse? Do you think? And you worried about fluoride in your water....

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I’ve been thinking the obvious lately.

What the hell is wrong with almost all of the politicians (left, right, ambidextrous)?

It isn’t the Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

I think that is wrong… it isn’t the power that corrupts, the corruption has occurred on the way to getting the power. .

No I don’t think power corrupts, I think the process of achieving power corrupts.

The sacrifices and ethical breaches you make little by little to accumulate power turns your soul. You are a politician who wants to end corruption in his city. To make your voice heard you have to make a few promises and make a few friendships you really would rather not make. But it is a small sacrifice because you will do such good. Step by step your earnestness will be the engine that drives you to power but the fuel will be the ethical lapses, the questionable acquaintances, the moments you averted your eyes. So by the time you have the power, you don’t end the corruption in your city – you are the corruption. Power didn’t do it to you, the process did. Accumulation of power corrupts. The process of achieving absolute power would leave you absolutely corrupt.

Along the way the people who you are there “to help” cry out against you for your transgressions. You become angry and bitter, you have made sacrifices against your beliefs, diminished your soul so you could attain the power needed to bring about the changes they want. “The people” don’t treat you the way they should. Why work to change things now? So the goal becomes simply to keep the power – because don’t you know you earned it… and you will do such good with that power… especially after you get just a bit more….

And thus we have today’s President and Congress.

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Because I can't remember when I last posted about Ohio

And a pity too - because it's a comedy there these days.

Here's a good wrap up of the going's on: Daily Kos :: Did $$$ stolen from Ohio Re-elect Bush?

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Can you say Halliburton?

Sure you can

Bolton documents contain classified company names

WASHINGTON The information that the White House has refused to provide Congress for its review into the nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations includes the names of companies mentioned in intelligence reports on commerce with China and other countries covered by export restrictions, according to officials briefed on the matter.

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Silence is not an option.

via Daily Kos: Drawing the line between churches and politics

Amember of my church gave to me a copy of the Ohio Restoration Project. This project is led by so-called Christians who have a plan for Ohio. The project will target 2,000 pastors throughout the state to become "patriot pastors." These patriot pastors will be briefed on a specific political agenda and asked to submit names of their parishioners in order to increase a database to 300,000 names. These pastors will be asked to place voter guides in their church pews.

Ken Blackwell, Ohio's secretary of state and a governor hopeful, is named throughout the document. Blackwell will be featured on 30-second radio ads promoting this group's agenda and supporting the "Ohio for Jesus" rally set for the spring of 2006. At the end of the document are the words, "America has a mission to share a living savior with a dying world."

This is not America's mission. This is frightening, diabolical stuff for non-Christians and Christians alike. It is blasphemous to claim that any earthly kingdom is God's kingdom. The theological foundations of this movement are vacuous. They are set on the sands of opportunism, self-righteousness and greed.

It is time for the citizens of Ohio to wake up. This group and those like it will stop at nothing in making America a theocracy shaped by one very limited interpretation of scripture.

The media must investigate and show this movement for what it is. Courageous preachers must help their congregations understand what is at stake. Silence is not an option.

- The Rev. Dr. John Lentz
Cleveland Heights
Lentz is pastor of Forest Hill Presbyterian Church.

I'm sure Rev. Dr. John won't mind that I just cut and past his entire letter.

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I hope this story gets a lot of play.

I want Felt to be praised far and wide as a patriot.

Then maybe someone in the White House will realize their loyalty to America is greater then their loyalty to Karl Rove (and that Georgie guy) and come forward.

FBI's No. 2 Was 'Deep Throat'

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Because some want to limit ideas

I'm not too fond of some of the ideas in some of these books myself, but harmful? Maybe if you threw them at someone... a lot of them are too heavy.

Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries

At number 4 we have: The Kinsey Report scoring only 2 positions lower in being dangerous then Mein Kampf and 1 point less then Quotations from Chairman Mao (The Little Red Book). Dang sex is dangerous. Down at Number 7 we have The Feminine Mystique proving the female's in general are harmful. At number 8 we have The Course of Positive Philosophy which coined the term "sociology" and since I remember that class being horribly boring, I'll go with that one. Nietzsche comes in at number 9 with Beyond Good and Evil because of his wicked mustache. Rounding out the top 10 is General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. As far as I can tell that book is there because it caused Bush's deficit.

The book is a recipe for ever-expanding government. When the business cycle threatens a contraction of industry, and thus of jobs, he argued, the government should run up deficits, borrowing and spending money to spur economic activity. FDR adopted the idea as U.S. policy, and the U.S. government now has a $2.6-trillion annual budget and an $8-trillion dollar debt.

Wow that is a harmful book - if it wasn't for that book the Republicans would be cutting down the size of government right now instead of expanding it. Bad bad book.

The Honorable Mentions of Harmful Books include such immoral travesties like:

• The Population Bomb (because over population is a good thing).
• Origin of the Species (because ignorance tells God you love him)
• Unsafe at Any Speed (because exploding cars are a good thing)
• Silent Spring (because when it says in the bible "and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." it was a mistake- God didn't mean that "replenish" bit... he was just joking about that).

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A man that big has gotta love pork

Hastert Directs Millions to Birthplace

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Editorial: Memorial Day/Praise bravery, seek forgiveness

Nothing young Americans can do in life is more honorable than offering themselves for the defense of their nation. It requires great selflessness and sacrifice, and quite possibly the forfeiture of life itself. On Memorial Day 2005, we gather to remember all those who gave us that ultimate gift. Because they are so fresh in our minds, those who have died in Iraq make a special claim on our thoughts and our prayers.

In exchange for our uniformed young people's willingness to offer the gift of their lives, civilian Americans owe them something important: It is our duty to ensure that they never are called to make that sacrifice unless it is truly necessary for the security of the country. In the case of Iraq, the American public has failed them; we did not prevent the Bush administration from spending their blood in an unnecessary war based on contrived concerns about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. President Bush and those around him lied, and the rest of us let them. Harsh? Yes. True? Also yes.

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Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott!

Citgo is a U.S. refining and marketing firm that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company. Money you pay to Citgo goes primarily to Venezuela -- not Saudi Arabia or the Middle East. There are 14,000 Citgo gas stations in the US. (Click here http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp to find one near you.) By buying your gasoline at Citgo, you are contributing to the billions of dollars that Venezuela's democratic government is using to provide health care, literacy and education, and subsidized food for the majority of Venezuelans.

Or you could take a train. Trains are fun.

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Culture of life?

Ummm... not if there's money involved

Is this what Made in the USA means these days?

DeLay disputes charges of abuse in Saipan

“Incredible lies” was the way House Majority Leader Tom DeLay described charges that some foreign workers on Saipan labored in sweatshops in the 1990s while others were forced into sex slavery.

DeLay’s vehement denials come despite findings by two federal agencies and by congressmen from both parties that the charges were true.
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Despite using foreign workers and foreign cloth, the manufacturers could sew “Made in the USA” labels into the garments they made on Saipan. Meanwhile, mainland garment manufacturers complained that the lower-cost Saipan operations were driving them out of business.
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Despite an official limit of 11,000 foreign workers in the garment industry, Miller in 1998 estimated that the actual number was closer to 28,000. He placed the overall number of foreign workers in the territory at 42,000 — more than the permanent population.

“Sure, when you get this number of people, there are stories of sexual exploitation,” DeLay said. “But in interviewing these employees one-on-one, there was no evidence of any of that going on. No evidence of sweatshops as portrayed by the national media. It’s a beautiful island with beautiful people who are happy about what’s happening.”
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But the U.S. Justice Department did find proof of sex slavery.
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The case was one of 10 involuntary servitude cases the Justice Department brought in the Northern Marianas during a three-year period. They involved more than 150 victims, according to a Justice Department statement.

While the Justice Department found hard evidence that people were using Saipan’s immigration rules to make women sex slaves, DeLay never did.

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Would the world have been different if Rumsfeld could have been bothered to watch a film about the French?

From a review on Amazon of The Battle of Algiers

The situation subtly escalates--French police who sit peacefully drinking coffee in street cafes are murdered, and anti-Arab feelings mount. With a momentum of its own, the situation is blown beyond all control--terrorism is rampant--cafes, air terminals, and racetracks are all targets. Naturally, the French respond, but terrorism still increases, and French officials bump up against such bureaucratic necessities as search warrants and paperwork. Soon the French are behind sandbags and barbed wire, and the Muslim population of the Casbah are subject to checkpoints manned by French soldiers.

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Was the insurgency planned?

A hate for America that was greater then the loyalty to Saddam. There is no way to win a fair fight. So they didn’t even try. Are they fighting back now?

Soon after the invasion started articles started appearing that asked:

What Ever Happened to the Republican Guard?

The landscape south of Baghdad bears evidence of fighting that never happened. Along the sides of roads are thousands of recently constructed earthwork bunkers, trenches and sandbagged gun emplacements, all facing south. Inspection showed that almost none have spent shell casings, cartridges, scorch marks or any of the other normal detritus of war. If they did hold soldiers at any time, the men had left before any shots were fired by or at them. In some places there are still signs of hasty departures: along the roadsides, discarded uniforms and berets; in buildings, scattered maps, manuals and gas masks.

That many Republican Guard troops had simply given up became clear to U.S. forces even as they marched toward Baghdad. For instance, the day after the Marines passed through the outskirts of Kut with unexpectedly light fighting, despite the supposed presence of the Medina division, they started running into long lines of young men walking on the road. "There is no doubt these are the Republican Guard we didn't come up against yesterday. They all have military haircuts," Marine Lieut. Colonel Bryan McCoy told a TIME correspondent that day. After U.S. forces began arresting men wearing combat boots, deserters tended to sport bare feet or cheap new sandals.

The presence of Republican Guard survivors, of course, did not preclude the possibility that thousands of their comrades were lying dead elsewhere. But the accounts of locals do not suggest a high death toll among the Republican Guard. In many places, civilian fatality rates were higher. In the temporary cemetery that Dawrah residents had dug in a grove of palm trees, there are 34 graves, but only six to 10, locals say, are for soldiers. In Mahmudiyah, Daoud Jassim, the hospital deputy director, says 50 bodies were brought to the hospital from fighting on April 3, but more than half were civilians. In Hindiyah, Najah Mohamad, a fire-truck driver who also functions as the body washer at a local Shi'ite mosque, says the bodies of nine soldiers were brought to him on April 3. They were buried behind the mosque, but seven of the plots are now open because the men's families came to disinter the deceased and take them back to their hometowns.

U.S. commanders don't seem especially bothered by the notion that large numbers of Republican Guard have escaped alive. "Many of them may, in fact, go home and rejoin society without any issues," Army Major General Stanley McChrystal, vice director for operations on the Joint Staff, said last month. Brigadier General Brooks has acknowledged that some members of the Republican Guard may return as guerrillas to harass U.S. troops. "We don't think all that's going to just disappear," he said, "but there's no way to account for how many made the decision to just walk off the battlefield and never fight again."

Yeah sure some may harass us. But most are just going to sit back and watch TV for the rest of their lives.

When did the DOD become the DOWF(Department of Wishful Thinking)?

(yes this is about an 2003 article and the post below is about a 2002 article, and the post above is going to be about a 1967 movie - your point?)

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Criminal Negligence

In 2002 General Paul Van Riper demonstrated for Rumsfeld and our top military in no uncertain terms how the method we would later use to fight Iraq would fail.

Rumsfeld dealt with it by cheating and shouting out “do over.” Now he chides soldiers for wanting to be prepared and properly protected. He created the army they have, not the army we all want. His grand “vision” was proven a failure even before the war – but he refused to see reality. It’s all standard procedure for the Faith Based Administration.

In the summer of 2002 The Millennium Challenge 02 occurred.

War games rigged?

The Defense Department spent $250 million over the last two years to stage Millennium Challenge 02, a three-week, all-service exercise that concluded Aug. 15. The experiment involved 13,500 participants waging mock war in 17 simulation locations and nine live-force training sites.
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Gen. William “Buck” Kernan, head of Joint Forces Command, told Pentagon reporters July 18 that Millennium Challenge was nothing less than “the key to military transformation.”
Central to the success of the war game, Kernan said, was that the U.S. force (or Blue Force) would be fighting a determined and relatively unconstrained Opposing Force (otherwise known as the OPFOR or Red Force).

“This is free play,” he said. “The OPFOR has the ability to win here.”

Ahh… but Buck lied. The blue force had the strength, the technology, the manpower – and it would have lost – So the Blue force decided to cheat.

At the beginning of the war, the blue force disrupted the red force’s means of communication. “ahhha” they said as they twirled their mustaches “now the enemy will be forced to use cell phones and emails which we will be able to read. We will know everything they do… BWHAAHAAA!” Van Riper didn’t fall into their evil clutches though; he used a method of outrageous ingenuity known as “the bike courier.” He also used light signals ala any WWI or WWII movie that takes place at sea.

And then came the master stroke:

Oakley said. Then, when the Blue fleet sailed into the Persian Gulf early in the experiment, Van Riper’s forces surrounded the ships with small boats and planes sailing and flying in apparently innocuous circles.

When the Blue commander issued an ultimatum to Red to surrender or face destruction, Van Riper took the initiative, issuing attack orders via the morning call to prayer broadcast from the minarets of his country’s mosques. His force’s small boats and aircraft sped into action.

“By that time there wasn’t enough time left to intercept them,” Oakley said. As a result of Van Riper’s cunning, much of the Blue navy ended up at the bottom of the ocean. The Joint Forces Command officials had to stop the exercise and “refloat” the fleet in order to continue, Oakley said.

Now the supposed point of this “game” was

to test a handful of key war-fighting concepts that Joint Forces Command had developed over the last several years.

But it wasn’t treated as a test – it was an insanely expensive PR stunt. Because you see all of the Joint Forces Command concepts were proven correct – The Blue team won. Of course if you actually look at how they won you’d realize this wasn’t a very good PR stunt.

“Instead of a free-play, two-sided game as the Joint Forces commander advertised it was going to be, it simply became a scripted exercise. They had a predetermined end, and they scripted the exercise to that end.”

Van Riper, who retired in 1997 as head of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, is a frequent player in military war games and is regarded as a Red team specialist. He said the constraints placed on the Opposing Force in Millennium Challenge were the most restrictive he has ever experienced in an ostensibly free-play experiment.

Exercise officials denied him the opportunity to use his own tactics and ideas against Blue, and on several occasions directed the Opposing Force not to use certain weapons systems against Blue. It even ordered him to reveal the location of Red units, he said “We were directed … to move air defenses so that the Army and Marine units could successfully land,” he said. “We were simply directed to turn [the air-defense systems] off or move them. … So it was scripted to be whatever the control group wanted it to be.”

So Van Ripin quit in disgust.

And we were surprised by what happened in Iraq?

Stupidity isn’t a crime, but willful stupidity?

(my understanding is that Rumsfeld has had soldiers running all over Iraq asking whose in charge of the red forces so they can ask for a "do over.")

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