Un Done
It's striking how Junta scandals get 'resolved.' As in: they don't. The reality, especially under unitary Junta government, has been that things get big and then they go away. It will be fascinating to see how it all unravels in the coming months and years.
Because they finally found Mark Felt out - or he outed himself, or his kids cashed the nonagenarian in while he still had some market value. Mr. Felt - Deep Throat - was the big secret of Washington, until the Junta started churning out about a big secret a day.
But look and marvel at their record: they've said nothing. They've held their lies. Before you start to admire them, as they admire themselves, and 'stalwart,' remember two things: first, until now nobody has asked them the tough questions. And their fortitude is in aid of treason. Better to admire Osama for his sticktoitiveness in living in that cave all these years.
On the first point, the national media has been an utter disgrace. A self-professed clown of late night television is, by every measure that has meaning, the top national journalist working today. Jon Stewart is the nightly news.
But we all knew that. Just like we all knew that the Do Nothing Congress was part of the problem as well. They never asked a single tough question. That is, except for Arlen Spectre. Arlen has been our consistently best doormat. Spectre has stood up for common decency and justice for his entire career.
And then sat right back down again.
He said he'd get to the bottom of things he never got to the top of. He said the abrogation of habeas corpus took us beck to Runny Mead. And then voted for it.
We don't know why we're fighting Iraq - and may never know. The Abu Ghraib scandal was plauyed off as a bunch of grunts blowing off steam - and dropped.
What was the warrantless wiretapping thing? Don't know. How about that there CIA 'Black Prison System?' Couldn't tell you. Where'd all that money get to? Dunno.
Even the Congress is in the act now. New Senator Jim Webb keeps writing Sec o'State Condo asking whether the Junta thinks they can attack Iran without Congressional approval. Still waiting. Months.
AG Gonzo lied and then, when caught, issued "corrections." Corrections? Do the rest of us get to make "corrections" when we get caught in a lie?
It used to be that a 'scandal' would blow up and the bad guys would at least offer a 'gosh, sorry' and that would be that. Now, something happens and nobody says anything. The political purge of the Federal Prosecutors? Whatever.
And the media, shark-like, continues to move forward. They never revisit these criminal excesses. And the criminal excesses just keep on coming.
But hopefully that will change. The vigorous investigations following the Walker Reed Hospital reports (note: after the reporters) are a good sign. They just need to go further and deeper.
And six years back.
Because they finally found Mark Felt out - or he outed himself, or his kids cashed the nonagenarian in while he still had some market value. Mr. Felt - Deep Throat - was the big secret of Washington, until the Junta started churning out about a big secret a day.
But look and marvel at their record: they've said nothing. They've held their lies. Before you start to admire them, as they admire themselves, and 'stalwart,' remember two things: first, until now nobody has asked them the tough questions. And their fortitude is in aid of treason. Better to admire Osama for his sticktoitiveness in living in that cave all these years.
On the first point, the national media has been an utter disgrace. A self-professed clown of late night television is, by every measure that has meaning, the top national journalist working today. Jon Stewart is the nightly news.
But we all knew that. Just like we all knew that the Do Nothing Congress was part of the problem as well. They never asked a single tough question. That is, except for Arlen Spectre. Arlen has been our consistently best doormat. Spectre has stood up for common decency and justice for his entire career.
And then sat right back down again.
He said he'd get to the bottom of things he never got to the top of. He said the abrogation of habeas corpus took us beck to Runny Mead. And then voted for it.
We don't know why we're fighting Iraq - and may never know. The Abu Ghraib scandal was plauyed off as a bunch of grunts blowing off steam - and dropped.
What was the warrantless wiretapping thing? Don't know. How about that there CIA 'Black Prison System?' Couldn't tell you. Where'd all that money get to? Dunno.
Even the Congress is in the act now. New Senator Jim Webb keeps writing Sec o'State Condo asking whether the Junta thinks they can attack Iran without Congressional approval. Still waiting. Months.
AG Gonzo lied and then, when caught, issued "corrections." Corrections? Do the rest of us get to make "corrections" when we get caught in a lie?
It used to be that a 'scandal' would blow up and the bad guys would at least offer a 'gosh, sorry' and that would be that. Now, something happens and nobody says anything. The political purge of the Federal Prosecutors? Whatever.
And the media, shark-like, continues to move forward. They never revisit these criminal excesses. And the criminal excesses just keep on coming.
But hopefully that will change. The vigorous investigations following the Walker Reed Hospital reports (note: after the reporters) are a good sign. They just need to go further and deeper.
And six years back.
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