The Enemy

They called it 'Cyber Storm,' and it was a war-game exercise run last week by the Department of Homeland Security. The war game had nothing to do with testing the security of our shipping ports, borders, infrastructure or airports. 'Cyber Storm' was testing the government's ability to withstand an onslaught of information and protest from bloggers and online activists.

"Participants confirmed," wrote the Associated Press, that "parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose 'Web logs' include political rantings and musings about current events."

Say what? Online expressions of political opinion are so dangerous that the Department of Homeland Security must war-game scenarios to deal with them? Bloggers are potential terrorists now? Bloggers are the enemy? Last week, as far as DHS was concerned, they were.

We hear a great deal about enemies these days. Don't criticize the war, or you'll embolden the enemy. The enemy is clever and cruel. Stick with the White House and we'll defeat the enemy. Since the Bush administration no longer likes to mention the name Osama bin "Stayin' Alive" Laden in public, lest everyone remember a dramatic promise long broken, any specific definition of an enemy changes with the moment.

Sometimes, the enemy is in Iraq, and we fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here. Sometimes, the enemy is in Iran, allegedly toiling with all its collective might to manufacture nuclear weapons. Sometimes, the enemy is in Palestine, where Hamas used George W. Bush's exported democracy to take over the government. Sometimes, the enemy is an American face on a television offering criticism of the White House. Last week, the enemy was a blogger making a political expression.

The enemy is never in Saudi Arabia, though that nation is the very birthing bed of international terrorism. The enemy is never in Israel, though that nations far-right leadership has been a good deal of the impetus behind the Bush administration's calamitous push into Iraq. The enemy is never in China, even when they smack our planes out of the sky, because they own a substantial portion of our debt. The enemy is never in Pakistan, though that nation's fundamentalist wing allies itself with the Taliban, and though they actually do possess nuclear weapons. The enemy is occasionally mentioned as being in North Korea, but not often, because we want no part of that fight.

For a time, the enemy was in the United Arab Emirates. Two of the hijackers of the September 11 aircraft were citizens of the United Arab Emirates, and the funding behind those attacks was wired through the UAE's banking system. Republican and Democratic Senators believe the UAE has been used as a conduit for the proliferation of nuclear technology.

That was then, however. A company named Dubai Ports World intends to spend $6.8 billion to gain control of the management of shipping ports in New York and New Jersey, as well as in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Orleans and Miami. Dubai Ports World is foreign-owned, but is backed financially by the government of the United Arab Emirates. In other words, a nation suspected of being a significant player in the September 11 attacks is being allowed to take control of our borders. For the record, U.S. ports handle an estimated two billion tons of cargo annually, with only 5% of that cargo undergoing inspection. The deal has already been granted regulatory clearance by the White House.

We hear a great deal about enemies, both real and contrived. Let us ponder, for a moment, the existence of another enemy so insidious that it operates fully in daylight but beyond control. This enemy seeks to destroy the rule of constitutional law in the United States. This enemy seeks to destroy the seedcorn defense against tyranny in this nation, the separation of powers. This enemy gathers more and more power to itself to achieve these goals, and uses fear and division to do so. This enemy will lie with impunity, stonewall endlessly and ruin anyone who might disrupt its plans.

This enemy stood by and did nothing while a major American city was devoured by the ocean. When New Orleans was drowned, many voices were raised in panicked unison that the White House must do something, and do something now. A conference call was held between key members of the Department of Homeland Security and other administration officials on August 29th, the day the catastrophe began for real. Investigators are seeking the transcript of this call, but administration officials claim the transcript has somehow disappeared. There are many transcripts of calls before and after this one, but the five-hour call on August 29th, the specific call investigators want to see, simply cannot be found.

This enemy deliberately reached out and destroyed the career of a deep-cover CIA agent named Valerie Plame, because her husband dared to criticize the White House about its "uranium from Niger" lie regarding Iraq. Plame, among other things, worked clandestinely to track any person, group or nation that would give weapons of mass destruction to terrorists; in other words, Plame worked to track the individuals this White House never fails to label as the enemy. Her work was derailed and her network destroyed because this White House did not want any discussion of the fact that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq, despite miles of claims that the stuff was there.

Truthout correspondent Jason Leopold reported this week that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is refusing to turn over incriminating emails to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, emails that allegedly indicate the involvement of Vice President Dick Cheney and other high-ranking administration officials in the unmasking of Agent Plame. "The emails Gonzales is said to be withholding contained references to Valerie Plame Wilson's identity and CIA status and developments related to the inability to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," reported Leopold. "Moreover, according to sources, the emails contained suggestions by the officials on how the White House should respond to what it believed were increasingly destructive comments (Plame's husband) Joseph Wilson had been making about the administration's pre-war Iraq intelligence."

I. Lewis Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, was recently indicted by Fitzgerald for lying under oath during the investigation into this matter. Recently, Libby stated that he was authorized by his superiors to expose the classified name of Valerie Plame. Given his position, Libby's main superior is none other than Cheney himself. Cheney recently claimed that he is authorized by an Executive Order to declassify any information he pleases. "I have certainly advocated declassification. I have participated in declassification decisions," said Cheney this week. "There's an executive order that specifies who has classification authority, and obviously it focuses first and foremost on the president, but also includes the vice president."

This is a new trend for the White House: rendering an illegal act legal retroactively by fiat. The trend manifested itself in another area of illegal activity by the White House, the warrantless wiretapping of thousands of American citizens by the National Security Agency, in defiance of the black-letter law contained within the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. For several weeks now, Congress has been threatening to hold hearings on the matter. Bush advisor Karl Rove worked feverishly behind the scenes to keep such hearings from taking place, and has succeeded. Rather than investigate the matter, Congress will instead rewrite the FISA law, thus rendering retroactively legal White House activities that blatantly broke the law.

We hear a great deal about enemies these days, and many of them are quite real and quite perilous. It is difficult to imagine a more perilous enemy, however, than the one operating out of Washington today. This enemy would set itself on high, beyond control or censure, and create of itself that permanent faction James Madison so earnestly warned us of. This enemy deletes or hides evidence of its calumny, or simply alters existing laws that would otherwise derail its plans. This enemy destroys lives out of hand, lives by the tens of thousands, and reaps a pretty profit in the process.

The difference between the enemies we hear about and the one in Washington is simple and deadly: only the enemy in Washington can annihilate the constitutional government we have enjoyed for more than two centuries. The idea that is America cannot be terminated by terrorists or rogue states. Were the nation entire to be somehow obliterated, the idea that is America would endure. Only its keepers can kill it completely. They are well on their way.

"As nightfall does not come at once," wrote Justice William O. Douglas, "neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become victims of the darkness."

We must deal with the enemy within the halls of our government, the enemy whose power to destroy far outstrips any enemy beyond our borders. In doing so, we save that which is unique in the world. In doing so, we deal a death blow to all other enemies. In doing so, we save ourselves from that darkness.

hate us for our freedoms.

:kick:

The terrorists hate us for our freedoms. So if we just give them all up, they'll stop hating us.

K & R

I think it's a good meme.

They are purposefully using the euphemism "warrantless wiretapping." (Likely even focus-grouped by Luntz.) And while "unwarranted" would be better, it doesn't solve the real semantic, subliminal, or cultural problems.

This is particularly true because the word "warrant" is not one people use frequently and therefore does not have much existing connotation to overcome, it can be easily manipulated by qualifying words and/or structure.

On the semantic level, the "(un)warrant(ed/less) wiretapping" is something that exists in and of itself. It distances the act from the actor; making it something that "just happens" somehow.

Using "without a warrant" personifies the act. There is now a person who didn't get a warrant. It also reinforces the actual meaning of warrant, which is permission. And "without permission" is always bad.

On the subliminal level, "warrantless" is non-threatening, even pleasant to the ear/mind. It sounds like "wireless," which people have been trained to respond to positively (in general). Certainly "unwarranted" is better, but it still dilutes the word to a somewhat euphemistic level.

With the phrase "without a warrant" just the word "without" itself is enough to cue a negative response -- it's bad to be "without." And the word "warrant," (in addition to the semantic benefit mentioned above) is a more blunt, abrasive sound on its own, undiluted -- better to illicit a negative reaction.

Now culturallly, countless TV cops have been in "big trouble" for doing things "without a warrant." Even though it often gets them the bad guy, that doesn't overcome the screaming from superiors and colleagues that viewers see, or the many situations in which bad guys go free because of this "technicality." But a TV cop rarely goes on a "warrantless" or "unwarranted" search.

In fact I've seen "similar" poll questions on the wiretapping published with quite different results when each phrase were used. (They might have saved Luntz the trouble of a focus group.)

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www.january6th.org

we had better work smart to get them out of power.

Fidel Castro - 2003
"I don't think that a fascist regime can be established in the United States. Serious mistakes have been made and injustices committed in the framework of its political system --many of them still persist-- but the American people still have a number of institutions and traditions, as well as educational, cultural and ethical values that would hardly allow that to happen. The risk exists in the international arena. The power and prerogatives of that country's president are so extensive, and the economic, technological and military power network in that nation is so pervasive that due to circumstances that fully escape the will of the American people, the world is coming under the rule of Nazi concepts and methods."

http://www.la-peaceandfreedom.org/F_Castro_050103.html

as a genuine threat.

So long as we are only a place for people to let off steam, yet remain too disorganized to pose a genuine threat to their capital interests, we can be summarily ignored.

but these bastards are insidious! Can't you just see them picking off our best DU activists off one by one in little bureaucratic ways? A ticket here, a foreclosure there, an audit here, an eminent domain case there...

just like this...
http://countthevote.org/targeted/targeted.htm

can't you see it? The point is to eliminate the threat before it becomes one....

but I wouldn't take up duck hunting as a hobby.

:-)

going to say about this.

Thanks Will!

PS did that guy on NPR yestereday keep calling you Bill??

Every American - TODAY - needs to read this and take it to heart. It is the best I've heard or seen about the whole shebang that's happening NOW - TODAY.
Salutes to Will! :patriot:

yesterday.

Thanks. One of your best ever.

With the loss of the mainstream media and the war on the internet, just another 'incident' away, the old forum of taking to the streets may finally wake up this virtually sleeping nation...

You pulled it together nicely. I will be forwarding it to some people I know who need to wake up. Keep fighting the good fight!

K & R.

seems like it ought to have been part of the "Cyber Storm" - how such a story goes around - because that story just seems nuts.

However, does the same standard apply to ExxonMobil when it calls global warming a theory based on "junk science"? Or Philip Morris when it denies the link between cigarette smoking and heart and respiratory disease? Or WalMart when it talks about how well it treats their employees? Or to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth when they lied about Senator Kerry's war record? Or, for that matter, to the Bush regime when it talks about the virtues of having invaded Iraq or says that there were perfectly good reasons to believe, albeit mistakenly, that Saddam possessed a large biochemical arsenal?

The above-named corporate and political misinformation is the product of millions spent in media capable of reaching a far greater audience than a small website on the internet. It is far greater misinformation that any ridiculous thing I've seen in an online post at DU and other similar sites, none of which are immune to members who make ridiculous statements.

A post at DU from a fanatic stating that Bush is a card-carrying Nazi will reach an audience of thousands at most, of which only a handfull will take it seriously and of those very few who weren't already foolish enough to believe it in the first place. The real enemies who can and do reach a much wider audience with information they know is false.

that the Enemy has infiltrated the "opposition party" and rendered it largely moot.

Note that the very nature of the infiltration prevents me from identifying the agents provocateurs without being vilified and ridiculed even by those that are not part of the infiltration.

The Enemy is highly effective at dividing us, and this is how they shall win.

...that everything you just said is true.

How bleak it looks.

(edit: speling)

Thanks Will, will pass this along.

--IMM

total US governmental control over the internet.

Looks like the plan is on track....

Fuckers!

Can you give details? A link? I haven't heard of this..

... pronounced PEE-nah-cons.

We've got to pesonify whenever we can.

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just how desperate and fragile their hold on power has become. It is all slipping away from them, and even that awful mass of deception we call the corporate media delivered a powerful warning for a few days, before it was quite consciously and suddenly turned off. They can turn on Bush-Cheney, and will do so again.

The perception that the Bush-Cheney regime is dangerous and criminal that used to be restricted to the fringe Left have now become almost mainstream. Most Americans with education and sense enough to pay attention to what's going on do NOT want to live in a One Party Totalitarian State. The War in Iraq has failed. The GOP Congress has failed to control spending. The President is not in control, and the Vice President acts like a feudal Lord. The illusions are being pulled from their eyes.

America is waking up. It just took some emblematic incident for it to happen.

This is not Germany. It is not 1932. This is America, Damn It, and nobody is going to take away our Constitution.:kick:

They don't hide their crimes against America any more, because their time is rapidly running out.

These serial abusers are figuring out they cannot "have" the object of their desire. So, they are trying to destroy it. This "it" is our America.

Is everybody ready to take our country back?

Future inmate #145689 reporting for internment, as ordered.

You are the enemy, and by your actions you demonstrate this.

"As nightfall does not come at once," "neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become victims of the darkness."Justice William O. Douglas

and thank you so much for eloquently stating what is happening to us and our country.

You are the BEST!

:loveya:

:applause: :applause:

:toast:

:patriot: I will Stand with you :patriot:

Sounds like a misinformation campaign by the administration.

While the facsists were focusing on controlling the media by relaxing FCC regulations, allowing companies to own newspapers, TV stations and radio stations in a single market, the bloggers emerged as the real truth-tellers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021706A.shtml

Thanks, everyone.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2466336

When they can track me with RFIDs and my credit card etc, and can't locate a 6' Arab on kidney dialysis in the AfganPakistan mountains, you have to ask yourself if they're even trying.

Not that radical Islam isn't insanity (when the oil runs out, then what, Muslim world ?) but our version of it, 'The Great Game' isn't much more rational. Time for Truth to win out, as you say WilliamPitt. Indeed, TruthOut !

Fitxgerald notes that in his grand jury testimony, Libby stated that his superiors okayed his telling journalists about a NIE. This is what Rove hinted to Matt Cooper "was going to be declassified in the coming days that would cast doubt on Wilson's mission and his findings," (Matt Cooper; "What I Told the Grand Jury"; Time; 7- 25-05; page 40). That is distinct from being authorized to reveal Plame's name and identity.

Thanks. It also explains why Libby gave the OK to Judy Miller to come out.

We need to be careful not to err on important details. Libhy was making reference to the NIE, not Plame's identity. More, Libby had three superiors: Bush, Cheney, and Card. It is very likely that he intended his testimony to identify Cheney, but it is not the only possibility.

Reading Fitzgerald's newest document, filed 2-16-06, is also useful. It puts to rest some of the speculation about sealed indictments that I have assured DUers is not true.

in The National Journal (Thursday, February 9,06):

"...In a Jan 23 letter, related to discoivery issues for Libby's upcoming trial, Fitzgerald wrote to Libby's attorneys: 'Mr. Libby testified in the grand jury that he had contact with reporters in which he disclosed the content of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) ...in the course of his interaction with reporters in June and July 2003 ... We also note that it is our understanding that Mr. Libby testified that he was authorized to disclose information about the NIE to the press by his superiors.'

"...In an account of her grand jury testimony, Miller has written that Libby discussed the NIE with her. 'Mr. Libby also cited a National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, produced by American intelligence agencies in October 2002 ... which he said had firmly concluded that Iraq was seeking uranium.' Portions of the NIE were later declassified, but the material in it related to Niger was still classified at the time."

The Waas article does make reference to Plame, but clearly not implying that Libby testified Cheney instructed him to disclose her identity:

"Libby testified that Cheney told him about Plame 'in an off sort of, curiosity sort of, fashion,' according to information recently unsealed in federal court. Not long after that date, Libby, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, and a third administration official began to tell reporters that Plame had worked at the CIA, and that she had been responsible for sending her husband to Niger.

"Finally, the new information indicates that Libby is likely to pursue a defense during his trial that he was broadly 'authorized' by Cheney and other 'superiors' tp defend the Bush administration in making the case to go to war. Libby does not, however, appear to be claiming that he was acting specifically on Cheney's behalf in disclosing information about Plame to the press."

it made me cry. they get away with everything, everything. what can be done to stop them?

:kick:

You are one of our most formidable weapons against the lying bastards!!!

The page with the article has a pdf file of the plan. Not being reported by the US corporate media, to my knowledge - perhaps one of you has seen something and can post it here.



pdf file for "Information Operations Roadmap" document:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/27_01_06_psyops.pdf

Earlier DU thread on this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2071702
thread title (1-28-06): 1-28-06 US plans to 'fight the net' revealed (Pentagon psyops on Americans!)
This older thread concentrated on the psyops part of the program, which is certainly awful enough, but we need to realize that our lifeline through the Bushie propaganda and to each other is threatened.

Bush and Rumsfeld consider "bloggers" terrorists because they often disagree with WH policy.:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x420629
thread title (2-14-06 GD): Bush Tags Bloggers As Terrorists
Comment/excerpt: “Homeland Security completed its‘Cyber Storm’ wargame to test how our government ‘would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers.’ Given that homeland security ran the ‘wargame,’ one may infer that the nature of the attacks by bloggers must be national security related. And, given that the major national security fear of our government is terrorists, then it looks like bloggers have made our government’s hit list of potential terrorists.”

I missed it and want to listen. I heart will so much...

governments to restrict access to the truth:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x399928
thread title (2-13-06 GD): NYT: "So Long, Dalai Lama" - Google demonstrates NEW WORLD CENSORSHIP
Comment/excerpt: Internet censorship has generally been visible in China. As Lie Xiaobo, a leader dissident writer is quoted in this important NYT story, "It was one thing when you hit on links that did not work. You could see what was blocked. The new Google hides the hand of the censor."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x443232
thread title (2-16-06 GD): VIDEO- Lantos SLAMS Search providers-compares compliance to Nazi germany
Comment/excerpt: A liveoaktx/Can-o-Fun VIDEO CLIP of a congressional hearing. Young lawyers from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft (and another) face old Lantos, who insists they answer the question of whether their companies have anything to be ashamed of in their actions in China and then also whether they have reached out to the families of the Chinese who have been affected. He reminds them that IBM “complied” with Hitler’s government.
There are links and excerpts of related articles on the Can-o-Fun page with the video link.

spying - for example, Google's new "service," Google Desktop, is a giant step in this dangerous direction:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2098053
thread title (2-9-06 LBN): Google Copies Your Hard Drive - Government Smiles in Anticipation
Comment/excerpt: “San Francisco - Google today announced a new "feature" of its Google Desktop software that greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy. If a consumer chooses to use it, the new "Search Across Computers" feature will store copies of the user's Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google's own servers, to enable searching from any one of the user's computers. … The privacy problem arises because the Electronic Communication Privacy Act of 1986, or ECPA, gives only limited privacy protection to emails and other files that are stored with online service providers.”

the internet in every way and make you pay for it too - and of course they are generally owned by Bush supporters:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2465369
thread title (2-16-06 GD-P): phone, cable lobbyists engaged in political campaign to weaken internet
Comment/excerpt: The Nation article by Jeff Chester, “The End of the Internet?” Excerpt: “To make this pay-to-play vision a reality, phone and cable lobbyists are now engaged in a political campaign to further weaken the nation's communications policy laws. They want the federal government to permit them to operate Internet and other digital communications services as private networks, free of policy safeguards or governmental oversight. Indeed, both the Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are considering proposals that will have far-reaching impact on the Internet's future. Ten years after passage of the ill-advised Telecommunications Act of 1996, telephone and cable companies are using the same political snake oil to convince compromised or clueless lawmakers to subvert the Internet into a turbo-charged digital retail machine.”
Of course, if they own and control it, then not only do we pay more, the content is no longer open but subject to censorship like Google’s operation in China. And of course most corporate media ownership is in the hands of Bush supporters.

has been taken over by parasites and devoured from the inside out. We have to get them out before there is nothing left but an empty shell.

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=5410

DHS Conducts First Full-Scale Cyber Security Exercise to Enhance Nation’s Cyber Preparedness

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Contact: 202-786-9899
February 10, 2006

Washington, DC -- U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the completion of Cyber Storm, the first full-scale government-led cyber security exercise to examine response, coordination, and recovery mechanisms to a simulated cyber-event within international, federal, state, and local governments, in conjunction with the private sector. In total, 115 public, private, and international agencies, organizations, and companies were involved in the planning and implementation of Cyber Storm.

“Cyber security is critical to protecting our nation's infrastructure because information systems connect so many aspects of our economy and society," said George W. Foresman, DHS Under Secretary for Preparedness. "Preparedness against a cyber attack requires partnership and coordination between all levels of government and the private sector. Cyber Storm provides an excellent opportunity to enhance our nation's cyber preparedness and better manage risk.”

Cyber Storm emphasizes the Administration’s commitment to cyber security and preparedness. The exercise simulated a sophisticated cyber attack through a series of scenarios directed against critical infrastructures. For example, one of the scenarios simulated a cyber incident where a utility company’s computer system is breached, causing numerous disruptions to the power grid. The intent of this scenario is to highlight the interconnectedness of cyber security with the physical infrastructure and to exercise coordination and communication between the public and private sectors. Each of the scenarios was developed with the assistance of industry experts and was executed in a closed and secure environment.

.....more

they may not believe in evolution but they most certainly endorse social darwinism. This same creative destruction will ultimately ruin the nation and our democracy, and allow entities like the Knights of Malta, their true allegiance, to bring about their New World Order.

Nailed it again, as usual, Mr. Pitt. The Republican Syndicate is the enemy.

Good work, thanks for all you do!

is equal to the power of the pen?

When I read "the enemy" at work right before leaving today, I re-read it to my husband tonight. This states it exactly.

Thanks for all you guys do at TO. I'll always support you.

Uh, HELLO! This is the T-Rex standing in the living room that no one is talking about. Excellent piece WilliamPitt!!!

communication: the internet.

It's vast and uncontrollable. Unless you have a switch to turn it off.

You know: for national security.


So yeah, I'm kicking.

Protruding nail gets hammered.

Heard it on NPR the other day from someone who's name escapes me, but is the author of a book recently released titled "Covering" I think; I remember he is a professor at Yale Law School.

Truly excellent piece. Thanks for sharing with us!

"deliberate misinformation campaign" business.

Excellent work, Will.

I don't know if this is the best thing you've ever written. But I think it's my favorite. Excellent job.

Within

:kick:

DemEx

Richard Dreyfuss's speech at the Nat'l Press Club.

Every American that loves this country should read and listen to both.

Here is the link to Richard Dreyfuss speech;

http://c-span.org/search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&ResultCount=10&BasicQueryText=richard+dreyfuss&image1.x=0&image1.y=0&image1=Submit">Here is Richard Dreyfuss

The hand writing is on the wall.

:applause:

every dem candidate should be asked their opinion of this post. We should support the candidates that help us to save ourselves from that darkness.

I bet most dlc type dems would oppose the premise of this post.

(by Govt', I mean the current admin & the bad apples in Congress & SCOTUS).

They are the public face, the hands on the levers, but they are not the brains.

...if you had added hyperlinks, into the article, then reference points would be there for the 'casual' and semi-casual observer of the news. I think much of the info here would make sense only to us "inside baseball" types.

I am working on "hot linking" your brilliant article to news releases.

Great article Will!
:applause: :woohoo:

Grandpa: "I stormed ashore on Tawawa."

Dad: "I ran an artillery battery at Plekiu."

Bush-Boy GS 15 Grandson: "I kept HuffingtonPost off line for two whole weeks."

Any bets Rummy will be handing out metals like candy?

:kick:

Thanks Will!

Not to much more to add...