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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-26-08 10:21 PM
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Why the Left screwed-up big-time with the Brennan for DCI nom.
Edited on Wed Nov-26-08 10:23 PM by formercia
If you had only let him get to the confirmation hearings before you started howling like a bunch of banshees and sharpening your pitchforks, we might have learned something about the torture and rendition activities.

So, now you will just have to wait and hope the truth will come out at a later date.

Some times, it's better to hold your tongues until the outrage has some facts to justify it.
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-26-08 10:26 PM
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1. Fart-blam! Thanks for your advice!
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-26-08 10:27 PM
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2. oh yeah the 'left' did it.
:rofl:
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-26-08 10:30 PM
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3. If he had gotten to the hearings he would have been confirmed.
You've got to knock the unacceptable ones out early.
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-26-08 10:36 PM
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4. I see the merit in your thinking.
He voluntarily puts himself under oath.

You do some hard core discovery, resulting not only in him not being confirmed, but also in the possibility of getting at the kind of information that's needed to eventually prove war crimes in the highest offices.
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 04:30 AM
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9. Correct.
Otherwise, he's just another retiree.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 04:36 AM
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11. Who in Congress was going to do that hard hitting discovery?
Maybe my granny. lol
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-26-08 11:06 PM
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5. What's "The Left?" I don't have cable and i always miss all the good new TV shows.
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-26-08 11:12 PM
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6. He's a hard-driving politico with an axe to grind -
Coming soon to FOX
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 12:12 AM
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8. Does he carry the axe kind of like McCain (The Rifleman) carried a rifle?
Good slo mo fight scenes?
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-26-08 11:53 PM
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7. All they have to do is hold some Congressional hearings and require
his testimony. President Bush won't be around to stop him.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 04:34 AM
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10. We have the information we need. They did it in plain sight
and they left a ton of paper, too.

Evidence is not the problem. The Hill is the problem. They won't move because they're all implicated.
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 09:06 AM
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13. Every bit of evidence, every bit of testimony is important
It has to be multiple sourced, double and triple referenced. These criminals are going to get the best legal eagles that money can buy. The case has to be iron-clad and bullet-proof.
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 11:30 AM
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16. agreed
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 08:32 AM
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12. It's not what you know.
It's what you can prove in court.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 11:27 AM
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14. That's true enough. And maybe I'm just being dense but, imho,
the Bush Justice Department will never depose him and neither will anyone in a confirmation hearing. The Democrats would never do that to Obama's nominee and the Republicans won't do that to BushCo. Who does that leave? I can't see how it would work in practice.
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 08:30 PM
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17. Believe in the improbable
The impossible takes just a little longer.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 11:29 AM
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15. Had Brennan resigned in protest to Bush's abuses, he would have been a hero
As it is, he is just another bureaucrat that went along to get along.
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