NBC Sees Scandal in 'Abusive' Interrogations; MSNBC: 'More Lies'

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NBC Sees Scandal in 'Abusive' Interrogations; MSNBC: 'More Lies'

Presuming Bush administration dissembling and illegality, NBC anchor Brian Williams considered it "big" news Thursday night that the administration "secretly authorized abusive interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects, including torture, despite denial from everyone from President Bush on down. And the policy remains even though the Supreme Court ruled against it." Picking up on the front page New York Times disclosure of the classified documents, which neither ABC nor CBS considered newsworthy, NBC ran a slanted story that, other than one short soundbite from White House Press Secretary Dana Perino about how "they were safe, necessary and lawful, these techniques, and have helped save American lives," aired only condemnatory comments as Andrea Mitchell assumed the methods are torture. She reminded viewers that "after a political firestorm, devastating pictures from Abu Ghraib and a Supreme Court ruling," last year the President promised the U.S. "does not torture" and yet the Justice Dept. under Alberto Gonzales issued memos "authorizing much harsher techniques, including head-slapping, waterboarding, frigid temperatures..." With "More Lies?" displayed on screen under a photo of Bush, MSNBC's Live with Dan Abrams began by re-playing Mitchell's report.

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Libs should get their facts straight with talk radio host Limbaugh

From my friends at Orbusmax: 

ORBUSMAX: NORTHWEST-BASED MEDIA AND PROGRESSIVE BLOGGERS, ALONG WITH NANCY PELOSI, NEED TO GET THEIR FACTS STRAIGHT BEFORE SHOOTING OFF THEIR FAT MOUTHS IN ORDER TO SCORE CHEAP POLITICAL POINTS... QUIT ACTING LIKE TEENAGERS RUNNING A WEBSITE FROM MOMMY'S BASEMENT...

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UPDATE: LIMBAUGH RESPONDS:

• TRANSCRIPT...
• VIDEO...

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THE REST OF THE STORY: WHAT LIMBAUGH ACTUALLY SAID ABOUT "PHONY SOLDIERS"

• SUMMARY FROM RWN - COMMENTS REFERRED TO JESSIE MCBETH, MICAH WRIGHT...
• WEEKLY STANDARD: "Attackers ought to render comments honestly and own up to their own embarrassing record..."
• CQ: "Phony Outrage..."

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Libby found guilty

I am too upset to write a long piece. Here is the AP's spin on it. Libby's lawyer is asking for a new trial. If that fails, he will ask for an appeal.

Here are some articles you can read: American Thinker, Michelle Malkin, Bloomberg's Libby, Ex-Cheney Aide, Convicted in CIA Leak Case (Update2) and Fox News' I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby Guilty on Four of Five Counts in CIA Leak Trial.

Update: Dagney has written an article more in the way I am feeling today, the next day. I am still appalled at this injustice, and she nails it with her title: The InJustice Department Strikes Again.

Update II: Victoria Toensing has written an article from a legal point of view and more information as to the conduct of the Special Counsel Attorney and Judge. Amazingly breathtaking. That's how discumbobulated this sham has turn out to be.