Laura Rozen, reporter and blogger at War and Piece, reports that “Michael Ledeen takes a little swipe at me and others reporting on the Niger forgeries story here, after consulting with his Ouija board, …”
The title of LIEdeen’s article today? “The French Connection.” “Rocco Martino wasn’t working for the Italians at all. He had, in the past, but they’d ditched him, and in this little caper he was paid by French intelligence. …” And the Niger forgery story? “It’s a textbook case of The Big Lie(deen).” OPEN THREAD!
The title of LIEdeen’s article today?
That link seems to lead me to “nowhere”… Or “Erehwon” if you read to many diaries?
Operator error. It’s fixed now!
On the Rita’s Natalee Holloway Infotainment Hour, it was announced that the governor of Alabama will announce tomorrow a boycott of Aruba, to punish them for failing to find the missing blond teen.
Can Operation Aruban Freedom be far behind?
The island would make an excellent staging base for spreading democracy on Venezuela so they can have elections.
Before I was able to switch channels, I heard the Holloway financial backer say, “THIS IS GOING TO BE DEFCON THREE! I EAT WHAT I KILL!”
Jesus.
or something similar. He makes some very remarkable statements, and I do not doubt that his dietary habits are equally remarkable.
I assume he will be running for political office soon. He should be a shoo in.
I called Joe Biden’s office today and told them what I thought of his fillibuster comment. I ended by saying that I would not vote if Biden was the nominee.
I missed this — was he wimping out in a cave to the right (as per usual)?
something I am planning on doing soon. Guess how long the average cat sleeps a day? Look here (click on graphic) to find out. There is also this little nugget:
“Sleep was once considered unique to vertebrates, but in recent years scientists have found that invertebrates likes honeybees and crayfish sleep, as well. The most extensive work has been carried out on fruit flies. “They rest for 10 hours a night, and if you keep them awake longer, they need to sleep more,” said Dr. Giulio Tononi, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin.”
Wow, I know how those fruit flies feel.
And yet; rarely have so many died because of the actions of a single busy body.
This guy Ledeen (and his wife and daughter) have played invaluable roles on behalf of the neo-cons.
Here are some interesting links on Michael Ledeen;
http://rightweb.irc-online.org...
Look for the “The Neo-Conservative Connection with Dominionists and Machiavelli”
His wife is a piece of work too; she runs the Senate Republican Conference
And his daughter Simone! Well, read about her “fateful” trip to Iraq in WaPo
And now France is going to trick us into Syria as well.
“Eurasia is at war with Oceana, Eurasia has always been at war with Oceana!”
You decide:
Or is there a better explanation out there? Someone should do some digging and writing on this.
I barely have time for comments in the next couple of weeks… I will be reading and recommending, with the odd comment. Call it a working vacation. Well, not real work… Lots of tools and destruction and rebuilding around the house! lol
Sounds like the work of storm troopers
or to go even further back
Pinkerton men called in to be strike breakers.
Salon has an article on Maureen Dowd today which quotes several bloggers, including a “catnip”. I was just getting ready to post accolades to “our” catnip when I realized — bah — an imposter in Atlanta.
It’s SALON’S FAULT for sourcing the wrong catnip.
I have read just about everything over the past seveal months about the forgeries. And the story gets less clear every time I read something new.
I hate to admit it, but Ledeen’s bizarro story almost had me convinced. I mean, it does make sense, but then I remembered, this guy has a serious agenda here. Why would he write so openly about it?
One item that caught my attention in Ledeen’s article: I didn’t know Martino was peddling the forgeries to CBS, I thought CBS simply interviewed him for their story that never aired?
Also, the question as to timing and the scam being set up as far back to 1999. This has always intrigued me. The Clinton answer Ledeen provides is plausible because the alternative leads me down a road I am very uncomfortable with, that the neo-cons were complicit in 9/11 as well. (Maybe I watch too much “24”, or enjoyed the movie “Long Kiss Goodnight” a little too much, or read too much Robert Ludlum as a teenager).
Anyway, I just get more confused by the day on this story…
the Massey story by Stan Goff — another perspective to consider…