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In reply to the discussion: Obama vs Hersh [View all]questionseverything
(9,645 posts)53. due process is still the law of the land
i wonder if this whole charade wasn't to make sure WE THE PEOPLE never know exactly how 9-11 happened
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I agree with you on so many things but here? Governments are in the business of lying...
Luminous Animal
May 2015
#5
We do ourselves a great disservice when we excuse yellow journalism of any stripe.
OilemFirchen
May 2015
#18
Everytime I see violence empoyed in the world, I know you are happy. And here you are goading me
Bluenorthwest
May 2015
#33
Well all that would be more than acceptable, if we were talking about yellow journalism.
sabrina 1
May 2015
#34
I refrained from asking YOU not to lecture US about journalism. But back atcha .. and when you do
sabrina 1
May 2015
#37
"Does Hersh think journalists should use this level of sourcing to, say, start a stupid war?.."
Cha
May 2015
#70
I guess I'm old fashioned, or maybe a creature of a future where the human race has
sabrina 1
May 2015
#12
"Due process" is now almost as quaint and obsoete as those Geneva Conentions. We need to
KingCharlemagne
May 2015
#16
The reason why forums like this are not NOW fertile ground to discuss Bin Laden
sabrina 1
May 2015
#46
I've read a little about OBL back when he was a topic of conversation. It's true that it's almost
sabrina 1
May 2015
#50
Well, the closest comparison to Bin Laden I can make, would be Lord Edward Fitzgerald, from a
sabrina 1
May 2015
#61
It makes sense to accept that people and events are as they are. We can't really do otherwise.
sabrina 1
May 2015
#77
Well, I'm sure people said that about Nixon and many other leaders too. If it were all
sabrina 1
May 2015
#26
I personally would have preferred to see Bin laden taken alive, tried, sentenced and imprisoned...
Spider Jerusalem
May 2015
#17
'If these claims were made about the Bush administration, we would elevate Hersh
sabrina 1
May 2015
#27
I sure as shite don't trust Sy Hersh.. I trust President Obama over that conspiracy theorist with
Cha
May 2015
#71
beyond assassination (apparently of someone unarmed and surrendering, and now perhaps a
MisterP
May 2015
#47
And just now the CIA has to remind us that Al-Qaeda could bring down a US flight tomorrow
jakeXT
May 2015
#59