The CYA Wants In On Afghanistan

The problem, though, is that the CYA - aka CIA - has no competence to have any responsibility there.

Media Hopes It Has New Pentagon Papers

First we need to repost this July 26 piece:

WikiLeaks is a sign that publishes purloined documents, and it has found some 77,000 pages of documents on the Afghanistan war, with another 15,000 on the way. WikiLeaks released the documents to three media outlets who want to press a case for US withdrawal, even though the documents themselves don't make that case; instead they illustrate what the US is actually doing, and what the enemy is doing.

The piece cited above notes that the release is a Rorschach test, and WikiLeaks leaked them to media outlets they felt would use them to press the case for withdrawal. The problem is the documents don't make that case.

Of course it's been done before - in 1971 the Institute for Policy Studies obtained "the Pentagon Papers," a voluminous cache of documents on US planning and debate before and during the Vietnam War. The New York Times printed excerpts of the papers to make the case for US withdrawal - except it had to all but falsify what the papers actually said to make that case.

It caused a firestorm at the time and was a turning point in the dishonesty of the Mainstream Media. The MSM may hope it achieves success here, but with the way the media landscape has changed there is more reason to hope rationality wins out.


UPDATE: Julian Assage, the creep in charge of WikiLeaks, defended himself on the Today show, this after he leaked the infamous Apache gunship footage trying to prove nonexistent "collateral murder." But as shown here he's guilty of what he slandered the Army for, and as a Wired link in the story shows, some of what Assange leaked isn't true.

UPDATE #2: A look at what the Times didn't do with regard to how WikiLeaks was handling the documents.

The Incredible Shrinking Man On The Way Up

He grows smaller the longer he speaks.

Two Crooks Dishing

First is this repost from June 28:

Chris Dodd and Barney Frank are crooks. Being elected officials they get the ultimate area where they can swipe money and spend it. They've thus authored a financial "reform" bill that's about spending money and forcing someone else to pay for it. But they may have sealed their bill's doom.

UPDATE: The Dodd-Frank monstrosity passed, but got somewhat neutered, and the caving of a few weak Republicans helped a bill that otherwise was doomed.

Do Nothing Is A Policy That Works

It shows in housing.

Doctor Obama, Economic Quack

Interesting comparison of The Man On The Way Up's sham "stimulus" with atrocious care for George Washington at the end of his life.

Dirty Little Car Secrets

Electric cars failed in the first quarter of the 20th century.

Obama's Ego And Cashing The Reality Check

The reality check that Obama's ego has been writing is being cashed thanks to running out of ammo and ramming through twin legislative boondoggles of health care and financial "reform" that (particularly in the case of The Two Crooks Dishing "Reform" Law) don't stand a chance in the real world.

Democrats Beginning Real Change?

An interesting piece is presented indicating Democrats may now be getting it about the insanity of entitlements.

CNN Fires Terrorist Sympathizer

Give CNN credit for firing its MidEast editor for supporting a terrorist.