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Octafish

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14. Seeing how no one has gone to jail after lying America into an illegal and unnecessary war...

Reply to Dyedinthewoolliberal (Reply #12)

Thu May 16, 2013, 06:58 PM

May 2013

...and no one has gone to jail after looting the banks...or offshoring trillions to avoid paying taxes...or ripping off the homeowners...or letting New Orleans drown and rot...or torturing and raping innocent men, women and children...or providing accurate information about the ongoing nuclear disaster...it's difficult to say who's really in control or at fault. All three branches of government seem to be outside the purview of the American people.

I do know one thing for certain about the bureaucracy: The rich are getting richer. One big way they do that is war. And it's why, IMO, they hate leaks more than anything.

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The Government’s War on the Press [View all] Octafish May 2013 OP

Counterpunch, where truthy meets Alex Jones snooper2 May 2013 #1

Nice knee-jerk; shows what you know. CounterPunch publishes Coleen Rowley... Octafish May 2013 #3

"Alex Jones" is just the newest way of calling someone a "Commie." leveymg May 2013 #5

No, not really... snooper2 May 2013 #8

Libel is worse than lying. Libel is a lie that sticks around. Octafish May 2013 #20

Safety in numbers RobertEarl May 2013 #2

Same for you, RobertEarl. Interesting, indeed. Octafish May 2013 #4

This a great place RobertEarl May 2013 #6

As a sidelight, it's interesting to learn of the corruption of the fbi during the Free Speech Move- byeya May 2013 #7

''Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power'' Octafish May 2013 #9

"it's worse than you think and they are out to get you"...I learned a lot I didn't know byeya May 2013 #10

Not even U.S. SENATORs can talk about what the Federal Government is doing to the American people. Octafish May 2013 #11

Now suppose you use all that intelligence gained from universal spying for personal gain? Octafish May 2013 #16

Here's the unresolved question, for me, in all this. Dyedinthewoolliberal May 2013 #12

Here's my two centavos: Under J.Edgar Hoover the fbi gathered all sorts of information sometimes byeya May 2013 #13

Seeing how no one has gone to jail after lying America into an illegal and unnecessary war... Octafish May 2013 #14

The corrosive effect of the anonymous source upon investigative reporting... MinM May 2013 #15

The "investigative" journalism based on an anonymous source is important to the 1% byeya May 2013 #17

Agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Pitt. That is a separate issue, from my POV. Octafish May 2013 #18

I could have gone a little longer w/o hearing the name of Colin "What Me Lie" Powell's foul byeya May 2013 #22

Good point. MinM May 2013 #23

And I have to log in to give this a fifth recommend BelgianMadCow May 2013 #19

Thank you for noticing. Perhaps some DUers are worried about making the wrong association... Octafish May 2013 #21