http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/16/AR2010071604081_pf.html
Don't we have many of the same elements in this story? A blatantly politically Eric Holder shutting down a case just as it was going to default judgement (albeit civilly), meetings between the number 3 in the Justice Department (Thomas Perreli)at the White House with Dep. Council Cassandra Butts that coincide with the order given by Perrelli for DOJ to drop the case. The accusation is that the DOJ-under pressure from the White House- is playing racial politics when it comes to civil rights enforcement. And that is a story that the Washington Post now claims they didn't have enough staffing to cover.
So where does one go to get ALL the news? Pick up a copy of the Washington Post?
This is one reason (of many) the newspapers are going broke; the public has finally realized the mainstream media can't tell the difference between facts and opinions. They are printing what they want to print and ignoring what goes against their agenda. That is a silent form of slanting the news. Instead of sending out their best investigative journalists to find an inside source who will meet with them in DC apartment garages at 4 am and give them the real facts a'la Woodward and Bernstein, the Post would rather do what everybody else does-go after that "racist Tea Party".
This sordid story will be a test case for the willingness of the media to investigate and cover it, as well as Congress to fully investigate it. So far, they are failing the test.
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YAWN.
The reason nobody is paying attention to this story is that there is no story.
YAWN.
Go back to sleep, Siarlys.
I was wide awake until you tried to run this number AGAIN. I woke up immediately once I turned my attention to serious topics of discussion.
Seriously Gary, why do you pour so much effort into a story nobody cares about, in a community 3000 miles from where you live, after people who live there have testified to what a laughingstock these "New BP" chumps are? Why do you waste your time on this?
Cause I'm a Cubs fan and tilt at windmills.
I don't think you understand, Siarlys: the NBP "story" is sooooo much more important than the "Top Secret America" story the Washington Post broke today after two years of investigation, for example. Come on man, black people are SCARY!
Cause I'm a Cubs fan and tilt at windmills.
A literary reference? How elitist!
Anonymous,
So what is the Top Secret America story, anyway.
I assume you are being sarcastic. Otherwise, I would have rejected the comment.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/
The first part can be read here.
Subsequent parts will be coming this week.
Thank you, Anonymous. While I have not completely read it and while Dana Milbank has a liberal agenda, I don't doubt the thesis which appears to be that too many cooks are stirring the pot. Being a veteran of 25 years in the govt. (DEA) which you could classify as part of the intelligence community, it is hardly surprising. I could tell you some horror stories, but then again.... I can't.
Frankly, I don't understand the story either. Is it that the government over-reacted after 9/11? Or that it was secret or that nobody knows (at least WaPo doesn't) how much it all costs. Are there some civil liberties that are being compromised or what? Too much defense?
Personally, I usually defer to the judgment of the people who were under the gun at the time. It is nice to say now that we shouldn't have dropped the A bomb or interred the Japanese but when lives are at stake in a war, things are different.
On the other hand, I understand voter intimidation when I see it. There is something very, very, wrong with a Justice Dept that doesn't pursue a default judgment in the case. This is especially true if it was because the defendants were black and that is the policy at the DOJ. Is this what a "post racial" presidency means? In my view, race relations are getting worse since the election, not better.
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