PUBLIC NUISANCES: Mendacious Indignados/You've Got a Friend
Tyrrell, R.Emmett Jr.
R . E m m e t t T y r r e l l , J r . P U b L I c n U I s a n c e s offered was critical to protecting America and pursuing terrorists. At the time, we had every reason to anticipate more...
...Congressman Henry Hyde wrote a memorable piece wherein he questioned whether Congress was even capable of intelligence oversight once a national security matter had become subject to partisan bickering...
...You’ve Got a friend WASHINGTON R friendship our and s pendent ’ C s o B column lack, on about the our cca mutual ion of friend, onrad Conrad s senagainst him...
...the mountains of charges originally filed against To return to the Buckley column, Conrad has him...
...treak Eventually we renewed he forgave me for my inde . H g i d e c o r p e h t t u o h g u o r h t d e t a t s n o m e n e e b ecently my friend bill bucKley wrote a rude indom d itable ch r aracter and cheerful resilien e ce h n ave e s - tencing on three counts of mail fraud and one of may be indomitable and resilient, but he is not narobstruction of justice, a mere speed bump after rowly stubborn...
...My rule of friendship is a variation of old Earl’s maxim...
...Actually, I have understated the misbehavior of the mendacious members of Congress...
...Never was he unethical, but in the end I did not like the deal and I rejected it...
...As it is, committee hearings will take place and CIA operatives will be embarrassed and perhaps indicted...
...He is the rare media mogul who is pro-American, pro-Western, and pro-Israel...
...I ask you, which is more reprehensible, destroying those tapes or lying to the American people about one’s knowledge of the “harsh” interrogations...
...Hyde passed away in late November, but wherever he is today the Hon...
...Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the planner of the 9/11 attacks, would be seen waterboarding like mad, his baseball hat turned backwards, his eyes alight with excitement...
...Unfortunately, in the Democrats’ campaign to turn this war into a partisan political issue, the interrogation of some of the most vicious brutes ever to be captured by American forces has become “controversial...
...During the Reagan administration we witnessed a similar display of congressional cowardice and opportunism...
...I don’t need you in good times...
...The congressional indignados’ residual complaint is that the CIA destroyed the tapes of their 2002 waterboarding festival...
...Casey responded by reminding them that he had briefed committee chairmen three times in early 1984...
...There Mr...
...Abu Zubaydah can be seen having an equally exciting time, possibly gurgling a bit, but riding his waterboard to the limit...
...If a friend of Conrad disagrees with this, he should be gentleman enough to remain silent...
...Friends should stand by been a major figure in the recrudescence of conserhim either in polite silence or they can join me in vatism throughout the Western world that Bill and public encouragement...
...Conrad was our friend in good times and it is his friends’ obligation to be his friend during the cruel winds of bad times...
...We should stick by our own—certainly prosecutorial zealotry by those who think that in when they are innocent or even when their case is building a great newspaper chain he saved some of in doubt...
...That is about the way I see it, and Bill’s column was ill-timed...
...Standing of view into the dull drone of our liberal- polluted by a friend under fire is the obligation of friendship...
...Conrad is appealing...
...asseverated that “the case should never have been I have considered Conrad’s four convictions and prosecuted...
...Does the above paragraph strike you as absurd...
...One of the terrorists introduced to the delights of waterboarding, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, actually planned 9/11...
...It now turns out that back then the Hon...
...In an extended negotiation with me he was tough and wily...
...At the time, we had every reason to anticipate more attacks...
...I need you when I’m wrong,” the late Louisiana politician Earl Long allegedly said to a legislator when seeking his vote for a dubious tax measure...
...The phone never rings,” is how a former high official from the Reagan administration described his life immediately after being f e b R U a R Y 2 0 0 8 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R 8 7...
...And on the sidelines can be seen the dusky chaps’ new best friends from the Langley Aquatics & Waterboarding Club (LAWC), applauding and urging the chaps on...
...He cleared his name, but the abandonment he suffered has been on my mind through Conrad’s long years of scandalous news stories and expensive prosecutions...
...R . E m m e t t T y r r e l l , J r . P U b L I c n U I s a n c e s offered was critical to protecting America and pursuing terrorists...
...Not everyone in Congress joined in the melodrama against our own security personnel in 1984...
...His I agree with his appeal...
...Michael Barone, one of the wisest Standing by a friend who shares your values is a political observers in the country and a lawyer, has defense of those values...
...falsely accused of some vague malfeasance now long lost down memory’s well...
...My friend from the Reagan years was innocent, but he was also a vigorous combatant...
...Some committee members called for CIA Mendacious Indignados WASHINGTON Ican understand why bacK in 2005 the CIA destroyed tapes showing its agents “waterboarding” with notorious terrorists...
...If he had done something wrong it would be for the most part a disagreement over bookkeeping, not the kind of thing that should yank a man of his immense gifts from society and deposit him for years in prison...
...I need you in bad times...
...He is immensely civilized, reads and writes intelligent books, and has a sardonic wit...
...I don’t need you when I’m right...
...They are not only deceiving us about their knowledge, they are threatening CIA agents for interrogations that former CIA Director Porter Goss says had their “approval and encouragement...
...They insisted that the CIA actions had taken place without the knowledge of congressional intelligence committees...
...Afterwards we were perturbed with each other for a while, but my anger fizzled out...
...Were it not for the Washington Post news story Sunday (headlined, “Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002”) revealing that they were, the histrionics on Capitol Hill would continue...
...That characterized as an example of “corporate kleptoc- is all the more reason that Bill should have stuck racy” by those who insist Conrad is a scoundrel or by Conrad...
...My friendship with Conrad goes back two decades, though it has not been an easy friendship...
...Nancy Pelosi, Squeaker of the House of Representatives, affect outrage over the “harsh” interrogation measures used in 2002 against several terrorists, two of whom are manifestly evil anti-Americans...
...There will be plenty of others to attack the finest newspapers in the English-speaking world them, some from political animus, some from ignoand introduced a sophisticated conservative point rance, some from self-righteous egotism...
...Kultursmog...
...There the Rev...
...The case has been variously a handful of others began some 50 years ago...
...And it is in bad times that many, particularly in the political class, take a powder...
...How long it took him to confess to that and to other barbarisms I do not know, but former CIA interrogator John Kiriakou has told ABC that after weeks of uncooperative silence the other identified terrorist, Zubaydah, an al Qaeda kingpin, broke 35 seconds into his waterboarding session...
...Eventually the CIA revealed 11 congressional briefings had taken place...
...Friends stand by their friends in their time of trial...
...This is not the first time members of Congress have abandoned the CIA when its actions became controversial...
...In 1984, after it was reported that the CIA had mined harbors in Communist-controlled Nicaragua, leading figures on the congressional intelligence committees played the role of the congressional indignado...
...He is the victim of prosecutorial excess...
...Well, it is no more absurd than the indignation vented in early December by assorted eminences in Congress...
...The congressional indignados, led by the Hon...
...He has not intentionally done anything wrong...
...That no further 9/11s have taken place in six years speaks well for the efficacy of waterboarding...
...Pelosi has answered his question...
...Pelosi and other key members of Congress were fully informed of these interrogation measures, which they approved and with good reason...
...From that day on, he answered every question,” reports Kiriakou, who adds that the information 8 6 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R f e b R U a R Y 2 0 0 8 R . e M M e T T T Y R R e L L , J R . Director William Casey’s head...
...The others have yet to be identified...
...My guess is that the tapes would reveal them all having a lot of fun...
...He is said to be a tough business bargainer and I can tell you he is...
...Hence Squeaker Pelosi and other members of Congress have apparently completely forgotten that they were briefed on the 2002 interrogations...
Vol. 41 • February 2008 • No. 1
