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WSJ angry at Hayden.

By Faiz Shakir on Jun 13th, 2006 at 4:31 pm

WSJ angry at Hayden.

Ever since CIA Director Michael Hayden testified that he “wasn’t comfortable” with Doug Feith’s secret Pentagon intel operation that tried to link Saddam and al Qaeda, both Feith and Sen. Jon Kyl have been trying to get him to change his opinion. But they’ve failed, and now the WSJ is upset that Hayden is feeding the “Bush lied myth.”



24 Responses to “WSJ angry at Hayden.”

  1. krazny says:

    I can’t get too excited over Hayden, because he supports the illegal warrantless wiretaps.


  2. Jay Randal says:

    Hayden is a Bush stooge, so who cares what the fool does or says now!


  3. Shep says:

    There is no honor among thieves.


  4. redneck hick says:

    Hey, far be it from me to accuse a politician of lying, or to imply that the President is a politician. Perish the thought!


  5. Ken Daves says:

    Bush feeds the bush lied “myth”.

    Facts feed the bush lied “myth”.

    In fact, it’s not a myth at all.


  6. redneck hick says:

    How naive are they at the WSJ?

    WSJ: Our politicians don’t lie!


  7. Ken Daves says:

    The media will ensure that nothing ever comes of any revelations against bush.

    I mean, imagine if he got caught lying about, I don’t know, let me imagine a scenario…

    Okay, say our soldiers went on a rampage and killed 24 civilians. Our media would probably say it happened in a road side bomb.

    Wait, that did happen.

    Okay, let’s say that something simple happened, some clear violation, something a child would understand. Let’s say that there’s a law that says you can’t spy on domestic citizens without obtaining a warrant. The media would make it seem like there is a doubt about the possibility of illegal actions on the part of the president.

    Oh wait, that happened too.

    Okay, say that bush and his minions were behind the 9/11 attacks. Our media would probably just ignore inconsistencies and obvious holes in the “official” story.

    Oh wait…well, we can all see where this is going.


  8. kindness says:

    Should we all be looking out for any JFK/Dallas parallels with King dumbya?

    Oh my GOD NO! NOT President CHENEY! I just couldn’t take it.


  9. Ken Daves says:

    I mean, what kind of un-American traitorous vile subhuman ignoramous does it take to justify actions taken by our “politicians” by saying that it’s okay because that’s what politicians do.

    Oh, wait. I see we have one of those on this thread.


  10. Ken Daves says:

    Imagine that a contractor laughs while videotaping wanton acts of murder and they get away with it. The media will just report that they were exonerated. Sometimes they don’t even have to offer lying words. Just lying omissions.

    The media is full of whores and fools.


  11. Lily says:

    So Hayden tells that truth by saying he was not ‘comfortable’ with the intelligence, and that somehow is equated with Bush bashing? WTG WSJ!


  12. Subway Serenade says:

    The Wall Street Journal doesn’t know Bush lied? It don’t take a Ground Zero street musician to figure that out.

    It must be spin for the marks.

    Goper’s Lament (Hard To Be A Republican)


  13. Subway Serenade says:

    3 Card Monte is a popular scam in the Wall Street area. I gotta laugh when an empty suit gets taken at a cardboard casino three blocks from The Exchange…


  14. JJ says:

    Karen Kwiatowski on Feith’s cabal:

    From May 2002 until February 2003, I observed firsthand the formation of the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans and watched the latter stages of the neoconservative capture of the policy-intelligence nexus in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. This seizure of the reins of U.S. Middle East policy was directly visible to many of us working in the Near East South Asia policy office, and yet there seemed to be little any of us could do about it.

    I saw a narrow and deeply flawed policy favored by some executive appointees in the Pentagon used to manipulate and pressurize the traditional relationship between policymakers in the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies.

    I witnessed neoconservative agenda bearers within OSP usurp measured and carefully considered assessments, and through suppression and distortion of intelligence analysis promulgate what were in fact falsehoods to both Congress and the executive office of the president.

    http://archive.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp_moveon/print.html


  15. Ron says:

    What were those words that Generalisimo Tomas Franks said about Dougie Feith?

    Oh yeah, he said about Mr. Feith: “The dumbest f***er on the face of the planet.”

    George Bush runs a close second.


  16. RunningDogLackey says:

    Of course, I meant #15 — kudos to Ron!


  17. DeLabarre says:

    It’s startling how much traction conservative pundits are getting out of the Roberts committee report. They insist on referring to it as “bipartisan” despite the fact that it was largely written by Republican staffers led by Sen. Roberts, and wasn’t supported by the Democrats on the committee. It is filled with blatant lies, but conservatives insist that it proves all kinds of wildly untrue things, such as prewar intelligence errors were the fault of the CIA, or that Joseph Wilson repeatedly lied. The fact that they keep going back to it as proof of anything shows how desperate they are to cling to their fantasy bubble.


  18. booker says:

    Bush lies all the time.


  19. purvis ames says:

    “Bush lied myth” is an oxymoron.


  20. Cyra Brown says:

    If Bush does not care, why should they? Don’t they support the President’s choice? And really, didn’t these folks recently give Judith Miller a job? They need to check themselves, their hypocrisy is showing… again.


  21. Dave in IL says:

    Hayden is uncomfortable that Bush lied or there is more confirmation that he attacked a sovereign country without a shred of justification? Bush is a war criminal. Saddam invaded Kuwait, and we were indignant. We invade Iraq and expect the world to shower us with thanks? Unreal.


  22. onthefence says:

    I thought Hayden was their boy? Now he’s a pariah because he told the TRUTH? I also like how the WSJ says that the committee already investigated and proved that intelligence errors were all the CIA’s fault? Or really? Would that be the same Part II of the investigation that’s been delayed ohhhhhhh like 2 years now.


  23. Thers GOD says:

    I have been pressing hard upon some of the scholarly elites.
    They are not as they would appear. They see movies, they rehash the same old history, they lie, they send you people to war knowing full well that they will never serve in war.

    As Anne Coulter and many others it is profitable to play the game of death as long as you don’t have to fight.
    Bush, Cheney, Rove, Limbaugh..the list is long, Yet the meme is the same. Enrich yourself at the cost of others.

    They see people as but dollar bills, a bill today that is but a promise, not backed by gold but backed thru deceit and lies.
    Such are our leaders, without virtue, without care.
    Money, though it’s but paper, has become more important than life. Those whom profit from religion are deceitful.
    Their agenda is but to lie and to profit. Anne Coulter wears a Cross and people believe she is religious.
    But she profits from her books, then are her books truthful?
    No. She only profits from them and preys upon the gullible.

    This woman will soon find her Lord.


  24. Thers GOD says:

    Anne Coulter you have done wrongly, I, Thers, Atrios, am God, and I Atrios, the Liberal holder of the gates of hell, heaven and earth, sentence this woman to the Morae, the fates, so they might decide when to cut thy thread, or not.

    Make Your amends Anne, for your fate is in the hands of the three fates, and as I hold no hatred your fate is not decided by me. -Thers God of Gaia.



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