Comments on: MSNBC regular advocates murder of newspaper editors.

By: lyn

lyn — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 04:08:34 +0000

….nothing gets these people on run like the law-when it actually works against them. Just ask half the GOP that’s under indictment.

By: lyn

lyn — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 04:02:57 +0000

…maybe that’s one helpful solution to the next band of thugs that see fit to interfere with our right to vote-have law enforcement (those that agree with our right to vote,of course)on hand to read the Riot Act and the consequences if they don’t comply.

By: lyn

lyn — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 03:53:38 +0000

It’s time someone with the power vested showed up to read these inciteful goons the Riot Act-preferrably a fully combat uniformed and armed S.W.A.T. unit. Talk about inciting a riot-of loose bladders!

By: Lora

Lora — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 22:54:26 +0000

Wow the Ann Coulter troll spews stuff as bad as the real Coulter, or is it the real one on here?

Comment by Jay Randal

Jay,
It’s got to be a good parody; I don’t think the real Ann-thrax Coulter would do anything not for money.

By: PLC (PatrioticLiberalChristian)

PLC (PatrioticLiberalChristian) — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 19:23:17 +0000

Breaking news! Clark Kent, alias Superman and newspaper reporter fighting for “truth, justice, and the American way” has just been arrested and put into a Kryptonite cell in Guantanamo by the Bush administration. His crimes have been preliminarily listed as treason and wearing a gay costume.

By: KingCranky

KingCranky — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:13:58 +0000

Time for all those bashing the NY Times to grab a BIG helping of Shut The Fuck Up

The problems with the Warrantless tracking f terrorist financing around the world is NOT the NY TImes column, but rather interagency feuding and letting private contractors try and enact legislation regarding other countries

And we know this from a GAO report issued in November

U.S. Lacks Plan to Curb Terror Funds, Agency Says

The government’s efforts to help foreign nations cut off the supply of money to terrorists, a critical goal for the Bush administration, have been stymied by infighting among American agencies, leadership problems and insufficient financing, a new Congressional report says.

More than four years after the Sept. 11 attacks, “the U.S. government lacks an integrated strategy” to train foreign countries and provide them with technical assistance to shore up their financial and law enforcement systems against terrorist financing, according to the report prepared by the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress.

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The government has identified 26 “priority” countries that it considered particularly vulnerable to exploitation by terrorist financiers, who may take advantage of lax financial controls and loosely regulated or nonexistent laws to launder money in support of terrorist attacks, officials said.

But officials at the State and Treasury Departments cannot even agree on who is supposed to be in charge of the effort to shore up defenses in vulnerable countries, the accountability office report concluded.

In at least one case, the State Department refused to allow a Treasury official to enter an unidentified foreign country last year to help with strategies to fight terrorist financing because of turf battles, investigators found. Because the country had recently been upgraded to a priority, State Department officials wanted to do their own assessment first before allowing the Treasury Department to conduct its work, causing a delay of several months.

Investigators found clear tensions between officials at State, Treasury, Justice and other departments.

One unidentified Treasury official quoted anonymously in the report said that the intergovernmental process for deterring terrorist financing abroad is “broken” and that the State Department “creates obstacles rather than coordinates effort.” A State Department official countered that the real problem lies in the Treasury Department’s reluctance to accept the State Department’s leadership in the process.

In another problem area, private contractors used by the Treasury Department and other agencies have been allowed to draft proposed laws in foreign countries for curbing terrorist financing, even though Justice Department officials voiced strong concerns that contractors should not be allowed to play such an active role in the legislative process.

The contractors’ work at times produced legislative proposals that had “substantial deficiencies,” the report said.

The administration has made cutting off money to terrorists one of the main prongs in its attack against Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. It has seized tens of millions of dollars in American accounts and assets linked to terrorist groups, prodded other countries to do the same, and is now developing a program to gain access to and track potentially hundreds of millions of international bank transfers into the United States.

But experts in the field say the results have been spotty, with few clear dents in Al Qaeda’s ability to move money and finance terrorist attacks. The Congressional report- a follow-up to a 2003 report that offered a similarly bleak assessment – buttresses those concerns.

Senator Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican who leads the Senate Finance Committee and was one of the lawmakers who requested the study, said he was disappointed to learn that in an area as critical as countering terrorist financing, “they haven’t gotten very far yet.”

In an interview, Mr. Grassley said: “It’s as simple as learning to stop the infighting and turf protection and get on with the job. What’s happening is just inexplicable in light of the war on terrorism.”

Logical & ethical consistency and moral integrity require that all those who bashed the NY TImes for their story either apologize profusely for their willfully ignorant vitriol, or subject the always moral-relativists at the Wall St Journal Editorial Page to the same broadsides they’re aiming at the NY Times

Then again, logical consistency has never been a quality in abundance with the Bush Jr Administration or its media lackeys

Some days, it’s just way too easy to put the conservatards in their proper place-on the receiving end of all the BS they usually throw

By: Coffins draped with flags

Coffins draped with flags — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:27:54 +0000

Another Ann Coulter Republican! Why do these women stir up so much hate?

Comment by Meow â€” July 1, 2006 @ 1:40 am

Because no man or woman wants to have sex with them so they are grumpy.

By: Meow

Meow — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 05:40:33 +0000

Another Ann Coulter Republican! Why do these women stir up so much hate?

By: Lily

Lily — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 05:08:54 +0000

I suspect that you will find the worldâ€™s solution to your insanity much less palatable.

Comment by Humanist

Not necessarily.

By: Meow

Meow — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 04:48:28 +0000

Another one of those Ann Coulter Republicans for ya!

By: Brandi

Brandi — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 03:38:42 +0000

Wow, great quote, how’d you make that one up

By: Ken Daves

Ken Daves — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 03:04:20 +0000

The media often acts egregiously to take the spotlight off the republican “leaders” who sound just like her.

By: umbra

umbra — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 03:01:08 +0000

before u idiots start correcting my spelling,,, its polls

By: umbra

umbra — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 02:58:46 +0000

kooooooool, too bad you dont have “ann couler’s” wit, and oh I forgot, her smats. I believe the subject is “MSNBC regular advocates murder of newspaper editors”. You might want to look at the pools as you’ll find its not a cool position even for liberals to be defending treason.

By: ann coulter

ann coulter — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 02:46:17 +0000

i must leave #82, dick cheney is here to lick the blood and the stench from my crooked ugly skinny fingers…we will then have a seance and wish for the death of justice stevens and bill keller. we will join claws in my death-filled basement and stare into the skull of a dead iraqi child, lit only by candles made from the flesh of liberals… sleep well…

kisses,

ann

By: ann coulter

ann coulter — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 02:30:41 +0000

i am not a troll you progressive pissant! i am own you! michelle malkin is a sweaty sore meat puppet beneath me, and you are next!

blood!!! i need more iraqi children’s blood!!! we would have not won world war ii with such a lack of blood!

best,

ann

By: Jay Randal

Jay Randal — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 02:08:55 +0000

Wow the Ann Coulter troll spews stuff as bad as the real Coulter, or is it the real one on here?

By: katy

katy — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 02:07:59 +0000

Sulzberger Responds to â€˜WSJâ€™ Editorial Slamming the â€˜NYTâ€™

E&P
Sulzberger: “I know many of the reporters and editors at The Wall Street Journal and have greater faith in their journalistic excellence than does the Editorial Page of their own paper. I, for one, do not believe they were unaware of the importance of what they were publishing nor oblivious to the impact such a story would haveâ€¦.read on

When all the evidence comes out, weâ€™ll see that this was an effort to set up the NY Times by the administration, No surprise there.

By: umbra

umbra — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 01:03:31 +0000

WSJ June30

The problem with the Times is that millions of Americans no longer believe that its editors would make those calculations in anything close to good faith. We certainly don’t. On issue after issue, it has become clear that the Times believes the U.S. is not really at war, and in any case the Bush Administration lacks the legitimacy to wage it.

So, for example, it promulgates a double standard on “leaks,” deploring them in the case of Valerie Plame and demanding a special counsel when the leaker was presumably someone in the White House and the journalist a conservative columnist. But then it hails as heroic and public-spirited the leak to the Times itself that revealed the National Security Agency’s al Qaeda wiretaps.

Mr. Keller’s open letter explaining his decision to expose the Treasury program all but admits that he did so because he doesn’t agree with, or believe, the Bush Administration. “Since September 11, 2001, our government has launched broad and secret anti-terror monitoring programs without seeking authorizing legislation and without fully briefing the Congress,” he writes, and “some officials who have been involved in these programs have spoken to the Times about their discomfort over the legality of the government’s actions and over the adequacy of oversight.” Since the Treasury story broke, as it happens, no one but Congressman Ed Markey and a few cranks have even objected to the program, much less claimed illegality.

By: JPark

JPark — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 01:00:52 +0000

#45 Don’t worry, there won’t be another terrist attack until October ‘08 just in time for martial law.