Showing posts with label Truth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Truth. Show all posts

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Ex Pres. George H. W. Bush Tells Truth: JEB! and Jr still confused by basic facts

Finally, a Republican summons the courage and cojones to tell the truth about the second Iraq War; ex 41st President George H. W. Bush said Rogue President Cheney and War Secretary Donald Rumsfeld became arrogant and bull headed in trying to solve diplomatic issues through war which weakened these United States and damaged the administration of G. W. Bush, 43rd prez appointed by the Supreme Court:
Former US president George HW Bush has hit out at Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, two of the most senior figures in his son’s administration, labelling them too “hardline” and “arrogant” in their handling of the 11 September attacks. 
A new biography of the 41st president – Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey Of George Herbert Walker Bush – reveals that Bush Sr held Cheney and Rumsfeld responsible for the hawkish stance that “hurt” his son’s administration, Fox News reported on Wednesday.... 
After 9/11, Bush Sr told his biographer: “I don’t know, he just became very hardline and very different from the Dick Cheney I knew and worked with. 
“The reaction [to 9/11], what to do about the Middle East. Just iron-ass. His seeming knuckling under to the real hard-charging guys who want to fight about everything, use force to get our way in the Middle East,” Bush told Meacham in the book, which is due to be published next week.  http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/05/george-bush-senior-iron-ass-cheney-arrogant-rumsfeld-damaged-america
Listen to a proud, traditional Republican raised in an era where truth mattered in politics.  His sons cannot muster the intestinal fortitude to admit Pres. Bush 43 made a military mistake marauding against a country--Iraq--which had nothing to do the attacks of 11 September 2001.


http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/10/republican_presidential_candidates_attack_the_truth_in_cnbc_debate_ted_cruz.html

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Update Part the Second

Sad that CBS 60 Minutes has lost whatever shred of journalistic integrity it once had: [On December 15, 60 Minutes aired a report on the National Security Agency based on unprecedented access to its headquarters and interviews with Agency staff, including its chief, Keith Alexander, who discussed the concerns many Americans have about its operations since the disclosures by Edward Snowden.

The segment opened with reporter John Miller's acknowledgement that he had once worked at another federal intelligence agency. It featured no critics of the NSA....

Miller's report was immediately ripped apart by NSA critics and veteran journalists. Some have called the veracity of CBS News' reporting into question. Others termed the segment a "puff piece" and an "embarrassing" "infomercial," saying that it filmed was under guidelines that overwhelmingly favored the agency and proved the effectiveness of the NSA's communications staff.]
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/12/17/nsa-report-means-more-trouble-for-60-minutes/197310

Veracity, the ability to speak truth, one would think that important to a "news" show.

Also see: http://prospect.org/article/four-takeaways-yesterdays-nsa-ruling#.UrBw1xOrFws.twitter.