Bad Deeds for 3-20-2008

Tucker Carlson Says Cheney is ‘Kind of a Hero’ for Ignoring Americans’ Opinions – When Vice President Dick Cheney asserted in a recent interview with ABC News that “there’s a general consensus that we’ve made major progress” in Iraq, interviewer Martha Raddatz was dubious.

“Two-third of Americans say it’s not worth fighting,” Raddatz noted.
“So?” replied Cheney.
“You don’t care what the American people think?” Raddatz asked.
“No,” Cheney replied.
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough played a clip of this exchange on Morning Joe. “Look at his face,” Scarborough pointed out. “Look how shaken up he is.” “The question,” Scarborough continued incredulously, “was what do you do when two-thirds of American think this war is not worth fighting. Dick Cheney’s response: ‘So?’ There’s a guy that sticks his finger in the wind!”

Tucker Carlson leaped in to defend Cheney. “He’s kind of a hero in that way,” Carlson suggested. “I know I’ll probably have my car egged for saying this, but … it’s so nice to see someone that old-school. ‘Hey, you kids, get off my lawn.’ That’s Dick Cheney. I love that.”

Obama’s Passport File Inappropriately Accessed at by State Department – Three contract employees of the State Department inappropriately accessed at Democratic Sen. Barack Obama’s passport file. It was not immediately clear what the contract employees may have seen in the records or what they were looking for.

Your House Could be Raided by the FBI for Accidentally Clicking a Link on the Intrenet – Undercover FBI agents used a technique of posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, which actually directed Internet users to a clandestine government server, then staged armed raids of homes in Pennsylvania, New York, and Nevada last year. The supposed video files actually were gibberish and contained no illegal images. As an example, Roderick Vosburgh, a doctoral student at Temple University who also taught history at La Salle University, was raided at home in February 2007 after he allegedly clicked on the FBI’s hyperlink. Federal agents knocked on the door around 7 a.m., falsely claiming they wanted to talk to Vosburgh about his car. Once he opened the door, they threw him to the ground outside his house and handcuffed him. Using the same logic and legal arguments, federal agents could send unsolicited e-mail messages to millions of Americans advertising illegal narcotics or child pornography–and raid people who click on the links embedded in the spam messages. (It’s just like the old Soviet Union, but with higher technology. – JLV)

Since 2003, at Least 12 Service Members Have Died in Iraq as a Result of Electrocution – Allegedly, KBR allowed U.S. troops to continue using electrical systems which contractor KBR knew to be dangerous and knew had caused prior instances of electrocution.

Regards,

Jim

Jim Vogas

Texas A&M Aggie, Retired aerospace engineer, former union member, Vietnam vet, Demcratic Party organizer, husband and father.

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