Frontline: United States of Secrets

Hayden&AddingtonSM

If you’re not completely appalled by the actions of the Bush administration (& inaction by Obama) after watching the part 1 of Frontline’s United States of Secrets, you’re comatose.  The hubris of people like former NSA director Michael Hayden and Vice President Cheney’s former legal counsel David Addington is jaw-dropping and the treatment of longtime NSA employees turned whistleblowers absolutely chilling.

Do as I say, not as I do

It never ceases to amaze me when people from the GW Bush administration offer their thoughts about current political events, completely oblivious to the irony of their words today with their role getting us into the Iraq War.  Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and most members of the Cheney Family seem to do this on a regular basis…102406IraqMasqueradeFrom the archives (2006)