Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Progress in the 21st Century

Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon papers fame feels that "ALL the crimes he (Nixon) committed against me -- which forced his resignation facing impeachment -- are now legal. That includes burglarizing my former psychoanalyst's office (for material to blackmail me into silence), warrantless wiretapping, using the CIA against an American citizen in the US, and authorizing a White House hit squad to 'incapacitate me totally' (on the steps of the Capitol on May 3, 1971)... But under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, with the PATRIOT Act, the FISA Amendment Act, and (for the hit squad) President Obama's executive orders. [T]hey have all become legal."

One thing hasn't changed: Vietnam is now spelled Afghanistan.

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