Orwell Rolls His Eyes

I wonder how many Bush voters would even GET an Orwell reference?

Here's a great blurb from thinkprogress.org

10/5/01: Bush Pulls Security Clearances From 92 Senators
“We can’t have leaks of classified information. It’s not in our nation’s interest.” - President George W. Bush, 10/9/01

President Bush’s defiant statement came in the immediate weeks following 9/11, as the administration clamped down on the information it provided to Congress. President Bush issued an order limiting access to classified intelligence only to 8 members of Congress — the Speaker of the House, House Minority Leader, Senate Majority Leader, Senate Minority Leader, and chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees.

What precipitated this course of action?

Gannett News Service reported on 10/1/01 that Bush was restricting information because, “The Washington Post reported last week that various lawmakers had been told there would be more terrorist attacks if the United States retaliated.”

Here’s what the Washington Post reported:

Asked whether more terrorist attacks are inevitable if the United States retaliates, [Sen. Richard] Shelby said, “You can bet on that.” … U.S. intelligence officials have told members of Congress there is a high probability that terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden will try to launch another major attack on U.S. targets here or abroad. [Washington Post, 10/6/01]

So at this slightest whiff of evidence that information was being leaked, President Bush pulled classified intelligence access for 92 senators. There was no ongoing criminal investigation nor was there evidence that all the members who had their access limited had leaked information. And now he refuses to hold Karl Rove and Scooter Libby to anywhere near the same standard, despite confirmation of their involvement in the leak of an undercover CIA agent’s identity.

My comments: Aside from the obvious double standard, it's interesting to look back at some Bush administration actions, the little actions they made that seemed to be for national security (you could've called a bill requiring all Americans to eat only dogshit on wednesdays a National Security Bill and passed it on 9/12) knowing now why they did it. This move was preparing to hide the National Intelligence Estimate on the Iraqi threat. A National Intelligence Estimate is required ot assess the threat of another country prior to war, PARTICULARLY a pre-emptive one. In case you didn't know, Bush wanted to go to war saying that the intelligence pointed to an imminent threat, but the Senate wouldn't authorize without and NIE, Bush did an NIE, and then told the Senate it was classified but corrorated their earlier fears, pushed further the Bush Admin was forced to make public a "summary" of the NIE which was highly cooked and left out all dissenting remarks from the NIE. If one were to declassify the NIE and compare it to the cooked summary which was presented to the world, the administation would be more fucked than Tori Welles.

I'm curious how many Repulicans vs. Democrats had their security clearances revoked?

Now they classify 125 Documents a minute. Why? for national security you fucking terrorist fuck, stop asking so many questions and obey or you'll get killed, how would you like that? Getting killed? That's what I thought, now if you'll excuse me and my administration, our little answer to your little why question has cost us valuable classifying time.

But if you asked any of the Republican slave Conservative Christian robot creature beasts none of this is suspicious and it's all because Bush cares about the safety of poor Ohioans SO much. The Bush Administartion is just one big set of plush open arms that just cares night and day about national security, and killing ragheads...oh shit, did I type that, could we have that last sentence classified. Great. There, never happened. Sleep, you sleep now, sleeeep now, sleeeeeeeeeeep.