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Idiots: Trey Gowdy, Trying to Establish That Hillary Clinton Committed a Security Breach in Relaying the Name of a Libyan CIA Asset in Email, Discloses the Name of that Same CIA Libyan Asset

The Democrats view government as their High Church, so it tends to draw in their best people.

Conservatives view government with suspicion, so it tends to draw their not-so-best people.

This is amazing, this is incredible, this is such a colossal own-goal as to raise suspicions that it's deliberate; but this is how our gang of incompetents functions.

So how are we to make the case that Hilary's unauthorized disclosure was a big deal when Trey Gowdy just made the same unauthorized disclosure.

Obviously, we can't. Hillary skates again.

Incredible. Incredible.

The excuse is that the State Department provided this email to Congress, and redacted the name in one line, and not the other. And then congressional staffers missed the second reference, and put it out to the public.

And it is true that the State Department has the first responsibility of protecting US secrets, and itself was guilty of a breach here.

But the problem is now Trey Gowdy can't exactly make the case that it's such a big deal to release the names of CIA assets, such that no responsible government official would do so. Because he just did the same thing.

I half-wonder if the State Department was playing a crooked game, gambling that Republican sloppiness and incompetence would cause them to miss the second, unredacted mention of the name, and thus discredit themselves and demolish this line of attack on Hillary Clinton.

If so, they gambled with house money, because betting on Republican incompetence isn't even gambling. It's just prudently investing.

Appalling. There just are no words.

House Benghazi Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy appears to have accidentally released the name of a CIA source in the midst of a back-and-forth with Democrats about how sensitive the information was and whether its presence in former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email account constituted a security breach.

Gowdy’s aides blamed the State Department for the disclosure, and the agency acknowl'dged Monday a "human error" led to a failure to delete a name from the email in question.

The email posted Sunday on the panel’s website included in one instance the name of "Mousa Kousa," an alternative spelling of Moussa Koussa, a former Libyan government spy chief and foreign minister. The name appeared to have been redacted in several other instances but was included in a subject line of a forwarded email.

The redacted email was released at Gowdy’s direction "so the American people could decide for themselves regarding concerns about sources and methods," the Benghazi Committee said in a statement. By Monday morning, the committee had replaced the document online with another version in which Koussa's name does not appear.

What can you do but laugh.

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Posted by: Ace at 05:26 PM




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1 first

Posted by: Mallflower at October 19, 2015 05:23 PM (qSIlh)

2 Ooopsy....

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 19, 2015 05:23 PM (AC0lD)

3 Top.Men.

Posted by: Grump928(c) remembers at October 19, 2015 05:24 PM (evdj2)

4 That photo makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Posted by: Northernlurker at October 19, 2015 05:24 PM (tMrac)

5 meanwhile, on the left wing side of the internet, they're all rejoicing because the Dems on the committee did a report that totally, totally man, exonerates Hillary.

So how long did the Dem investigate Watergate? I think it went six months before they found their smoking gun.

Posted by: Mallflower at October 19, 2015 05:25 PM (qSIlh)

6 Here I thought Howdy was one of the competent ones

Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 19, 2015 05:25 PM (dULJN)

7 Are those Hammer and Sickle buttons?

Posted by: Grump928(c) remembers at October 19, 2015 05:25 PM (evdj2)

8 Is that a prototype of the official Hillary "Mao" jacket we'll all be wearing?

Posted by: Sphynx at October 19, 2015 05:25 PM (OZmbA)

9 This would only be upsetting if there ever was a REALISTIC expectation that prosecuting Hillary was a possibility.

Seriously - in the last 10 years, hell I'll give you 15 yrs. has any investigative committee done anything besides make great soundbites?

Posted by: OurCountryIsScrewed at October 19, 2015 05:26 PM (DlmoZ)

10 Here I thought Gowdy was one of the competent ones.

Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 19, 2015 05:26 PM (dULJN)

11 How much time and efforts did the committees the Dems set up in both the House and Senate spend in 1992 trying to find out if running-for-reelection H W Bush was involved in a 1980 October surprise?

Posted by: Mallflower at October 19, 2015 05:26 PM (qSIlh)

12 Of course Shillary is going to skate. The "charlie foxtrots" who call themselves the GOPe aren't going to do anything about this. Think they want to have the bad press that would surely follow her prosecution claiming all they did was take her out of contention to be the POTUS?

Posted by: OurCountryIsScrewed at October 19, 2015 05:28 PM (DlmoZ)

13 Wait so we're just openly publishing his name now? Is the guy still alive?

Posted by: Lauren at October 19, 2015 05:29 PM (GZ6Pf)

14
It appears she is well on her way to getting away with her crimes like the Clintons always do. At least we can get some smirks out of her coming fights with Biden.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 19, 2015 05:29 PM (ODxAs)

15 You know, I actually suspect that the State Dept. DID leave the second one in there knowing full well that the Republicans are complete and utter dumbasses. Sloppiness and idiocy are rampant in DC, so the few clever ones can play off that with results. Ergo, the city run by Democrats will continue to be run by Democrats. Unless the next president does a full cleaning and immediately fires MINIMUM 500,000 federal employees and blackballs them to a person from future government service, we're going to be stuck with this level of hackery right up to the point where the nukes go off.

Posted by: sans_sheriff at October 19, 2015 05:29 PM (+RDoJ)

16 you know, maybe I shoulda read the post first. Dumb Dumb Dumb, mostly them, a little me for not paying attention.

Posted by: Mallflower at October 19, 2015 05:30 PM (qSIlh)

17 Wait so we're just openly publishing his name now? Is the guy still alive?

I thought I read He had already "left" the CIA...

Posted by: donna at October 19, 2015 05:30 PM (/dSsq)

18 At this point what difference does it make anyways.????

Posted by: Bosk at October 19, 2015 05:30 PM (n2K+4)

19 "What can you do but laugh."

And I would laugh, if it weren't for the fact that these people are going to get us all killed.

Posted by: Qoheleth at October 19, 2015 05:30 PM (iIzG7)

20 The Democrats view government as their High Church, so it tends to draw in their best people.

Yeah. No.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 19, 2015 05:30 PM (oVJmc)

21 Ufffff Should have thrown in that, "What a stupid time to be alive" line.

Also, Hillary has man hands.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 19, 2015 05:30 PM (Xa4vS)

22 To thicken the plot, Moussa Koussa turns out to be a guy strongly suspected in the terror plot at Lockerbie. But, we needed an in there in Libya, gotta take what comes your way.

He has since defected to Britain.

Posted by: spongeworthy at October 19, 2015 05:30 PM (LBqG0)

23 So which Greek tragedy are we living through? Antigone perhaps?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 19, 2015 05:31 PM (7o8w3)

24 House Speaker material right there.

Posted by: dogfish at October 19, 2015 05:31 PM (0O2Lr)

25 re 15: nah. even if it were President Trump and he was advised by Cruz and Thomas Sowell, getting rid of them people would be pretty impossible in most cases

Posted by: Mallflower at October 19, 2015 05:31 PM (qSIlh)

26 Hi, I'm Danny Glover.

Does your political candidate for President spontaneously cry or laugh or cackle at inappropriate times?

They're not "crazy," maybe they have politcobulbar affect...

Posted by: Danny Glover at October 19, 2015 05:31 PM (lqmAz)

27 re 25: come again..?

Posted by: Mallflower at October 19, 2015 05:32 PM (qSIlh)

28 21
Also, Hillary has man hands.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 19, 2015 05:30 PM (Xa4vS)


Better to pick the meat off the little corpses with. Cackle!

Posted by: rebel flounder at October 19, 2015 05:32 PM (1DH1V)

29 Clean up on 25.

Posted by: Todd w at October 19, 2015 05:33 PM (lrkg9)

30 Clean up at 25?

Posted by: rebel flounder at October 19, 2015 05:33 PM (1DH1V)

31 Um, cleanup on Aisle 25, please.

Posted by: speedster1 at October 19, 2015 05:33 PM (1brdf)

32 OK who plays MNF tonight and what is the MBL schedule.


I am done with all this shit.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 19, 2015 05:33 PM (jJRIy)

33 Accidentally my skinny ass. gowdy is just another cop in the one party unistate.

A big fat effn mouth with nothing behind except $$$$$

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 19, 2015 05:33 PM (kLrYQ)

34 Really beginning to think it is all for naught. We are fighting for principles and ideals that have not only been thrown away but p*ssed on and mocked. It's over. Put a fork in it. Someone call AllenG - I think he has the matches and salt.

Posted by: OurCountryIsScrewed at October 19, 2015 05:33 PM (DlmoZ)

35 Yer right, Ace, We Had A Good Run as a country, almost 240 years. Gone now, though. Feels just like waiting for the pain blister to come after a bad burn.

Posted by: OK, Thanks, Bye at October 19, 2015 05:33 PM (ucB75)

36 come again..?
Posted by: Mallflower

I'll need 20 minutes and some Gatorade.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 19, 2015 05:34 PM (awspb)

37 Echo, echo, echo.....

Posted by: speedster1 at October 19, 2015 05:34 PM (1brdf)

38 It's the hair.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 19, 2015 05:34 PM (VAsIq)

39 I'll need 20 minutes and some Gatorade.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic


Lightweight.

Posted by: BJ Clinton at October 19, 2015 05:34 PM (0O2Lr)

40 "Unless the next president does a full cleaning and immediately fires
MINIMUM 500,000 federal employees and blackballs them to a person from
future government service..."


Not going to happen. Given that government service disproportionately hires "underrepresented minorities," you're talking about taking jobs away from said minorities. Fear of being branded as raycissses will prevent any such housecleaning, no matter how deserved or warranted it might happen to be.

Posted by: Qoheleth at October 19, 2015 05:35 PM (iIzG7)

41 "their best people"


You keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means"

Posted by: English guy who makes tangential comments at October 19, 2015 05:35 PM (8CdUx)

42 re 37: Lord Blackadder to Queen Elizabeth when he had comlimented him: "I try, madam, I try... and thirty minutes later I try again"

Posted by: Mallflower at October 19, 2015 05:35 PM (qSIlh)

43 She only agreed to one day in public. She's going to filibuster these guys until THEY ask to adjourn.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 19, 2015 05:35 PM (jJRIy)

44 It not really serious anymore. It's just play-pretend we're running the government and grab as much cash as you can before it all goes up.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 19, 2015 05:36 PM (LA7Cm)

45 Bad news day Tribble?

Posted by: elevenwing plover at October 19, 2015 05:36 PM (rjtGa)

46 Nice lipstick, pig.

Posted by: wth at October 19, 2015 05:36 PM (wAQA5)

47 25 is not welcome here. We need a banning please.

Posted by: Soona at October 19, 2015 05:37 PM (Fmupd)

48 WTF good has a Congressional Investigation ever accomplished.

EVER?

Posted by: DaveA at October 19, 2015 05:37 PM (DL2i+)

49 "beastcunt"


I do not think that word means....


also, you're unhinged

Posted by: English guy who makes tangential comments at October 19, 2015 05:37 PM (8CdUx)

50 Are we doomed to hear the cackler for eight years?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 19, 2015 05:37 PM (9Fc79)

51
25
Whoa!

Posted by: Whoa! at October 19, 2015 05:37 PM (wAQA5)

52 This is amazing, this is incredible, this is such a colossal own-goal as to raise suspicions that it's deliberate; but this is how our gang of incompetents functions.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
I can't tell anymore if the Democrats are spectacularly incompetent. I've been assuming for the past several years that their destructiveness is intentional. Cloward-Piven and all that.

Maybe they know that they are *only* capable of destruction (which any idiot can do) so to save face, they pretend it is all intentional, done to bring about a new order. An excuse akin to Pee-Wee Herman's "I meant to do that".

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 19, 2015 05:37 PM (E5UB0)

53 #25 needs to run back to Kos or DU before banhammer strikes. God I hAte mobies.

Posted by: se pa moron at October 19, 2015 05:37 PM (sI4OA)

54 Smooth move, Draco Malfoy!

Posted by: EC at October 19, 2015 05:38 PM (j8YpL)

55 Maybe Moussad can put on a pair if sunglasses and pose for Vanity Fair.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at October 19, 2015 05:38 PM (lPDqu)

56 double facepalm

Posted by: @votermom at October 19, 2015 05:38 PM (cbfNE)

57 The comment that was 25 is gone, and only mallflowers grow in its ruin

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 19, 2015 05:39 PM (V8VkV)

58 Didn't Gowdy skip the closed-door Huma Abedin testimony so he could give a speech at home?

That's some fine planning there. Months and months upon months of investigation/kabuki to get Cackles and you skip the leaky assistant to the Queen.

These are the acts of people who want to grandstand. Period. Anything beneficial to the American people is purely coincidental.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at October 19, 2015 05:39 PM (1CroS)

59 Are we doomed to hear the cackler for eight years?


Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr.

Hah. President or not, we're doomed to hear that shrew for at least the next 15 years (or a finishing stroke).

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 19, 2015 05:39 PM (VAsIq)

60 What difference does it make at this point ? The name was already released!

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at October 19, 2015 05:39 PM (lPDqu)

61 WTF good has a Congressional Investigation ever accomplished.

EVER?
Posted by: DaveA

Made a bunch of useless, needle-dicked idiots feel important for a short while.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 19, 2015 05:39 PM (awspb)

62 Made a bunch of useless, needle-dicked idiots feel important for a short while.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig

*struts*

Posted by: John McCain at October 19, 2015 05:40 PM (VAsIq)

63 I must not understand this correctly. The State Department says a document is okay to release to the public...

Gowdy releases it, and it doing so, lets Clinton off the hook for being frivolous with state secrets?

What is incorrect about this? Because I can't really connect the dots on this conclusion.

Posted by: Tommy V at October 19, 2015 05:41 PM (SRQwr)

64 What difference does it make at this point ? The name was already released!

True, He is long gone from His post... because of the cackler...

Posted by: donna at October 19, 2015 05:41 PM (/dSsq)

65 Trey Gowdy, Trying to Establish That Hillary Clinton Committed a
Security Breach in Relaying the Name of a Libyan CIA Asset in Email,
Discloses the Name of that Same CIA Libyan Asset
___

Wait, that's not a crime anymore? Can I get my money and reputation back?

Posted by: Scooter Libby at October 19, 2015 05:41 PM (X7E8f)

66 re 57: Benny Hill:

- We put manure on our strawberries.
- Really? We put cream on ours.

Posted by: Mallflower at October 19, 2015 05:41 PM (qSIlh)

67 Happy birthday to the ground.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 19, 2015 05:41 PM (VAsIq)

68 Well, that's that then. The GOPe's best 'n brightest sabotaged the Benghazi hearings.

Posted by: Lauren at October 19, 2015 05:41 PM (GZ6Pf)

69 The Democrats view government as their High Church, so it tends to draw in their best people.

Conservatives view government with suspicion, so it tends to draw their not-so-best people.

---

If that's the case, then their failure to redact the second mention of the asset's name was intentional.

In any event, I think you're over-reacting. There's no equivalence between what Clinton and her minions did vis a vis chatting away on unsecured servers and personal accounts over the course of years and one accidental flub by a Congressional staffer.

Posted by: Y-not at October 19, 2015 05:41 PM (0Iy+I)

70 57 The comment that was 25 is gone, and only mallflowers grow in its ruin

If this is paradise
I wish I had a lawnmower

Posted by: Fringe at October 19, 2015 05:42 PM (+GIZJ)

71 54 Smooth move, Draco Malfoy!


--

LOL. He does look like a Malfoy.

Posted by: @votermom at October 19, 2015 05:42 PM (cbfNE)

72 I understand why Gowdy has no desire to stay in DC. You can't win ever.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at October 19, 2015 05:42 PM (lPDqu)

73 Gowdy needs to make the point numerous times that the fact that H used a non-secure, non-govt email server means that the probability is near certain that this email has already been seen by every foriegn govt in the region and this exceptionally late exposure is immaterial. That's the way I read it.

Posted by: pendejo at October 19, 2015 05:42 PM (d0ReA)

74 Oligarchies gonna oligarch. Get used to it, it's already life as we know it.

Posted by: A raised eyebrow at October 19, 2015 05:42 PM (bGLSw)

75 On this topic:

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/10/18/why-hillarys- upcoming-congressional-testimony-is-a-total- farse-a-charade-to-shield-congress/

Posted by: rebel flounder at October 19, 2015 05:42 PM (1DH1V)

76 48
WTF good has a Congressional Investigation ever accomplished.

EVER?


Posted by: DaveA at October 19, 2015 05:37 PM (DL2i+)

Well, don't ask me.

Posted by: G Gordon Liddy at October 19, 2015 05:43 PM (jJRIy)

77 *cackles in newly practiced Mississippi accent*

Vote VAG 2016!

FEAR.THE.VAG.

*practices saying "!Vota la Vagina! Andale!" for Unavision election ad*

Posted by: Shrillary's Vagina at October 19, 2015 05:43 PM (DSlVW)

78 Posted by: Y-not at October 1

Totally agree.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at October 19, 2015 05:43 PM (lPDqu)

79 Interesting, the stories linking him to Lockerbie appeared just before this chapter in the HRC email scandal broke. Almost like someone was trying to smear a potential witness.


I wonder who knew his name: Blumenthal, Tyler, HRC, Huma, Cheryl ?

Posted by: Jean at October 19, 2015 05:43 PM (ztOda)

80 What difference does it make at this point ? The name was already released!

Kinda wondering that myself....

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at October 19, 2015 05:43 PM (Uxzv7)

81 Ah. Well then.

Posted by: grammie winger, how long Lord? at October 19, 2015 05:44 PM (dFi94)

82 The number one story on yahoo is that The republicans outed a CIA operative and tried to cover it up..... WTF?

Posted by: donna at October 19, 2015 05:44 PM (/dSsq)

83 ...one accidental flub by a Congressional staffer.
Posted by: Y-not at October 19, 2015 05:41 PM (0Iy+I)

Yet no one EVER loses their job.

Better yet, I bet that same doofus gets a YE bonus.

Posted by: Golfman at October 19, 2015 05:44 PM (48QDY)

84 *farce*

Posted by: elevenwing plover at October 19, 2015 05:44 PM (rjtGa)

85 73
Gowdy needs to make the point numerous times that the fact that H used a
non-secure, non-govt email server means that the probability is near
certain that this email has already been seen by every foriegn govt in
the region and this exceptionally late exposure is immaterial.

That would be a good move, if you are still under the belief that they are in this to truly investigate what happened, prosecute those who broke the law.

The GOP will not let that happen. Ever. And they need to pay the price for their inaction and incompetence at the upcoming polls.


Posted by: OurCountryIsScrewed at October 19, 2015 05:45 PM (DlmoZ)

86 Eh, so what. It was State's screwup. House doesn't redact stuff.

Posted by: TallDave at October 19, 2015 05:45 PM (74ZYB)

87 80 What difference does it make at this point ? The name was already released!

Kinda wondering that myself....
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at October 19, 2015 05:43 PM (Uxzv7)

I was half serious and half sarcastic in my imitation of Hillary.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at October 19, 2015 05:45 PM (lPDqu)

88 I think I have given up.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 19, 2015 05:46 PM (v9gSJ)

89 This really happened the way it's being reported? I'm a little skeptical.

But if it did go down like that, it would be demonstrable proof of a severe lack of critical thinking and judgement, let alone just plain old incompetence. And heads would need to roll.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 19, 2015 05:46 PM (i0ykY)

90 Interview the hand!

Posted by: hilllary at October 19, 2015 05:47 PM (qH+fk)

91 Biden: God love ya, stand up Ambassador Stevens.
*stunned silence*
Hillary: What difference does it make?
Crowd: Standing ovation for both of them.

Posted by: se pa moron at October 19, 2015 05:47 PM (sI4OA)

92 Send in the clowns.

Don't bother they're here in the GOPe.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 19, 2015 05:47 PM (Xo1Rt)

93 I guess, in reality, the US has so few government secrets left.



And if Hillary somehow loses, she WILL run again after securing some sort of government position of importance. I was actually thinking this morning how banana republic it would be that the same two families are running for President over and over.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 19, 2015 05:47 PM (AC0lD)

94 I laid traps for troubadours

Who get killed before they reached Bombay

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at October 19, 2015 05:47 PM (LWu6U)

95 Well at least the media is mentioning it now... Of course it's to blame Gowdy for the leak...

Posted by: donna at October 19, 2015 05:48 PM (/dSsq)

96 My bet is on the Washington Generals- they're due for a win. Wait, what!?

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at October 19, 2015 05:48 PM (iDWKC)

97 Ready for chesea!

ready for george p!

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 19, 2015 05:49 PM (kLrYQ)

98 I was half serious and half sarcastic in my imitation of Hillary.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at October 19, 2015 05:45 PM (lPDqu)


Saw that *wink*, but it's true. The name was out there already. So fucking what?

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at October 19, 2015 05:49 PM (Uxzv7)

99
I think I have given up.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 19, 2015 05:46 PM (v9gSJ)
=============================


::: pats couch ::: Come, sit next to grammie. I gave up about 8 months ago.

Posted by: grammie winger, how long Lord? at October 19, 2015 05:49 PM (dFi94)

100 73 That's what I was thinking. I wonder if there isn't a primitive form of shrewdness at work here..."Well, hell, if Madam Secretary's willy-nilly emailing of this guy's name is really no big deal - I mean, REALLY no big deal - then surely it doesn't matter if it gets released again, right?" Then listen for the shrieks and wails on the left..."So, then you're saying that the name SHOULDN'T have been released? 'Cause you can't have it both ways, you know..."

Posted by: antisocialist at October 19, 2015 05:49 PM (eGr8Z)

101 I think I have given up.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 19, 2015 05:46 PM (v9gSJ)


Don't be stupid be a smarty
come and join the SMOD party!

S...M...O...D...

What do we want? ANNIHILATION!

When do we want it? BEFORE WE'RE ALL ENSLAVED BY WHICHEVER BUNCH OF NUTS TAKES OVER NEXT!

SMOD! SMOD! SMOD!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 19, 2015 05:49 PM (bLnSU)

102 GOPe...Trey Gowdy.....Idiots....get re-elected.


Dems....Hillary....arch-criminals...get re-elected.

Joe Sixpack.....Average voter....your grandchildren....get fucked in the yam shoot.


Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 19, 2015 05:50 PM (ej1L0)

103 If so, they gambled with house money, because betting on Republican incompetence isn't even gambling. It's just prudently investing.-ace

Betting on Republicans is just fucking cray-cray

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 19, 2015 05:50 PM (yddCj)

104 I just...I can't even...fucking imbeciles.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 19, 2015 05:50 PM (kpqmD)

105 Congratulations to the GOPe.

First the House Majority Leader says the Committee is all politcal, next the Committee Chair releases the classified information in public that they were claiming is criminal because it was in a non-public Hillary Clinton E-mail.

Trump might be a clown, but I think these guys are bigger clowns.

Posted by: rd at October 19, 2015 05:51 PM (SukjU)

106 "SMOD! SMOD! SMOD!"

That would be a meaningless death. I don't plan on going out so cheaply. If I have to go out.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 19, 2015 05:51 PM (kLrYQ)

107 Wait.....just had an idea!

Posted by: S.M.O.D. S.O.C.K. at October 19, 2015 05:51 PM (rjtGa)

108 I'm sure whatever remaining operatives the US Gummint has are stupefied and have every confidence that they are in good hands.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 19, 2015 05:51 PM (i0ykY)

109 91 Biden: God love ya, stand up Ambassador Stevens.
*stunned silence*
Hillary: What difference does it make?
Crowd: Standing ovation for both of them.
Posted by: se pa moron at October 19, 2015 05:47 PM (sI4OA

Now give us more free shit. Dammit

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 19, 2015 05:51 PM (yddCj)

110 Oh fuck all this shit.


But Our Betters Who Know How The Game Is Played.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny now with MAGIC Jazz Hands at October 19, 2015 05:52 PM (IrByp)

111 Old Josh said today when asked that obama "probably" won't be meeting with clock boy personally as there will be a lot of Young "scientists" there tonite.... Riiiiiight...

Posted by: donna at October 19, 2015 05:52 PM (/dSsq)

112 Gowdy? Sheesh. C'mon.

They can say "accident" where the grifting harridan's was "intentional" but, fvck it, you're right ace. The 'rats and pressholes need little and boy will they milk it.

Posted by: eureka! is troubled these days at October 19, 2015 05:52 PM (g1MTt)

113 Smooth move, Draco Malfoy!

--

LOL. He does look like a Malfoy.


A couple of handsome fellows.

Posted by: Zombie King Joffrey at October 19, 2015 05:52 PM (kHgvV)

114 This was over once dipshit McCarthy opened his stupid mouth anyways.

Posted by: Buzzion at October 19, 2015 05:52 PM (z/Ubi)

115 The GOPe's "single issue" is mass amnesty, which will effectively guarantee Democrat electoral victories.

Their one do-or-die issue is to get themselves kicked out of office.

It's like Douglas Adams "animal bred to actually want to be eaten."

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 19, 2015 05:52 PM (bLnSU)

116 "'Cause you can't have it both ways, you know..."


I really don't give anybody in D.C. credit for such cunning, multilevel planning. Most aren't capable of it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 19, 2015 05:52 PM (LA7Cm)

117 >>114 This was over once dipshit McCarthy opened his stupid mouth anyways.

^This.

Posted by: Y-not at October 19, 2015 05:53 PM (0Iy+I)

118 @45 & 84
Has anyone ID'd this guy? Is that an old friend, or what?

Posted by: Chi at October 19, 2015 05:53 PM (DkRHT)

119 So, right smack dab in a row, we get a picture of Hillary! and updates on Dan Rather and Joe Biden. These are just awful people.

Posted by: m at October 19, 2015 05:53 PM (tElZn)

120 All of Congress' hearings are/were Kabuki theater.

They were never intended to extract the truth (although some was uncovered) they never were to find those to blame (although some were uncovered) they never were to make changes or to extract reparations/punishment for any misdeeds.

NO ONE has yet to go to jail or be even fined and those that have lost their position have been given another elsewhere or given their pension with no restriction.

Sorry to say, this also includes everyone's darling Trey Gowdy. He's no better than he should be and no better than Issa at standing in the ring and announcing the acts while his brethren pose and strut while accomplishing nothing.

Electing a President won't stop any of this. Hate to tell y'all but if you think we're going back to a "better" time, forget it. That's not gonna happen.

Some fundamental changes have to made to counteract the ones already in process and the ones most recently introduced by our drug addled Occupant of the WH.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 19, 2015 05:53 PM (Xo1Rt)

121 The GOP will not let that happen. Ever. And they need to pay the price for their inaction and incompetence at the upcoming polls.


Posted by: OurCountryIsScrewed at October 19, 2015 05:45 PM (DlmoZ)


Yeah, let's give everything back to the (D)Marxists.

That'll show us............

*head---------->desk*

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at October 19, 2015 05:54 PM (Uxzv7)

122 Giants at Philly tonight. Someone going to get beat up.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 19, 2015 05:54 PM (jJRIy)

123 It's only over because the GOPe basically just does whatever the MFM wants, for idiot reasons no one can articulate.

You *can* fight back against the narrative, but apparently it's too HAAAAAAAARD!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 19, 2015 05:54 PM (bLnSU)

124 so?

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at October 19, 2015 05:54 PM (lxrIV)

125 I have never understood the love for Gowdy. What has he actually accomplished? He is just as big a disappointment as Darrel Issa. He also didnt ran against Graham when we needed a credible conservative from SC to take that loon down, just as he declined to take up responsibility in the race for the speakership. With stalwarts like that, the movement might as well close shop.

Posted by: The Nayden Broad at October 19, 2015 05:54 PM (F3YbK)

126 Nip Sip - are there ALCS baseball games tonight? I have the schedule on my iPad but I'm too lazy to get up and walk across the room.

Posted by: grammie winger, how long Lord? at October 19, 2015 05:56 PM (dFi94)

127 With stalwarts like that, the movement might as well close shop.
Posted by: The Nayden Broad

Stalwart? No. Blowhard? Yes.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 19, 2015 05:56 PM (yddCj)

128 Trump might be a clown, but I think these guys are bigger clowns.
Posted by: rd at October 19, 2015 05:51 PM (SukjU)

This is why I have a problem with all the pundit types pooping their pants and screaming hysterically about Trump only while wringing their hands mildly, if at all, about the GOP politicians in congress.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 19, 2015 05:56 PM (v9gSJ)

129 And then there's SMOD,
And then there's SMOD,
And then there's SMOD,
And then there's SMOD,
And then there's SMOD,
And then there's SMOD,
And then there's


that uncompromisin' enterprisin', anything but tranquilizin',
Right on SMOD!

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 19, 2015 05:56 PM (AC0lD)

130 Hello President Hillary!

Posted by: donna at October 19, 2015 05:57 PM (/dSsq)

131 Veni Vedi Vagi

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 19, 2015 05:57 PM (Xo1Rt)

132 126
Nip Sip - are there ALCS baseball games tonight? I have the schedule on
my iPad but I'm too lazy to get up and walk across the room.


Posted by: grammie winger, how long Lord? at October 19, 2015 05:56 PM (dFi94)


Toronto and KC in Toronto at 8:00 PM

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 19, 2015 05:57 PM (AC0lD)

133 I think that politicians have always tended toward corruption, but it seemed a lot of people gave up during the 90s. I mean, remember "Kasich the budget hawk?"

It seemed, maybe I was a fool, that some people were still fighting seriously, but nothing came of it and they gave up, and since then it's been surrender monkey circus.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 19, 2015 05:57 PM (bLnSU)

134 We are pressured in every way but not crushed;
we are perplexed but not in despair;
we are persecuted but not abandoned;
we are struck down but not destroyed.


2 Corinthians 4: 8-9

Posted by: grammie winger, how long Lord? at October 19, 2015 05:57 PM (dFi94)

135 Royals- Jays play tonight...8sh

Posted by: Doom Rider at October 19, 2015 05:57 PM (ck8TA)

136 I can't believe anyone ever thought she would do anything but skate.

Posted by: bob in houston at October 19, 2015 05:58 PM (XRxxn)

137
"the State Department has the first responsibility of protecting US secrets, and itself was guilty of a breach here."


Reading the article:

State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the CIA had not objected to the release of the name, but State wanted it withheld for privacy reasons.

CIA "assessed that the information in question was not classified and suggested no redactions to the documents in question," Toner said. "We have asked the Benghazi Committee not to use the individuals name publicly to protect that individuals privacy. That was our rationale behind redacting his name."

So, not a "secret", not classified, not even sensitive. As for State's reasons for wanting privacy at this point-- *shrugs*.

Of course, this will be spun up to high outrage, but there's no there there.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 19, 2015 05:58 PM (kdS6q)

138 It might actually make a difference if there was any evidence the Non-aligned portion of the American electorate gave a fukc about any of this.

Posted by: Crom's Dirty Underpants at October 19, 2015 05:58 PM (xudgf)

139 Also, Hillary has man hands.

Several of them, in fact.

In her collection.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 19, 2015 05:58 PM (LUgeY)

140 Change the name of the committee to the "oversight committee" and it's all good, brah.

Posted by: Fritz at October 19, 2015 05:58 PM (3tjn4)

141 SNL did a funny skit in 2012 about how Biden was sniggering like a jerk at everything Ryan was saying. As someone remarked on an earlier thread, it would be great fun to see Hillary debate Biden, with each of them cackling and sneering with phony derisive laughter as the other one was speaking, especially if it were so loud that it would disrupt the other party.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 19, 2015 05:58 PM (E5UB0)

142 I know this looks Really, Really Bad!

But don't worry, this will not jeopardize the important thing, my chances of re-election.

Re-election is all that matters.

Posted by: Trey Gowdy at October 19, 2015 05:58 PM (SukjU)

143 Toronto and KC in Toronto at 8:00 PM


Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 19, 2015 05:57 PM (AC0lD
========================




Thank you. As long is there is baseball, life is good.



Posted by: grammie winger, how long Lord? at October 19, 2015 05:58 PM (dFi94)

144 We are pressured in every way but not crushed;
we are perplexed but not in despair;
we are persecuted but not abandoned;
we are struck down but not destroyed.


2 Corinthians 4: 8-9
Posted by: grammie winger, how long Lord?

Given up on politics, but not on the everlasting kingdom. After all, that is where our real citizenship is.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 19, 2015 05:59 PM (v9gSJ)

145 Render unto Caesar.

They made this mess now let them fix it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 19, 2015 06:00 PM (Xo1Rt)

146 127
With stalwarts like that, the movement might as well close shop.

Posted by: The Nayden Broad



Stalwart? No. Blowhard? Yes.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 19, 2015 05:56 PM (yddCj)


Lickspittle? Likely. Flimflammer? Most definitely.

Posted by: rebel flounder at October 19, 2015 06:00 PM (1DH1V)

147 This is all misleading - State released the name for release, not Gowdy.

It is simply a lie to say that he released it. He asked for a redacted version and they fucked up.


A deeper fuck up though, is how incompetent do you have to be to have multiple spellings for one man? This is an old problem and aside from this type of issue, it wracks hell on immigration and verifying foreign passports -- in fact, it makes it impossible.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at October 19, 2015 06:00 PM (LWu6U)

148 Of course, this will be spun up to high outrage, but there's no there there.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 19, 2015 05:58 PM (kdS6q)


As Iowahawk said (and has been quoted here today), the press' job is to cover the story. With a pillow, until it stops moving.

I think this version is called "burying the lede."

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 19, 2015 06:01 PM (bLnSU)

149 @137
Thanks for posting that.

Posted by: Y-not at October 19, 2015 06:01 PM (0Iy+I)

150 A deeper fuck up though, is how incompetent do you have to be to have multiple spellings for one man?



This is how they missed the panty bomber, I believe.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 19, 2015 06:02 PM (v9gSJ)

151 2 Corinthians 4: 8-9

Posted by: grammie winger
------------------------------------------------------------------
Paul merely had to contend with insane Roman emperors suffering from brain damage due to lead poisoning. He's never had to deal with the likes of Obama and Biden. Perhaps if he lived in these times he would not be so sanguine.

/kidding

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 19, 2015 06:02 PM (E5UB0)

152 And I was just wondering what fresh awaited.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 19, 2015 06:02 PM (XUKZU)

153 As Donald Trump has so astutely said, We are led by very stupid people.

Posted by: Kreplach at October 19, 2015 06:03 PM (WVvzl)

154 Wouldnt it be hilarious if there were severe legal consequences for Trey Gowdy (hello Scooter Libby!), while Hillary comes emerges from all of this without a scratch?

Posted by: The Nayden Broad at October 19, 2015 06:04 PM (F3YbK)

155 The Obama admin. let loose a CIA operative's name from either Syria or Iraq last year. Never heard another word about it.

Considering who and what they are investigating this shit should have been tightened up. They don't have the state media shilling for them.

Posted by: Cheri at October 19, 2015 06:04 PM (oiNtH)

156 I have never worshipped at the Altar of Gowdy and his very, very angry guy routine.
The characteristics of a good prosecutor do not necessarily relate will to the average American in a more fluid sense of public opinion.
He is too vulnerable to being spun as making this "about politics" or "just being vindictive" because he comes across that way.
Saying "you lied, you lied" over and over does not convince the American people why they should give a damn.
"Mere lying" lost its sting way back in the Clinton I years.

Posted by: Ex NYC Peasant at October 19, 2015 06:04 PM (k8tEg)

157 As Donald Trump has so astutely said, We are led by very stupid people.

Posted by: Kreplach

And I want a shot at that!

Posted by: Donald Trump at October 19, 2015 06:04 PM (VAsIq)

158 153
As Donald Trump has so astutely said, We are led by very stupid people.

Posted by: Kreplach at October 19, 2015 06:03 PM (WVvzl)


Nice!

Posted by: rebel flounder at October 19, 2015 06:05 PM (1DH1V)

159 And I was just wondering what fresh awaited.

Fresh hell isn't just for breakfast anymore.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 19, 2015 06:05 PM (LUgeY)

160 If I'm Gowdy, and State is bitching about the release, the solve is easy:

Subpoena the CIA (who will respond quickly) with records of their official complaints regarding the public release of the source's name in relation to operations in Libya previously.

Doesn't exist. There's your playing politics, putting the onus back on State once again.

Posted by: Fringe at October 19, 2015 06:05 PM (+GIZJ)

161 After all, that is where our real citizenship is.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 19, 2015 05:59 PM (v9gSJ)
==========================

When I said that I gave up about 8 months ago, what you said there about our true citizenship - that's what really clicked for me. "This world is not my home. I'm just a-passin' thru." I sang that song in Sunday School a hundred years ago. I guess I never thought it would get to the place where I would lose the country I love. But I will never lose the country I was made for.

Posted by: grammie winger, how long Lord? at October 19, 2015 06:05 PM (dFi94)

162 This is why I have a problem with all the pundit types pooping their pants and screaming hysterically about Trump only while wringing their hands mildly, if at all, about the GOP politicians in congress.
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 19, 2015 05:56 PM (v9gSJ)


I came to this realization some time ago. What makes any candidate less of a clown than Trump is purported to be? If he's the nominee, you're fuckin-A right I vote for him - and happily.

The (D)Marxist slate is a criminal, a paste eating retard and a 70 year old hippie, all three in Santa Claus suits promising things that any math competent third grader should be able to discern as unaffordable.

...and Trump is a clown?

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at October 19, 2015 06:05 PM (Uxzv7)

163 Its not classified now, because everyone knows

Posted by: Jean at October 19, 2015 06:05 PM (ztOda)

164 A deeper fuck up though, is how incompetent do you have to be to have multiple spellings for one man?

----

No kidding!

Posted by: Moamar Gadaffy at October 19, 2015 06:05 PM (VAsIq)

165 Hillary's got other man parts too!

Posted by: Huma, scissoring my way to riches at October 19, 2015 06:06 PM (tvdXm)

166 I don't know. Blaming Trey for this seems like blaming the second car that runs over the already dead body for vehicular homicide while letting the first car off.

Fck Hillary. The Clintons won't be happy until the entire country is as morally bankrupt as they are.

Posted by: se pa moron at October 19, 2015 06:06 PM (sI4OA)

167 Cupcake. Yellowcake. What difference does it make?

Posted by: Fritz at October 19, 2015 06:06 PM (3tjn4)

168 I am going to watch bad football and hope the Eagles fans are the usual assholes.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 19, 2015 06:06 PM (jJRIy)

169 the name of the doctor in Pakistan who helped us find bin Laden... who released his name..?

Posted by: Mallflower at October 19, 2015 06:07 PM (qSIlh)

170 Bbbbbut everyone involved in governing us peons is super smart, and we should be grateful they're not in that high paying public sector...

/

Posted by: anon a mouse at October 19, 2015 06:07 PM (aeRWb)

171 @65 Wait, that's not a crime anymore? Can I get my money and reputation back?


Posted by: Scooter Libby at October 19, 2015 05:41 PM (X7E8f)
---------------

Sorry, Scooter, no can do. You were convicted of forgetfulness, not disclosing information. Richard Armitage was the leaker, and nothing happened to him (as no crime had been committed).

Posted by: junior at October 19, 2015 06:08 PM (PVi+Q)

172 Don't you think that, since it was already released by darling Mrs. Clinton, that maybe they have yanked that asset by now?

Or do you suppose that Gowdy is just that stupid?

Who knows which is true, or both?

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2015 06:08 PM (+YMhA)

173 Democratic Presidential Candidate Jim Webb Considering Independent Run

http://bit.ly/1NkQuPV

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 19, 2015 06:08 PM (vBeA5)

174 Seriously you guys, when was that picture taken? Twenty years ago?

Lack of cracked visage.

Posted by: Cheri at October 19, 2015 06:09 PM (oiNtH)

175 This is all misleading - State released the name for release, not Gowdy.

It is simply a lie to say that he released it. He asked for a redacted version and they fucked up.


A deeper fuck up though, is how incompetent do you have to be to have multiple spellings for one man? This is an old problem and aside from this type of issue, it wracks hell on immigration and verifying foreign passports -- in fact, it makes it impossible.


Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at October 19, 2015 06:00 PM


A simple, non-Washington DC solution would be to REDACT ALL THE NAMES and replace them with source 1, gov off 2, etc.

Posted by: rd at October 19, 2015 06:09 PM (SukjU)

176 165 Hillary's got other man parts too!
Posted by: Huma, scissoring my way to riches at October 19, 2015 06:06 PM (tvdXm)

In her purse, I suspect. Probably cut off the men she has had killed over the years.

Hey, it worked for Planned Barrenhood!

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2015 06:09 PM (+YMhA)

177 , Scooter, no can do. You were convicted of forgetfulness, not disclosing information. Richard Armitage was the leaker, and nothing happened to him (as no crime had been committed).


Posted by: junior

With the blessings of his boss, the ultra-Republican Colin Powell.

Posted by: Cheri at October 19, 2015 06:10 PM (oiNtH)

178 Let's not overlook Scooter Libby's actual crime: he worked for Darth Cheney. He's lucky he didn't get lethal injection.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 19, 2015 06:12 PM (awspb)

179 No kidding!

Posted by: Moamar Gadaffy at October 19, 2015 06:05 PM (VAsIq)


****

^^^^^
What he said

Posted by: Mao Zhedong at October 19, 2015 06:12 PM (NeFrd)

180 I came to this realization some time ago. What makes any candidate less of a clown than Trump is purported to be? If he's the nominee, you're fuckin-A right I vote for him - and happily.

The (D)Marxist slate is a criminal, a paste eating retard and a 70 year old hippie, all three in Santa Claus suits promising things that any math competent third grader should be able to discern as unaffordable.

...and Trump is a clown?
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC
--------------------------------------------------

This CANNOT be repeated often enough, until the anti-trumpers like Begonia, Drew and Trumpetdaddy stop talking like this. Whatever criticism is leveled against Trump, the other candidates, D or R are either just as bad or worse. They are literally so bad they render any criticism of an outsider completely irrelevant. They are the North Pole of awful and you can't go north of the North Pole. And Trump at least pretends to listen our concerns and promise solutions, and the others can't even bring themselves to do that anymore, their contempt for us is so great.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 19, 2015 06:12 PM (E5UB0)

181 I am going to watch bad football and hope the Eagles fans are the usual assholes.

Heh.

I went to the grocery store to get a couple of things today. I was checked out by a new guy, a bit older that the kollidge kids, who didn't say, "Hi, how are you, did you find everything?" like the rest of them are trained to do.

The first thing he said was, "Did you watch that Colts game last night? What was that weird play all about?" And the little kollidge bag girl even joined in.

Heh.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 19, 2015 06:12 PM (LUgeY)

182 Considering that they parse everything he says, then run it through a fine sieve, he was gonna screw up eventually.

I mean, yeah, it was stupid, but nobody bats 1,000.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 19, 2015 06:13 PM (QFjNO)

183 re 179 etc: years ago, Ripley's Believe it or Not noted that there were dozens of ways to spell Shakespeare, none exactly incorrect.

Posted by: Mallflower at October 19, 2015 06:13 PM (qSIlh)

184 I saw Mousa Kousa open for The Stray Cats in '88 at the Inglewood Forum.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 19, 2015 06:14 PM (8ZskC)

185 Good Lord, the one piece of classified info disclosed by Clinton that required no explanation is now moot.

Talent Keyhole SatData? What's that? A CIA source? Now that's something the low infos could understand.

Up until now the left has been doing well with the line that all this classified data was classified after the fact as a ploy against Clinton. This intel leak Gowdy just destroyed was the one piece that was truly easy to explain as a bad disclosure.

Sure, you can still try to use this, but every MediaMatters acolyte will immediately rejoinder, "Oh, you mean the source the Republicans leaked too?"

Got Dammit.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 19, 2015 06:15 PM (jhqr1)

186 fyi -- all other countries have a single way to translate a name from one language to another. This is kind of the job of the State department, and so there is only one translation. One name in arabic, or Chinese, or Klingon gives you one name in English.


Only the USA leaves it up to who-the-fuck to make up whatever they want whenever they want.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at October 19, 2015 06:15 PM (LWu6U)

187 Hillary needs to do a better job of tweezing her eyebrows. I don't like eyebrows that end thickly on the inside edge.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 19, 2015 06:15 PM (E5UB0)

188 I wish someone would ask Hillbags WTF her toady Sidney Blumenthal was up to in Libya.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 19, 2015 06:16 PM (oVJmc)

189 187
Hillary needs to do a better job of tweezing her eyebrows. I don't like eyebrows that end thickly on the inside edge.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 19, 2015 06:15 PM (E5UB0)


That's not eyebrows.

Posted by: rebel flounder at October 19, 2015 06:16 PM (1DH1V)

190 Given up on politics, but not on the everlasting kingdom. After all, that is where our real citizenship is.
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african


----------------


But Jesus did say there would be Heaven on Earth but few will realize it. I'm a citizen of the Heaven on Earth with the earthly moniker of USA.

Posted by: Soona at October 19, 2015 06:16 PM (7oUzf)

191 Only the USA leaves it up to who-the-fuck to make up whatever they want whenever they want.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest
-----------------------------
Hey, you believe in democracy, you should be against totalitarian transliteration.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 19, 2015 06:17 PM (E5UB0)

192 Benghazi: the 2016 version of magic sperm

I think it's official, the GOP will never win another presidential election.

Posted by: Monsieur Mew Mew at October 19, 2015 06:17 PM (0LHZx)

193 thought Gowdy was a big ole smarty pants prosecutor

woops

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 19, 2015 06:17 PM (Cq0oW)

194 Mousa Kousa sounds like some kind of 3rd world dessert made from hog sweat and coffee grounds.

Posted by: Fritz at October 19, 2015 06:18 PM (3tjn4)

195 I've said all along Trey Gowdy gives good theater, and that's it. He hasn't accomplished a thing.

This is why he'd probably win the Speakership.

Posted by: Blano at October 19, 2015 06:19 PM (C3E0x)

196 Round up the usual suspects.... Oh, It's us...

Posted by: donna at October 19, 2015 06:19 PM (/dSsq)

197 So, not a "secret", not classified, not even sensitive. As for State's reasons for wanting privacy at this point-- *shrugs*.

Of course, this will be spun up to high outrage, but there's no there there.


Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 19, 2015 05:58 PM


So why is Ace making it there there?

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 19, 2015 06:19 PM (c/3OG)

198 But Jesus did say there would be Heaven on Earth but few will realize it. I'm a citizen of the Heaven on Earth with the earthly moniker of USA.
Posted by: Soona at October 19, 2015 06:16 PM (7oUzf)

Where did He say this?

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 19, 2015 06:19 PM (v9gSJ)

199 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 19, 2015 05:58 PM

So why is Ace making it there there?

Unfortunately right now it's the # 1 story on yahoo...

Posted by: donna at October 19, 2015 06:20 PM (/dSsq)

200 @174 Seriously you guys, when was that picture taken? Twenty years ago?

Lack of cracked visage.
Posted by: Cheri at October 19, 2015 06:09 PM (oiNtH)

Yeah, the photo is aged. I discussed her intermittent (it changes) visage with a plastic surgeon last week, because parts of that face just don't occur in nature. His belief is that she has fat injections, the reason that her cheeks seem to be plump yet sag and she sometimes doesn't have the deep bags beneath her eyes.

I've been wondering why she seems to consistently favor the ugly high neck, button up jackets, somewhat reminiscent of Mao. She's so concerned about covering up the base of her neck and her upper chest that there may be scars or other indicators of health problems.

Maybe it's a chick thing to wonder about these things. On the other hand, we have a pretty good idea about what is being so deliberately camouflaged.

Posted by: obladioblada at October 19, 2015 06:21 PM (WVxCU)

201 Mousa Kousa sounds like some kind of 3rd world dessert made from hog sweat and coffee grounds.

Or the name of a theme park.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 19, 2015 06:22 PM (LUgeY)

202 Only the USA leaves it up to who-the-fuck to make up whatever they want whenever they want.

That's been true at least since Ellis Island.

Oh, your Swiss name is Eleonore Blickensderfer? Congrats on your new name, Ellen Black.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 19, 2015 06:22 PM (jhqr1)

203 88 I think I have given up.
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 19, 2015 05:46 PM (v9gSJ)


Me too, chique.

Posted by: rickl at October 19, 2015 06:24 PM (sdi6R)

204 I wonder if the State Dept. did a search and replace? And the misspelling caused that one to be missed?

Posted by: JT at October 19, 2015 06:24 PM (yqvys)

205 I'm not seeing the problem here. Moussa Koussa is no longer an asset and the fact that he ever was is already widely known to those who have reason to care.

Posted by: Epobirs at October 19, 2015 06:25 PM (IdCqF)

206 Given up on politics, but not on the everlasting kingdom. After all, that is where our real citizenship is.
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african

I'm gonna continue my theme from a morning thread. If we give up politics, the domestic terrorists win.

I don't believe for a second that "turning the other cheek" meant that we'd have to keep doing it over, and over, and over again. At some point, you do something about it.

It's way past time to fight, whether peacefully or violently. You either win and destroy the enemy, in this case the liberal scum, or take as many of them with you as possible.

Posted by: Blano at October 19, 2015 06:26 PM (C3E0x)

207 203
88 I think I have given up.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 19, 2015 05:46 PM (v9gSJ)



Me too, chique.

Posted by: rickl at October 19, 2015 06:24 PM (sdi6R)



Please don't give up. I'll send you some pics of my adorable boys, 3.5 and 9 months. This country is still worth fighting for.

Posted by: rebel flounder at October 19, 2015 06:26 PM (1DH1V)

208 But Jesus did say there would be Heaven on Earth but few will realize it. I'm a citizen of the Heaven on Earth with the earthly moniker of USA.
Posted by: Soona at October 19, 2015 06:16 PM (7oUzf)

Where did He say this?
Posted by: chique d'afrique
---------------------------------------------------
Luke sometimes says "immanent"sounding verses (Lk 17:17-23):
17 And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?

18 There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.

19 And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.

20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:

21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.

23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.

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But note verse 22. He may simply have been addressing the people in his day.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 19, 2015 06:26 PM (E5UB0)

209 174 - at this point what difference does it make
All hail or new overlord Her royal highness

Posted by: Skip at October 19, 2015 06:28 PM (R3Ycp)

210 88 I think I have given up.
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 19, 2015 05:46 PM (v9gSJ)

Me too, chique.

Posted by: rickl at October 19, 2015 06:24 PM (sdi6R)

I'm back and forth. I know the Bible clearly states how bad things will get, so do we just sit back, or keep fighting?

In that morning thread Brother Cavil brought up discernment, and being careful. I'll be the first to admit that I need more guidance, but to just sit back and watch it all happen? Not sure I can.

Posted by: Blano at October 19, 2015 06:28 PM (C3E0x)

211
I think that name was given up just as deliberately as McCarthy made the idiot statement about the Benghazi investigation motive.

BOTH were done with malice aforethought.

Can't provide proof, only gut feeling, so there it is.

Posted by: irongrampa at October 19, 2015 06:30 PM (jeCnD)

212 184
I saw Mousa Kousa open for The Stray Cats in '88 at the Inglewood Forum.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 19, 2015 06:14 PM (8ZskC)

Man was the fvcker stoned. That hash will fvck you up

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 19, 2015 06:31 PM (jJRIy)

213 Gowdy needs to resign. Congress should demand he resign. We need to punish him and his staff for this criminal negligence.

Then, when he is kicked from office, we can turn our sights on Mrs. Clinton. And if the GOP does not do this, aren't they just being the clowns we know them to be? Should Gowdy avoid consequences?

I know, the Clintons skate, and skate, and build a skating rink, and skate some more. Whatever. The GOP must pony up if they expect to be able to hold the Democrats' feet to the fire.

But they won't. And Gowdy will remain. And nothing will change. And we'll all be discussing President Clinton next year.

Posted by: Smallish Bees at October 19, 2015 06:31 PM (nMP3C)

214 This "Moussa Koussa" fella' doesn't appear to be an "asset" of the CIA... And, his identity as a "spy chief" was well known, at least as far back as 2013...

http://tinyurl.com/o478emq

Posted by: franksalterego at October 19, 2015 06:32 PM (Fh+WR)

215 Whatever criticism is leveled against Trump, the other candidates, D or R are either just as bad or worse. They are literally so bad they render any criticism of an outsider completely irrelevant. They are the North Pole of awful and you can't go north of the North Pole

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 19, 2015 06:12 PM (E5UB0)


Sorry, that may be true of Krispy Kreme, Miss Lindsay, and John "God Told Me to Raise Your Taxes" Kasich.

But I don't lump all the candidates together. Look at guys like Cruz and Jindal, who can actually make a reasoned argument for limiting government.

Trump is a true no-nothing. He's all about the power. His idea of making America great is more empire, more gilt, more fabulous, more yuge. He's all about impressing, and could really give a flying fuck about the Constitution, freedom, or citizen government.

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at October 19, 2015 06:32 PM (Rw7W8)

216 Please don't give up. I'll send you some pics of my adorable boys, 3.5 and 9 months. This country is still worth fighting for.


Posted by: rebel flounder at October 19, 2015 06:26 PM


Your boys are only 5.5 months apart? That doesn't even qualify for Irish twins.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 19, 2015 06:33 PM (c/3OG)

217 >>>I've been wondering why she seems to consistently favor the ugly high neck, button up jackets, somewhat reminiscent of Mao. She's so concerned about covering up the base of her neck and her upper chest that there may be scars or other indicators of health problems.<<<

Is anybody really convinced that those cankles are naturally occurring?

Hmm. Maybe the Johnny-lunchbucket American public isn't quite ready to see her DARPA-constructed exoskeletal interface nodules in all of their genetically enhanced glory.

Posted by: Fritz at October 19, 2015 06:33 PM (3tjn4)

218 Its pathetic that we're going to have to trust to the good graces of Barry and JoeyB to put Cankles behind bars.

Posted by: Iblis at October 19, 2015 06:34 PM (9221z)

219
202 Only the USA leaves it up to who-the-fuck to make up whatever they want whenever they want.

That's been true at least since Ellis Island.

Oh, your Swiss name is Eleonore Blickensderfer? Congrats on your new name, Ellen Black.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 19, 2015 06:22 PM (jhqr1)


I thought there was recently some information that this is actually a myth. That it wasn't Ellis Island that did the name changes but whatever country they were departing from that did it.

Posted by: Buzzion at October 19, 2015 06:34 PM (z/Ubi)

220 "I'm back and forth."


Wouldn't say I given up necessarily. I have little hope for D.C. and $17T in unfunded liabilities that no one, nobody at all, seems to want to do anything about.

I haven't given up on the country or it's people. Do kinda sit and wonder sometimes what comes "after" the inevitable collapse.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 19, 2015 06:34 PM (LA7Cm)

221 Here's some adrenaline junkie gifs
http://tinyurl.com/on3uwvq

http://thechive.com/2015/10/19/
some-people-clearly-enjoy-
adrenaline-more-than-others-15-gifs/

I'd have ridden the bike down the spillway in #2. The brakes would've smoked though.

Posted by: DaveA at October 19, 2015 06:35 PM (DL2i+)

222 Its pathetic that we're going to have to trust to the good graces of Barry and JoeyB to put Cankles behind bars.

Posted by: Iblis at October 19, 2015 06:34 PM (9221z)

Yeah right. I'll get laid by Sofia Vergara before that happens (which will be never, for the record).

Posted by: Blano at October 19, 2015 06:35 PM (C3E0x)

223 This "you too" defense didn't work for Scooter Libby

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at October 19, 2015 06:36 PM (e8kgV)

224 Hillary is qualified to be Presdent because she is married to Presdent Clinton. Bush was the son of a failed Presdent that hated persons of color and got elected. Presdent Hillary Clinton sounds good to all of us in Brattleboror ifBarney Sanders is not elected..

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at October 19, 2015 06:36 PM (EIFYf)

225 I've taken to calling football Ad-ball.

They're killing my love with that shit. On top of all the stoppages for reviews and just all the penalties period.

Posted by: eleven at October 19, 2015 06:36 PM (rjtGa)

226 216
Please don't give up. I'll send you some pics of my adorable boys, 3.5 and 9 months. This country is still worth fighting for.




Posted by: rebel flounder at October 19, 2015 06:26 PM

Your boys are only 5.5 months apart? That doesn't even qualify for Irish twins.


Posted by: olddog in mo at October 19, 2015 06:33 PM (c/3OG)


lol, thanks. 3.5 years and 9 months. And I must be careful with the pictures. They are known to make uteri explode.

Posted by: rebel flounder at October 19, 2015 06:36 PM (1DH1V)

227
So why is [redacted] making it there there? Unfortunately right now it's the # 1 story on yahoo...
Posted by: donna


Not to single anyone out, but --

Because:

1. Nobody RTFA
2. Nobody hits pause and thinks about TFA. It's a race to first post/tweet
3. Uh -- I forget.....
4. Regardless of the facts, the narrative will be spun to confirm a bias or achieve a broader goal

Hence where this story is going, as did that tots secret spy Dubya outed, and the outrage of him firing people he could fire, and so on.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 19, 2015 06:36 PM (kdS6q)

228 Posted by: Blano at October 19, 2015 06:26 PM (C3E0x)
===========================



It's possible and desirable to fight, just using different tactics and strategies. What we have been doing clearly isn't working. Maybe we need to shift strategies. Maybe the battleground isn't Washington. We tend to see that as the end-all and be-all. We lose there. Clearly. We lose. So then, where can we win? How do we win? Are there alternatives to what is normally viewed as political change?



That's where I am. That is the battle I am fighting. That is where I expect change to occur.


Posted by: grammie winger, how long Lord? at October 19, 2015 06:37 PM (dFi94)

229 At Insty, was a link to an article about some book where the author says our history had at least 3 crises and consensus - 1800 to the civil war, then to the depression, then to post ww2

in each we became polarized and walked through a fire. right now we're polarized. where's the fire?

but... then the next. where's the consensus? i you had to agree with the liberals on one single point, what could it be?

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 19, 2015 06:39 PM (Cq0oW)

230
Gowdy needs to resign. Congress should demand he resign. We need to punish him and his staff for this criminal negligence.
Posted by: Smallish Bees





And what -- exactly -- was his/their "crime"?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 19, 2015 06:39 PM (kdS6q)

231 i you had to agree with the liberals on one single point, what could it be?

As noted in the sidebar, the CoC is evil.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 19, 2015 06:40 PM (rwI+c)

232 207
Please don't give up. I'll send you some pics of my adorable boys, 3.5 and 9 months. This country is still worth fighting for.
Posted by: rebel flounder at October 19, 2015 06:26 PM (1DH1V)


Oh, I agree. I just don't think it's possible to save it through voting any more.

Posted by: rickl at October 19, 2015 06:41 PM (sdi6R)

233 Republic of Texas

Posted by: CozMark at October 19, 2015 06:41 PM (CbGSW)

234 whoa,

I've been following the invasion of Germany, this can't end well.

A town of 4,000 in Lower Saxony is forced to accept 3,000 'migrants' 70-80 percent are 18 to 45 yo men

good luck with that...

Posted by: Jake at October 19, 2015 06:41 PM (VetGq)

235 Ace, As to your speculation as to whether this was a Stat Dept set-up?. Rest assured, it WAS.
The name was left in the document, un-redacted on purpose....this is how real pros play the game.
Gowdy...and this is not popular, despite his background is a very very mediocre 'prosecutor'.
And Gowdy just got major leagued punked by pros who know he is mediocre.

Posted by: Lower Class person whose opinions need to be guided at October 19, 2015 06:41 PM (3ZttN)

236
Now convert their ages to metrics.

Posted by: Lincoln Chafee (D) Stiff at October 19, 2015 06:41 PM (wAQA5)

237 231
i you had to agree with the liberals on one single point, what could it be?



BJs are good.

Posted by: Good ole Bill Clinton, feminst hero and rapist. at October 19, 2015 06:41 PM (jJRIy)

238 OT but is anyone here blogging the Canadian Elections tonight? Will we get another Trudeau? Will Harper have a Cameron-comeback? Hung Parliament? Eggs in pollsters faces?

Posted by: Czar Peter at October 19, 2015 06:42 PM (eYqbW)

239 "I'm back and forth."

Wouldn't say I given up necessarily. I have little hope for D.C. and $17T in unfunded liabilities that no one, nobody at all, seems to want to do anything about.

I haven't given up on the country or it's people. Do kinda sit and wonder sometimes what comes "after" the inevitable collapse.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 19, 2015 06:34 PM (LA7Cm)

I haven't given up on some of the people or some parts of the country, but I certainly have given up on large swaths of people and certain areas of the country.

Unfortunately, those large swaths I've given up on run the show now, and are in an overwhelmingly superior position of power. But then again, so were the British in the late 1700's.

So fight it anyways, or just sit back and let it collapse, preparing in the process?? Don't know.

Posted by: Blano at October 19, 2015 06:42 PM (C3E0x)

240 >>>They're killing my love with that shit. On top of all the stoppages for reviews and just all the penalties period.<<<

These networks have hired all of the league's old horses' cocks to over-analyze the game to the point that it's counterproductive. These analysts suck badly. It's the Fantasy cash cow that has ruined the purity of the game.

Posted by: Fritz at October 19, 2015 06:42 PM (3tjn4)

241
i you had to agree with the liberals on one single point,


We're all fighting to decide if it's Clinton's, Bush's or Obama's fault - whatever it is.

Posted by: DaveA at October 19, 2015 06:43 PM (DL2i+)

242 As noted in the sidebar, the CoC is evil.

The Left thinks it's a failure of capitalism.

We think it's a failure of government.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 19, 2015 06:43 PM (oVJmc)

243 Republic of Texas


I plan to fight it out on this line but, if Texas secedes, I'm exercising my Right of Return.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 19, 2015 06:43 PM (rwI+c)

244 Hey, we can agree with lib's on one thing: guns are dangerous.

Everything after that goes off the rails.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 19, 2015 06:44 PM (QFjNO)

245 I think McCarthy did it on purpose, Trey...not so much...

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at October 19, 2015 06:45 PM (+aCe4)

246 @230

If stupidity was criminal, holy shit

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarin, Model Citizen at October 19, 2015 06:46 PM (P4OkF)

247 It's possible and desirable to fight, just using different tactics and strategies. What we have been doing clearly isn't working. Maybe we need to shift strategies. Maybe the battleground isn't Washington. We tend to see that as the end-all and be-all. We lose there. Clearly. We lose. So then, where can we win? How do we win? Are there alternatives to what is normally viewed as political change?

That's where I am. That is the battle I am fighting. That is where I expect change to occur.

Posted by: grammie winger, how long Lord? at October 19, 2015 06:37 PM (dFi94)

True dat grammie, good way to approach it. Been thinking about that too. There are other ways to fight Leviathan. Withhold money, protests, boycotts, etc. etc.

One of these days, I'm gonna actually start writing about it, self discipline is a never ending battle.

Posted by: Blano at October 19, 2015 06:46 PM (C3E0x)

248 243 Republic of Texas


I plan to fight it out on this line but, if Texas secedes, I'm exercising my Right of Return.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 19, 2015 06:43 PM (rwI+c)

_________________________________

If the USA continues on the same trajectory, there will be no need to secede.

Posted by: CozMark at October 19, 2015 06:47 PM (CbGSW)

249 WRONG! You prosecute them all; Hillary, the State Department Puke, and Trey Gowdy. All three are in violation of the Fedaral Law....

I'm perfectly willing to sacrifice an incompetent if it shackles the cackles.

Posted by: OrsonSnow at October 19, 2015 06:47 PM (6Kvo2)

250
"Hey, we can agree with lib's on one thing: guns are dangerous."

Nope. PEOPLE are dangerous.
Just look at that guy who can make explosives from shops you buy stuff at in airports after you have passed thru security.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at October 19, 2015 06:47 PM (+aCe4)

251 I wonder if the State Dept. did a search and replace? And the misspelling caused that one to be missed?


Posted by: JT at October 19, 2015 06:24 PM (yqvys)

Like that time on The Office where Jim and Pam found Michael's double naught story / script and Dwight's name was misspelled once and left in?
Nah, no one would believe that . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 19, 2015 06:47 PM (JO9+V)

252 Just look at that guy who can make explosives from shops you buy stuff at in airports after you have passed thru security.

Ah, Steven Seagal in Out for Burgers.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 19, 2015 06:48 PM (rwI+c)

253 Republic of Texas

I plan to fight it out on this line but, if Texas secedes, I'm exercising my Right of Return.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 19, 2015 06:43 PM (rwI+c)

I'm already here because I decided a while back to live out my beliefs as best I can. This is also why I just moved out of the DFW metro area to a small town. I believe it's better to be way early than too late.

Posted by: Blano at October 19, 2015 06:48 PM (C3E0x)

254 its just a mental exercise really, but it occurs that any point of agreement with liberals that i have are all in opposition to a third party, the government.

so I'd like less domestic surveillance, for example, and some of their base agrees. it goes on like that.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 19, 2015 06:49 PM (Cq0oW)

255 I believe it's better to be way early than too late.

Aye that. Luckily I have kin prepositioned.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 19, 2015 06:49 PM (rwI+c)

256 But I don't lump all the candidates together. Look at guys like Cruz and Jindal, who can actually make a reasoned argument for limiting government. 
...
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh
---
Yes, I really liked Jindal on the ace podcast. When he described how he shrunk the state govt by 25%, I was salivating like Pavlov's dog, and how he had strategies to draw in Dem demographic strongholds that Dems have been fucking over (ie charter schools, etc.)

I'd definitely vote for him or Cruz, if they got the nod. I wish they'd be a bit more provocative and obnoxious, like Trump. We've been doormats for too long. But I suppose we have a lot of prissy Victorians who'd rather sit out the election than vote for a conservative who was too brash.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 19, 2015 06:50 PM (VJ3W8)

257 if Texas secedes, I'm exercising my Right of Return.

I can get sponsored by a cousin right?

Posted by: DaveA at October 19, 2015 06:51 PM (DL2i+)

258 You're a Dave, DiT has to take you in.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 19, 2015 06:52 PM (rwI+c)

259 Guns aren't dangerous? o-kay...

Cars and knives aren't dangerous, either.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 19, 2015 06:52 PM (QFjNO)

260 229
if you had to agree with the liberals on one single point, what could it be?
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 19, 2015 06:39 PM (Cq0oW)



Some of them like kittehs?

Posted by: rickl at October 19, 2015 06:52 PM (sdi6R)

261 Cars and knives aren't dangerous, either.


My kitchen cutlery has been looking a bit stabby lately.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 19, 2015 06:53 PM (rwI+c)

262 Who cares about the house of 'representatives' shenanigans? It's all kabuki anyway. Come on, Halloween asteroid. Put us out of our misery.

Posted by: Eromero at October 19, 2015 06:53 PM (go5uR)

263 and the toaster is conspiring with the microwave. I just know it.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 19, 2015 06:54 PM (rwI+c)

264 Daughter sent this to me. "Which Democrat Presidential Candidate would I trust to change my tire", by Jim Goad.

http://tinyurl.com/ovzv2la

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 19, 2015 06:54 PM (c/3OG)

265 Idiots: Trey Gowdy, Trying to Establish That Hillary Clinton Committed a Security Breach in Relaying the Name of a Libyan CIA Asset in Email, Discloses the Name of that Same CIA Libyan Asset

I meant to do that.

Posted by: Pee Wee Gowdy at October 19, 2015 06:54 PM (zc3Db)

266 the waffle iron attempted a coup last year, but I still have the loyalty of the iron skillets.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 19, 2015 06:54 PM (rwI+c)

267 >>> I can get sponsored by a cousin right?

There was a guy from Massachusetts in "Commanche Moon". Can I hang my hat on that?

Posted by: fluffy at October 19, 2015 06:54 PM (2iV3X)

268 260
229

if you had to agree with the liberals on one single point, what could it be?

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 19, 2015 06:39 PM (Cq0oW)


Most of them like anal.

Posted by: Good ole Bill Clinton, feminst hero and rapist. at October 19, 2015 06:55 PM (jJRIy)

269 The Federal Gov't. will dissolve/implode.

There won't be any need to declare secession from a union that no longer exists.

Posted by: CozMark at October 19, 2015 06:55 PM (CbGSW)

270 What? You all never watched a team throw a game?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 19, 2015 06:56 PM (Xo1Rt)

271 the coffee pot, as always, remains a neutral.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 19, 2015 06:57 PM (rwI+c)

272 I thougtht Biden had a presser at 4? What happened to it?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 19, 2015 06:57 PM (iQIUe)

273 Mr Coffee is the Quaker of appliances.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 19, 2015 06:57 PM (rwI+c)

274 Can't really rule out the possibility of the elites protecting one of their own while pretending to care about stuff to the rubes.

Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at October 19, 2015 06:57 PM (amQXf)

275 263
and the toaster is conspiring with the microwave. I just know it.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 19, 2015 06:54 PM (rwI+c)


Screw 'em both.

Posted by: Toaster Fucker at October 19, 2015 06:58 PM (1DH1V)

276 the coffee pot, as always, remains a neutral.

He only cares about Big Java.

Posted by: eleven at October 19, 2015 06:58 PM (rjtGa)

277 if you had to agree with the liberals on one single point, what could it be?

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 19, 2015 06:39 PM (Cq0oW)


Their self-hate.

It's the only thing the left gets right.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 19, 2015 06:58 PM (zc3Db)

278 You still have the loyalty of the skillets? What are you, a Democrat?

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 19, 2015 06:58 PM (QFjNO)

279 i you had to agree with the liberals on one single point, what could it be?

I agree with Leonardo DiCaprio about Bar Refaeli.

Posted by: schwiiing! at October 19, 2015 06:59 PM (EMoPb)

280 Not so much protecting her as protecting themselves from anonymous disclosures.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 19, 2015 06:59 PM (Xo1Rt)

281 You still have the loyalty of the skillets?

I call them the Iron Brigade.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 19, 2015 06:59 PM (rwI+c)

282 Can we all at least agree that oxygen is still a good thing?

Since carbon dioxide is suddenly evil?

Posted by: eleven at October 19, 2015 07:00 PM (rjtGa)

283 I got rid of most of my appliances. Too much infighting and collusion.

I kept the fridge, oven, and dishwasher. And if there's any more trouble...there won't be anymore trouble.

Posted by: CozMark at October 19, 2015 07:01 PM (CbGSW)

284 n. b. - If voting could change anything, it wouldn't be allowed.

Posted by: dr kill at October 19, 2015 07:01 PM (msVAP)

285 229 i you had to agree with the liberals on one single point, what could it be?

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 19, 2015 06:39 PM (Cq0oW)


Chevy Chase, medium talent.

Posted by: Bill Murray at October 19, 2015 07:01 PM (1DH1V)

286 Had a good time at jury duty today: it seems when you draw a black case, and you say you've been the victim of a crime, even the defense attorney assumes you were assaulted by black people.

I wasn't, but hate it being implied that I'm a racist by a racist.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 19, 2015 07:02 PM (QFjNO)

287 What? You all never watched a team throw a game?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 19, 2015 06:56 PM (Xo1Rt)


Not by the pitcher throwing bean balls at players in his own dugout, no.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 19, 2015 07:02 PM (zc3Db)

288 I terminated the dishwasher. Pour encourager les autres.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 19, 2015 07:02 PM (JO9+V)

289 Did the House committee actually know the name of the 'outed' source? I mean, how could the aides spot it unless they knew the name?

It seems that the State Dept. bears most of the blame here. Picture this -- You have to put your life in the hands of Jon Fukin Kerry...

Make sure your will is in order.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 19, 2015 07:02 PM (gyKtp)

290 A town of 4,000 in Lower Saxony is forced to accept 3,000 'migrants' 70-80 percent are 18 to 45 yo men good luck with that...
Posted by: Jake
---

And how many of the women there voted for Merkel thinking "She's a woman! She will look out for my best interests!"

Apart from reliance on police or courts to make sure you are protected from criminal behavior, if you rely on government as a cudgel to get special treatment at the expense of others, you are eventually going to get screwed over by karma.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 19, 2015 07:02 PM (VJ3W8)

291 285
229 i you had to agree with the liberals on one single point, what could it be?


Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 19, 2015 06:39 PM (Cq0oW)


Those hippie chick need to shave their legs.

Posted by: Good ole Bill Clinton, feminst hero and rapist. at October 19, 2015 07:03 PM (jJRIy)

292 if you had to agree with the liberals on one single point, what could it be?

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 19, 2015 06:39 PM (Cq0oW)

I agree that drugs should not be illegal.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 19, 2015 07:03 PM (AkOaV)

293
I thougtht Biden had a presser at 4? What happened to it?


Biden always gets stuck at 3.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 19, 2015 07:03 PM (oVJmc)

294
if you had to agree with the liberals on one single point, what could it be?


The GOP sucks.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 19, 2015 07:03 PM (oVJmc)

295 grump has an Inanimate Tragedy in the making!

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 19, 2015 07:04 PM (Cq0oW)

296 Note to T Gowdey

First you check!


Then you double check!!


Then you triple check!!!

Posted by: J Reacher at October 19, 2015 07:04 PM (ftVQq)

297 I terminated the dishwasher. Pour encourager les autres.

No need to kill your wife. Surely.

Posted by: eleven at October 19, 2015 07:05 PM (rjtGa)

298 if you had to agree with the liberals on one single point, what could it be?

Country music really sucks these days

Posted by: dr kill at October 19, 2015 07:05 PM (msVAP)

299 I think country music is like Saturday Night Live: it's always mostly sucked, you're just forgetting the crap.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 19, 2015 07:08 PM (QFjNO)

300 >>>if you had to agree with the liberals on one single point, what could it be?<<<

Miley Cyrus should not be allowed to procreate.

Posted by: Fritz at October 19, 2015 07:08 PM (3tjn4)

301 believe it's better to be way early than too late.

Aye that. Luckily I have kin prepositioned.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 19, 2015 06:49 PM (rwI+c)

Alas, I'm pretty much on my own at this point.

My kin are all pretty much in Michigan, and I'd rather sleep on a park bench in Dallas than move back there. Hence the need to get somewhere asap and make friends.

Posted by: Blano at October 19, 2015 07:08 PM (C3E0x)

302 Daughter sent this to me. "Which Democrat Presidential Candidate would I trust to change my tire", by Jim Goad.

http://tinyurl.com/ovzv2la


Posted by: olddog in mo at October 19, 2015 06:54 PM


By his description of Cankles in the second paragraph and the close, was Jim Goad deleted commenter #25?

Posted by: rd at October 19, 2015 07:08 PM (SukjU)

303 I terminated the dishwasher. Pour encourager les autres.

No need to kill your wife. Surely.

Posted by: eleven at October 19, 2015 07:05 PM (rjtGa)

Wash those pans if you want to live.

Posted by: Blano at October 19, 2015 07:08 PM (C3E0x)

304 >>>but... then the next. where's the consensus? i you had to agree with the liberals on one single point, what could it be?


If you can't live life as a lesbian, or at least a woman, your life isn't worth living.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 19, 2015 07:09 PM (VJ3W8)

305 ...country music, SNL, AND first wife....

Posted by: CozMark at October 19, 2015 07:09 PM (CbGSW)

306 No need to kill your wife. Surely.

Posted by: eleven at October 19, 2015 07:05 PM (rjtGa)


The machine. As if the ex would keep house because Patriarchy! or Star People! or something. And don't call me Shirley. It's de Monet. Say it, Dee Mo Nay!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 19, 2015 07:10 PM (JO9+V)

307 Wash those pans if you want to live.

Posted by: Blano at October 19, 2015 07:08 PM (C3E0x)

NO SOAP! NO PEACE!

Posted by: The Dishes at October 19, 2015 07:11 PM (ImLO6)

308 I'm beginning to wonder about Gowdy.

Posted by: creeper at October 19, 2015 07:11 PM (Hh8cI)

309 Note to T Gowdey

First you check!


Then you double check!!


Then you triple check!!!


Posted by: J Reacher at October 19, 2015 07:04 PM (ftVQq)


In our business, the saying is the originator of the mistake gets counseled, the reviewer(s) gets reamed.

Posted by: rd at October 19, 2015 07:11 PM (SukjU)

310 And don't get me started on those hand wash only racists.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 19, 2015 07:11 PM (QFjNO)

311 308
I'm beginning to wonder about Gowdy.


Posted by: creeper at October 19, 2015 07:11 PM (Hh8cI)

Forget it Jake, its DC

Posted by: Doom Rider at October 19, 2015 07:12 PM (ImLO6)

312 >>>and the toaster is conspiring with the microwave. I just know it.


Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 19, 2015 06:54 PM (rwI+c)
<<<




What a brave little toaster.

Posted by: Walt Disney Pictures at October 19, 2015 07:13 PM (lqmAz)

313 Note to T Gowdey

First you check!

Then you double check!!

Then you triple check!!!

Posted by: J Reacher
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If he ever worked at a company where email correspondance with clients wa very impotant, it would be second nature to him by now. I expect this shit from "community organizer" idiots, but not from "our side".

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 19, 2015 07:14 PM (VJ3W8)

314 Nood Canckles

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 19, 2015 07:15 PM (LUgeY)

315 Nood.

Posted by: Old Blue at October 19, 2015 07:16 PM (9iR5/)

316 So they accidently exposed this guy and everyone goes "oopsie" and then we move on right?

Is that his real name anyway? Sounds made up to me.

Posted by: freaked at October 19, 2015 07:17 PM (BO/km)

317 The Conservative Tree House has a very good post on why nothing will happen with the Benghazi hearings (10/18 by Sundance). Essentially, the R's were in on it. It was a gun running operation and the R leadership was complicit. All the bluster and no real action is thusly explained. Read it and weep for the former Republic.

Posted by: Agitator at October 19, 2015 07:18 PM (y09Wk)

318 317 The Conservative Tree House has a very good post on why nothing will happen with the Benghazi hearings (10/18 by Sundance). Essentially, the R's were in on it. It was a gun running operation and the R leadership was complicit. All the bluster and no real action is thusly explained. Read it and weep for the former Republic.
Posted by: Agitator at October 19, 2015 07:18 PM (y09Wk)


I read something about that a long time ago. Whatever sort of clandestine operation was going on in Benghazi, the Congressional leadership would have to have been briefed on it, by law.

Posted by: rickl at October 19, 2015 07:20 PM (sdi6R)

319 Did the House committee actually know the name of the 'outed' source? I
mean, how could the aides spot it unless they knew the name?

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 19, 2015 07:02 PM (gyKtp)


This is a very valid point. If the CIA source name was being handled properly BY PEOPLE IN THE CHAIN OF COMMAND (read that as the chain of command within DoS), no one in the House Committee should have a need to know the actual name because they should never been placed in a situation where they would see the name "Bill Smith" and go "Aha! So it's Bill Smith that is the clandestine source within the Libyan Government, mayhap I should redact his name in our report."

Posted by: Hrothgar at October 19, 2015 07:21 PM (ftVQq)

320 Hey! Trauma trigger! Redact that photo or at least pixelate!




Posted by: Victims of Bill at October 19, 2015 07:22 PM (uPxUo)

321 If any more Democrats skate they'll have enough people to start their own Ice Capades.

Posted by: Bob in Houston at October 19, 2015 07:22 PM (b7AU3)

322 Is that his real name anyway? Sounds made up to me.

Posted by: freaked at October 19, 2015 07:17 PM (BO/km)

Always thought the muz used multiple names to confuse the infidels.

Posted by: Hrothgar at October 19, 2015 07:23 PM (ftVQq)

323 Trey Gowdy as the latest Republican to come out as a dumbass? I did not see that coming! I'll have to check out some details.

Posted by: Optimizer at October 19, 2015 07:28 PM (/q6+P)

324 I admit it. I fucked a toaster.

Posted by: Gaius Baltar at October 19, 2015 07:29 PM (z/Ubi)

325 No one seems to be calling for his arrest

Posted by: righter at October 19, 2015 07:31 PM (VeSVZ)

326 "....Betting on Republican incompetence isn't even gambling. It's just prudently investing."
Just more failure theater?

Posted by: Bronc Drywall at October 19, 2015 07:32 PM (BNNGH)

327 I'll get laid by Sofia Vergara before that happens (which will be never, for the record).
Posted by: Blano at October 19, 2015 06:35 PM
-------

So you're tellin'. me there's a chance...Yeaaaa!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5jNnDMfxA

Posted by: Lloyd Christmas at October 19, 2015 07:34 PM (bptAz)

328 Back under the stairs, Dunderkind.

Posted by: Grump928(C) beating memes to death since 2006 at October 19, 2015 07:37 PM (rwI+c)

329 South Carolinian speaking up here. Trey Gowdy does nothing he does not intend to.

Posted by: Fantastic at October 19, 2015 09:55 PM (b/Psg)

330 @329 . . . from your keyboard to god's ears . . . would like to believe gowdy's dumb as a fox

Posted by: ouch at October 19, 2015 09:58 PM (40IrJ)

331 It isn't Congress's responsibility to protect executive branch assets.

If someone puts a mortar platoon in the same location as a hospital, it is the fault of the person who emplaced the mortar platoon at the hospital that the hospital was blown up by an artillery attack/air strike.

If the *ssholes whose SOLE EFFING JOB is to protect those assets cannot protect those assets by redacting their names from documents, then so be it.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at October 19, 2015 11:52 PM (ATlQg)

332 Has everyone whose piling on Gowdy criticized him all along? Becuz I've heard nothing but praise, which I agreed with then and still do, now. As the article says, the name in the doc was not confidential or even sensitive. No one was outed. Certainly not at this late date. I understand the frustration with congress etc., but on our side, it always seems to turn into us destroying our own over minor mistakes.

Posted by: LASue at October 20, 2015 09:09 AM (5Rb/A)

333 100 - Yeah, possibility that crossed my mind, too. But that sort of reverse-briar-patch strategy takes guts and planning to pull off in a hostile media environment.

The follow-through has to be in place and has to be as compelling and inescapable as the original story. Like Gowdy taking over interviews and cracking some heads in a flamboyantly unapologetic manner.

You don't try for a Pyrrhic victory unless you're willing to burn. Is Gowdy willing to go that far? I don't think he is.

Posted by: Galos Gann at October 20, 2015 11:20 AM (T3KlW)

334 The hell we can't! They can share a cell.

Posted by: JoshO at October 20, 2015 02:30 PM (XKyOc)

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