http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:04:43 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:04:43 On November 4, 1979 the American embassy was taken over by students in Tehran and thus began a long hostage crisis. The seeds of mistrust were sewn back in 1925 when the CIA via Kermit Roosevelt started a coup and replaced a 200 year old dynasty with a new shah. Fast forward a decade or so,and the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pithy Cherub/5 Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:16:07 is not known or even guessed at by most Americans. The NSA is an abstract construct that does not fit into the conceptual framework of the ordinary lives of Americans trying to live or get their share of the American Dream. The current lying leader of the American national security pipedream states... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pithy Cherub/4 Sat, 13 May 2006 14:16:11 national security apparatus report directly to the president of the United States. The group that was created is called the National Security Council or the NSC in Washington-ese. That group under law can be configured as the president chooses. The NSC has a group of people called principals. Th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pithy Cherub/2 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:54:15 IWR aye voters knew exactly what they were voting for and to claim to be misled is to be ironically enshrined in the "too stupid to be president" club. They failed America on conceptual and practical levels by hitching their wagons to W's tail pipe. All they got was the mind-numbing CO2 exhaust an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pithy Cherub/1 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:40:08