The three amigos – on the road again

Sometimes I wonder what’s going on wtih these three. If you google “McCain Lieberman Graham” dozens of images come up – the trio traveling, the trio partying, the trio politicin’, the trio standing at various podiums. They are always together. And today they’re back in Kabul. Doing something.

Ahh, here’s what they’re doing . . . they went to Afghanistan to have a press conference to criticize Obama’s announced troop drawdown. Because you can’t do that from D.C. And this is just the weekend to criticize the Presdident on foreign soil.

Hope they get some barbeque. And beer.

I can’t leave this alone

And the reason I can’t leave it alone is because it’s important. We should all be disturbed by the unprecedented attack on wikileak’s founder/editor Julian Assange.

I have said before – I am agnostic about him, his actions and his organization. I am, however, not agnostic about the attacks on wikileaks web site and the attempts to silence an inconvenient muckraker, whistleblower - call him what you will, the man is not a criminal.

Glenn Greenwald today:

WikiLeaks has posted to its website only 960 of the 251,297 diplomatic cables it has.  Almost every one of these cables was first published by one of its newspaper partners which are disclosing them (The Guardian, the NYT, El Pais, Le Monde, Der Speigel, etc.).  Moreover, the cables posted by WikiLeaks were not only first published by these newspapers, but contain the redactions applied by those papers to protect innocent people and otherwise minimize harm. 

So when is Joe Lieberman going after those papers?

Image from here, where you’ll also find an ironic statement from Hillary Clinton which includes this:

Courageous journalists across the globe risk their freedom and their lives to provide independent information on government actions and their consequences; report the news from conflict zones; expose crime, corruption and wrongdoing; and reveal human rights violations – all despite efforts, in some cases, by governments and others, to control what people read, hear and think.

And, again:

(It’s still about the banks guys. Wonder when that promised document dump from inside a ‘major US bank’ is coming?)

Good morning

I watched the Wikileaks story percolate over the weekend and observed careless people saying many careless things. Sen. Joe Lieberman for instance (along with the Iranians and Chinese) appears to be all for The State coming down on anyone who takes tea with someone who was rude to The State. But then, ole’ Joe gave us that odiously named Department of Homeland Security, didn’t he.  So no real surprise.

Sometimes I wonder if this sad man who finessed himself into representing my old home state (Joe to CT Dems: Not going to elect me? Screw you, I’ll run against your so-called primary ‘winner’) despite their clear desire to toss him out is actually some bizarre historical joke. How can a child of the Holocaust admire a name like Homeland? It does not compute.

Anyway, this short not well thought-out rant is all that I have at the moment.  And I embrace any opportunity to repeat how angry I get when thinking of how Joe Lieberman betrayed us.