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Wisdom

by Bryan

On the economy:

“Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.”
Albert Einstein

On the new RNC chairman:

“It is much better to remain silent and let everybody think you are a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
Abraham Lincoln [restating Proverbs 17:28]

On the GOP in the House and Senate:

“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”
John Stuart Mill

2 comments

1 Kryten42 { 02.06.09 at 5:04 am }

Some of my favorite quotes, Bryan! 😀

And yes, yes and… yes! 😉

(I’ve been so busy the past week, and I lost most of last week because of the 40+ heat — tomorrow is expected to be up to 46C (in the shade), very dry, and windy. Ash Wednesday bushfire weather. It will be bad.) So, I’m trying to catch up on what I missed here. 😉

I was also skimming UK news reports, and came across this. I am sure you will realise as I do how dangerous the Bushmoron Admin really was to the US people with this piece of insanity. And so far, Obama hasn’t dome anything about it, though he is apparently aware of it. *sigh*

LONDON (Reuters) – Two senior British judges accused the United States on Wednesday of threatening to end intelligence cooperation if Britain released evidence about the alleged torture of a Guantanamo detainee.

The judges quoted lawyers for British Foreign Secretary David Miliband as saying the U.S. government, by reviewing intelligence cooperation, “could inflict on the citizens of the United Kingdom a very considerable increase in the dangers they face at a time when a serious terrorist threat still pertains.”

According to the ruling from High Court judges Lord Justice Thomas and Lord Justice Lloyd Jones, Miliband’s lawyers said the threat had existed for some time and was still in place under President Barack Obama’s administration.

British media had applied to the court for the release of full details of the evidence the British government held about the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian-born British resident who is held in Guantanamo Bay.

The judges ruled it would not be in the public interest to expose Britain to the “real risk” outlined by the foreign secretary’s lawyers.

The sensitive paragraphs supplied by U.S. intelligence services and kept out of an initial judgment last August should not be restored, the judges said.

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UK judges accuse U.S. over Guantanamo case

They really just don’t get it. Stupid.

2 Bryan { 02.06.09 at 3:07 pm }

Threatening the US-UK intel cooperation is as dumb as it gets; it is hubris multiplied by people who don’t understand was is shared or why. The UK has the institutional memory than US services lack, and is barely addressed in our procedures. That was a constant fight when I was in, the need to ensure continuity in the effort.

It is recognized by everyone that inmates at Guantanamo were mistreated, so the revelation is not any more damaging than the leaks. Coerced evidence is not admissible in any civilized country, so let’s just tell the truth so justice can be done.

“The cover-up is always worse than the crime” – that simple truth doesn’t ever seem to penetrate the GOP mindset.