Someone explain to me how he is wrong:
A serious leak of classified information has just taken place — which, as we all know, is a dastardly crime for which the harshest punishment is merited. To make matters even more grave, this time the unauthorized disclosure has taken place during A Time of War, resulting in the illegal publication of sensitive information about the nation’s enemy. The leak was transmitted to Associated Press, which then published it to the world:
Libyan state television showed blackened and mangled bodies that it said were victims of airstrikes in Tripoli. . . . A U.S. intelligence report on Monday, the day after coalition missiles attacked Gadhafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound in the capitol, said that a senior Gadhafi aide was told to take bodies from a morgue and place them at the scene of the bomb damage, to be displayed for visiting journalists. A senior U.S. defense official revealed the contents of the intelligence report on condition of anonymity because it was classified secret.
I wonder if Eric Holder will shortly announce an investigation to find out who is responsible for this leak? Will the guilty party be charged with a capital crime and be held in solitary confinement near a cell occupied by Bradley Manning? Only time will tell.
And, since he is in the Defense Department, we can keep him in solitary for 24 hours a day, declare him mentally unstable, take away his reading glasses, parade him around nude, and all the internet tough guys can say “That’s what you get for fucking around while in the military” and then make Jane Hamsher jokes.
MikeJ
Of course that wasn’t a leak. It was shitty journalists allowing the DoD to supply news without a name attached.
Joe Beese
Glenn Greenwald is wrong because he Hates Obama.
But you knew that.
Omnes Omnibus
Did the guy actually have authorization to leak the info? If not, then, sure, investigate, and charge if appropriate.
Comrade Mary
Meanwhile, Sully wonders if Obama is meep-meeping him again.
(Yeah, I just brought a Sully to a Glenn fight. What the fuck am I thinking?)
BGinCHI
If Doug Feith still worked there I’d vote for throwing his ass in the clink.
Too soon?
MikeJ
I will add, if you can find the name of the
pr officerleaker, I’d support throwing the book at him/her just to stop such lazy “journalism”.AhabTRuler
Glennzilla’s post is too fucking long to read.
Also, too: I want John banned for trolling his own commenters.
singfoom
@Comrade Mary: What the fuck does meep-meeping him mean?
Andrew Sullivan thinks that Obama is doing a Beaker impression at him?
Sullivan is Bunsen to Obama’s Beaker?
I’m just so confused.
And yeah, this won’t be investigated, no one will be jailed. The crime in the wikileaks case was’t the leak of information, it was the rudeness of not leaking it through “official” channels.
Roger Moore
Remember, the Administration does not leak top secret information. It selectively declassifies as it sees fit.
Angry Black Lady
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i am saying things
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HyperIon
uh-oh.
we’re not going to discuss THAT again, are we?
Omnes Omnibus
@singfoom: I am presuming it is the Roadrunner saying “meep-meep” right before the rocket powered anvil smashes into the Coyote.
Stillwater
@AhabTRuler: I want John banned for trolling his own commenters.
If that generalized to other FPers it’d break the blog.
AhabTRuler
@Comrade Mary: I think At The Movies with Sully the Pooh and Glenzilla would be a smash hit.
Angry Black Lady
In Soviet Russia, Jane Hamsher jokes make you.
(this is a post for trolling, i take it?)
Comrade Mary
@singfoom: He’s been using the Road Runner analogy, where Obama outsmarts the pundits / leads his enemies to destroy themselves / displays some beautiful plumage and a little tongue, fairly often in his blog since 2009. You’ll find a few more through Google.
eemom
John Cole, I have now conclusively — “definitively,” as your Glennsy likes to say — determined that you protesteth too much, and in reality you totally LOVE to watch these threads devolve into incoherent, shit-flinging lunacy.
Chyron HR
Why isn’t this anonymous leaker being showered with kudos by Glenn & company? Isn’t revealing classified information the highest form of patriotism?
AhabTRuler
@Stillwater: No, it would just be all Tim F and Kay, all the time (by which I mean relatively rarely).
Incoherent Dennis SGMM
I’m still surprised that leaking some embarrassing cables merits the harshest possible punishment while bullshitting us into a war of choice merits a government pension and the opportunity to publish your memoirs.
beltane
My husband was fingerprinted for his naturalization yesterday and they had Fox News on in the waiting room. When we were in the car I asked him if he might want to reconsider the whole thing.
beltane
@Incoherent Dennis SGMM: And don’t forget how crashing the economy entitles you to billions of dollars in loot.
Joe Beese
http://zenhuber.blogspot.com/2011/03/tuesday-preview-wafer-thin-no-fly-zone.html
Just Some Fuckhead
@singfoom:
Since I upgraded to a 1200 baud modem, the entire internet is moving too fast for me.
Bob Loblaw
Obvious thread remains obvious. I blame the Jews.
General Stuck
Would anyone want some tea and crumpets, or fresh baked Stuck’s Tall House Cookies? Could I get you a napki Mr. Cole?
Let’s all then retire for a sparky game of Mumbly Peg, a little later on.
Stillwater
@Incoherent Dennis SGMM: How can you really blame those guys for not knowing what they didn’t know when they knew that there were known unknowns?
Incoherent Dennis SGMM
@beltane:
But, that made “us,” meaning “them” so much more prosperous. My incipient prosperity has given me cause to look at a Lexus as a replacement for my ’92 Ford Escort.
Calouste
Pretty eaay. There are authorized leaks and unauthorized leaks. This was an authorized leak, Manning was an unauthorized leak. “Leak” just means that information wasn’t released via the official channels, doesn’t say anything about whether the information was released with the consent of the owners or not.
jeffreyw
The caramel may have been a mistake.
Omnes Omnibus
@Calouste: Of course, both John and Glenn know this, but it’s fun to stir the pot. It is especially fun to stir the pot after complaining about the comment section earlier in the day.
Stillwater
@Calouste: I think that’s pretty consistent with Cole’s point, actually.
Calouste
@Joe Beese:
Random blogger posting rubbish on the internet quoted by Joe Beese shock!
Incoherent Dennis SGMM
@Stillwater:
If there was Nobel Prize for Circumlocution and Obfuscation then Rummy would have made the trip to Sweden just on the basis of that speech.
Allan
@eemom: Come on down and collect your Major Award!
Joe Beese
“Commander Jeff Huber, U.S. Navy (retired) was a naval flight officer who commanded an aircraft squadron and was operations officer of USS Theodore Roosevelt, the carrier that fought the Kosovo War.”
Clearly he knows nothing about the military and Hates America.
Carry on.
Uriel
@Joe Beese:
Of all the stupid crap you’ve been trying to pass off as serious commentary over the past few days, this is is without a doubt the most mind-numbingly idiotic.
Kudos- you just got the high score on Dumb-fuck Kong.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus:
I thought it would’ve been awesomer if Cole had then commented on this thread with the:
“In before Joe, Ron and Wyld do their usual thing.”
I think Cole’s trying to give some people whiplash.
Stillwater
@Incoherent Dennis SGMM: If there was Nobel Prize for Circumlocution and Obfuscation then Rummy would have made the trip to Sweden just on the basis of that speech.
And he would’ve searched for days in areas to the north, east, south and west somewhat of Stockholm to find where his award was.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Is it spring break at WVU or where ever it is that Cole works? He seems bored.
Allan
@Calouste: Hey now, that’s not some random nobody! He’s got 16 fans on Facebook! You have to respect that kind of authoritah.
General Stuck
@Joe Beese:
Dear Mr. Beese, think of MR. Obama fighting wars by 11 dimensional chess on the world’s chessboard with nothing but pawns. And an occasional American made Cruise Missile
Uriel
@Corner Stone: CQOTC!
(Chuckled quietly on the couch.)
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: I suspect he’s in the waiting room with his elderly neighbors and is bored to tears.
Either that or he and Just Some Fuckhead are planning another trip to the mountaintop and he’s trying to work the froth so the next post will get 600 comments.
Allan
@Joe Beese: At least fucking Glenn Greenwald is a fucking lawyer, for pity’s sake!
If the guy was criticizing the manner in which planes were being deployed over Libya, he might know something.
Of course, every member of my family who has ever been in the military believes that members of the military know more about everything than everyone else, with the exception of his officers, who are all idiots.
BGinCHI
@Uriel: Is he referencing The Pentaverate? From “So I Married an Axe Murderer”?
salacious crumb
John, dont criticize Obama. ABL will put the smack down!
soonergrunt
@Omnes Omnibus: this.
JPL
JOHN COLE, I didn’t link to the story but I will say that it seems odd after bitching about trolls you link to Glen. What am I missing? Let me give you another link to read..
It’s called Hugs From Libyans
I think Kristof is excellent. He calls Obama when he feels he is wrong and recognizes him when he feels he is right.
soonergrunt
@Chyron HR: Only when it’s classified that they desperately want to see or believe.
SATSQ.
taylormattd
So wait. Why are not allowed to believe both that Manning is being tortured, AND that Jane is a deranged quasi-PUMA?
Stillwater
@Corner Stone: Either that or he and Just Some Fuckhead are planning another trip to the mountaintop and he’s trying to work the froth so the next post will get 600 comments.
Hmmm. Could it be that Wyld, Ron and one or both of the Joe’s actually are sockpuppets of JSF who’s working in collusion with Cole to attain Maximum BJ Derangement Syndrome? I did hear JSF deny that he echoes Joe Beese’s views earlier today. If that’s not evidence I don’t know what is.
Corner Stone
@Stillwater: Not putting anything past Fuckhead, but sockpuppeting seems like a lot of work, even as sloppily as Nick does it.
I don’t think JSF’s got the devotion for it. And Cole’s advancing case of neuroses doesn’t bode well for collusion with anyone except maybe the little flying space alien guy ala The Jetsons. Or was that The Flintstones?
Stillwater
@Corner Stone: I agree. I just thought the image of those two plotting the brain splosions of the commentariat was too funny to not
speculate aboutshare.But now that I think about it again…
Josie
@jeffreyw: How could caramel ever be a mistake?
Mark S.
@Corner Stone:
Is that what they call hiking the Appalachian trail now?
JPL
@Stillwater: You might be right.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@General Stuck: I’ll have a couple of cookies, please.
Mnemosyne
@eemom:
You only just figured this out?
Though, really, our new trolls have no stamina if they haven’t been able to get to this thread yet. Joe Beese is the only one here and my popcorn is getting cold.
Angry Black Lady
only 59 comments on this one?
::rubs eyes::
::looks again::
Master of Karate and Friendship
“it’s okay if I do it, but not you!”
The next time you whine about people who rip on Obama, I’m just going to laugh at you.
Master of Karate and Friendship
@Comrade Mary:
Seriously–when the hell has Obama caused an enemy of his to destroy themself?
pattonbt
@Joe Beese: I’m always curious how brains like yours work. Do you honestly believe what you write or are you trolling? Not that it really makes much difference, but I’m just curious.
Do you cry yourself to sleep every night in a curled up ball of impotent rage at the innate unfairness of the world? Do you spend all day seeking out the most insane outliers of public opinion to latch onto like it is the last life preserver on the Titanic so that you can say “See!! Someone agrees with my inherent mental/emotional weaknesses!!”?
What purpose do you serve here? Are you hoping to actually sway opinion? Or are you gleefully masturbating at your 3 year old attempts at trollery?
If you are going to troll, please follow the advice of others and learn how to do it better, the one note histrionic nature is whiny and infantile.
You are a sad human and I pity you. The world you live in must be horrible.
By the way, many decorated veterans disagree with what you have used as an example (in fact many more would be in direct opposition of that stance) so what makes this one guy SO RIGHT!! Have a think about that for a while.
Nice cherry picking, tho.
Morbo
You forgot about Brazil.
pattonbt
By the way to all the troll Joe’s (non trolls obviously excepted), here’s a meeting just for you!
http://wonkette.com/441287/an-evening-with-the-joes-the-greatest-meeting-of-minds-in-conservative-history
The intellectual discourse should just about be your speed!
Master of Karate and Friendship
@Joe Beese:
“Clearly he knows nothing about the military and Hates America.”
Who cares what he thinks about America? He’s criticizing Obama! ! ! ! !
pattonbt
@Master of Karate and Friendship: Is your real name Joe as well?
Again, read the reasons why people are begging you and the other one note trolls to shut up or get better. Then process that information and adjust as necessary.
Meh, fuck it….OBAMA SUX!! LISTEN TO MEH!!
I’m sure Hillary is 44 or Townhall would love your sparkling insights though. We here are just stoopid Obots to see the world how it really is. I wish I had your mental capacity and argument skillz, I’d be mad rich and have the bestest most awesomest web blogs evah! People would so listen to meh!
Danny
I got trolled by OP, badly
David Zincavage
It’s sad to see the impact of switching sides on John Cole’s intelligence.
It’s simple, John.
Bradley Manning is being prosecuted because his leaks were injurious to efforts of US military forces and provided aid and comfort to the enemy. The leak, reported by AP and treated as equivalent to Bradley Manning’s by “the left’s most dishonest blogger,” was clearly intended to impeach Qaddafi regime propaganda and was thus adverse to the interests of the enemy and in support of US military operations.
Chris Grrr™
@Josie:
Finally – a voice of reason and truth…