[quote]ABC News has asked U.S. security officials to examine a videotape it obtained in Pakistan of an English-speaking man threatening a massive attack on the United States, the network said on Wednesday.
A source familiar with the tape told Reuters the hourlong video features a man, whose face is concealed by a headdress, warning that a coming attack on the United States would dwarf the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people.
Sharing information like this with the government carries risks for a news organization, said media analyst Andrew Tyndall.
“If…as a result of sending this tape to the government, the CIA tipped off the Pakistani internal intelligence service, and they rounded this guy up, (ABC’s) news-gathering ability would be compromised because you’d be perceived by the people on the streets of Karachi as being a front organization for the CIA.” [/quote]
How dare they!
That’s dangerous news for the network to leak. They definitely should have informed the proper authorities, but it would have been smarter for them to do it quietly. They risk making reporters even more of a target.
Why do you think it is that so many people, including many in the media, want to see Bush lose his job? Do you think it could be that intelligent people everywhere can see what a horrible world-leader he really is? BTW, this is a rhetorical question.
cableguy…rhetorical or not I thinks its a very good question.
My personal opinion is this.
It goes back to Bill Clinton. So many people had so much invested in Clinton and his regieme that the loss of Algore was devastating to them. They truly experienced what they fell/felt was an assault on their core values. For them, this was something that truly frightened them.
I lived in southern california during the Clinton years. I saw a whole lot of people make enormous amounts of money doing things that had no value what so ever. Zip, zilch…nada. After the smoke cleared in early 2000 they suddenly were faced with reality. And that reality was that they had invested in nothing but smoke & mirrors.
And these people needed some one - someone other than themselves - to blame. So they settled on the opponenet to Algore…G.W. Bush.
Bush represented a conservative - the antithithesis of all they believed in. A fiscal conservative - diametrically opposed to what had just earned them a shit-load of money…and someone who expressed a core value of religious beliefs that was “not cool with their groove.”
So…they hated him. And they had a feeling of ‘entitlement’ that was backed by money. And, like it or not, money gives credence in most societies.
This has grown and grown to manifest into actual hatred that we see currently expressed.
Thats my take on it in short. Just my opinion on what I have observed.
Hatred fueled by a change in what the entitled felt was their entitlement.
Lots of those so-called intelligent people also thought (mistakenly) that Reagan was stupid and wrong. In the end, Reagan proved them all wrong and… nah, I don’t need to write it…
He also systematically blocked and stymied all efforts at funding/addressing the problem, despite urging from both the CDC and USAMRID.
Many historians, activists, doctors, scientists and people whose lives were affected by the epidemic have gone on record to say he failed the American people miserably on that score.
Tigerman, you know more – far more – than me on his success with the Soviets. And, I don’t demonize Reagan entirely.
But, the post-mortum beatification he received from the media was appalling in light of his record on AIDS, on Nicaragua, Lebannon, the Iran-Contra affair…and so on.
