Er, Ali, you're not really the one who needs to be doing the forgiving here, Honey. See, you're the crazy bitch in this scenario. Maybe you should be looking up "Quotations by Blair Waldorf."
I honestly, seriously, have NO idea why this is a story now. Guido Fawkes covered it extensively when it first broke, what, a year and a half ago?
Knowing the Guardian, there has to be some literally political or media/political reason to scream this from the rooftops at this particular point. Guardianistas smell blood in the water and are circling Coulson, waiting for the kill? Does it have something (or maybe everything) to do with Rebekah Wade's recent career moves?
@raincoaster: I also find it fascinating who's been named as a victim and who has not, such as Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, who had some problems with his cellphone rather inconveniently just before announcing his candidacy.
Let's just SAY that none of my ex-boyfriends or their current barmaid girlfriends have enough money to sue me - I can probably Spoofcard all over the place, right? RIGHT?!
@squeakel: Because keys are legal but stealing/unauthorized duplication of said keys is not. But Spoofcard could be found liable for harm in a civil suit, which is a whole 'nother thing.
I listened to the NPR interview in the car yesterday and almost drove off the road I was laughing so hard. "We don't know if there was a phone call" is pure gold.
But, Republican or Democrat, this hack should resign. But not before she tells us which AIPAC agent has the power to dole out congressional chairs. Much more so than any communist conspiracy Joe McCarthy ever dreamed up, AIPAC truly is the enemy within.
@CountryClubRepublican: Of course, it's troubling that the Obama administration has gone along with that venal fuck George Bush's gutting of the Constitution. But let's face it, that gutting was enthusiastically embraced by dumb fucking assholes just like you at the time. Because why? You always thought your party would be in the executive so it just didn't matter?
But that's not why I called you out. I called you a dumb fucking shitheel because you juxtaposed that classy one-liner with a post completely unrelated to the Obama administration. So, yeah, you're still dumb.
Harman also told Siegal that she was pissed that she wasn't given a heads up about the wiretap -- she actually insinuated that people can't be wiretapped until they're aware that they're under investigation. Siegal was like, "Wha??"
It's a problem when AIPAC can bribe some tanker with a charimanship if she uses her White House contacts to protect their spies, but only one. I'll bet that happens all the time. I'm more concerned that the Likud Lobby can decide when and if we go to war. Our foreign policy is dictated by AIPAC. One corrupt shill more or less isn't a major story.
Meanwhile, in other news, there were five (5) senators with the guts to refuse to sign on to the resolution honoring the brave troops who made a stand against terrorism in Gaza. It's the most craven legislature this side of the Kremlin, and I wonder if that will change.
I was astounded that her indignation of being wiretapped stemmed from the fact that she was the chair of the intelligence committee, as if holding that position should grant you privileges not afforded to us regular 'mercans.
Siegal did a fantastic job in cornering her when she slipped that the person she had talked to was an American -- she had seconds before denied knowing the conversation had taken place. Scratch that -- she just kept repeating that it "was four years ago," as if that were somehow justification for not being able to answer whether or not she spoke with the group or not. Yet somehow she remembers she's been on precisely 22 trips to the Middle East. Convenient.
I don't care that she's got a (D) by her name. She's the absolute worst kind of politician -- a liar who makes the unforgivable mistake of being haughty about it.
I'm not in favor of wiretapping by any means, but it suddenly occurs to me that conversations politicians have with lobbyists (or "advocacy groups," as our dear Congresswoman Harman would say) should perhaps be exempt.
Harman's gall is epic. She enabled the very abuse of power she decries:
I guess irony can be pretty ironic at times...
On a serious note, this doesn't make me feel any better about the NSA's wiretapping of American citizens. Seriously, can a single one of us honestly say they have never discussed committing a crime, no matter how big or small, over the phone? Yeah, the NSA now has a file on all of us.
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Knowing the Guardian, there has to be some literally political or media/political reason to scream this from the rooftops at this particular point. Guardianistas smell blood in the water and are circling Coulson, waiting for the kill? Does it have something (or maybe everything) to do with Rebekah Wade's recent career moves?
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07/13/09
You can if you do it from a pay phone. (If they exist anymore.)
I wonder why Spoofcards are legal if breaking into someone's voicemail may not be?
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But, Republican or Democrat, this hack should resign. But not before she tells us which AIPAC agent has the power to dole out congressional chairs. Much more so than any communist conspiracy Joe McCarthy ever dreamed up, AIPAC truly is the enemy within.
04/22/09
@Mediahohoho:
"We'll have to find out when it happens, dumb fuck."
ORLY?
"Obama Administration Embraces Bush Position on Warrantless Wiretapping and Secrecy"
[www.eff.org]
"Attorney General Eric Holder went to the national security court to seek a renewal of the surveillance program ..."
[www.politifact.com]
If I'm a dumbfuck, and I know more than you, what does that make you?
04/22/09
But that's not why I called you out. I called you a dumb fucking shitheel because you juxtaposed that classy one-liner with a post completely unrelated to the Obama administration. So, yeah, you're still dumb.
04/22/09
04/21/09
Meanwhile, in other news, there were five (5) senators with the guts to refuse to sign on to the resolution honoring the brave troops who made a stand against terrorism in Gaza. It's the most craven legislature this side of the Kremlin, and I wonder if that will change.
04/21/09
Siegal did a fantastic job in cornering her when she slipped that the person she had talked to was an American -- she had seconds before denied knowing the conversation had taken place. Scratch that -- she just kept repeating that it "was four years ago," as if that were somehow justification for not being able to answer whether or not she spoke with the group or not. Yet somehow she remembers she's been on precisely 22 trips to the Middle East. Convenient.
I don't care that she's got a (D) by her name. She's the absolute worst kind of politician -- a liar who makes the unforgivable mistake of being haughty about it.
I'm not in favor of wiretapping by any means, but it suddenly occurs to me that conversations politicians have with lobbyists (or "advocacy groups," as our dear Congresswoman Harman would say) should perhaps be exempt.
04/21/09
I guess irony can be pretty ironic at times...
On a serious note, this doesn't make me feel any better about the NSA's wiretapping of American citizens. Seriously, can a single one of us honestly say they have never discussed committing a crime, no matter how big or small, over the phone? Yeah, the NSA now has a file on all of us.
04/21/09
04/21/09