*Interesting Items 4/27*<http://ezine.jiglu.com/discussion/messages/3111651> by Alex Gimarc
Alex Gimarc <http://ezine.jiglu.com/members/agimarc> <[email protected]<[email protected]?subject=interesting%20items%204/27>> April 28, 2009 8:36 AM <http://ezine.jiglu.com/discussion/days/20090428> Monday, April 27, 2009 Interesting Items <http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/interesting-items> 4/27 - Howdy all, a few Interesting Items<http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/interesting-items>for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. Show Trials 2. F-35 3. Israel 4. Palin <http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/palin> 5. CO2 6. Feinstein ------------------------------ 1. Show Trials. President Teleprompter thought that he would take yet another self-serving slap at the departed Bush administration last week via the release of a carefully selected and redacted set of legal memos justifying enhanced interrogation techniques used against captured Islamists over the last several years. The release was a vehicle for cheap self-gratification and was intended to only drive the news cycle for a couple of days. Unfortunately for the Teleprompter<http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/teleprompter>, things don’t work out so simply when the Genii are let out of the bottle. Leftist groups itching for Stalin-esque show trials of Bush administration officials instantly seized upon the release as justification for release of more and more documentation. Democrats in congress chimed<http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/congress>in and started planning the hearings and investigations. It took only two days for President Teleprompter to figure out that he had made a mistake and go to the CIA, telling them that he had their back. Not! Former VP Dick Cheney decided that he had enough and demanded the complete release of all records on the investigations – particularly those portions demonstrating the successful discovery of future Al Qaida plots. All the information on the intelligence success of the interrogations had been carefully redacted from the released memos. Republicans are and have been ready for this for a long time, as they have sat by (mostly) silent while the Bush administration never defended itself from charges of torturing prisoners, and watching the very same democrat members of congress<http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/congress>that were briefed and approved of the programs posturing as if they knew nothing about what went on. Former congress critter and CIA head Porter Goss called out democrat leaders in congress<http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/congress>, as did Pete Hoekstra, both in unusually blunt language. Nancy Pelosi, who was regularly briefed and approved of the interrogations, denied all knowledge. Should this Latin America <http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/america>, Junta-style effort to criminalize political differences continue, it will be very difficult to get people to do the rough business of keeping this nation safe. In a way, it is a return to the Carter years and the Church Commission that dismantled the CIA. It appears we are well on our way to doing the same thing again. While I am sympathetic that some of the rank and file within the CIA will get hurt in this, given the eight year long war fought against the conduct of the war by the leftist CIA Weasels, I am not all that sympathetic. Remember that a thorough housecleaning will clean out both sides of the house, and my sense is that there are a lot more leftist CIA Weasels dug into the bureaucracy like a set of ticks or leaches than anyone thinks. The sooner they can be removed from the body politic and the taxpayer dime, the better. Obama may have unleashed something that he will not be able to control with this, something that will take him and his administration, and democrats in congress right<http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/congress>down the rathole. 2. F-35. The WSJ last week announced that a significant data breach into the F-35 program had taken place last year, with terabytes of information stolen and encrypted. The data breach did not appear to be the result of hacking. ChiCom espionage was initially thought to be reason. The F-35 is the next generation attack jet. The program costs over $300 billion and will replace F-16, F/A-18 and AV-8 with over 2,440 of three variants. By weeks’ end LockMart, the contractor had announced that the story was in error and that there was no data breach. Expect this story to take a while to sort out, with most of it to be buried in the computer security world. Data breaches are increasingly important things as systems get more and more computerized and integrated. State-sponsored hacking is a way to conduct asymmetrical warfare, costing the attacker little while costing the target much. We may be approaching the time when a pilot may not be able to believe what they see in a navigation, radar, or heads up display. And as all our systems are well on their way to being fully networked and integrated, breaking into one part of the system can potentially give access to the rest of the system. Today, the ChiComs and Russians are the best at doing this. Our Side doesn’t advertise their capabilities a lot, but I expect they are extensive. More on this as it comes out. 3. Israel. It appears that Israel and Egypt are actively working together against Iran. A few weeks ago, a convoy of Iranian arms was attacked and destroyed in the Sudan by an unnamed package of jets. The arms had been offloaded from an Iranian ship in Somalia and were en route to Hamas in Gaza. The Mubarak government in Egypt has been increasingly upset with Iranian and Hamas efforts to undermine and destabilize the Mubarak government. Dr. Jack Wheeler over the weekend believes that Egypt and Israel are coordinating a strike against Iran intended to remove its nuclear capability. The scope may also include a regime decapitation. They will not be allowed to cross Iraqi airspace, so they will transit south over Saudi Arabia, which is also quite worried about Iranian nukes. The good part of this entire story is that is quite likely an element of truth to it. When the US withdraws and turns into a groveling group of sycophants more interested in personal adulation than national security, other nations will take their own security into their own hands and will move without us. I hope Wheeler is correct and I wish the Israelis well on their endeavor. 4. Palin <http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/palin>. While Governor Palin<http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/governor-palin>is still viewed as the Great Conservative Hope at the national level, she had a pretty rough time of it during the just completed session of the Alaska Legislature <http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/alaska>. The only administration sponsored legislation that passed was the basic budget bills. Nothing else sponsored by the administration made it out of committee. Open warfare broke out between Palin <http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/palin> and the democrats in the legislature. She did not get a whole lot of support from the Republican side of the legislature. Two of her appointees were rejected by the legislature. Basic governing ought to take some precedence over the next year or two. 5. CO2. The EPA announced a couple weeks ago that carbon dioxide was indeed a pollutant, responsible for man-made global warming, and that they were going to put a series of rules and regulations in place to regulate it. Eugene Volokh of the Volokh Conspiracy, a legal blog does not believe that any court will step up and shut this down, as the federal courts are usually very deferential to the regulatory agencies. This means that the game is going to have to be played in congress<http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/congress>, and force the democrat majority in congress<http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/congress>to step up and remove from the EPA the ability to regulate natural atmospheric gasses. Some observers believe the EPA rules will be used as a vehicle to force cap and trade legislation through congress<http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/congress>. While this may or may not be true, I really don’t think it matters to the green zealots in the administration, as they are going to do what they want to do regardless of either the science or the economic results of their actions. Indeed, I believe they want the negative economic results of this sort of bogus regulation. And when they declare war on our pocketbook via the regulatory process, why not declare war upon them in response? 6. Feinstein. Yet another corrupt democrat member of congress<http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/congress>(and yet another redundant phrase): Last week, the Washington Times reported that Dianne Feinstein (D, CA) introduced legislation on the first day of the new congressional session in January to route $25 billion of taxpayer money to the FDIC, which in turn let a contract to a real estate firm that her husband is the Board Chairman of. The real estate firm traffics in distressed properties at a cost above the going market rates. There was also a stock purchase involved with her husband’s investment firm purchasing ten million shares of stock in the real estate firm right about the time the contract was awarded. The thing that made the timing and intervention interesting is that Feinstein is not a member of the Senate Banking committee <http://ezine.jiglu.com/tags/senate> or any other committee with banking oversight. Hot Air, Tues. 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