The Raw Story: Robert McNamara deceived LBJ on Gulf of Tonkin, documents show

Exclusive from The Raw Story by Gareth Porter, 8 July 2009:

The secret was his deliberate deceit of President Lyndon B. Johnson on Aug. 4, 1964 regarding the alleged attack on US warships in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Documents which have been available for decades in the LBJ Library show clearly that McNamara failed to inform Johnson that the U.S. naval task group commander in the Tonkin Gulf, Captain John J. Herrick, had changed his mind about the alleged North Vietnamese torpedo attack on U.S. warships he had reported earlier that day…  Read More

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The Public Record – The CIA’s Long History Of Lying to Congress

From The Public Record by Melvin A. Goodman, 9 July 2009:

“Let me be clear about this,” CIA director Leon Panetta told his troops in May, “it was not CIA policy or practice to mislead Congress. That is against our laws and our values.”

Of course, Panetta is entitled to his opinions, but he cannot create his own facts. And, as a long-time member of the House of Representatives, he surely must know that there is a long and substantiated record of CIA deceit and dissembling to the congressional intelligence committees, which lawmakers revealed late Wednesday Panetta admitted to in a closed-door briefing. Here are some highlights of the CIA’s record of lying to Congress…  Read More

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Sarah Palin’s 10 Most Awkward Media Moments — The Daily Beast

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Scholars & Rogues – CNN’s Iran timeline omits US-backed ‘53 coup

Posted 25 June 2009 by Brad Jacobson:

It might be more difficult for Republicans to bash President Obama for being “timid” in his comments about the Iranian government’s violence against protesters if the U.S. media didn’t consistently censor US-Iranian history.

Take CNN’s recent Iran timeline, titled “A brief look at Iran’s history.”

According to the timeline, which begins in 1979, Iran has “been at odds with the West and some of its neighbors” since the overthrow of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. It refers to the Shah as having been “pro-Western.” Yet in the mother of all omissions, CNN leaves out how the US government was directly involved in bringing the Shah to power in a 1953 coup that toppled the democratically elected Iranian government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh…

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Published in: on June 25, 2009 at 11:34 pm Leave a Comment

CBS – Offensive Nixon Tapes Released (Video)

Holy Crap: Richard Nixon was totally a racist!

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JibJab – He’s Barack Obama

Its a bird! Its a plane! No, he’s Barack Obama and hes come to save the day! JibJab puts the rock in Barack with a new, over-the-top satire that debuted in front of the President himself this Friday at the Radio & Television Correspondents Dinner! Want more JibJab? Click Here to visit our site.

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