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To: zzpat who wrote (1053086)	2/4/2018 4:44:42 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1578134

yeah the wash compost did it just 5 years ago 5 years ago, WaPo worried about intelligence oversight The Washington Post is the newspaper that published the Pentagon Papers in the midst of the Vietnam War 1970 despite security concerns. Last week, the Post was alarmed by the release of the Nunes Memo because Democrats claimed (falsely, I might add) that it would disclose the nation's secrets. Democracy dies in darkness is the Post's plan, not motto. But one does not have to go back 48 years to find the last time the Post was not in bed with the spooks. Just five years ago, the paper published an interview with Loch K. Johnson, who in the 1970s served on the Church Commission (headed by Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho) which reined in the CIA, FBI, and similar agencies. Congress frowned on assassinating foreign heads of state, although a few bullets might have spared us the Persian Gulf War or the Iraq War. In the June 27, 2013, interview, the Post asked Johnson, "Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Sen. Ron Wyden that the NSA was not collecting any information about millions of Americans. We now know that, in fact, the NSA has been collecting the phone records of tens of millions of Americans. Do you think that will harm his standing with the Congress?" Johnson's answer was astonishing, "I think General Clapper has been a pretty loyal and honest individual. I think that he misspoke. I'm very skeptical myself of people in the executive branch misleading or lying to Congress. I don't think that's what Clapper is up to. He has a long history of being forthright. I got the impression that that was his low point in his relationship with Congress." I am laughing. I am trying to remember a time Clapper gave Congress or the press an honest answer. Misspoke. General Mike Flynn misspoke and wound up plea bargaining with Bobby Mueller. Clapper misspoke about that Fake News dossier and wound up getting what he wanted: a special prosecutor attached to the Trump presidency. Nevertheless, the Post asked, "Do you think it's time for another congressional investigation like the Church Committee?" To which Johnson replied, "I think we do need a new committee to look at this. At the very front of 'Season of Inquiry,' there's a quote from Harry Truman saying the government needs a housekeeping every now and then." I think by housecleaning, he meant spring cleaning. That was five years ago. Now the Post wants all that was swept under the rug kept under the rug.

To: zzpat who wrote (1053086)	2/4/2018 4:50:20 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1578134

Just deceased liberal journalist Nicholas von Hoffman, long-time critic of Joe McCarthy, later concluded he was "closer to the truth [about communist infiltration] than those who ridiculed him....he may have exaggerated scope of problem but not by much." An honest man to the end. John Fund@johnfund Just deceased liberal journalist Nicholas von Hoffman, long-time critic of Joe McCarthy, later concluded he was "closer to the truth [about communist infiltration] than those who ridiculed him....he may have exaggerated scope of problem but not by much." An honest man to the end. 8:57 PM - Feb 3, 2018 9090 Replies 610610 Retweets 1,4821,482 likes