It would appear that some dissents are more patriotic than others.
Toby Harnden, US correspondent for the London Telegraph: Suspected spy arrested.
The Department of Justice has published the indictment.
The Associated Press has more (via the WAPO), but Harnden has a couple of comments vis-a-vis the specifics:
Do you remember the State Department analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (relatively obscure but one of the US government’s intelligence agencies) who caused a storm in November 2006 with his disdainful remarks about the US-UK “special relationship?
His name was Kendall Myers and I was one of two British journalists who attended his talk at SAIS and reported his decidedly undiplomatic comments. He retired quietly in October 2007. Well, he’s just been
arrested as a spy for Cuba for nearly 30 years. The Cubans apparently knew him as their “Agent 202”.I’m told that his comments made him something of a hero among career officials in some quarters of the State Department and he received only minor admonishment for them.
In an earlier story, Harnden notes:
I was at the State Department briefing on Thursday and asked spokesman Tom Casey whether Mr Myers’s position as a US official was tenable. He gave every indication that it is not. Mr Myers was “ill-informed”, “plain wrong”, “not authorised” and the US government wanted to “repudiate and disassociate” itself from what he said.
I can’t find it again, but earlier I saw a story (also from the UK press) that suggested that Kendall’s misinformation may have contributedto the fall of Tony Blair. Patriotic dissent indeed.
Dan’s D-Day post script: Some of the things that even patriotic Americans didn’t do today.
Beleaguered Scottish Richard III remembers storming of Obama Beach.
Bleg: If any of our military readers would like to write something D-Day related, will be happy to post.
“something of a hero among career officials in some quarters of the State Department and he received only minor admonishment for them”
Gah! And this under the iron shod boot of the BOOOOOSHITLER regime. I cannot imagine what these yahoos are doing under the current Administration…
Foggy Bottom is a quagmire. Where is our exit strategy?
Yes SW, foggy bottom is a quagmire indeed…
I wonder what Obama’s mentor Frank Davis’ agent number was…
I wonder what Obama’s number is..? Number 2 perhaps..?
That would make sense, as our nation seems to be turning into an extended version of the villiage in “The Prisoner”…
Well hear this, Obammy…
I will not make any deals with you! I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered!
“for nearly thirty years”
Risen and Lichtblau’s sources are still unidentified. How’s about we not go thirty years before they are found?
links have gone awry somewheres … the WaPo link is to a for real WaPo story on this stuff what doesn’t have the quoted text in it so there’s an AP story link missing somewheres I think
One of those quotes needs to be amended for accuracy:
“They make a desert and call it peace.”
OT,
Evan Thomas calls Obama god…
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/05/us-news-obamas-flip-flops-for-the-public-good/
Isn’t he the first one to do so?
A spokesman for the State Department said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton “takes this matter, like any allegation of criminal wrongdoing, seriously.”
It’s not reassuring when a State Department pansy feels it’s helpful to reassure people that giving U.S. secrets to fuckhead communist dictator trash is taken “seriously” and what else is that giving U.S. secrets to fuckhead communist dictator trash is NOT “like any allegation of criminal wrongdoing” when you work in our homo-infested State Department – it’s an allegation descriptive of behaviour what in direct contravention of the mission what has been entrusted to your cabinet-level collective of fey mincing loser ass-wipes.
And a traitor. I wonder how often that particular bit of stereotyping fits at State.
…fit the caricature of the pro-European, soft-Left type that is often levelled at the State Department by conservatives
What caricature?
Sorry, wrong link for the fawning evan thiomas story…
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/06/more-bowing-from-the-media/
OT and simply another example of the SRM love of dear leader
#5 happyfeet: the blockquotes are from Harnden’s piece in the Telegraph.
Regards,
Ric
Not really Bob, at least, taking Evans’ intent seriously for a moment. Plenty of people have noticed the substantial content of Evans’, which is that Obama believes himself to stand above it all. Obama has no, repeat, no emotional attachment to the nation he purports to serve (though I doubt Evans would go as far in this direction as I will). Obama, I noted the other day, has shown no signs of anger over 9/11, for instance. Immediate anger at the US being attacked would show Obama cared for the US. But he doesn’t. He actually rather dislikes it.
The State department has been corrupted by a steady influx of the G-Town/BWU one world government types over the last 25 years, and the effect of the Peter principle putting many of those moronic ideologues in high positions…
I can think of some new uses for Gitmo.
I agree with your assessment sdferr…
That’s why I’m so worried about our nation these days…
Obama’s proven himself a moral relativist, a one world government type, and a narcissist of such epic proportions that he seems to truly believe that he knows best for everyone in our country…
I worry that this mindset, his other character flaws, and a sycophantic lapdog media is a recipe for totalitarianism…
It’s a Quagmire!, What is our exit strategy!
oh. Thanks, Ric. Also that should have been what *is* in direct contravention blah blah blah. More coffee cause I got up late and then time to get the turtles out and get things accomplished. I will be back later. If you guys see Mr. Goldstein tell him I said hi.
Sorry,
In # 15 BWU=GWU, George Washington University…
My fingers are on strike! I guess they need a beer stimulus…
Well let’s be sure of this. If the Dems don’t lose some serious ground in 2010, those kind of assholes will be awarded, not arrested.
For D-Day: Thank you to those men who stormed the beaches that day and who fought and ended that war. We all owe you a huge debt.
State has been infested with Communist useful idiots since before FDR. Once in a while one or two gat caught. The Venona Papers revealed it: Joe McCarthy was correct. This is nothing new.
D-Day Tidbits — there was a time when actors weren’t dipshits. FWIW –
1) I bet most of PW’s regulars have seen actor Charles Durning at work — he was the sheriff in “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” and more recently the governor of Mississippi in “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
He was also on Omaha beach on June 6, 1944, a 21 year old Army Ranger. His full service record, including being one of the few survivors of the Malmedy Massacre, is at this link:
http://www.arrse.co.uk/Forums/viewtopic/t=98201.html
2) Among the young officers leading the way on the Canadian portion of Omaha beach was Lieutenant James Doohan (who would later become “Scotty” on Star Trek), who led his men up the hill and took out two snipers as they crossed a minefield. Hit six times by machine gun bullets that evening (including one which severed his right middle finger, and a chest shot which was stopped by his cigarette case), he would later transfer and train with the Royal Canadian Air Force, and learn to fly an artillery observation plane, becoming notorious for slaloming between telegraph poles to show it could be done.
Damn, a little such seasoning would give us a lot better Hollywood today.
“Our man in Havana” made his way to Washinton, I see.
Hell, Mel Brooks fought in the Battle of the Bulge, as did comics artist Jack Kirby. Can you imagine Will Ferrell or Tod Macfarlane going off to war?
#9: Yeah, I wonder if they take it as seriously as the DOJ does voter intimidation?
When people lose confidence in equal treatment under the law, vigilantism becomes a logical alternative.
On which side?
Re: Kendall Myers and Blair’s downfall there are these articles from back then. Bits of News “Cruelty Porn Thursday, 30 November 2006 Written by Alexander G. Rubio“.
The Telegraph “
Britain’s special relationship ‘just a myth’ Toby Harnden in Washington“. The Times Online, “‘Blair’s bridge between Europe and the US? It’s falling down and he is left with nothing’ The policy of hugging America close has been a failure for the British, a US State Department analyst claims. Tom Baldwin in Washington “
Meh. Even with the current supply problems, ammo’s cheaper.
And traditional.
Ya know, it strikes me that weakening the US-Britain relationship is just the mission for a traitor inside our diplomatic corps.
And I wonder who else was in Kendall and Gwendolyn’s circle of friends.
You would think the State Department would keep better track of employees who handle classified information. Then again, didn’t Aldrich Ames drive a Jaguar and live in a $500,000 house while working for the CIA? Oh, and Harold Nicholson had a huge bankroll, paid off a car in cash, and generally lived large. I’m thinking “intelligence agency” might be an oxymoron.
..so now we know this?
does anyone care?
will this make any difference?
anywhere?
Weakening the US-Israeli relationship would also be useful to some, and I bet the Iranians pay better than the Cubans.
i hear this year its been renamed to obama beach
Almost certainly not, but if they start jailing and/or shooting some of the traitorous assholes who’ve done so much to put us where we are, I, personally, will enjoy it quite a bit.
Regards,
Ric
#32
Cuba has two less assholes to use keep their population down. Two less assholes to sing the praises of a fascist dictator. Yeah. It matters. Especially today.
The report says “.. Gwendolyn Myers revealed to investigators that her favorite places to pass information were Washington-area grocery stores.” I’d bet she’s revealed a good deal more than that and anyone else in ‘Kendall and Gwendolyn’s circle of friends’ is shitting rubber nickels right now. There’re probably others not associated with them who’re losing sleep wondering how the FBI was tipped off too. That amuses me considerably.
Also, the good folks at the FBI weren’t born yesterday. I’d bet they were watching anyone they had the least suspicions about very closely when this news broke. We may not have heard nearly the rest of this story yet.
“Bleg: If any of our military readers would like to write something D-Day related, will be happy to post.”
Not much I could add. I’ve done a couple of weird and dangerous things in the combat zone – but not a thing that was near what those men had to do that day. I do admire Ike for having a pre-written itisallmyfault at hand.
We should execute the traitorous liberal Myers. Why are we only seeking 30 years imprisonment? Because he’ll die in prison since he’s already 70? Death penalty for these anti-American liberals who committ treason!
If I may I’d like to say my thanks to all those who have sacrificed to keep America free and to help the cause of freedom around the world. To those men who landed at Normandy 65 years ago. My Father, now 23 years deceased, among them.
A 34 year old Sergeant seeing his first combat by landing in the 3rd wave. He fought in France and then was loaded onto a transport ship. Shipped back to New York harbor, put aboard a blacked out train to the West coast. Then back aboard a ship where he and his brothers in arms were told they would be invading Okinawa. He fought there and then awaited the orders to invade the Japanese home islands.
He didn’t talk much about the war, and when he did it was only about France. Okinawa was never talked about. He would refer me to the history books we had.
I am thankful to God that this nation has had men and women who served the cause of freedom so well and fully. I am thankful for having the man I had for a Father. I pray America will always have those with the courage to fight for freedom. God bless our Servicemen, everyone.
geoffb,
I imagine so. Eugene B. Sledge told me more than I wanted to know about Okinawa in With the Old Breed. A sobering book, by the way, and ought to be required reading in high school history. All this nonsense about the supposed “immorality” of using the Bomb would fade away in short order.
Thanks to all you’ve served.
Today was much better than June 6, 1994, when I opened the Los Angeles Times and saw what was printed on the Op-Ed page from that bitter old Stalinist Alexander Cockburn. I have had a deep and abiding hatred for the man ever since.
*who’ve*
Damnit.
#39
I’m much more compassionate than you. I say we take them to the Straits of Florida with an innertube and two gallons of water each and wish them the best of luck. Openseason if they drift into US territorial waters.