goonsack

We could call it the afterparty... Much cooler to be invited to this, imo.

WE ARE COMING FOR YOU, BELGIUM.

Ordinarily that phrase would sound threatening and even a little hitlerish... but you've managed to make it philanthropic.

Saddam didn't order the Halabja attack it was a rogue military commander.

JOHN NIXON: Yes, I did. That was shocking, because one of the—one of the arguments made for the war was that he had used weapons of mass destruction on his people. And when I talked to him—and he got very upset, probably the angriest he ever got with me during my time with him. He said that he did not order weapons to—chemical weapons to be used in Halabja against the Kurds. I have to admit, I didn’t believe him at the time. When I went back to Washington, I started looking into this a lot more deeply. I started reading some of the debriefings of other senior government aides. They corroborated that story. And then we found documentation from the Iraqis that also corroborated that. It was a battlefield decision made by an Iraqi commander at the scene. And Saddam actually was angry at the commander for having made that decision, largely because the use of the chemical weapons was in PUK territory. They were allied with Iran. And he was afraid that Iran would make hay out of this with the international media.

Source: https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/28/cia_interrogator_at_time_of_us

Operation Norwegian Freedom

Right. I know with regards to domestic wiretapping, Sen Ron Wyden (OR) sits on the Select Senate Committee on Intelligence, and has access to information about how wiretapping has been conducted on Americans by our three letter agencies. He's remarked on several occasions that if Americans knew how the laws were being interpreted/implemented, they would be shocked.

My question is: what is to keep a congressperson like Wyden from going public with this stuff? Or leaking it to a journalist or website? What would be the repercussions?