Jon Stewart/Colin Powell "Spilled Milk"

[nomatrix]

Lots of negative comments have been made about Jon's reference to 'spilled milk'. Anyone here recall when that reference was made before and how IMPORTANT it is to the DSM?


(Please Mods it will take more than 4 paragraphs so I will divide it.)

Anyone remember Sibel Edmonds?

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040627-030547-4386r

"Sibel Edmonds, a contract translator who blew the whistle on mismanagement, inefficiency and serious security problems, is suing the Department of Justice for violating her First Amendment rights by quashing her claims against the FBI with the rarely invoked "state-secrets privilege."

Her case relates to the way the translation unit in the bureau's Washington field office was run immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks. Edmonds has made shocking allegations about incompetence, lax internal security and deliberate efforts to frustrate the unit's work -- some of which have been acknowledged to be true by the FBI.

The translation issue goes to the heart of the pre-Sept. 11 failure of the FBI and the intelligence community in general to catch the attackers and stop the plot that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Secrecy experts say the affair appears to be part of a pattern of behavior by the Bush administration: the abuse of classification procedures to stifle public debate about politically sensitive aspects of the war against terrorism."

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the quote is on the next post.

[nomatrix]

1. Spoken by John Ashcroft

"At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing June 8, Ashcroft told lawmakers that he had personally signed off the classification decision, which he justified on national-security grounds.

"If there is spilled milk and there is no damage done," he said, "if you can recollect it and put it back in the jar, you're better off than saying, 'Well, it's spilled, no damage has been done, we might as well wait until damage is done.'"

Others argued that the milk could not be put back in the jar."

Personally I think Jon is onto something.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Good catch

[nomatrix]

3. Imagine how Sibel Edmonds felt

with the risk she took to come forward with this imformation, knowing the implications.

To be trivialized with the "spilled milk" comment. I remember it well.