Happy thanksgiving to all our readers. While we are always complaining and highlighting what is wrong in America and her political sphere, we would like to take this opportunity to give our thanks to what is pleasant and great about America.

10)Thanks for the effort of our troops. Whether we agree or disagree with the mission that our troops are sent to, we appreciate the fact that there are still people who would take the bullet for this country. They are the ones putting their lives on the line while we debate…

9)Thanks for CSPAN. Go anywhere around the world; you would not get a channel as good as CSPAN. No other parliament sessions have channel that is unbiased and, more importantly, as raw as CSPAN is. The best source for political news in America; thank you for a service very less appreciated.

8)Thank you readers. Thank you for reading this content, we hope to get more by the next thanksgiving, but we appreciate what we have. We would not be running without your help and your support. We hope that you carry on reading our material and please just sound off what you think.

7)Thanks for state rights! The tenth amendment is something that we always ignore. It is something that is a cornerstone of our life, but is usually overlooked. A Californian would not want to have Texas‘ terrible health care system, while a Texan does not want a bankrupt state like California.

6)Thanks for free speech. This is something that is often taken for granted till it is taken away. The reason that our country has made so much success is that we have the right to dissent. Take away freedom of speech and we would lose all other forms of freedom as well.

5)Thanks for the economic growth, finally. I really hope that this would drag the unemployment numbers down. It is still nice to know that we are one quarter away from leaving this recession. Lets hope that we learn our lessons.

4)Thanks to our health-care providers. They put their lives on the line for work that is often unappreciated. Thank you researchers, who carry on finding cures for diseases. Thank you nurses and doctors who care for us when we are sick. This is especially so in times where a strain of flu can kill us.

3)Thanks for our safety. Thank you policemen, prison officers and firemen, our everyday heroes. Thank you CIA, FBI and other agencies who work night and day trying to keep us sane, heroes that we do not see everyday.

2)Thanks for Independents. We keep politics sane in America. There are just too many wing-nuts in both parties. You guys are the real Americans, Americans who live and believe in America, not an ideological Democratland or Republicanistan.

1)Thank for the American spirit. The resolve that keeps this country running great, despite troubled times. The call to help those who lost their jobs, homes or health care due to something that they did not cause. After all, it is this spirit that truly defines America, even Indian Prime Minister acknowledges it.

Happy thanksgiving everybody and happy holidays.

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A war or words has erupted yet again between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Democrats. 6 House Democrats signed a letter asking CIA Director, Leon Panetta to retract his statement that the CIA never misled the Congress.

Trust a politician to jump on verbiage! The CIA may be the agency of intelligence gathering in America, but they got outfoxed by the politicians this time! The frustrating thing on the case for the CIA is this, there is no way that the CIA can claim that the Democrats were wrong, without claiming that they were liars.

6 House Democrats jumped on an opportunity to cross swords with the CIA when they had the chance. Apparently, there was a program that the CIA had for eight years that the House of Representatives did not know about. Leon Panetta then briefed the House when he made the decision to close it. That now made the Democrats this letter saying that the CIA cannot say that it does not mislead the Congress based on this evidence.

These 6 Democrats claimed that this incident had nothing to do with Leader Pelosi. We all know, as Governor Palin put it, is bull crap. It is so obvious that they were doing this to vindicate Leader Nancy Pelosi. I believe that Leader Pelosi knew about all the interrogation techniques and allowed it to happen. This incident is putting up a smoke screen to protect her.

Right now, the Liberals have gone from distancing themselves from her to protecting her. Here are some of the quotes form liberal video channel in You Tube. “3 simple words.? Nancy is vindicated.”; “So? republicons … Nancy Pelosi was telling the truth all along. Let’s hear you apologize to her.”; “CIA is? the high school of Lying..” Wow!

Did the CIA lie on that situation? I think so. Democrats would not do this if it were not true as that would be political suicide. Did the CIA lie before? Yes, I believe so. They do it to cover their flaws like every business would do for an audit. But they also do it sometimes because they fear that Congress may not be able to keep their mouths shut for that long. They could lie for the sake of national security.

But I do not think that they would play politics when they tell things. Everybody knew that torture or water-boarding is illegal. There is no way that they would tell this to one branch of government and not tell the other branch. That would be insane! Playing politics in this kind of matter does not benefit the CIA in any way or form. In my opinion, they did tell Leader Pelosi the forms of enhanced interrogation techniques.

I think that this should warrant an investigation. Should the CIA be innocent and that Leader Pelosi lied, lets charge her for perjury. Should Leader Pelosi be honest, which I do not think is likely, lets go after CIA Director then, George Tarnat. I think that is the most fair manner to deal with this issue.

For their own sake, I think that the Democrats should back off criticizing the CIA too much. Not only are they dangerous enough to deal with the Democrats physically, they should not want to pist off another government group. The Republicans already have a 2:1 advantage in the military and their families, you do not want to lose constituents from the CIA either.

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Just give Bill O Reilly one night off and his show comes up with something that is so bad and so below the belt that it warrants something to be written on ST. For God’s sake FOX, when Bill O goes off the factor, go off the air!

It started well with the talk of the CIA having low morale. That I can agree and can understand. I also think that CIA personnel should not be prosecuted and President Obama has also echoed this. He said that it would be the decision of the Attorney General whether people that wrote the memos would be prosecuted but would leave the CIA operatives alone.

The first guest was Donovan Campbell. He was saying that people can serve the CIA in the private sector as much as the public one. Laws are there to ensure that CIA agents are not outed out. That however does not apply to the 2 interrogators who are actually consultants roped in by the CIA. They are not bound by non-contractual laws of the CIA. They are not CIA agents. To say that these people are members of the CIA is like saying that Blackwater are elite Military Policemen in the army.

It is already ridiculous for me that the CIA is having these people in the first place. Why pay so much for something that your men are supposed to be able to do. Even if torture was part of the agenda then, they could have easily asked their Israeli allies on how it is done and train their troops to do so. Many countries around the world base their military training on Israeli advice, why can’t the US? Why pay so much for something that the CIA was supposed to do? Were they afraid that they would break the law in that way? Why is the US having mercenaries at all in the army? That is the main point I felt that Mr Campbell was wrong on.

Then comes the other guest. Before that, the stand in host, Luara Ingraham said that “They are treating these guys like criminals!”Of course they are! They are being accused of torture. We did not treat Bernard Madoff with less scorn did we? Neither did we treat Michael Jackson with less scorn even though he has yet to be proven guilty of anything!

The disturbing part comes from Bo Dietl, the other guest. It is okay to call the new practices Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, but it is another thing to say that it is interrogation. The difference is that this is not allowed in standard interrogation procedure and sort of implying that this should be the standard interrogation techniques used by cops. He even gave an example where he said that police would just let cars go by because they fear complaints! Now you know why the minorities hate the police so much? It is because there are a minority of police officers like you who spoil the name!

The thing that he said that I am sure many elements in the media would catch on is the fact that he asked the President a question he really should not have : If the President’s children were kidnapped by Al Qaeda, would he want to “interrogate”?

You really want to get wife and kids involved in this? When are people going to learn that one should never bring out sentiments when you are making a decision? You think Roxana Saberi’s mum would not want a nuclear strike on Iran to free her or the parents of the 2 journalists kidnapped in North Korea would not support an invasion into that country to get their kids out. Would that mean that the US should attack Iran and North Korea as well? Obviously not!

This was terrible behavior by the guest and the host. She did not do anything to stop it at all. Bill O Reilly would never have allowed this to happen. He would would have cut the guest off might have even apologize for something like this being said..

This is the worst yet this year. I hope Bill O never bring Laura Ingraham, and Bo Dietl on on air again. They are terrible! Though FOX News is the right wing version of MSNBC, this is something that is low even for their standards!

I am against torture. Water-boarding and all other forms of it I am against. The US Field Army Manual is the international standard on interrogation techniques and we have gone back to that. The Obama administration has already closed down Guantanamo Bay.

Then why is it that the liberals keep on gunning back on topics like this? Is this really something that is of extreme importance to America now? Why is it that the liberals are so angry that the President intends to immunize whatever CIA agents did under the Bush administration?

What is in the past is in the past. I do not want this practice of one administration going after the previous ones. There were many Bush administration officials that wanted to go after President Clinton for pardoning a person for tax evasion hours before his Presidency ended. Should they still go after President Clinton for doing that?

It would also not be fair to the CIA operative that were conducting the torture to be prosecuted. This was what they were ordered to do. It was not against the law for them to do so then. The law was changed when the Bush administration panicked after 9/11. They are NOT guilty. I really cannot understand why the far left is going after people that carried them out.

Talking about people that wrote it, the Spanish government is in news again. Just 24 hours after Bill O’Reilly claimed success on the Spanish, the judge that was presiding the case now want the case to go on. I can’t help but say, I WAS RIGHT. It was not the lawyer, it is this judge that want the publicity. He is the judge that went after Pinochet.

Hey Spaniards, don’t you have enough problems yourself? Aren’t you having 18% unemployment paying migrants to emigrate? Doesn’t Spain got anything better to do like trying to solve their economic woes? Why didn’t you guys go after the Bush Administration when they were in power?

Look, I agree that the Spanish got a case in two of the six people that were wanted. But my point to them and the liberals is this : Lets solve more pressing problems now. Lets solve things like the economy, AIDS, climate change and terrorism. Why are we so bothered about things that happen in the past.

People should understand that spot that the President’s administration is in. On one hand, a bloc of the group that elected them to White House are angry. On the other hand they are the new bosses of these people. They need the CIA’s support to function as head of the CIA. How would you feel when your boss is going about firing people that were working for our ex-boss.

Secondly, when is America ever going to control their right wing and their left wing groups? Wasn’t that what the President was elected for? Why are Americans behaving like Red America or Blue America rather than the United States of America? Everybody has disagreements. Some can even be in the own family. But why is it that Conservatives think that America is a country based on Conservative values while Liberal Americans think that America is founded of the progressive mentality and thought?

America was never founded on conservative or liberal thought, it was founded on an American one. It does not mean that when the founding fathers fought a war based on tax that they were conservatives. Neither does it mean that they were progressive because they separated church from state.

Liberals must do their part for America and let us learn from the past. Lets not go after past by letting go of our future.