1) New York Post Excerpt: During
the first five months of this year, with the Senate under the
control of its first African-American majority leader, Smith, top
Democrats bemoaned the lack of minority Senate staffers.
But
instead of trying to recruit new hires, they fired nearly 200 almost
exclusively white workers and replaced them with a large number of
minority employees, many of whom were seen by their fellow workers
to be unskilled at their new jobs.
The move produced severe racial tensions, made
worse by the fact that, as a high-level Democratic staffer confided,
"We've been told to only hire minorities."
DJMS -
Commentary: Racisim is an ugly thing. But it is something that we all
have a right to, as private citizens. But that is where it ends. Our
government(s) do not have a right to be racist here in America. Yet,
this is what we have seen from the very beginning, because
our government is made up of people who desire to
rule, instead of govern.
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2)
The New York Times Excerpt: The
Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret
counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct
orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s
director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House
intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the
matter said Saturday.
The
report that Mr. Cheney was behind the decision to conceal the
still-unidentified program from Congress deepened the mystery
surrounding it, suggesting that the Bush administration had put a
high priority on the program and its secrecy.
Mr.
Panetta, who ended the program when he first learned of its
existence from subordinates on June 23, briefed the two intelligence
committees about it in separate closed sessions the next
day.
DJMS - Commentary: I
never liked Cheney. I voted for Bush, but never liked Cheney. How he
handled the situation with his daughter, showed him to be a
hypocrite.
