Sipsey Street Irregulars: Profiles in Cover-up. When is some big media type going ask Janet Napolitano what the meaning of "swift justice" is? Plus a calendar to keep track.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Profiles in Cover-up. When is some big media type going ask Janet Napolitano what the meaning of "swift justice" is? Plus a calendar to keep track.

"I want you to know beyond the shadow of a doubt that during my term as President, justice will be pursued fairly, fully, and impartially, no matter who is involved. This office is a sacred trust and I am determined to be worthy of that trust." -- Richard Nixon, First Watergate Speech, 30 April 1973

"He put service before self, which is a mark of heroism. We resolve, I resolve, to pursue swift justice for those responsible for his death." -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano at Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's memorial service, 22 December 2010.

Well, Senator, I guess we care about this much about getting to the bottom of Brian Terry's murder.

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV)

- The FBI is now defending its decision not to reveal information to the public regarding the murder investigation of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

Normally, law enforcement releases information that involves the killing of an officer. But in Terry's case, the FBI has remained silent and will not say why it has yet to charge the suspects with Terry's murder.

When Agent Terry was shot to death the night of December 14th in Peck Canyon, the FBI chose to release only certain information, and not much at that. Nine On Your Side learned Agent Terry was fatally wounded taking part in an operation targeting border bandits. The FBI also revealed it had arrested four suspects caught near the shooting scene. But the FBI would not release the names of the people in custody.

Seventeen days later, KGUN9 reporter Steve Nuñez called the FBI again. This time the FBI did talk, but only to defend its policy of maintaining its secrecy.

And that story ran on the 31st of December last year! Here's a calendar so you can keep track of Janet Napolitano's definition of "swift."

3 comments:

Defender said...: Still NO MENTION WHATSOEVER in the local paper 100 miles south of DC.
The journalists I used to work with seem to agree with Sen. Mark Warner about "balancing" our essential rights with the need for safety and security, no matter the cost to those rights or the amount of lying necessary. They fully approve, so why give the public a chance to understand and object.; February 6, 2011 at 5:19 PM
Anonymous said...: You're stringing together interesting pieces that seem to make a bigger picture.

Keep it comin'.; February 6, 2011 at 6:03 PM
Anonymous said...: One of the excuses that they will give is that they need to restrict information because the suspects have family in Mexico who may be endangered by premature release of information regarding the suspects identities.

Which doesn't wash of course since the bad guys already know that information. But it does sound good to the public.

If one lie isn't enough, tell more of them until everyone is suitably confused. That way you don't have to reveal anything you don't want to.; February 7, 2011 at 7:33 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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