Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has sided with the Bush Administration in defending the government’s need to spy on the American people ad nauseam without oversight or authorization. It’s interesting that Powell was one of the quietest Secretaries of State in my lifetime. He relinquished his post and quietly slipped into oblivion … until now. All of a sudden here he is helping to reinforce the president’s position.

Although Powell’s credibility is high among the American public, the president has such a dismal amount of support that there is little Powell can do to resurrect the dead. Besides, the government has established a very fearsome pattern of pushing for secret torture chambers, secret prisons, secret wars, secret deals, and secret spy methods upon the citizens of the U.S.

And in case you haven’t heard … a judge in Italy has issued an arrest warrant for 22 CIA agents, including a former bureau chief. The reason? Abducting folks to take to a secret place. Likely they just wanted a chat, right? People get real talkative when electrodes are placed in strategic areas of their body.

Given that the government cannot and should not be trusted, it is amazing that the Bush administration would find a way to drag Powell out from under the covers of retirement (kicking and screaming no doubt) in a last-ditch effort to sell the public on absolute trust of an untrustworthy government and its barely literate leader.

Posted on December 26th, 2005 by admin
Filed under: America in the MidEast

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