Are you actually saying that her question can't be asked because she "implies some knowledge of the answer"? or that it's illegitimate to ask the question whether anyone in the Bush administration could be criminally responsible for 9/11 or for the other enormities she mentions?
You object to her "innuendo" of "a broad picture of skullduggery." She seems to me to present a good characterization of US foreign policy in the matters she mentions, absent some liberal platitudes. Your description of it as "stupid" is simply condescension. --CGE
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> Smearing her by citing her own words, indeed.
>
> To ask a question is to imply some foreknowledge of the answer. The
> more questions, the more is implied. If I say, "Did CGE have carnal
> knowledge of a labrador retriever?", I am in effect claiming to know
> something that gives me a reasonable suspicion to motivate the
> question. The fact that the question is interesting has no bearing on
> what I know or don't know.
>
> A simple demand for an investigation is unexceptionable. But her talk
> goes way beyond an "it". The innuendo in her speech goes way beyond
> it. She paints a broad picture of skullduggery. Without evidence.
> It's one thing for an Internet muckraker to do that. For a Member of
> Congress, it's stupid. Stupidity is not an admirable quality in a
> leader.
>
> mbs
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] McKinney never said it
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>
> The smearing of McKinney that Palast describes continues in Sawicky's and
> Berlet's comments. The Counterpunch articles to which they refer raise
> reasonable questions, principally "What did this Administration know, and
> when did it know it about the events of September 11?" Congress is
> unwilling to deal openly with that question, but posing it is not evidence
> of "conspiranoia." --CGE
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