Bush Administration Legalism Keeps Losing The War On Terror

3:58 pm EST June 30th, 2008 | Terrorism | 1 Comment

Again.

“A federal appeals court has slammed the reliability of U.S. government intelligence documents, saying just because officials keep repeating their assertions does not make them true.

A guard looks over the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in this file photo.

A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington likened the Bush administration’s case to a line in an 1876 nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll: ‘I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.’”

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One Response to “Bush Administration Legalism Keeps Losing The War On Terror”

  1. Porlock Hussein Junior says:
    June 30, 2008 at 11:33 pm

    OMFSM, a Federal court is quoting The Hunting of the Snark? Truly I never thought I’d live to see the day.

    Not to mention the excellence of the choice, given modern slang. I mean, that’s a pretty snarky comment they made, isn’t it?

    For myself, I prefer this version, which I like to think Lewis Carroll would have approved of:
    That what I say three times is true is true is true.

    Think before you publish a critique of the grammar. Especially if you have a knee-jerk reaction to “That what”.

    We should be doing a Boojum countdown for the Bush Admin:

    “In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
    In the midst of his laughter and glee,
    He softly and suddenly vanished away –
    For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.”

    January 20 is Boojum Day!