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Former CIA Official: Iran Nuke Document Was Forged

You would think that a country that's so very dependent on the U.S. for economic subsidies would be hesitant to pull stunts like this, wouldn't you? And yet, that doesn't seem to be the case:

WASHINGTON, Dec 28 (IPS) - U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a "neutron initiator" for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central Intelligence Agency official.

Philip Giraldi, who was a CIA counterterrorism official from 1976 to 1992, told IPS that intelligence sources say that the United States had nothing to do with forging the document, and that Israel is the primary suspect. The sources do not rule out a British role in the fabrication, however.

The Times of London story published Dec. 14 did not identify the source of the document. But it quoted "an Asian intelligence source" - a term some news media have used for Israeli intelligence officials - as confirming that his government believes Iran was working on a neutron initiator as recently as 2007.

The story of the purported Iranian document prompted a new round of expressions of U.S. and European support for tougher sanctions against Iran and reminders of Israel's threats to attack Iranian nuclear programme targets if diplomacy fails.

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“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Clavis's picture

I'm sure Dan Rather is responsible. Or maybe John Kerry. Or Van Jones! Surely, if there is a conspiracy to be spun, it must only implicate liberals and Democrats. Perhaps ACORN helped disseminate the document, with help from Michael Moore and the Homosexual Azteca movement?

was sacrificed four years before the ships bearing Columbus
arrived New World according to sources who say the CIA is not to blame.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents's picture

because AZTECA is still making good music


Some stuff you can't make up!

ricky's picture

still serves mighty fine carbrito al horno but El Matador
got closed on account of the dog food tacos. (Personally I thought it was nice they fed the tacos to dogs, but apparently the city health inspectors saw it the other way around.)


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

cund_gulag's picture

That's all I gotta say.
Oy Vey...
When did the Israeli's take Bush/Lieberman lessons? Oh yeah, the past decade, plus. Stupid me...
OY VEY!!!!

israel like the wingnut neocons
can not be trusted to tell the truth.

Pete2069's picture

Any difference between Israel , U.S. and the UK...

I don't think so...

Israel spying companies are being paid by U.S to Spy on U.S. intelligent agencies , FBI , military , our military capabilities , our national security , Senators , House of Representatives and the American citizens..

They know more about the people , government , FBI , CIA and us than our own government does and that is saying a lot...


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Liberal AND Proud's picture

What's Lieberman's spin on this?


Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.

go to war, ask questions too late.
that's LIEberman's position.

CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents's picture

attack someone, ANYONE, after we declare something, ANYTHING!


Some stuff you can't make up!

Pete2069's picture

Lieberman's policies have always been the same..... Attack , Attack and destroy Israel's enemies in the middle east...

This is the same policies as most of the elected officials in our government...

Saudi Arabia is another country which is getting us to do their dirty work for them..


None

MountainMan23's picture

But continue reading the article quoted:

U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a "neutron initiator" for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication ..

"The Rupert Murdoch chain has been used extensively to publish false intelligence from the Israelis and occasionally from the British government," Giraldi said.

The Times is part of a Murdoch publishing empire that includes the Sunday Times, Fox News and the New York Post. All Murdoch-owned news media report on Iran with an aggressively pro-Israeli slant.

It's our good ol' Friends At Fox up to their old tricks again ..


When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?

Not soon enough!

Liberal AND Proud's picture

I wonder if Rupert did this of his own volition, or did Lieberman have to blow him again?


Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.

CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents's picture

as more the Ben Dover type. MsCain likes 'em more wife-like.


Some stuff you can't make up!

Why wouldn't Israel do something like this? I thought they were often rewarded, by US, for oppressing people and stirring up false accusations.

Israel is well known to possess over 200 nuclear weapons with the missiles to deliver them.

They REFUSE any U.N. inspections and REFUSE to be signatories to The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

This is a classic case of "the pot calling the kettle black".

They are STILL committing war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and they have rejected/ignored The Goldstone Report as has the U.S.

Now they are continuing the building of MORE illegal settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.

They are belligerent war criminals who enjoy the support of the United States.

With every passing day more of the world community is turning against the illegal actions of Israel AND the United States.

I hope the news of this story breaks through to the main stream press so an honest dialogue can be launched that faces the ugly truth of U.S./Israeli militarism and international illegalities.

For starters, we can take a look at the use of depleted uranium munitions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza, as well as the DIME weapons used by Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVAVsvyrECs


"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn

David A's picture

But don't forget to include the non-depleted uranium munitions, the white phosphorous, and the cluster bombs that look like children's toys.

It is surreal to even hear a discussion among teevee "experts" on the Iranian "nuclear problem" when no one in the room acknowledges Israel's massive offensive nuclear arsenal or the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Israel's nuclear program is the source of an asymmetry in the region that is the driving force behind a fear in Iran (and formerly Iraq under Saddam Hussein) that caused them to adopt a policy of strategic ambiguity with respect to their own deterrent capabilities. It is nonsensical to even discuss non-proliferation of WMDs in the region when the biggest illegal payload is sitting in Israel pointed at Iran and other countries. The hypocracy is not lost on the Iranian leadership.

Iran is a sigantory to the NPT and the treaty requires that they be supplied with equipment and fuel for a civil nuclear program under the carrot and stick approach of the treaty. The US and our experts on the teevee are (and have been) playing a dangerous game of brinksmenship and miscalculation with respect to Iran by failing to properly acknowledge the critical distinction under the NPT between a civil versus a military nuclear program. Israel is well aware of our blind stupidity and is waiting for the chance to get our green light (which is required to traverse over Iraqi air space) to take out the reactors in Qom and Natanz.

The reason that we do not discuss the NPT is that the US, a signatory, has been in constant violation of the treaty because we have been secretly sending nuclear technology to Israel for years. The second reason we don't make the distinction clear is because the war machine and the neo-conservatives are sitting and lying in wait for a collosal miscalculation to get the war ball rolling. I guess this trial balloon failed. The fireworks should be more interesting next time.

Peter G's picture

A guy who's been out of the intelligence game for eighteen years declares a document to be a forgery (on what basis no one says) and he speculates it could be Israel or maybe the British who did it but by the time it gets here it is definitely an Israeli plot. From a technical point of view this much is true; an initiator is not some high tech device. Initiator design is about the only thing that hasn't to some degree been declassified but the simplest proposed design is a spherical lump of polonium, a rich neutron source, encased in a beryllium shield with built in asymmetries to allow mixing during the implosion. It would take exactly one RaLa test to confirm functionality of a proposed design.


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This is not the first time that Giraldi has been tipped off by his intelligence sources on forged documents. Giraldi identified the individual or office responsible for creating the two most notorious forged documents in recent U.S. intelligence history.

In 2005, Giraldi identified Michael Ledeen, the extreme right-wing former consultant to the National Security Council and the Pentagon, as an author of the fabricated letter purporting to show Iraqi interest in purchasing uranium from Niger. That letter was used by the George W. Bush administration to bolster its false case that Saddam Hussein had an active nuclear weapons programme.

Giraldi also identified officials in the "Office of Special Plans" who worked under Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith as having forged a letter purportedly written by Hussein's intelligence director, Tahir Jalail Habbush al-Tikriti, to Hussein himself referring to an Iraqi intelligence operation to arrange for an unidentified shipment from Niger.

I'd say that the guy still has good contacts on the inside of the US intelligence apparatus.

fiver's picture
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beat me to it; that quote's in my clipboard now.


Corruption favors the wealthy.

Peter G's picture

He may well be the CIA's in-house leaker. Which makes me wonder how he can use the same sources to exonerate the CIA from any involvement. Then there's the recurring problem within the US intelligence community of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. This all seems a little self-serving to me.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

Andy K's picture

Maybe...But not the leaker for the hierarchy, at least based on the Niger documents.

You know how a good journalist gets the dirt on, let's say, corruption at the local police department? He cultivates relationships with guys who get stuck in the middle- sergeants and lietenants- because they didn't go with the flow. Once those guys retire, they're willing to blow whistles. And they've usually got good friends on the inside who want the whistle blown, too, but are afraid to talk to journalists for fear of getting shitcanned, or forced to walk a beat in a shitty neighborhood.

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You would think that a country that's so very dependent on the U.S. for economic subsidies would be hesitant to pull stunts like this, wouldn't you?

That depends. Maybe the Israelis have paid close enough attention to realize just how stupid Americans are. It's pretty obvious that the concept of "accountability" has become completely unknown to Americans. Israelis don't think they'll get caught, and even if they do get caught, no one is going to hold them accountable. Where's the risk? Besides, the US-Israel relationship is one that will only be broken when the Baby Jeebus raptures Americans up to heaven and starts delivering payback to Earth's heathens. Nothing short of Armageddon is likely to break up such devoted BFFs (or perhaps BFUA would be more accurate).

Shadowgm's picture

... the AP story that Iran was making a deal to clandestinely import 1,350 lbs. of purified uranium from Kazakhstan, according to a leaked report by an IAEA member nation who is asking for anonymity.

Just push the button, so we can move onto the business of shooting/hanging all of the dadblasted Christianist/Zionist warmongers for the war criminals they are.

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Jackson man, Wisconsin family on Flight 253 say unknown man got video of alleged attack

A Wisconsin family that was on the same flight told news talk radio station 620 WTMJ that they also saw a man with a camera filming the ordeal on Flight 253. Patricia "Scotty" Keepman said she, her husband, her daughter and two newly adopted children from Ethiopia were returning to the United States with the newest members of their family when they boarded Flight 253. Keepman's told the station that her daughter saw the unidentified man filming the entire flight -- not just the incident with Abdulmutallab.

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2...

how, exactly?


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Shadowgm's picture

... gnat-sized attention more than a story about yet more trumped-up evidence against Iran.

Floridiot's picture

about as much as the rest of yall

That story above was aimed at Ms. Madrak in case she hadn't read about it yet.

I suspect if there was FBI involvement that will be the last we hear about it also.

ricky's picture

it may be the last time your posts can be updated with this long a delay.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Floridiot's picture

my posts will be longer and longer between thoughts from now on as the tertiary Lyme is digging in pretty good to the brain cells lately.

Liberalicious's picture

are evil, that's how.

;)

and it can be linked to Rahm, count me in. If were flying to Detroit for Christmas I might contemplate doing myself in or forging something, too.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

ricky's picture

If not, disregard.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

radicalbeat's picture

The credible source on these documents being a forgery is somebody who has been out of the global intelligence field for 18 years. He of course has this information from “reliable sources.” Hasn’t this site often criticized people for reporting “facts” with nothing better to quote than “reliable sources?”

But for arguments sake, let’s say it is true and the documents have been forged. Where does this article credibly conclude that Israel is the source of the deception? How often does this site tare into right-wing pundits for broadcasting conclusions without having solid and well researched sources (as people purporting to be reporting news ought to do)? And yet the posting for this story is phrased to say that such a conclusion has been reached beyond all doubt…it is fact. That is simply not true. I have always felt that this website was better than that, and it makes me ashamed of how easily this site doesn’t live up to the standards that it has so much fun in mocking the rest of the media for not having.

Is it simply that it’s trendy for liberals to be anit-Israel?

fiver's picture

... and already shocked. Shocked!


Corruption favors the wealthy.

I've followed the site since before John relented, and admitted it was a blog. Not that it would detract from my statement either way.

The Sailor's picture

Rupert Murdoch doesn't have standards. Many other articles cover this by current officials and they've known about this and suspected a forgery for over a year.

And it's not a trigger, it a measuring device for a trigger. Even if it's not a forgery it's no indication of a weapons program.

You'd think people would remember the lies before Iraq (and Vietnam and Panama and Grenada &c) and would have learned accordingly.

BTW, "Is it simply that it’s trendy for liberals to be anit-Israel?" Why wouldn't any intelligent person condemn the actions and war crimes of Israel?

Floridiot's picture

Tubesocks agin

ricky's picture

tubesocks?


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Shadowgm's picture

... Indian man told the clerk the tubesocks didn't need a passport.

Floridiot's picture

last year, there was a commenter with the handle of Tubesocks defending it, so, just another handle in the defense of Issyrael...and then they disappear back into the either.

If they slither into the or, that would be entirely different.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Peter G's picture

and I have made exactly the same criticism. See above.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

fiver's picture
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... didn't notice the shock at C&L's "Lost Standards"


Corruption favors the wealthy.

Peter G's picture

have different standards when composing their posts. Overall this site has very high standards and when mistakes are made they are corrected. Occasionally I see posts where a horse has been constructed out of a horseshoe and this is one of them. It is as speculative as they get.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

fiver's picture

From the cited article:

This is not the first time that Giraldi has been tipped off by his intelligence sources on forged documents. Giraldi identified the individual or office responsible for creating the two most notorious forged documents in recent U.S. intelligence history.

In 2005, Giraldi identified Michael Ledeen, the extreme right-wing former consultant to the National Security Council and the Pentagon, as an author of the fabricated letter purporting to show Iraqi interest in purchasing uranium from Niger. That letter was used by the George W. Bush administration to bolster its false case that Saddam Hussein had an active nuclear weapons programme.

Giraldi also identified officials in the "Office of Special Plans" who worked under Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith as having forged a letter purportedly written by Hussein's intelligence director, Tahir Jalail Habbush al-Tikriti, to Hussein himself referring to an Iraqi intelligence operation to arrange for an unidentified shipment from Niger.


Corruption favors the wealthy.

Peter G's picture

those individuals as being responsible for forgeries. That doesn't necessarily make them guilty. Now seeing as he previously accused members of the US intelligence community of forgeries I'm wondering why they are automatically exonerated in this case.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

an Israeli accent? Check out the unusual syntax ofg our new commenter with high standards but odd grammar.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Shadowgm's picture

You questioned the facts as presented in the excerpted story. That's sensible.

The other poster immediately cast aspersions on C&L's standards, trotted out the 'you liberals' meme, and other trollage.

Debber's picture

I immediately drew the conclusion the commenter was a concern troll, just based on that tired old "you liberals" crappola. Seriously, this is a blog with a liberal standpoint and there's nothing "wrong" with that. It's one of the big reasons I'm here myself.

I'm fed up with all the support Israel no matter what they do shite! The Israeli government needs to be held to the same standards as any other country out there. Unfortunately the thievery and dishonest chicanery of the Bu$h years has made it easier for other countries, including Israel, to behave similarly. Unfortunate for the rest of the world!

Peter G's picture

regarding the "you liberals" but it doesn't invalidate the criticism. The substance of the IPS story doesn't justify:
"You would think that a country that's so very dependent on the U.S. for economic subsidies would be hesitant to pull stunts like this, wouldn't you? And yet, that doesn't seem to be the case:"
It's one thing to round up the usual suspects and another to always round up the same suspect especially on such paltry evidence. I can't help but notice that one of the prime suspects, if this is a forgery, cleared themselves of any involvement. Anybody got a salt lick they can spare. This story needs some seasoning.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

The Sailor's picture

Then google up some research of your own. the NYT has a decent article on it.

Peter G's picture

It's a link to a news story and an opinion. I think I'll wait for the IEAE's opinion. They do research and I would trust their evaluation of the validity of the document in question.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

ysbaddaden's picture
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus

ron's picture

that it was reported by a Rupert Murdoch propaganda outlet is probably enough proof that that documents were forged.

ricky's picture

I am anit-picker.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

ricky's picture

but I am anal retentive and pretty damn trendy.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents's picture

abooger-picker.


Some stuff you can't make up!

Shadowgm's picture

.... it has nothing to do with my being liberal. It's doubtless because I am a highly-paid tool of the MSM*, here to sow disinformation and fill your progressive brains with mush.

But you're basically drumming C&L for bringing a news story to light. Susie makes it clear this is speculative, and that it doesn't seem to make sense, then excerpts the original copy.

*And, in the same dream, I was stuck on a tropical island with Heidi Klum, and she was wearing that diamond bikini from the Victoria's Secret catalog ...

and she was wearing the outfit she wore when killing Jabba.

Speaking of your dream, of course.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Shadowgm's picture

... I get to see that costume all the time at conventions and other events.

Andy K's picture

Niger yellowcake uranium documents that were proof enough to invade Iraq....After proven an Italian forgery, there's a big, "Whoops!" from the press corps that had been played...

All they need is another "false flag" operation to fool the public into going along with it.

Keep your antennae up....it's coming.


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Is it simply that it’s trendy for liberals to be anit-Israel?

Strawman! Get Ya Strawmannnn heeeahhh!


Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.

ricky's picture

to call a straw man out in these poppy fields you lion bastid.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Liberalicious's picture

ghey is showing.

;)

ricky's picture

on my son's English class vocabulary list recently and I used it properly in a sentence for him.

And I had Ruby red grapefruit with my breakfast just this morning.

You must be on to something. Cancel my marriage. I am a threat to western civilization and soon God will be sending a message in the snowstorms.

update...I forgot I slipped up and made a poppers reference didn't I?


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

curtilingus's picture

what's a popper?

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Andy K's picture

I just don't like the right-wing Israeli government.

But read the full paragraph:

Philip Giraldi, who was a CIA counterterrorism official from 1976 to 1992, told IPS that intelligence sources say that the United States had nothing to do with forging the document, and that Israel is the primary suspect. The sources do not rule out a British role in the fabrication, however.

This tells me that Giraldi's sources are trying to figure out who it is that forged the document. Who has a motive? Then analyze the the means of distributing the forgery...Is there a modus operandi? Well, there's this:

The Times of London story published Dec. 14 did not identify the source of the document. But it quoted "an Asian intelligence source" - a term some news media have used for Israeli intelligence officials - as confirming that his government believes Iran was working on a neutron initiator as recently as 2007.

Symes's picture

I personally would like to welcome our latest friend from the JDL.
Or is it APAC. Maybe Mossad?

So, were you recruited by the Foreign Ministry, the IDF or Mossad?
And how much do they pay you?

35 minutes was all it took guy, you need some more training.
Go back to your handlers and let them know you failed.

Andy K's picture

You've got as much proof that radicalbeat is AIPAC or Mossad as I have that you're working for Hamas or VEVAK.

And please quit it with the length of registration. There are millions of page views at this site every year, but only hundreds of "regular" commenters. There are a lot of lurkers who remain unregistered until they feel like chiming in.

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Corruption favors the wealthy.

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Liberalicious's picture

Length of registration and the use of generalizations like "trendy for liberals to be anti-Israel", are definite troll indications.

Andy K's picture

Please point out where it is that "troll" is defined. Is a troll just someone who disagrees with you, Liberalicious?

Symes's picture

But you are definitely fitting the definition right now.

Andy K's picture

I actually made points above that showed why I thought radicalbeat is wrong.

Symes's picture

Or hadn't you noticed that part?

fiver's picture

Trolling is a game about identity deception, albeit one that is played without the consent of most of the players. The troll attempts to pass as a legitimate participant, sharing the group's common interests and concerns; the newsgroups members, if they are cognizant of trolls and other identity deceptions, attempt to both distinguish real from trolling postings, and upon judging a poster a troll, make the offending poster leave the group. Their success at the former depends on how well they — and the troll — understand identity cues; their success at the latter depends on whether the troll's enjoyment is sufficiently diminished or outweighed by the costs imposed by the group.


Corruption favors the wealthy.

Ludwig, of course, played the troll in "He's Alive" opposite Dennis Hopper and Paul Mazursky. Great Twilight Zone episode about neo-Nazi's...goddam Godwin.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

fiver's picture

I didn't realize what a potential gold mine that comment could have been ....


Corruption favors the wealthy.

ricky's picture

is known to ward off trolls. It also brings gold according to Oral Roberts.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Symes's picture

... but then God asks you for $5 million and threatens to toast you with a lightening bold and who really needs all of that anyway?

ysbaddaden's picture
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ysb, where are you?
Tue, 12/29/2009 - 13:08 — fiver
____________________________________________

Heart doctor, they took me up to level 4 stress level, and were pleased that I could continue to keep up, without any chest pains, pain in the joints, and could continue to keep up a conversation, and never even broke a sweat.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

fiver's picture
~

Sounds good :)


Corruption favors the wealthy.

calgarylady's picture

Follow your doctor's orders and don't be a bad boy!

;)

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

I still got a whole carton of Gauloises Brunes non filtered to work through

And half a pack of Dunhill Red.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

calgarylady's picture

You are incorrigible ;)

Liberalicious's picture

What is that...do they make you watch Fox "News" or something?

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Jonas Brothers.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Liberalicious's picture

If you're so blind, that's you're problem.

BTW, I don't think you're a troll....I've read your posts....and they contain insight. This other person did not, and yes I check the registration dates too...it IS an indication whether you think so or not.

ricky's picture

But when you don't see them can you spot them with trolldar?

Is not spotting them proof of blindness or simply a possible side effect of a drug he was not warned about?


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Liberalicious's picture

Is that I's broughts down quites a fews of 'em since I shows up heres.

Plus, I tends to pluralizes everythings.

(BTW, I have a troll DOLL, does that count?)

ricky's picture

and consider that to be trendy.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Andy K's picture

But I still think you use that registration thing too (sorry) lazily. It can be an indication, but for all you know, someone you accuse of trolling after one comment might agree with you on 99% of the issues. But you call them a troll, they never come back, and you never find out.

Liberalicious's picture

And my success rate in identifying said posters as such is rather high. And there are several long termers here that are only here to troll and irritate, and I know who they are. I can't list them or this post would get deleted. I see posts I don't agree with all the time, and can tell it's not a troll. Once looks for centrain phrases and tones, or asks certains questions and waits for certain responses. Plus, if you call them a troll, and they don''t come back....guess what...it was a troll.

Andy K's picture

...the death penalty. Thing is, if you aren't perfect....

Symes's picture

Just face it, some of aren't as unsure of ourselves as you appear to be.

ricky's picture

Being unsure of oneself does not mean one is a troll.
It does mean your liberalism is not sufficiently trendy.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Liberalicious's picture

Blanche, I AM perfect!

;)

BTW...I REALLY don't get the connection with identifying a troller online, and the state killing someone.

Just sayin'.

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

But I AM perfect
Tue, 12/29/2009 - 13:36 — Liberalicious

Blanche, I AM perfect!

;)
____________________________________

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1A0p0F_iH8


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Liberalicious's picture

You picked the wrong film. I'm referencing.

you can call them anything you want.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Liberalicious's picture

don't call 'em late for dinner!

;)

Symes's picture

They hate that.

Liberalicious's picture

you can't be serious?

ricky's picture

Gilligan's Island.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Liberalicious's picture
?
Symes's picture

apologizing for the troll.
I don't care what you think.

Andy K's picture

I disagree with the gist of radicalbeat's post. But I won't call him/her out as a troll for simply saying that he thinks the accusations towards Israel in this matter are shaky.

Here's the thing: You can actually make points in order to disprove his argument, instead of just calling him a troll.

Symes's picture

And that is what I did and will continue to do.

What Andy, are you so new to this blogging thing that you missed out on the creation or Israeli internet defense groups that use programs developed to track down stories like this so they could side track them?

This one has been identified, I will not waste another second on it other than to call it again what it is.

Andy K's picture

And I've also seen threads swamped by Paulbots and/or troofers using Digg to channel their attacks.

And I also know to trust no commenters anywhere to be who they say they are. Anyone here could be a wingnut putting on an extremely progressive mask, pushing points so far as to strain the credibility of all progressives. Think about that.

Then forget it all and argue with facts instead of suspicion. The truth will set you free.

Symes's picture

Best of luck with that.

Andy K's picture

I've been registered longer than anyone else on this thread.

See how that works against you?

Symes's picture

But now you are just trolling.

Andy K's picture

Therefore, the moment you disagree with me, you're the troll. Just following the logic set out above.

ricky's picture

or three.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

fiver's picture

Just means you registered way before we were required to....

... and I think miss_kitty's been registered longer than Amato :)


Corruption favors the wealthy.

Liberalicious's picture

I NEVER said you were a troll.....and I NEVER said that length of registration alone determines one. I READ the posts, check other posts, etc. Give me some credit here.

Peter G's picture

I didn't register until it was mandatory. I'll say this, if you're a troll then we all are.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

Symes's picture

And Andy's playing the part today.

As for registration, I went under PopeTodd for 2 or 3 years prior to this moniker. When did you stumble on the site again Andy?

[EDIT - SHIT! It's 2010! Ok, that means I used PopeTodd for 4 and a half years before I changed to this one, damn! I must be getting old...]

mudshark's picture

yikes.....


What is your conceptual, continuity?

Symes's picture

I said he's playing the part.
Specifically "concern troll".

Yikes indeed.

( Symes. This is the site monitor who lifted your previous ban. Please do not make me regret it. Thank you. SiteMonitor)

ricky's picture

until they banned my previous user name for trolling.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Liberalicious's picture

under the nick "Troll"? I do have another nick on here, but I never use it, because that would be wrong.

Symes's picture

That would leave room for Troll2, Troll3, etc...

Liberalicious's picture

not some copycat wannabe!

;)

Symes's picture

Have 10+ Trolls show up to troll the trolls, all with a number attached.

LOL!

Liberalicious's picture

But I've NEVER gone to any RW boards and trolled and flamed. It's just not my way. But I will admit to experiencing extreme satisfation when getting a whold of some RW troll, and just destroying them on a public board. I tend not go looking for it though, as it can be exhausting and can ruin your day.

Symes's picture

It's not worth it.
You know they are mentally challenged from the start, it would be like seeking out some school for the mentally handicapped and mercilessly destroying their self esteem just for kicks.

Not a good time.

Now if they show up where I happen to be that's a completely different story! All bets are off (along with the gloves) at that point.

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

How aboot Troll, not the troll?


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Liberalicious's picture

Psst...your Canadian is showing.

Floridiot's picture

Trool then?

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

I wiped my chin.

How about pantywaist?


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

fiver's picture
~

spill it.


Corruption favors the wealthy.

Liberalicious's picture
Beg

;)

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

I only registered once the system changed over. There were a few weeks where it was transitory.

But I've been here for years, I'm just not sure how many, but at least four.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

That's as long as I was in the Air Force.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

fiver's picture

(didn't think you'd fess up on an active alias)


Corruption favors the wealthy.

ricky's picture

aliens being active? At least not before I registered them.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents's picture

and changed my name a few times, but I'm sure that I have been here longer than you, if THAT is supposed to be some form of validating credential. you've wasted a lot of thread space defending an obvious troll. you can be as liberal as the next person and there's no problem with that. the problem appears to be that you deny the obvious.


Some stuff you can't make up!

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

I'm well aware.
Tue, 12/29/2009 - 12:58 — Andy K

Then forget it all and argue with facts instead of suspicion. The truth will set you free.
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Doesn't always work in court.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

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