It all comes down to what you know.
The right-wing failed to protect the country's citizens on September 11, 2011. No one was ever held accountable for these failures.
They turned around and invaded not one, but two countries on a pretext filled with lies. No one was ever held accountable for the lies.
A Hurricane completely flooded New Orleans. No one was ever held accountable for the failure.
The financial, and housing industries collapsed due to deregulation and were propped up by taxpayer money. Not a single executive or institution was ever held criminally responsible.
But now ..
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/02/06/f-vp-macdonald-us-drones.html
"Yet another government document has been leaked, this time a so-called “white paper” in which the U.S. Department of Justice lays out the administration’s justification for killing American citizens it suspects of belonging to Al-Qaeda.
U.S. media outlets, it seems, are perfectly comfortable with the term “targeted killing,” now that it is a major tool for the Pentagon and CIA.
It’s also clear American media outlets are comfortable suppressing news the government does not want published. Today’s story reveals not just that the Americans have operated a secret drone base for years in Saudi Arabia, but that the Post, along with various other news organizations, have been keeping that fact to themselves at the government’s request."
And yet ... when someone does call them on their lies, criminal behavior, and reckless and illegal actions, what happens?
Well look up the name John Kiriakou to get your answer.
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