Academy invites more controversial speakers

[unhappycamper]

Academy invites more controversial speakers
By Patrick Winn - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Apr 9, 2008 6:44:33 EDT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Air Force Academy, holding its second high-profile panel on terrorism this year, will invite a Middle East analyst, longtime academy critic Mikey Weinstein and former U.S. Ambassador Joe Wilson, husband of former spy Valerie Plame.

The forum, titled “USA’s War on Terror: Not a Battle between Christianity and Islam,” will take place at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. It is open to cadets, academy staff and faculty, news media and select others.

In February, the academy hosted a controversial forum led by three self-professed terrorists-turned-Christians who claimed past involvement with shootings and bombings in the Middle East. The academy said their backgrounds were vetted, but the session was criticized by Islamic groups for promoting Christianity and denigrating Islam, and by others who doubted the speakers’ terrorist claims.

On that forum’s heels, this session will play host to better-known speakers with ties to major news stories.

In 2005, Wilson’s wife sued Vice President Dick Cheney over allegations his chief adviser, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, divulged her classified identity as a Central Intelligence Agency operative and obstructed justice when confronted. Libby was convicted on counts of obstructing justice, perjury and false statements, though the suit against Cheney fizzled.


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[MADem]

1. WOW!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!!!!!!!!!!!! This is bigger news than most appreciate!

They MUST be feeling the pressure, at long last. Suggests the lame-duckiness of the administration, actually. I have a friend who was working on the excesses and abuses at that "institution" of higher learning--not just with the vicious attacks on Jews on non-fundies, but also with the women's discrimination and abuse issues as well, and this is a BIG change. Previously, they'd never even attempt any "balance" of viewpoints--they'd tell people to shut up or there'd be worse coming their way.

I really do think the only way to fix that joint is to either toss out the entire leadership and start anew, or better yet, close the place (turn it into a Club Fed prison, maybe) and reintegrate the USAF into the Army--back to the Army Air Corps with ye, and give SPACE (the Final Frontier) to the Navy!!!

Bwahahahaa!