joe, good guess on the leak. check out this quote by him in the WA post story

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said: “Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees. The real story is those jails.”

he’s calling it like it is, and frankly I admire him for that.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..764_2.html

check out the story that the CIA has asked the justice department to investigate the leak of “possiby classified info” on the cia secret prisons aka torture centers as reported in the WA Post last week.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..0bQ–

If I had to guess, I’d say it was Lindsey Graham who leaked.

Just a hunch. Was he even there?

Redd:
There can be no doubt (to use the immoral words of the Big Dick himself) that this is an hilarious spectacle. And I do hope that Lott’s instinct is correct and that at least one source for the Dana Priest article is a Republican Senator or Senate staffer. But I’m getting a distinctly fishy whiff from Lott’s statements. First of all, taking Lott’s statements at face value (perilous, I know), he is basing his belief on the coincidence of the article coming out the day after the black sites were discussed at a GOP-Senator-and-Cheney luncheon putsch and the similarities between what was related in the meeting and what Dana Priest reported in the Post. I have a number of problems with the Lott scenario:

The Post article simply does not look like something that was dashed off in less than one day on the basis of a leak from a Senator or hill staffer. To the contrary, looking first just at the substance of the thing, it appears to be a throughly researched piece, with a great deal of background and context woven into it, not simply a wad of Capitol Hill dish. Moreover, even allowing for some of the, shall we say, vagaries of how reporters describe anonymous sources, the piece is sourced variously to: “U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement”; “current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents”; “officials familiar with the program”; “current and former and U.S. and foreign government and intelligence officials”; “four current and former officials”; and, more specifically, in some instances to “a former senior intelligence officer who worked in the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center”; “another former senior CIA official”; and “a senior CIA officer.” If we were dealing with Judith Miller rather than Dana Priest, I might be less credulous, but I’d say it is very safe to say that Priest has at least four sources, probably more — at a minimum, two distinct former CIA officials (part of the Goss purge, no doubt), one current CIA official (that’s one brave hombre), one or more current or former State officials. I would like to think that there’s somebody at Justice with a conscience and a set of cojones as well.

I listened to Dana Priest’s interview on the Diane Rehm show last week, and in it Priest convincingly and credibly painted a picutre of a story that has been long in the making, based on disclsoures from a variety of long-cultivated sources. She was rather cagey when asked why those sources suddenly decided to talk about the black sites; her response was that it was due to the dogged pursuit of the information (or words to that effect), which is certainly tantalizing. But I was convinced — especially having read the article — of her veracity on the matter of the article’s development.
Now none of this excludes the possibility that one of Priest’s sources was a GOP Senator or Hill staffer. Indeed, some of the information reported smells like it might have come from the Hill (e.g., “[t]he CIA and the White House . . . have dissuaded Congress from demanding that the agency answer questions [about the treatment of CIA-held prisoners] in open testimony” or “[m]ost of the facilities were built and are maintained with congressionally appropriated funds, but the White House has refused to allow the CIA to brief anyone except the House and Senate intelligence committees’ chairmen and vice chairmen on the program’s generalities”). But what I have briefly cataloged above certainly leads me to doubt that a Hill souce — if one does exist — was anything like the prime source for the piece.
It also is possible that Lott knows more than he is letting on and that he actually does have some inside info on a GOP leak. But color me very, very suspicious. Let’s hope Lott’s not handing the Democrats a boomerang.

maybe Lott himself is the leaker and had to cut this off at the pass?
:-)

Ol’ Trent may be a bigot, but he’s not stupid, that’s for sure.

The man knows the old horror movie axiom that you don’t just stick the knife in, ya gotta twist that sucker for maximum impact.

Lott killed at least two turds with one stone. Frist, because he resents being pushed out of his leadership position, and whoever leaked the story. My money’s on McCain. Hence, Lott eliminates two potential competitors for the GOP nomination AND severs himself from the rotting albatross the Bush Administration is fast becoming.

Absolutely Machiavellian. A nice shot, well played. Gotta hand it to him. It’s as good as anything Rove ever came up with.

Just so I’m clear on this, it would seem that Cheney knew about the Gulags but nobody in the Senate knew. Ummm…isn’t that kind of an actionable problem right there?

On another front, remember that second batch of Abu Ghraib photos/videos that are due to be released in about a week? Maybe the Senate is finally waking up to the fact that there is about to be huge fallout (hence last week’s closed door session, Cheney’s desperate CYA adventures, etc.)

I think the torture exception is to save Cheney’s ass because it all begins and ends with he and rummy and it provides them and out when the shit hits the fan and more of this stuff is exposed. For all we know, something more is coming down the pipeline and this is Cheney’s insurance policy.

Maybe the CIA leaked it- they HATE Cheney.

Head spins…

Ya know, maybe Lott leaked it his own self. He has been shivving Frist and co. for some months now, and with unseemly pleasure too.

Maybe he was in on the meeting with Cheney, said to himself, “this guy is fucking insane!”, leaked the info to the WaPo, and then when Frist and Hastert got all happy with the idea that they could maybe get everyone’s mind off, well, other stuff, Lott went back around to CNN and shivved them again.

It’s evil, and probably not true, but I like the sound of it.

Wow! I’m at a loss for words… never in my life would I have even dreamed of the words “Trent Lott” and “WOO-HOOOO!!” both sitting pretty on the same side of an issue, in terms of my overall opinion of the thing.

Frist… heh heh! Y’know, I’m reminded of why Barney Fife always had to keep his bullet in his shirt pocket.

Wow. Y’know I can’t help but wonder if this started out as McCain gunning for Cheney on the torture issue.

Sharkbabe I agree with you that McCain sold out his principles long ago, whether or not he realizes it, but he has other perfectly good reasons to do something like this. Cheney’s days are clearly numbered, and McCain’s best career move ever would be to insert himself into the vacuum Cheney (and Rove) will leave behind. It’s definitely a long shot, but look at how careful he’s been to suck up to Bush personally even when he’s slamming Bush’s policies and cabinet members. I think he knows that the Boy Prince remembers sycophantic fawning long after he’s forgotten everything else about a person.

If he can pull it off he’s golden. If not he hasn’t really lost anything by helping push Cheney out the door.

Why did Cheney clear the room and talk about the Gulags in the first place? Letting the gooper senators know how things really were and what might come out if the CIA were not exempted from the torture ban? That’s my guess- but the senators- who are going to face re-election- took the information and realized that if they didn’t actively distance themselves- they were fucked- presto blame the whole thing on Cheney!

Chris said that Cheney’s appointment of scoot’s replacements went over like a fart in church at the White House.

Other guests say that the two staffs hate each other and that the White House staff is actively blocking Cheney’s staff whenever they get the chance.

Now this could all be BS to distance Clusterfuck from the rapidly sinking Big Dick- but it may also be real

Let’s suppose that Daddy’s friends have told Clusterfuck that he has to dump Cheney or go down with him.

Clusterfuck can’t do it directly- he’s get eaten alive by Cheney’s conservative base- the answer- get the senate to take him down- while Clusterfuck is out touring Latin American and Asis.

Could be.

CNN announced that CIA has requested the justice department to investigate. Hope Fitz gets the case.

bye bye, Dick

Frist always looked like a lightweight; pretending to be in charge. How can you lead when you’re on the ground giving Dobson’s ass an oral exam?

I swear to god, watching Tweety this week has become like watching Frontline, without the ponderous video narration.

New thread ;)

I disagree with those who think McCain is for real in the torture debate or anything else. Everything he does is posturing and angling, just like the whole sorry lot – repukes AND dems. NONE of them know how to say an authentic word or take an authentic action, so long have they been swimming in bullshit.

Till the day I die I will marvel at the transformation of John Kerry (e.g.) from youthful articulate principled truthteller to de facto shill for Idiot’s ruinous Iraq adventure. How can any democrat not SCREAMING at this mass murder sleep at night?

From the Official website entitled, I kid you not, “Dr. Bill Frist”:

“Persistent vegetative state, which is what the court has ruled — I question it. I question it based on a review of the video footage which I spent an hour or so looking at last night in my office here in the Capitol. And that footage, to me, depicts something very different than persistent vegetative state. One of the classic textbooks that we use in medicine today is called “HarrisonÂ’s Principles of Internal Medicine.” In the 16th edition, which was published just this year, 2005, on page 1625, it reads, “the vegetative state signifies an awake but unresponsive state. These patients have emerged from coma after a period of days or weeks to an unresponsive state in which the eyelids are open, giving the appearance of wakefulness.” I’ll stop quoting from the classic internal medicine textbook, but one last sentence, “in the closely related, minimally conscious state, the patient may make intermittent, rudimentary vocal and motor responses.”

I watched the video too from my office in Ohio, Dr. Bill, and from where I am as someone with an extensive background in public relations, I would agree that you and your folks have shown in your intermittent, rudimentary vocal responses that you are clearly in a minimally conscious state, but one which most would say is persistently vegetative.

I say it’s too early to pull the plug on you just yet. I’m enjoying this way too much for now.

This is a joke.

It has to be a joke.

Was Frist really unable to see that coming?

Is the GOP really in the middle of a near-terminal meltdown?

I mean, they looked bad enough when it seemed like the leak came from a Democrat, in that they were saying “what’s important is not that the black sites exist, but that somebody exposed them to the American public.” But to have the leak coming from the GOP??

Trent Lott: “we have me the enemy, and it is us.”

What’s next? Cheney holding a press conference in which he declares, Novak style, “I think that’s bullshit, and I hate that?”

Libby confessing to a massive conspiracy and declaring “you won’t have Scooter to kick around anymore?”

It’s getting hard to hold my laughter in long enough to type.

How’d you like to have Frist for a doctor?

Come to think of it, somebody might oughta check to see how many potential malpractice suits he left in his wake when he was doing post-Katrina photo ops, playing a doctor on TV in Nawlins.

Cheney comes to meeting on the hill and ask Sente staff to leave the room

cheney try to talk up a CIA exception to the no tourture language

Next morning WAP has story with Dark Prisons “Gologs”

Frist and Hastert write a letter saying the leak is really bad for national sec

(Leave out the fact that Dark Prisions might be a problem for national sec)

Lot tells reporters that at the Chenney meeting they were briefed by Chenney about exestence of Dark prisions

(sorry no spell check)

LOL

ssd

Tone on hardball suggests that Kaine is winning in Virginia. Chris said “a guy who SHOULD have won”.

By the way- when you listen to Bea Buchanan and Crowley and other gooper free riders- you have to be struck with the “let the investigation go wherever it goes” line-

Don’t totally reject the idea that goopers want Cheney GONE.

Ah, I have another scenario.
What is this was a planned leak which was supposed to stay secret? What I’m thinking is that someone agreed to help Frist out by leaking the information about our Gulag, so Frist could then pull this stunt. He didn’t count on being betrayed by Lott, who knew or deduced that Republicans were the leakers.
I think this is not so far-fetched—the GOP is full of kabuki stunts like this.

what do you think?

Btw, in future posts, refer to me as
“Marky, Ph.D”

Hey, didnt Green Lantern or someone yesterday say that they thought the WaPo article had Rice’s fingerprints all over it? That somehow Cheney was responsible for this and she is trying to sink Cheney to save Leader?

http://fusioner.proboards60.co…..1131129004

Yeah I have been emailing too ;)

Click the link for media resources, and be heard coast to coast :)

Damn! I go to work and come home and look at all the news I have missed!

I have so many republithug screw ups to catch up on- this one gave me quite the chuckle- you gotta love lott- he has always been known for having a chocolate foot. You think he would have shared his thoughts with his fellow GOPers before running his mouth to CNN but I am personally glad he didnt.

I just love the thought of the republithugs writing that drama queen letter to the intelligence committee chair and now having to find a way to obstruct their own investigation! HA! I love it!

And you gotta love how they refuse to investigate ANYTHING unless they think dems are involved. What a bunch of A-holes. Seriously.

I’m confused (what else is new?).

Can someone write a quick summary of the facts here?

There was a news story about secret CIA gulags in various countries.

Cheney had a lunch with GOP senators (and staffers?)

Frist & Hastert, guessing that some demo senator leaked the gulag scoop, thought they could create a plame-like scenario with demos as the guilty leakers.

Lott goes on CNN and says the leak came from a GOP source?

Maybe Cheney released classified info illegally (again).

Can someone put this all in chronological order with analysis and speculation on motivation?

Thanks! Sorry I’m dense.

Perhaps I should start signing off as ReddHedd, Esq.

Yes, please. I know Iwould find you infinitely more respectworthy.

Matthews slipped and said “Bush’s Boss” – referring to Cheney. He then said that Cheney’s appointment of Addington was a screw you to Fitz.

http://atrios.blogspot.com/200…..5467778198

Atrios has it up ;)

Cat Mengele

love it

CNN got an Email claiming the White House teaching ethics is like Al Capone teaching tax law…

hahah… I love having deep belly laughs at the sheer level of incompetence flooding in from the right.

Does this remind anyone else of the hilarious lawsuit that Fox News almost filed against The Simpsons and Matt Groening because they made fun of Fox News in an episode? Of course, if you didn’t know, The Simpons is owned by the Fox Network.

lol

-Monk

WTF is up with these repukes? I mean really, WTF?

It’s like they’re trying to out-Jon Stewart Jon Stewart.

Time for Cat Mengele to throw another Frissy fit on the Senate floor.
He’s been BETRAYED, I tell you, STABBED IN THE BACK.

Now if senators do not have security clearance- can a gooper senator be prosecuted for leaking info gained from the VP. Wouldn’t seem so.

Same level of guilt as for someone like Novak. In an investigation you would flip the low level perps to go higher up the chain.

Ripping into Cheney on Hardball!

Question re: Chalabi. Does he have any sort of diplomatic status that would prevent him with being charged with a crime? If he does, would it matter that the crimes pre-date his diplomatic status?
Evil Parallel Universe | 11.08.05 – 2:06 pm | #

Yes he’s an emissary from that Sovereign state called Iraq.

I’m not joking he has diplomatic immunity.

Now excuse me a moment.

Bwahahhahahahahahahahahaha!

“My name is Elmer J. Fudd, Millionaire, I own a mansion und a yacht.?

- Elmer J. Fudd

:)

Now if senators do not have security clearance- can a gooper senator be prosecuted for leaking info gained from the VP. Wouldn’t seem so.

Perhaps I should start signing off as ReddHedd, Esq. HAHAHAHAHA Erm…no. BC, you are SO right about it being a case of terminal asshole-itis. Who doesn’t know Frist is a doc at this point — what with his diagnosis by video skills and all. ;-)

Frist’s overeager assfucking of Lott has come back to haunt him, it seems.

SunTzu,

William H. Frist, M.D. (Medical Deity, or Me Doctor [You Not]).

Given that Frist gradumacated fum de Hahvahd School of Feline Vivisection, I’m guessin’ it’s Medical Deity).

The use of a professional or academic distinction in that sort of setting is evidence of terminal assholitis, in my honest opinion.

BC

I said it last week and I’ll say it again — it was McCain. He is serious about no torture. And this was in your face to Cheney.

Just sent an e-mail to CNNs situation room- telling them that they are onto the scoop of the year and are wasting our time with stories about lottery winners and pirates.

Please help kick em in the ass.

rwcole – The more desperate they become, the more “stupid” they will be. What I am talking about is that the belief that there is a plan behind everything they do or say, thought out to some nth level of possibility. They are swinging blindly – which makes stupid a good word – it derivation is similar to stupor.

Personally I think it’s just more evidence that Frist is an idiot.

Frist is an idiot.

And I would send that letter to Chalabi to the AEI ;)

The contact page for the AEI:

http://www.aei.org/about/filte…..efault.asp

The Hon. John Conyers posted the letter at HuffPo:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..10319.html

Chalabi either met with AEI today, or they meet tomorrow, not sure. The AEI never put out a press release??? Funny ya know?

Redd: Buy a bucket of shiners and a little net and put bathing suit on toddler in bathtub.
Better than Disney…….
Kept my son busy for HOURS!!!

PS: As they die from the shock of it all, flush em.

Quick! Harry!

RUN into the arms of your good friend Dr. Frist and grab him by the hand ever so warmly and declare to the world that you have indeed found common ground, no hard feelings, water under the bridge and all of that becuase TOGETHER you want to get to the bottom of this latest travesty. Someone in the administration, it seems, is selectively telling people without proper security clearance about awful, awful things being done in the name of the good people of America. What do you think, Billy Boy?..another special prosecutor.?..just let Fitz add this to his little list?…Full blown special select committee?…It’s all good. We’re with you, Dr. Bill.

Here’s some more rope, my good friend, because as you know, giving aid and comfort to the enemy during time of war, well that’s a hangin’ crime. Or would hanging Vice-Presidents and Republican Senators and staffers be against your hippo-critcal oath and such?

Like that, Harry.

Oh my. I do believe I have the vapors!

Haven’t read up, but got this in my email today:

http://impeachpac.org/

via afterdowningst and democrats.com

gotta check out the fascinations for today. Seeya later.

z

Looks like there’s an outbreak of Birdbrain Flu breaking amongst certain Goopers in DC. Maybe Play President Bubble Boy should have them quarantined.

—

EPU- true- but it’s hard to believe that these guys are THAT stupid- maybe so.

By the way- the guys on teevee have seen the exit poll results by now- so it’s time to play the game of figuring out who won by their demeanor.

Bea Buchanan obviously knew that Goopers are losing big time in New Jersey. Watch for clues on Virginia where Clusterfuck’s reputation (such as it is) is on the line.

For the record, John Fund of WSJ is the world’s least charismatic Repug sycophant, with Blitzer coming in a laggardly 2nd.

New Pew poll is out, and fragrant as a fresh Spring day, with Bush approval at 36%.

Ein volk! Ein reich! Kein Dubya!

Question re: Chalabi. Does he have any sort of diplomatic status that would prevent him with being charged with a crime? If he does, would it matter that the crimes pre-date his diplomatic status?

rwcole – You give too much credit to Frist’s “brain” (which he probably performed experiments on as a youth – why stop at cats?). This tars all the repugs, whatever the motivation of the source. If you really want to speculate, why not Lott as the leaker and as exposing its repug origins?

basic Occams Razor law operating concerning bureaucracies: never assume malevolence when simple stupidity will do…

In case anyone is interested, rawstory has a letter that Conyers and other house members are sending to Chalabi…..inviting him in for a little chat.

What genius decided to bring him to Washington right now? Mind you, I am NOT complaining.

Interesting speculation, RWC.. there MAY be more than one level here. Personally I think it’s just more evidence that Frist is an idiot.

MMM

Well if you follow this trail back a couple of steps.

1) Frist KNEW that the leak was bound to lead back to Cheney- he was THERE.

2) Frist MAY know which gooper is responsible for the leak- supposing that one is

So is Frist tryin to waylay Cheney- or a moderate gooper?

HMMMM!

Wilson — very interesting. I know that several of the Intelligence Committee members have high level clearance, but I would agree that it is unlikely that the entire GOP Senatorial caucus has need-to-know clearance, or whatever level this intelligence information was on. There ought to be oversight on this — but all of this smacks of some effort on Cheney’s part to tamp down on separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches. I do think the issue of a breach of national security matters ought to be raised if this was disclosed improperly by Cheney — absolutely.

hmm… wonder if this leak is related to the Onion story about Laura Bush’s leaking.

the alleged excuse for this automatic yanking of security clearances in 2001 was because of loose lips from Senator Robt Shelby, Republican of Alabama who had disclosed something fairly damaging…

Wilson- Holy batshit!

I think that you’re right!

Redd- yoohoo- Redd

Wanna weigh in on this one?

Exit polls for the New Jersey governors’ race show democratic Senator Jon Corzine is the decisive winner over Republican businessman Doug Forrester.

The Huffington Post has learned that Senator Corzine wants to appoint acting New Jersey Governor Richard Codey to fill his Senate seat.

Corzine must resign from the Senate in January to assume his position as governor. His Senate term, however, does not end until 2007. State law gives the governor the power to appoint a replacement for the seat. Gov. Richard Codey has been acting governor since Jim McGreevey’s resignation took effect on November 15, 2004.

One down and one to go according to Huffington.

(she’s not supposed to be leaking them exit polls is she? Don’t think that the polls are closed yet.)

after 9/11 the Preznit arbitrarily yanked the automatic security clearances from ALL 100 Senators except for the top 2 on Defense and top 2 on Intelligence. Therefore: Cheney was leaking classified material to 53 GOP Senators who were NOT cleared. Sounds like a clear violation of the Espionage Act against Cheney…

rw, I thought that about Gannon or whatever his name was. A planted “reporter” who threw softball questions, who didn’t go through the normal screening process, who didn’t even use his correct name, and he ran a gay escort web site advertising himself as Macho Military Guy….

I mean, how good was that?

And how much attention did it ultimately get? That sure made no impression on the goopers. Never happened, nope…..

Sounds as if the story about the gulags came from Cheney in his meeting with gooper senators.

That’s two leaks of classified info that have Cheney as a source.

This is too good to believe.

From the sounds of it… Goopers in the Senate are just a mess.

I can truly appreciate this wonderful feeling. Freedom seems like it is just around the corner.

suit filed by the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission against Fox News reveals that the former employee who made allegations against the network said she was routinely party to obscene language and sexist conversation, RAW STORY has learned.

RAW STORY obtained a copy of the suit Tuesday afternoon. It is viewable by PDF here. The actual suit is far more racy than media reports have revealed.

The suit alleges that Fox News Vice President Joe Chillemi regularly made pejorative remarks about women. In part of the complaint, it is said that Chillemi regularly made “derogatory comments about pregnant women (such as regularly stating that a pregnant woman had “tits” that were “fucking huge” and like “cannons” or “melons” and the on-air talent’s breasts needed to be “covered” or not shown when the pregnant woman was being filmed).”

Fox News leading again!

(Raw Story)

More chuckles… Cafferty on CNN was whining and ranting about how stupid it was for the WH to name it “Ethics Classes”, he came up with some absurd alternate titles they could or should of named them. Then Wolf and the boomerang and bombshell, with Frist… how priceless!

Throw Candy a bucket a lard and call her in the morning.

Candy Crowley—-Did you all see her on CNN?

Her reaction to the boomerang story:

“If you’re a republican then you will just say that this investigation should go whereever it leads”

Then- according to Crowley- goopers will win no matter what happens.

Doesn’t CNN have a mercy killing program?

That H-O-G hog is an embarassment to all americans- regardless of creed, color, or national origin.

So, who is the Republeaker??

Wilson — bungee! hahahahah!! Good one. I knew the GOP made me think of Roadrunner cartoons!

(OK, I’m out of here now for a bit.)

I notice that in the letter to Hoekstra and Roberts, Frist signed the letter:

William H. Frist, M.D.

WTF! Did he think he was writing a prescription?

The guy can’t stop playing God.

Hey Wilson — great minds, same channels!

(Please take over the real-time reporting — I have to go do physical therapy. See you all later!)

Redd — Thank you for staying on top of everything here, we LOVE it!!!

a bombshell and a boomerang. is that like a handgrenade attached to a bungee cord?

Ed Henry talking about the potential “boomerang” for the GOP.

Wolfie calling it a “bombshell.”

Heh-heh.

CNN is repeating the story and Wolf is amazed and saying it’s “a bombshell!” and the reporter is talking about a boomerang.

Ed Henry just said, “Maybe a Republican Senator, maybe a Republican staffer as well.”

Boy, what a brilliant move on Karl Rove’s part to torpedo Trent Lott and replace him with Dr. Bill Frist(R-Cat Killer).

I bet the Republican leadership is quietly considering the euthanizing of the good Doctor from Tennesee.

Moral collapse, party meltdown, chickens with Avian flu coming home to roost. You decide.

-GSD

Wolf Blitzer- the worlds least charismatic human- is bumbling through stories on today’s election- but interrupted for dynamite coverage of a powerball winner.

Why can’t CNN get his ass off the tube- perhaps he could take “senior political reporter” Candy (got fat of shrubbery cooking) Crowley with him.

Redd –
You may never hear CNN repeat that story. Seriously, they may have gotten one of “those” phone calls.

Can you believe CNN just ran a “live breaking” press function to hear from the winner of the lotto?

Wankers.

BTW I’m worried about reports I’m hearing on “election irregularities” today, involving machine problems, etc.

I’ve also e-mailed CNN, btw, but nothing back from them as yet.

Mrs. K8 — I was taking dishes out of the dishwasher while talking with my toddler, and stopped when I heard Ed Henry start talking. I keep waiting for them to clarify further — but nothing on CNN as yet. I’ll update when I get a complete clarification. My toddler is down for a nap at the moment, so I can give CNN full attention now. ;-)

No, come on! Cheney, involved in a leak????

Nuh-uh! Stunning!

“Go leak yourself!”

ReddHedd –

The way I heard it was:

Cheney at luncheon —>Republican Senator—> Republican staffer —> WaPo.

However, I could scarcely believe my ears, so maybe my ears were too dazed to get it correctly.

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/

for those not familiar, I strongly recommend a tour thru the weblog of Dahr Jamail re: the war in iraq. Jamail is a completely ‘unembedded’ journalist. His reports are riveting and well written.

I wonder if it was Hagel.

Expect to hear more “leaks” talk – they will try to cheapen the word to banalize the deed. “Leaks. Leaks, leaks, more leaks. Did I mention leaks?” Then hosebag Kristol can deflect Plame talk on TV: “That? That was just another leak.” while bushWa goes back to his old “Leaks? I don’t like leaks.”

I’d like to finish but I have to go take a …

In Tejas them shoes r called “fuckme pumps”.

My internet sensors detect imminent loss of bladder function in Cat Mengele.

Oy, those shoes. Hooker shoes. Sort of a rent-a-friend.

So who will be the first dem to stand up and respond to Frist and Hastert?

“In a spirit of bi-partisan comprmise- the minority members of both houses JOIN the ranking republicans in insisting that the investigation of this deplorable leak begin immediately”.

Dems must think that all of a sudden it’s christmas every day!

Is it McCain…….

Let me go to hell, that’s all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss. samuel beckett

don’t you think MoDo’s shoes are friendworthy?

Let’s call Frist’s office and ask whether he will pursue this investigation wherever it goes.

[Above I suggested we call and just laugh like hell and hang up. The two suggestions are not mutually exclusive — it just requires TWO phone calls.]

“modo hates everyone”

Yeah- she does doesn’t she- wonder if she has any friends?

She’s a trip!

What a dilemma for the kool kids! Do they ridicule the Republican leaders for this hilarious blunder? How can they, when ridicule is reserved exclusively for liberals (ok, except for MoDo, but she hates everybody)? Or is it memory hole time?

My money’s on the memory hole.

rotflmao

CNN still covering the school shooting- it’s the usual- a demented kid with a gun shooting the principal and a few teachers.

People in other countries think we are a bit nuts with the gun thing- any kid in the nation can put his hands on a glok in about five minutes. ho hum.

It’s both hilarious and surreal!

Hope it was a gooper up for re-election this year- and that Frist has to decide whether to ask for his prosecution or save his seat.

This is funny as hell.

Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) told CNN’s Ed Henry Tuesday afternoon that he believed it was a Republican senator who gave information about secret CIA jails abroad to the Washington Post, RAW STORY can report.

Lott said that much of the information contained in the Post report — which stated that the U.S. was holding terrorist suspects in secret CIA jails overseas — was discussed at a meeting of Republican senators last Tuesday.

The revelation appears to torpedo the political gambit of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) who called on the Senate and House intelligence committees to investigate who leaked the information to the Post.

(raw story)

When we get an actual quote from Lott- we may find that it was more guarded than what was reported- he usually covers well- but this is fun.

Man, Lott is one cold, angry, vicious motherfucker.
Yep, and he can pay back like one too.

I sent off _HOT_ email to the goopers on the Senate Intelligence Committee… Not quite strong enough to bring the FBI knocking on my door… But strong enough to give any staffer reading my mail deep pause.

I call them criminals, corrupt… I tell them they are commiting crimes against humanity… I really let loose. They deserve the responses, and I never lie :))

Poetic Justice may be the only kind we get, but I’ll take it!

Oh, the irony! It’s govermnent by the Keystone Kops.

I’ve argued before and will again that the Black Sites leak brought to light information that the public should have access to, namely, what is being done in their name. Leaking an operative’s name is in a different category.

Having said that, I still get a giggle out of the news that the leak came from a GOOPER.

Texas voting today on same sex marriage- must be a lot a Texas studs wantin ta marry each other eh?

Let’s not forget that Boy Genius has to take the wrap for this. Frist is, after all, his horse in all this.

Hmmm. CNN just gave a quick headline summary — mentioning the new “leak investigation” by Frist and Hastert, but not mentioning Lott’s response.

Hmmm. Guess they got the phone call, huh? Somebody was told to sit on Ed Henry.

The link doesn’t directly go to this information and I don’t have time at the moment to hunt for it, but…..

if this is so, how delicious is it? Lott isn’t even waiting for Frist to turn around before plunging the knife in.

Fatbear — it’s not on the website yet. Ed Henry just reported it on air. Probably should have said that above. Am waiting for them to post an update to their story — and will link to it when they do.

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
-Abraham Lincoln

Turned on CNN to hear the story- but they are covering a school shooting in Tenn.

How can a school shooting be news. Don’t they happen every week? Usually the kids of NRA members.

Well, at least this investigation is going to go quickly, now that the suspects have been narrowed down. We really owe the Bad Doctor an apology, he really gets things done.

The GOP motto: E pluribus pwned.

I hope you cached it Redd, ’cause you can’t find it on the CNN site….

Lott actually gets a two-fer out of this — he backhands both Frist AND the White House (i.e., Cheney’s luncheon dungeon discussion).

Man, Lott is one cold, angry, vicious motherfucker.

Reid has one of Frist’s nuts and Lott is laying claim to the other.

The GOP really is imploding.

If this false equivalence campaign fails before it gets off the ground, it will be because Lott wanted it to fail, for his own reasons.

I can’t wait to see how the talking hairdos spin this one.

They make Jon Stewart’s job so easy.

I think payback is a bitch. ;-)

I think Lott wants his old job back.

I suggest we all call Frist’s office — and just laugh like hell before hanging up.

With apologies to Men at Work, “Who can it be now?”

Okay, folks! Place your bets on the newest Republican leaker!

And, no, Mr. Bennett, you CANNOT double-down!

heh that was quick