Which set me to wondering if they really were SS since Rove isn’t necessarily entitled to them…or were they SS and they were assigned to Rove in spite of his non-role for the EOP because somebody wanted him, ummm, tailed…

“He has written for the New York Times, New Yorker and New Republic and is also the author of “You’re Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery.” “

Ha Ha.

we’ve got plenty of work to do. things to be addressed and expressed, plans to be made, worthy candidates to support and candy ass congress critters to harass. we need to keep our eyes on the prize.

the other morning bug-up-my-arse moving me to write is this: the people who keep dangling their thoughts of leaving the country in our faces on this thread sure don’t do much for the rest of us. just think about it:

“what would a patriot do?”

she sure as hell wouldn’t leave the country.

full disclosure: i am leaving the country in six weeks but it’s not because of what’s happening here. i’ve got a job in dresden. i’ll be posting from “the international desk of FDL”. me and hunter s. thompson. and i will be back. and i will vote absentee in the mean time. this country is too good to give up on.
clusterfuck and his band of dastardly pukes will be swept into the dustbin of history, just like the Nazis and the Communists they resemble. But not if we throw up our hands and run away.

I’m not sure I understand your question about “escorting”.

If you mean the motorcade to the GJ, there would not be a limo for someone in protective custody. There might be several cars, but limos are for presitge not protection.

Yes, witnesses are sometimes escorted to testify in the GJ if there is a fear for their secuity.

If there is a fear of flight, they can be arrsted on a material witness warrant and would be incarcerated and moved like a prosiner. (Not describing that b/c don’t want to tip off mafia or drug lords).

In neither case would you want to call attetntion to the move with a limo and such. The best protection is to be undetected.

Limos are for show. When high officials want to get around undected, they don’t use limos. And even if there are several cars, they don’t move in motorcade formation.

The difference betrween how Mayor Koch and Mayor Dinkins moved around NYC during their respective Adminstrations was striking.

The cops who handled their security and who were trained in some of the same programs used for the presidential protective detail (little known fact, local law enforcment can enroll their people into federal training academies such as the FBI academy at Quantio, by paying tuition for them)used to complain mightily about how much more vulnerable Dinkins was because he insisted on a large and unwieldly motorcade.

Koch would quite often travel in a fairly standard looking city issue crown victoria. looking like some middle manager, but with tinted windows. and an unmarked police car trailing a few car legths behind. Aseemingly unrelated marked PO car a few lengths ahead to break open any traffic jams.

It was a very effective security plan for quick,unubtruisive transport. For formal occasions he had a Lincoln Town Car? Cadillac? (I’m not a car person)that was recognizable and would then used a motorcade.

Donald Barlett and James Steele, two investigative reporters who have chronicled the vicissitudes of the American economy for Time magazine since 1997, have lost their jobs in a budget squeeze.

The reporting duo, who together won two Pulitzer Prizes and two national magazine awards, were on the payroll of Time Inc. Their jobs were among about 650 that the company has eliminated in the last six months.

John Huey, editor in chief of Time Inc., said that as he cut corporate costs, he sought unsuccessfully to place the two men on the payroll of a company magazine.

“They’re very good but very expensive, and I couldn’t get anyone to take them on their budget,” Mr. Huey said. “We’ll miss their work.”

Mr. Steele, 63, who began working with Mr. Barlett, 69, at The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1971, said: “We’ve had a great run at Time, but apparently the decision was made at the corporate level not to fund this kind of work.”

Not that Barlett and Steele are star writers or anything. Those Pulitzers are cheap, everyone knows that. (Link here, registration required.)

He’s still working, and we’re still waiting. “Please Fitzmas, don’t be late . . .”