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		<title>By: A Hermit</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/03/13/passive-voice-and-flaming-pants/#comment-558234</link>
		<dc:creator>A Hermit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The Bushies never apologize for their mistakes. Even when they do issue an apology or express regrets it’s always about how the story was handled; how they didn’t do a good enough job of selling the narrative, that they could have done a better job of explaining things to the public. It never seems to occur to them that problem might have been in the act itself and not in the sales pitch.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Image is everything to these people, substance means nothing.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Bushies never apologize for their mistakes. Even when they do issue an apology or express regrets it’s always about how the story was handled; how they didn’t do a good enough job of selling the narrative, that they could have done a better job of explaining things to the public. It never seems to occur to them that problem might have been in the act itself and not in the sales pitch.</p>
<p>Image is everything to these people, substance means nothing.</p>
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		<title>By: wial</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/03/13/passive-voice-and-flaming-pants/#comment-558006</link>
		<dc:creator>wial</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;When it comes time to start impeaching the Bush administration, we’re going to need some good clean prosecutors…hmm…say, about 7 of them?  Where can we find seven or so available top quality prosecutors? … Oh, I know! …&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Seriously, I’m surprised more people aren’t discussing this possibility — or would their dismissals disqualify them?  Now that has some convoluted implications on its own…&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When it comes time to start impeaching the Bush administration, we’re going to need some good clean prosecutors…hmm…say, about 7 of them?  Where can we find seven or so available top quality prosecutors? … Oh, I know! …</p>
<p>Seriously, I’m surprised more people aren’t discussing this possibility — or would their dismissals disqualify them?  Now that has some convoluted implications on its own…</p>
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		<title>By: none</title>
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		<dc:creator>none</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-557420&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oklahoma kiddo @ 118              &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gonzales resigns. So what. That still leaves Rove, Cheney, and Bush.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It leaves Rove, Cheney, Bush, and Gonzales.  Rove resigned after all, but we don’t even notice here that he’s gone.  Same with Rumsfeld, who continues to have an office at the Pentagon and keeps running stuff as far as we know.  Resigning or even impeachment is irrelevant for these guys unless they also go to jail.  Otherwise they will stay on the job behind the scenes.  Maybe even from jail.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-557420"><em>Oklahoma kiddo @ 118              </em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Gonzales resigns. So what. That still leaves Rove, Cheney, and Bush.</p>
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<p>It leaves Rove, Cheney, Bush, and Gonzales.  Rove resigned after all, but we don’t even notice here that he’s gone.  Same with Rumsfeld, who continues to have an office at the Pentagon and keeps running stuff as far as we know.  Resigning or even impeachment is irrelevant for these guys unless they also go to jail.  Otherwise they will stay on the job behind the scenes.  Maybe even from jail.</p>
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		<title>By: kraftysue</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/03/13/passive-voice-and-flaming-pants/#comment-557878</link>
		<dc:creator>kraftysue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I don’t know how to link so I copied this revelation from one of the comments from TPM after reading through the document dump of emails released today. I feel this could be HUGE but I don’t know enough about domain names, etc. to pursue….&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ok, now please explain to me why Scott Jennings, a government-salaried White House staffer, is using the gwb43.com domain to send out his email.&lt;br /&gt;
The gwb43.com domain is owned by the Republican National Committee.&lt;br /&gt;
By sending e-mail through this domain instead of the White House’s own system (who.eop.gov) is the White House Office of Political Affairs putting Presidential Records and communications out of the government’s hands — and into the RNC’s?&lt;br /&gt;
Posted by: Citizen 92&lt;br /&gt;
Date: March 13, 2007 05:33 PM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and another……………….&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presidential Records” and “Government Records” are created by government workers. And those records must be properly captured and archived. If Scott Jennings was earning a White House salary and sending emails from inside the White House, even from the gwb43.com domain, he was creating a “Presidential Record.” His failure to appropriately archive that information would amount to an ethics violation, and possibly more. There is extensive administrative law to back this up - a lot of it thanks to Nixon’s antics.&lt;br /&gt;
Clearly the Bush administration is operating fast and very loose with Presidential records.&lt;br /&gt;
Posted by: Skeptic&lt;br /&gt;
Date: March 13, 2007 06:31 PM &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What say you–intelligent FDL computer geeks?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don’t know how to link so I copied this revelation from one of the comments from TPM after reading through the document dump of emails released today. I feel this could be HUGE but I don’t know enough about domain names, etc. to pursue….</p>
<p>Ok, now please explain to me why Scott Jennings, a government-salaried White House staffer, is using the gwb43.com domain to send out his email.<br />
The gwb43.com domain is owned by the Republican National Committee.<br />
By sending e-mail through this domain instead of the White House’s own system (who.eop.gov) is the White House Office of Political Affairs putting Presidential Records and communications out of the government’s hands — and into the RNC’s?<br />
Posted by: Citizen 92<br />
Date: March 13, 2007 05:33 PM</p>
<p>and another……………….</p>
<p>Presidential Records” and “Government Records” are created by government workers. And those records must be properly captured and archived. If Scott Jennings was earning a White House salary and sending emails from inside the White House, even from the gwb43.com domain, he was creating a “Presidential Record.” His failure to appropriately archive that information would amount to an ethics violation, and possibly more. There is extensive administrative law to back this up &#8211; a lot of it thanks to Nixon’s antics.<br />
Clearly the Bush administration is operating fast and very loose with Presidential records.<br />
Posted by: Skeptic<br />
Date: March 13, 2007 06:31 PM </p>
<p>What say you–intelligent FDL computer geeks?</p>
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		<title>By: OldCoastie</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/03/13/passive-voice-and-flaming-pants/#comment-557801</link>
		<dc:creator>OldCoastie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-557715&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;newtonusr @ 244&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I know - but it’s good to see her really pissed off.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She’s gifted, no doubt. I’ve always been an admirer of DiFi, since before her SF Mayoral days. She had the stuff to heal and lead a very deeply wounded city (Jonestown, Moscone &amp; Harvey Milk, etc.). But her willingness to “reach across the isle” has hurt her with me, and most of us. I’d love nothing more than for her to come up very large here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’m with you newtonusr… very large would be very good… we need leaders and I know she can do it… I want her to do it…&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-557715"><em>newtonusr @ 244</em></a></p>
<blockquote><blockquote>I know &#8211; but it’s good to see her really pissed off.</p></blockquote>
<p>She’s gifted, no doubt. I’ve always been an admirer of DiFi, since before her SF Mayoral days. She had the stuff to heal and lead a very deeply wounded city (Jonestown, Moscone &amp; Harvey Milk, etc.). But her willingness to “reach across the isle” has hurt her with me, and most of us. I’d love nothing more than for her to come up very large here.</p>
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<p>I’m with you newtonusr… very large would be very good… we need leaders and I know she can do it… I want her to do it…</p>
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		<title>By: newtonusr</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/03/13/passive-voice-and-flaming-pants/#comment-557715</link>
		<dc:creator>newtonusr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I know - but it’s good to see her really pissed off.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She’s gifted, no doubt. I’ve always been an admirer of DiFi, since before her SF Mayoral days. She had the stuff to heal and lead a very deeply wounded city (Jonestown, Moscone &amp; Harvey Milk, etc.). But her willingness to “reach across the isle” has hurt her with me, and most of us. I’d love nothing more than for her to come up very large here.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I know &#8211; but it’s good to see her really pissed off.</p>
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<p>She’s gifted, no doubt. I’ve always been an admirer of DiFi, since before her SF Mayoral days. She had the stuff to heal and lead a very deeply wounded city (Jonestown, Moscone &amp; Harvey Milk, etc.). But her willingness to “reach across the isle” has hurt her with me, and most of us. I’d love nothing more than for her to come up very large here.</p>
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		<title>By: OldCoastie</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/03/13/passive-voice-and-flaming-pants/#comment-557700</link>
		<dc:creator>OldCoastie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-557694&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;newtonusr @ 242&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-557682&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;OldCoastie @ 240&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I like that Feinstein has really got her knickers in a twist over the USA issues…&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think she is going to make her bones on this and we are going to &lt;b&gt;forgive her for her past transgressions&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She stood up for Rice, put her name in for SecState, sat with her through her confirmation. That’s a lot of forgiviness to ask… She better deliver!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I know - but it’s good to see her really pissed off.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-557694"><em>newtonusr @ 242</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-557682"><em>OldCoastie @ 240</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>I like that Feinstein has really got her knickers in a twist over the USA issues…</p>
<p>I think she is going to make her bones on this and we are going to <b>forgive her for her past transgressions</b>.</p>
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<p>She stood up for Rice, put her name in for SecState, sat with her through her confirmation. That’s a lot of forgiviness to ask… She better deliver!</p>
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<p>I know &#8211; but it’s good to see her really pissed off.</p>
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		<title>By: newtonusr</title>
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		<dc:creator>newtonusr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-557682&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;OldCoastie @ 240&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I like that Feinstein has really got her knickers in a twist over the USA issues…&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think she is going to make her bones on this and we are going to &lt;b&gt;forgive her for her past transgressions&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She stood up for Rice, put her name in for SecState, sat with her through her confirmation. That’s a lot of forgiviness to ask… She better deliver!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-557682"><em>OldCoastie @ 240</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>I like that Feinstein has really got her knickers in a twist over the USA issues…</p>
<p>I think she is going to make her bones on this and we are going to <b>forgive her for her past transgressions</b>.</p>
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<p>She stood up for Rice, put her name in for SecState, sat with her through her confirmation. That’s a lot of forgiviness to ask… She better deliver!</p>
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		<title>By: LS</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/03/13/passive-voice-and-flaming-pants/#comment-557686</link>
		<dc:creator>LS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-557675&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;egregious @ 239&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think the first line is&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Created&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, as a transcriber for years, I recognize the characters of Gregg shorthand in both lines.  Whoever wrote it wrote it either for convenience or wrote it so the average layman could not readily be able to read it.  The way it is written does not appear “rapid” to me, rather it appears “deliberate”, because the writer is not using “short forms” of shorthand, and the ending on both lines was written slowly, not “on the fly”.  Very interesting though?!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-557675"><em>egregious @ 239</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>I think the first line is</p>
<p>Created</p>
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<p>Well, as a transcriber for years, I recognize the characters of Gregg shorthand in both lines.  Whoever wrote it wrote it either for convenience or wrote it so the average layman could not readily be able to read it.  The way it is written does not appear “rapid” to me, rather it appears “deliberate”, because the writer is not using “short forms” of shorthand, and the ending on both lines was written slowly, not “on the fly”.  Very interesting though?!</p>
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		<title>By: OldCoastie</title>
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		<dc:creator>OldCoastie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I like that Feinstein has really got her knickers in a twist over the USA issues…&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think she is going to make her bones on this and we are going to forgive her for her past transgressions.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like that Feinstein has really got her knickers in a twist over the USA issues…</p>
<p>I think she is going to make her bones on this and we are going to forgive her for her past transgressions.</p>
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