Waxman to CondiLiar:
Yesterday, however, a member of your legislative office informed Committee staff that you were prohibiting Mr. Dodge from meeting with Committee investigators. This official claimed that allowing Mr. Dodge to speak with Committee staff would be "inappropriate" because the Committee voted to issue a subpoena to compel your attendance at a hearing on your knowledge of the fabricated evidence.
I assume that your legislative staff was acting without your authorization in this matter. It would be a matter of great concern – as well as an obvious conflict of interest – if vou had directed your staff to impede a congressional investigation into matter that may implicate your conduct as National Security Advisor.
No wonder Ellen Tauscher was trying to launch a preemptive strike and nullify Waxman and other liberal Committee chairs from within the party before the November election. People she thinks quite highly of could no doubt see this kind of thing coming.
That one's gonna leave a mark.
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Zero?
ZeD
What! No Lolo??
Oops, i type too slow
Dang!
Jane, small problem in the quote, here is the language from TPM Muckraker:
I assume that your legislative staff was acting without your authorization in this matter. It would be a matter of great concern – as well as an obvious conflict of interest – if vou had directed your staff to impede a congressional investigation into matter that may implicate your conduct as National Security Advisor.
Maybe this was mistranslated from the French: “if vou had directed your staff…”
Jane, you are really in fine form this week. There are a couple of typos but you’ll probably have them fixed before I get this posted.
lolo @ 5
: )
I hope they really do get Condi on this one.
Saved by the bomb
Senator McCain has hit upon a solution to all the Republican party’s woes: a nuclear war with Iran
But the biggest advantage of nuclear weapons is that the repercussions would be so enormous, the upsurge in terrorism so overwhelming, that the world would be totally changed. A year before 9/11, Paul Wolfowitz and Lewis “Scooter” Libby signed a statement for the Project for the New American Century, a neoconservative thinktank. They rather hoped for “some catastrophic and catalysing event like a new Pearl Harbor” to kickstart their dream of a world run by US military might. A nuclear war would do the trick in spades. The Republican party could expect to stay in power for the next 50 or even 100 years.
above from the guardian.
And Condi has been right in the thick of things.
Texas Betsy @ 10
I would love to see her go down.
And I’m savoring the image of the House Sergeant-At-Arms frog-marching her to the House floor.
marcy was all over this at the next hurrah earlier today. Juicy story.
Cozumel @ 9
Congratulation my love.
Henry : I assume that your legislative staff was acting without your authorization in this matter.”
Killin’ em softly.
No-one does the stinkeye like Condi. I’m *sure* she’s killed people with it.
masaccio @ 6
Thanks, don’t know how that one got so garbeled.
Just thinking about how Condi ran out the clock time and time again with long,
contentless answers when she was questioned by the 9/11 Commission makes my blood boil.
She’s obviously trying to do the same now – until Jan. 20, 2009.
Hey Jane -
First Gonzo, then Condi, then Darthcheney, then the Boy-King himself.
Waxman has all his ducks in a row. I’m torn, it’s so much fun watching them go down, but I wish it would happen faster.
Fern @ 3
What can I say, the night is still young. I was busy giving loves to my buds in the last thread.
lolo
Sangemon @ 19
That sounds like the right order. As I once heard somewhere ….. bring ‘em on!
I love Waxman. He writes so eloquently, and with just the right measure of power.
lolo @ 20
Oh sure – blame it on me!!
Sangemon @ 19
We must have patience. It seems to be rather like making a good pot of chili or stew, we don’t want to rush it, no indeedy.
And in the letter Waxman points out that Stephen Dodge gave a definite warning that the Niger claim was a forgery, that Rice knew it, and cited it in her NY Times Op-Ed. Wowie-zowie.
Loo Hoo @ 22
And snark. He has been thought a fool (by them, not us)for 6 years. All of a sudden…not so much
And thank you, thank you, thank you, Simon Dodge. Keep hanging tough till you get your day in the sun. The truth will out.
Speaking of truth, Greg Sargent’s anti-propaganda efforts at TPM have paid off a little. Posted at 5:47 p.m. today by Newsjock at DU:
Congratulations, Greg.
Remind me to never piss that man off, even in a casual visit. The command of language he has is incredible. Polite and makes every point dead center.
Condi’s toast.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 11
As my daughter said when she was a toddler, “No talka me.”
Texas Betsy @ 21
Yes. As the layers of smoke an deception are peeled away, the mess inside will stink so bad that even the Republicans in Congress will be forced to react. It will be for the good of the nation, they will cast themselves as the saviors, but the Republican Party is done.
As Jane said last night, stick a fork in ‘em.
dakine01 @ 24
I personally would not mind if it took until, say, the middle of next year for all of this stuff to come to a head.
By the way…Hi Jane. You are rockin’. And from a coupla previous threads – how can we contribute to Marcy’s DC trip?
Eli @ 12
She can share a cell with Paris Hilton
Eli @ 12
How can she live with herself? Imagine being a prostitute. Now imagine being in the Bush White House. Which would keep you awake at night more often?
Texas Betsy @ 21
Who in the world would say that? /snark
I’m trying to arrange meeting with a few people up here over the weekend to try and come up with a timeline on personnel changes in the Anchorage US Atty office over the past two years, the shifting of DOJ resources from Anchorage to DC, and other stuff showing up in today’s indictments of present and former Alaska legislators. As to who is running the case so far, this is at the bottom of the DOJ press release regarding today’s events:
This case is being prosecuted by trial attorneys Nicholas A. Marsh and Edward P. Sullivan of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section, headed by Chief William M. Welch, II, and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joseph W. Bottini and James A. Goeke from the District of Alaska. The case is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigative Division.
Texas Betsy @ 10
Her staff is falling like flies….bzzzzzzzzz
Eli @ 31
Yeah. That’s about right, maybe like Gonzo and Condi are gone by the end of the year, then The Walkin’ Dude is done by Easter and we could have President Pelosi by the 4th of July.
My dislike of Rice is palable. This cockroach has been hiding beneath the garbage for far too long. I am pleased to see her underbelly beginning to be exposed.
Helen @ 23
No blame Helen just an excuse. ♣
Jane!
I have been preoccupied with day job stuff. Students who cheat, and all that.
OT re: an earlier post- I always read the NARAL info with great interest.
I hope you will have the chance to highlight the poor rating of NARAL in a future post. one of four stars and all that…
xxoo
Eli @ 31 says:
Yeppers. It should be just about right along then. It will all be fresh in the minds of the voters and the election can be the final flourish.
lolo@40 oh yes I know that. Snark on my part.
Condo-liza Lies-a-lot! Go Henry go!
ET @ 35
Of course this is all going down on a friday during debate cleanup. thanks for posting so we can stay tuned.
dakine01 @ 42
Yeppers. It should be just about right along then. It will all be fresh in the minds of the voters and the election can be the final flourish.
Then we have the pleasure of watching the War Crimes Tribunals.
As an aside, anyone catch ABC at 10.00 pm EST, with its smarmy list of top ten myths? I could only stand the one, the myth that gun regulation reduces violent crime with handguns. “In reality,” more guns would reduce violent crimes.
The longing camera work at the gun ranges, and the display of places in which you might conceal your carry, were like a Jeff Gannon home video. The adoring coverage of the little town in Georgia (?) that required everyone to own a gun, was soo special, as was the home interview of the elderly couple that “scared off” the burglar with their black powder double barrelled shotgun. I think it was bigger than the woman, who could barely hold it.
Does the NRA now own Disney, or is ABC just hoping they soon will?
Comey referred in his testimony to two USAs that had to be fired because they did something so bad, that if one knew what he knew, the would have to go. Elston used the same language when he described why the 7 USA’s were fired. What is this, and who were the two fired during Comey’s watch and why were they fired for???????
Can’t you just see it now:
Live! From The Hague!
MSNBC Special Report: The Trial Of George W. Bush.
Gawd! I can’t wait!
The Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section is where Peter Zeidenberg is at, ET. If Marsh and Sullivan are of Zeidenberg’s caliber, the AK prosecutions are in good hands.
do-si-do @ 44
OT kinda. Ya know, I have read the newspaper every single day of my reading life. Two or three actually. And a while ago it occurred to me that those newspapers that I used to rely on so much are just piling up inside my door. Because the real news is right here.
I have two more videos up at the winger site:
http://www.qubetv.tv/videos/detail/211
http://www.qubetv.tv/videos/detail/212
earlofhuntingdon @ 46
ABC is frighteningly in the tank for the Republicans, I think far more than CBS or NBC.
Hell, maybe even more than non-News Fox.
Valley Girl @ 41
Yep, I actually thought about that when I was doing the post. Will do, VG.
Eli @ 16
Gets the Preznit all hotnbothered I betcha.
Sangemon @ 48
Just tell me when to buy the popcorn!
OT again, but I am way behind on the threads.
Here is the link to NARAL’s rating: here
VG,
students that cheat….. there went 90 minutes for me yesterday
Sangemon @ 48
Jimmy Carter will soon have to relinquish his title as History’s Greatest Monster.
TeddySanFran @ 54
Nah, that’s the stink finger did that. (Did I just say that? I didn’t just say that did I? Oh Dog I DID just say that.)
Waxman: I want the truth.
Condoleezza Rice: You can’t handle the truth.
E*ward, Please get Senator Toobz. *g*
Keep on keeping us posted. TKS!
Jane Hamsher @ 53
Thanks Jane! It really is telling. I had to go back to find the link, bec. I did not bookmark it. It is just above 7:38.
Hello firepups, and lady Jane herself! I am hailing from Jane’s barrio, Tulsa, OK this evening.
This time that we all dwell in, allto’ sweet with the nectar of impending justice, is also seasoned with the bitter flavor of incredible wrongs done worldwide and in our names. I find no joy in this.
I don’t look to the sunrise, for it is shrouded in mystery. The past has happened, whether we know all the details of the how and why, it does not matter because great harm has been wrought.
As a mere citizen, a representative of the American experiment, it is important to me that those who produced these wrongs are punished to the fullest extent of the law. This and only this will allow us to move forward to that hopeful sunrise as the shining city on the hill.
Ed*ard Teller @ 36
Keep us posted ET. What about Conrad Burns?
LS @ 47
I am not sure that this is relevant. Assuming that your analysis is true. Comey used it yesterday to avoid public dislcosure of the fired. Elston used it as an excuse to shut others up.
Helen @ 50
I tell my wife this once a week. She really likes holding the paper, going through it, reading the comics in the morning, and then doing the puzzles after work.
What was today’s Friday News Dump – or was it postponed for the DC Madam Name Drop?
Suzanne @ 67
I’m thinking it must have been put off. Nothing really news worthy seems to be out there new today.
Hi OFG.
Ed*ard Teller @ 66
I almost never read a paper newspaper anymore.
Club character tonight, eh, lolo?
lolo @ 64
That’s a third big state. What’s happening up here involves the other two – Texas and Alaska.
Oilfieldguy @ 63
The World Court, The Hague, Bush, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfled, all held to account for their crimes against humanity.
Hugh @ 60
Waxman: You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an atty…
ccmask @ 69
I left one final story in EPU land last thread for you…
LS @ 47
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.c…..mey_f.html
The Justice Department acknowledged yesterday that Thomas M. DiBiagio, the Maryland U.S. attorney who stepped down early in 2005, was forced from office and did not, as he said at the time, decide on his own to leave for personal reasons.
But the department official who asked for his resignation dismissed DiBiagio’s claim in a New York Times article yesterday that he was ousted because of political pressure over public corruption investigations into the administration of then-Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
[snip]
Margolis said that he asked DiBiagio for his resignation because he had “lost confidence in his abilities” and that he was not aware at the time of any investigations involving the Ehrlich administration. “There were absolutely no political shenanigans,” said Margolis, a 42-year department employee who oversees ethics matters
earlofhuntingdon @ 46
I saw a bit of that and was appalled. It’s unbelievably sloppy. These guys never put it together that DC can have strong gun laws but if all anyone has to do is go to Maryland or Virginia to buy a gun, it is going to be an uphill fight in DC.
I also saw they were doing something on second hand smoke. I didn’t stick around to see how they were going to twist up the science on that.
Texas Betsy @ 70
Does the USA Today NFL Draft Preview count?
scary stuff boys and girls. it’s getting down to show time
condi must refuse waxman, she must, she must take this to the mat, she absolutely must claim executive privilege and refuse to allow dodge from testifying if she has any hope of protecting her master
this is absolutely a fact, she knew she was lying when she made those claims and dodge knew it and dodge will be candid
it will then go to the supreme court and I tell you as another fact, the supreme court will find on behalf of president bush, NOT the government
waxman MIGHT be able to prevent the supreme court from deciding against the government, and he can too…
IF he makes it CLEAR
waxman MUST make absolutely certain it is known withut any iota of doubt, the president WILL be impeached if condi is allowed to invoke executive privilege
waxman ABSOLUTELY must make it CLEAR, the president must not make the claim
even THAT strategy might not do the trick because the president knows if dodge testifies and implicates condi, he will be impeached anyway
so, he either asks condi to “take one for the gipper and take the blame”
or he takes this as far as it goes
this is the big one boys and girls
who said it?;
“may you live in interesting times”?
we surely do don’t we, and you firedogs, me, the keepers of the lake, we are not a small part responsibile for the last hope our constitution has to survive
there is no doubt there are democrats that would not have won had it not been for the keepers of the lake and the firedogs that attend
there might not be a democratic majority in both houses if not for this place
we have earned a place for all time, let’s hope we were not too late
Eli @ 78
I said “ALMOST” never!
Eli says
May 4th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
I personally would not mind if it took until, say, the middle of next year for all of this stuff to come to a head.
In the meantime, maybe Leahy can keep dragging Gonzalez back in front of his Committee every 45 days or so…
“Hiya Abu! Watcha been up to? Got any proof of that”?
“Memory gotten any better?”
Hugh @ 77
I bet they debunked the “myth” of global warming, too…
Eli @ 78
I’ve been saying for years that I thought Gannett was dumbing down all their local papers in order to make USA Today look like a shining light of journalism.
jayt @ 81
I think they should try hypnosis.
Jane and Valley Girl–re NARAL
Is there anything a regular joe can do to depose Nancy, or is she the problem? Is it structural? Sorry to be so thickheaded about this, I am sure you covered this before, but maybe I missed it. I know, without any doubt, how Jane feels about a womans right to control her own body, it seems like such a basic concept to me, but is their anything specifically I can do? I wrote them an email, but they need something more tangible I think. I never got a response.
Suzanne @ 67
Hey did they announce any names yet???
Oilfieldguy @ 85
We’re working on it, OFG. Should have something soon.
perris @ 79
GO HENRY! rightwing blogs like lgf and freerepublic usually post pictures of Henry with an enlarged nose, making him look like a pig. The level of their hatred of this efficient legislator betrays the level of their fear.
lolo @ 76
So why was he forced out then? And why should we believe them now since they have already lied once.
Did 20/20 out any more Republiscums as customers of the DC madam?
Oilfieldguy @ 85
I repackaged NARAL’s big expensive mailing, wrote LIEBERMAN and FIRE NANCY KEENAN all over it, stuffed it into the envelope, slapped a coupla stamps on it and mailed it back to them today. Not much, but it felt good. I’m sure there are more constructive ways to use my time.
Eli @ 82
Yeah, no doubt, just after they showed we’re winning in Iraq.
lolo @ 76
Wow – what is the truth pups? Didn’t Margolis work for Comey? And what the fuck does “lost confidence” mean? I have lost confidence in George W. Bush – “YOU’RE FIRED; BUY BYE”
{{{ fast, sweet mods!~ }}}
If any east coast firepups are watching 20/20 could you give us west coasters some update – if only the two names they promised?
Evening, everyone.
I heard the author of Collusion tonight on Moyers and on FDL the other day. I don’t think that his story rings true. I think that more likely, Cheney etal. were looking for reasons to attack Iraq, the neocons “ordered” that the forged document(s) be created using SISMI as a cover to produce the first forged document(s), sometime in late 2001-early 2002. When Cheney had the forged document(s) in hand, he contacts the CIA and tries to use it to make the case for evidence of nuclear proliferation by Iraq. They (CIA) and (based on his “inquiry”) send Wilson to Niger (because they are skeptical). Wilson returns confirming to CIA that there’s nothing there. Cheney gets the report from CIA (but because he already knows it is bogus blows off the CIA report and pretends he never got it). The Admin. proceeds to use the 16 words anyway (regardless of protests by the CIA analysts). Tenet goes along with it, because Bush/Cheney at this point in his life are his meal ticket. They coordinate with the British to substantiate that they were both given the same info (which Cheney already knew was bull) which birthed the Downing Street minutes. Wilson reacts later, and there we have it.
Helen @ 94
I assume that in this case, it meant that they no longer considered him… reliable.
Sorry that one got through.
Remember, if you feed a troll, and the troll has been moderated, your comment could be snagged too.
20/20 transcript, just posted
RonD @ 98
Evening RonD
Hugh @ 89
This is a snip of the post that Marcy wrote. The link is there if you want to read the rest. I didn’t post the whole thing. Go read it.
Helen @ 65
Or, that it had happened before.
dakine01 >
Hmmm, Mod food I think
“Against stupidity, the very gods themselves must contend in vain.” – Friedrich von Shille
TeddySanFran @ 100
Bless you TeddySanFran!
daCascadian @ 105
Of course, I realize that Dog/Gaia/Goddess/your deity of choice MUST love stupid people as she made so very many of them.
OT: Bill Maher guests- Harold Ford Jr. Sean Penn and Tommy Thompson
It was someone from the Charlie Daniels Message Board.
newspaperbrat @ 97
Nothing new. Zippo
TeddySanFran @ 107
Why does it not surprise that an intel officer would be involved. Although for me, the suprise would be if there’s only one. A lot of folks with alphabet soup clearances living and working and playing little games inside the beltway.
Jane, good to know I didn’t miss it, and I know you are (conjugating the verb “to think”) think, thank, thunk, on this.
Sometimes moral support is not enough, Jane, I stand ready to help in any way I can.
ccmask,
Hello to you too! And all firepups. It never fails when I jump into the lake, someone is here to welcome me.
Note to all lurkers: There are no stupid questions lakeside, warming by the fire with a dog named boo. Ridicule does not exist here, just the search for wisdom. Jump in. These people are great.
Cozumel @ 111
No mention of anyone new at all. Certainly no mention of anyone in the media. Just Ullman & Tobias, and then some discussion at the end about the UMd professor who was outed and committed suicide last year when it was revealed she was sex-working. Apparently, she was a Palfrey contractor.
lolo @ 108
Will Sean Penn throttle The Fascist Gun in the West?(title courtesy of Punaise the Great)
newspaperbrat @ 95
Nothing happened. They named the women. A Prof. at U of Maryland; a LT Cl in the Navy (didn’t actually name her) and the Secy at Akin Gump. They said the men weren’t important. Um, like I said before -Ask meif I am mad. (No don’t)
yea, what happened to the 20/20 D.C. Maddam story? Supplanted by an NRA infomercial?
Something stinks (besides Stossel).
TeddySanFran @ 114
Boring distraction. Nothing to see here. I was hoping for Dana Perino.
From the Department of YCMTSU comes a radio ad just now on Anchorage (classical music) radio –
We’re Veco and we’ve got what it takes to DELIVER an Alaskan Gas Pipeline!
soon to be taken off the air, no doubt…or not….
TeddySanFran @ 108
I wonder who the Justice Dept. official was. Sounds like ABC doesn’t have much in the way of goods yet, either that or they were ordered to squash naming some names.
Ed*ard Teller @ 120
Yeah, a bought and paid for lege!
ET, please keep us posted, it’s unlikely the lower 48 media will take much interest. And we want to know the minute you do!
Hey Texas Betsy, I listened to as much of Mike Malloy as I could while grilling-did Snarkassandra make it on? Didn’t hear her.
Jane H:
If she keeps fucking with Waxman even her bruises are gonna have bruises.
LS @ 103
But how would Elston know that Comey was going to say it? Didn’t Elson say it first?
Waxman is doing old-style, hold their feet to the fire oversight. Boring, detailed, missed by the Nightly News kinda stuff. The kind that every govt, too long drunk on power, hates to wake up to; the kind that makes ‘em splurt their coffee all over the morning papers.
Sam Irvine would be proud.
TeddySanFran >
So what ?
Let`s have ALL the names out in public, particularly those that are paid from public funds.
If you can`t stand having your name on the front page of the newspapers then don`t do the act.
Simple as can be.
No “kings X” time out nonsense.
“Privacy and security are like backyards: they take on a whole new meaning when we put the word “my” in front of them.” – CW
RonD @ 124
No. She went out with friends instead.
lolo @ 103
OK, I read the article at the Next Hurrah and understand who did what to whom. There are so many attorneys involved in this, so many stories, that I sometimes lose track.
New Thread
lolo got the zed and it’s lonely over there I am talking to myself.
TeddySanFran @ 106
Really? Do they have names? 20/20 says not so much
Petrocelli @ 115
I thought Tancredo was the Fascist Gun in the West and that Thompson was “Tommy (face by claymation) Thompson”.
Sangemon @ 119
The big-girl panties will cost you extra.
Schizzen, Tommy Thompson is via satellite, I would have loved to see him in person next to Sean Penn.
Helen 124,
That is what I would like to know.
perris @ 79
perris, thanks for what you do. THANK YOU JANE, CHRISTY, and “Faculty.”
Thanks commenters too, one and all.
Joe Klein’s conscience @ 121
I really don’t think ABC would break any Republican names, even if they had ‘em.
jayt @ 131
My apologies, you’re correct.
Eli @ 134
You hear that Perino’s hubby was arrested for a puppy-off-leash problem?
Bill Maher said that the Repubics worship Reagan like gay guys worship Barbara Streisand.
Our friend Carlo Bonino is on Bill Moyers now … neat to see him and the pics that go with Collusion.
“Lost confidence” is usually public code, a summary comment for incompetent or maladministration. It’s what’s used when “resigned to spend more time with his family” would make the casual reader spit up in disbelief.
Private discussions are usually quite direct, with details appropriately not repeated publicly.
LS @ 97 -
I too have a more cynical view of the “birthing” of the Niger forgeries than Bonini does, but I buy almost all of his (and D’Avanzo’s) very valuable investigative reporting beyond their theory of motive (money) for the creation of the forgeries. I think your scenario is pretty plausible. But I certainly don’t know enough to really debunk their working theory about why the forgeries were made in the first place. I think they may not be all that confident of their theory themselves, but the truth of that part of the scandal may be very, very obscured (obviously for good reason if the forgeries weren’t just created for the money).
Bonini noted in his Fresh Air interview on NPR that the alleged Italian intelligence agent/source (Lady Laura) working in the Niger Embassy in Rome was, despite all these public revelations about her “role” in the Embassy break-in back in 2001 and hidden connections to SISMI, still employed there as of a couple of months ago. Likewise the Nigerien embassy official involved, though back in Niger, is still employed by his government… Doesn’t quite square with the description of events SISMI et al are selling us about this, somehow.
OFG: Welcome to Tulsa!
Powwow – I’m betting on Ledeen but the competitive intelligence piece and the enthusiasm of the SISMI and Berlusconi seem right on.
oh and … he was a great Book Salon guest!
“NASA officials…” at D.C. Maddam’s
MAN! Adult diapers, kidnapping & bondage, and 120-foot tall steaming phalluses.
Sounds more like a Parliament-Funkadelic tour than a space agency.
(can I say “steaming” here?)
Ledeen and/or friends seems to be a pretty good bet, alright, Siun. It’s very encouraging to see the competent, focused way Waxman is pursuing this. He’ll earn the trust of the people down in the trenches who’ve been muzzled for years, if he keeps digging, and avoiding the red herrings of the disinformation peddlers. And Bonini’s definitely continuing to help the cause with his U.S. interviews, including on FDL’s own Book Salon, for sure.
earlofhuntingdon @ 46
Homeowners should put this sign in their yards:
ENTERING GUN FREE ZONE
ABC keeps on truckin’.
Nightline next week will at last answer the question — Does God Exists? The promo tonight was a lengthy discourse by an evangelist, which may telegraph the answer Nightline/ABC expects to find. Ted Koppel must be in abject despair, when he’s not just zoning out in Sanibel or Captiva.
With ABC holding the MadameGate list, I doubt we’ll hear about any high-up Repugs having dealings with her.
Thanks to lake, hurrah, etc. for the equiv. of grad courses in current events and growth of the blogosphere, all in the last three hours!
A happy reader.
Loo Hoo @ 34
You know, maybe I just don’t get it. Condi seems to me to rank somewhat below Cheney, Rove, Gonzales and Bush in the roster of villains. Cheney, Rove and Bush are the prime movers, and Gonzales is their front man who holds a strategic position in the administration that is the key to obstruction of justice. But what has Condi really done? Lying about the 16 words? Cheney’s fingerprints were all over that before Condi arrived on the scene.
Cheney is the root of all the evil we’re involved with overseas; domestic evil is Rove’s portfolio. So what has Condi done? Not that she shouldn’t be frog-marched for what she’s done, but it seems to me that the others are much higher in priority.
Bob in HI
Petrocelli @ 115
props are due elsewhere for this one, but darned if I can remember who came up with it
Eli @ 58
What??? That’s wingnuttery. Jimmy Carter has been the best ex-president ever. His book on Palestine and his tour of public speeches since then is a profile in courage. He’s got a Nobel peace prize.
But then I’m snark-impaired and maybe I misunderstood your post. I hope that’s the case.
Bob in HI
LS @ 47
CNN is re-broadcasting Comey’s testimony again. It is nice to see such good mileage being made of his testimony. Makes a nice contrast with the other lying weasels.
Bob in HI
earlofhuntingdon @ 125
[Ervin, IIRC] This whole administration is drunk on the wine of Exceptionalism: WE are different; OUR TIMES are different; THE SITUATION is different. Therefore none of the old rules apply!
Waxman, Leahy and Conyers are of the old school– there is nothing new under the sun. Our laws were made to handle mischief like this. It just takes persistence, patience, and time. And so they proceed, by the book, tightening the screws bit by bit.
Bob in HI
Yikes, I know Condi comes from outside government, but I’m assuming someone will explain to her that this is not the kind of letter you want to receive. Good for Waxman, he’s doing it the right way, following the law, step by step.
Don’t forget Rumsfeld. Why’s he gone, with no change of policy in Iraq?
masaccio @ 6
this is not, strictly speaking, a “typo”. . .
the “v” for “y” is a “”feature” of the
adobe-acrobat 7.0 text-copy function, out
of a *.pdf file format. believe me, the
spell-checker in word for windows often
misses this one (assuming it to be french,
i gather). . . now, you ask, why all this trivia on conversions?
here’s my tin-foil-hatted punchline:
the other most common trans-mutation
in acrobat 7.0 to text is — instead of a “W”
(only the capital W, mind you!), one gets a
“\v” instead — and we all know about
the stunt the democratic white house staffers
pulled, as they departed their digs at the
change-over of administrations. . . all
the “W” were solvented off the keyboards. . .
and yes, adobe donates to democratic
candidates. . . a fun, but obscure, tech-fact. . .
it is probably a very good thing this is
epu’d by three or four threads. . .
I just love me the smell of obstruction of justice in the morning..
masaccio @ 25
I am reading THE WMD MIRAGE edited by Craig Whitney of the NYTimes…..a GREAT read if you are interested in the run up to this mess. A few Bush speeches are in the book and reading them just makes me see how CRAZY this whole thing has been.
I am so glad for the “stink eye” comment. Does she intend to look so petty, menacing, icy…how long has she practiced to intimidate? It used to be that the eyes were windows to the soul; something about one’s countenance tells a very complete story. As the other great instance of the Mr. Rove who looks swarmy from the top of his bald head and poisoned hair follicles to the roots of his being. And add the belligerent, lying Tenet. What a greasy bully! It really is hard not to judge on appearances that speak so loudly.