The JFK Presidential Library and Museum announced that California Secretary of State Debra Bowen will receive its prestigious John F Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. Bowen was selected for her decision last year to de-certify electronic voting machines after a number of security flaws were discovered.
The honor goes to "public servants who have made courageous decisions of conscience without regard for the personal or professional consequences," according to a press release from the JFK Library Foundation, which created the award.
Bowen’s decision last August was unpopular with many county elections officials, who felt it was an overreaction after they collectively had spent multimillions on electronic machines affected by the new restrictions.
Accompanying the announcement of the award was this statement from the Kennedy Library:
“After a $450 million investment by California counties in electronic voting systems aimed at modernizing elections, newly elected Secretary of State Debra Bowen ordered an independent review of the new voting technologies to ensure they adequately protected the integrity of the vote. When the study revealed troubling flaws in the systems, Bowen strictly limited the use of direct-recording electronic voting machines, and imposed significant security and auditing requirements on systems to be used in California’s February 5 presidential primary election. Bowen’s decision was met with resistance by voting system vendors and many county elections officials.”
Also honored are Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner; former Mississippi Governor William Winter will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for his efforts in championing racial equality and educational opportunity.
Congratulations to all three honorees, and many thanks to the Kennedy Library for acknowledging the hard work, under difficult conditions and against powerful adversaries, of all three Profiles in Courage.
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Teddy!
Teddy!
TeddySanFran!!!
Watching Joe LIE lie again on KO.
Breaking news about Obama’s personal passport file being breached—whatever that is.
BREAKING NEWS!!!–from MSNBC’s Countdown:
Obama’s passport at State Dept. breached…more to come!
(in-f*cking-credible…)
Happy news!
Hi Teddy
Amen. (Hi Teddy and all.)
Off topic (sorry!):
It’s being reported on KO tonight that Obama’s passport has been breached. Geeeeee….Now who would do a thing like that?
all of us with US passports have a personal file at the State Dept.–records of where we’ve visited, that sort of info…of course sensitive personal data as well…in application/renewal forms…
Where was Condi tonight?
The Kennedy Library Profiles in Courage awards have been very impressive over the years. I remember going to one of the lecture series that was part of that a few years ago.
I always thought that Jim Jeffords deserved the award when he saw the light and left the dark side.
Nice post Teddy.
Alternate title..)
This Liberal Kills Fascist Machines!
Obama passport file breach:
Obama’s campaign: This is a serious breach, even for this administration…
Any guesses who might have wanted to get that info? Karl Rove? Darth? Dangerstein? There are probably at least hundreds of folks who would want to do such a thing.
Hmmm…Negroponte?
Sounds like it happened awhile ago…ummm…”intercepts”….John Bolten?
Heh, apparently, some repug oppo researcher was digging around…
Why would someone want info from his prior passports?
They did it to Clinton during Bush41.
Fineman with a reminder that someone was also rummaging in Big Dog’s passport file back in 1992.
Interesting.
One can imagine a glass eyed Rove-bot like MSNBC’s new analyst rummaging through Obama’s files to see if he visited any Islamofascists.
This country stinks to high heaven.
-G
Bill Clinton’s passport file was also breached…
someone in the Bush Admin… two people at State have been dismissed because of this…
political appointees at State…
State Department…2 contractors fired for accessing his records…Bureau of Consular Affairs Dept…
Cleared contract employees…
2 contract employees of the Dept. bureau of consular affairs. Both fired plus someone else who saw it.
I’ll bet the will get another job PDQ
“…unpopular with many county elections officials…”
Any idea which counties, Teddy? Perhaps the red counties out in the valley?
Gotta love those private contractors…!
Rove’s operatives… bots doing some brownie point sleuthing.
passport records are protected by the US Privacy Act…
paid for by . . . . . us.
Who is the contractor?
-G
This is getting absurd. Will we soon hear that you must use a certain kind of toothpaste for the wingnuts to approve? Or only certain kinds of ethnic foods are okay? Will I have to give up my favorite cheese because it’s made in France? Fascists!
Last time KO had one of these “Breaking News” gigs it was Mc Cain and the bimbo. It went nowhere.
Boy does this stink BIG TIME.
FISA??
CREEP is getting the band back together again.
-G
During January.
This happened in Jan. he just found out now.
Friday afternoon dump.
(Blowhard) Howard Fineman: Huge story…
happened in January…what is this admin capable of…
They held the info secret for more than 2 months. WHOA
MSNBC analysts.
-G
so? *g*
You must be irregular, it is only Thursday. Lay off the fiber.
-G
It’s thursday.
I won’t be surprised if the same thing happens. Zip.
I bet Laura Ingraham is involved somewhere in the background. She’s a huge racist. Today on her show she had a poll question that read:
“Would you go to a colored therapist?”
87% said NO and 13% says YES
Nice, huh? I don’t have a link because I refuse to pay that horrible human being $50 bucks for a year to be part of her hate site.
Obamagate
How the eff, do they let “contract employees” get access to Passport files of U.S. Citizens?
What else do “contract employees” at the State Dempartment have access to?
so for the cable impaired, does firing them supposedly solve the problem?
Is the claim the two were acting on their own?
what’s in a passport file?
Chhhhhheeeeghkkk Spit!
I completely missed Thursday
And, in support of the McCain campaign:
My guess is that the calculus had something to do with the Easter weekend and the first round of the NCAA’s.
In some areas, tomorrow is treated as a holiday.
Hello all!
I believe that the registrars in San Diego and Orange counties continue to battle Bowen on this issue.
Makes you wonder if this is the info that Hillary said she was going to reveal? Maybe a location somewhere outside the US? Wouldn’t surprise me. George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton are best buddies now. Spit. I’m sure H.W. is helping them out. Spit again.
Must be a liberal contractor.
Can you believe her? Gawd she makes me want to pull out all my eyebrow hairs and feed them to my dog!!!!!!!
Eww.
All your comings and goings, as well as your application information, I presume.
Just all of your proof of citizenship, address, phone numbers, SS#, pictures, visas applied for, where you’ve ever traveled, and if you are applying for a visa to travel somewhere soon. They know where you’ve been and where you are going if a visa is required.
Oh my god, it must be Blackwater! You are next, boogie boogie!
A regular employee was “disciplined.”
Oh right, It’s Holy Thursday, and tomorrow is Good Friday, d’oh!
No. Now they need to follow the trail wherever it leads.
Now David Shuster on.
it doesn’t…
Since I’m no longer a Catholic, all Fridays are Good Fridays.
And it’s all been recorded since the day you got your passport…even if it was 20 years ago.
Even if you don’t have a passport.
In Nigeria, Good Friday is a holiday, as is Easter Monday. The latter also in the UK…
Of course it would be the Repug controlled counties, they want to ensure their continued dominance, eh?
Shuster references Independent Counsel investigation into GHWB’s State department breach of Bill Clinton’s file in 1992. Weren’t they looking into Clinton’s travels as a student overseas then?
Bill Clinton’s passport file was breached in 1991, by Bush pere…
I thought you were Jewish ???!!!
Oh, good, Andrea MItchell on the phone now with Keith. I’m sure all will be revealed….
is this useful for anyone but an identity thief?
I’m mostly concerned that they track “where” he is going to go…If he has a trip to Iraq planned or something like that….I won’t say what I’m thinking, but I’ll bet you get the gist….
Nail these mofos!!!
Something about apples & trees.
Can everyone say “Breaking new: Break-in at the Democratic Party Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel?” This one could get nasty!
Drudge has a photo of Bill Clinton and Rev Wright doin a power handshake!
…you need to have a passport to have apassport file in the State Dept..no brainer…*G*
KO just said it. Watergatian.
Why would they not notify Obama immediately of the breach?
I do remember someone saying recently on the web that the Katrina aid processing at FEMA was being slowed down because contract employees were being moved to the State department because of the slowdown there in passport processing. State is way behind in passport applications, and may have not-so-good clearance efforts in place.
Someone needs to find out EVERYTHING about those “
contractors” spies. Who are they? Who have they ever worked for/associated with. etc.So? The man has everyone’s ass wired.
It should only be breaking news when the Bush administration does NOT engage in security breaches. :)
Recently?
I’m no longer Catholic either but then I never was.
cool.
If there was a disconnect, for instance, between Obama’s writings about his travels and when those travels actually occurred, or to where, that could be passed to political opponents and exploited.
Relax, Condi Rice will get to the bottom of this…..cough…
-G
At least they are consistent. Consistently republic. Game the system and fuck democracy.
Andrea hammering the Bushies on this one.
Do you think they can hang Wright around Obama and Cinton’s necks?
Rat now
only if you’re “important”–I doubt that “the man” has a file on the homeless guy who shacks up at the bus shelter in my neighborhood…
I can see it and apparently so can Keith! This is not good, but it should really be prosecuted. The people were fired, so why were they covering it up? Remember, it’s always the cover up!
One thing is that they got “fired”…who discovered that it was breached?
Fineman sez a State official called Obama’s Senate office today with this news.
They called his senate office to tell him. Works so well since the Senate is on recess. Way to go.
why is everyone upset?
IOKIYAR
What did Wright call her?
It’s old though.
does he have a state department birth certificate?
With that info, the Social Security Number imho is the most dangerous for a public figure. The GOP would have already had name, address, phone number, but the credit bureaus still would require SSN if the GOP wanted to access his file. The credit bureaus will lock the files of public figures, if they are asked.
Even if the credit file is locked, however, for a public figure, it’s still possible that the GOP may still be able to get some high level information from the credit file, kind of an approximate credit score, without the detail. I’ll gladly defer to others who know more.
Ding.
Fineman points out that Obama has had a passport since he was a child, and that the information about his travel would be in his file. Fineman calls it a “key piece of information about this citizen of the world.”
Someone was looking to support the madrassa story, I’ll betcha.
Scooter Libby has some free time. Maybe he could help.
Okedokee pollyanna, I’ve lived under the assumption that they have me totally wired and have since 1969.
Good gawd, you’re right! They could “set up shop” before he got to Iraq, huh?
Scary times we’re living in and I blame THE NEOCONS IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND ACROSS THIS COUNTRY!
Been away from the net for awhile so how did this news get out and has Obama made a statement?
So are pictures from the 68 Olympics.
Is it racist to call a brother pollyanna?
They love that McBush went on his big trip to the M.E….they don’t want Obama to apply for visas to travel in any of those countries…he might look presidential…
Rs are trying to prove Obama’s a Manchurian candidate sent by OBL.
No, the compromise was at the State Dept. and the ever incompetent Sec. Rice will be bound to offer up some vapid bromides……
“We can’t wait for the smoking gun to come in the form of a passport breach.”
-G
no kidding, they read my mail when I was in college just because of my association with the women’s movement
Just came out at the top of KO and no statement from Obama yet.
so eCAHN?
Yup. He is not safe at any time or in any place.
That’s what I’m talkin bout!
I do need to apologize to Ohioans and Mississippians for taking such a California-centric view of the JFK announcement. Their public servants are also being lauded, and they are to be commended for their work as well.
Surely Jennifer Brunner had a sysiphean task when she took office following that odious Kenneth Blackwell, tool of the RNC.
thanks
Hey, these dopes do sound like Bernard Barker and the boys. What’s G. Gordon doing tonight?
ding
Obama would have a State of Hawaii birth certificate, he was born here in the Isles…!
Yep. My nephew has the poster on his wall. It scares me every time;)
-G
Again: What is this admin not capable of?
I don’t think anyone could have anticipated the breach of the files.
Why do we know about this?
KO:
State dept. is conducting a conference call about all this shortly…
info for$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Three different occasions of access to Obama’s records by three different employees.
I was asking what Reverend Wright called Rice. Didn’t he have a particularly virulent descriptive?
1/9
2/1
and last Friday.
3 separate events. Two fired and one pending.
Hmmm. No political motivation. That can only mean one thing. Heavy-handed political motivation.
We were at a store the other day and a couple of African American women who worked there noticed my spouse’s Obama button. They said that they and a lot of their friends don’t want Obama to get elected because they are afraid he will be assassinated. How’s that for a statement of our times?
How Barack handles this will show Americans how he will be as president. This is huge! I’m worried for his safety because right wingers are dangerous people. Dangerous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is this supposed to be CYA for Condi?
I know. It’s so scary.
Dear God, WHEN WILL I T BE ENOUGH?
WAG: People were sent to get contract jobs at State to delve into these records and pass them to others.
Fineman sez: “It probably wasn’t ordered by the White House political office, that’s for sure.”
Assumes facts not in evidence, Howard.
weren’t they a territory until like 1959 or something like that?
State dept. made phone call to his Senate office: “BTW, we have thrice rifled through your passport file, thank you, have a nice day!
info for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ,yea but its NOT political rotflmao
Competence, honesty, integrity, shall I go on? *g*
Missed your 74.
I was raised RC, became athiest at age 13, but husbands were both Jewish.
Condi Rice should be fired and held accountable.
It was a great moment in my opinion.
Meant the conference call – not that you mentioned it.
what the hell is that? He has a birth certificate from Honolulu City Hall…birth records dept…
Anyone who hasn’t thought it isn’t awake.
Admittedly, I’m never happy and always suspicious. That being said, this news is a huge favor to Obama. It’s changing the dialogue from Wright to ’someone’s trying to sabotage Obama’. Now, why would they hand him such a gift? If it was possible to keep this a secret they would have. So, I’m wondering why they fessed up.
One of the many anti-Obama spam/lie e-mails must state that Obama was born prior to Hawaii statehood because one of my winger friends indicated that Obama may not be eligible. Not true of course, but more things for the far rightwingnuts to tsk-tsk about.
Those wingers sure hate facts.
-G
so did they talk to a person or leave the message on voice mail?
yup for her and Clarence Thomas … it’s on the utube clip about 2 threads ago
BHO born 8/4/61
hahahahahahaaahaahaha
“not politically motivated” my *ss.
Sounds like.
Ding, ding, and dingaling.
Andrea Mitchell. “certainly no one is going to take the State Department’s word on this”.
IIRC, he was born in ‘61, and, in any case he’d been given a Territorial certificate…!
The three separate violations confirm, imho, there’s practically no oversite at State, duh.
My guess is the software was spitting out that there were violations, but the GOP was determined to wait until they were sure they had downloaded everything.
Olbermann is showing why he’s the best, terrific live coverage.
They sure do, GregB. Works just like garlic…
Even Mrs. Greenspan is shocked!
ah ah…I’m agnostic…and my kids are Jewish because their mom is. All three have US and Israeli passports…(I have US, UK, and French passports…)
deep throat redux
Sounds like voicemail, like oh, a dog ate some of your mail, it might have been important, so sorry…… and praise Jeebus!
Andrea Mitchell: “You know, Keith, I’ve been around for a long time.”
No shit, Mrs Greenspan. Too long for my taste!
my exhusband was born in japan but he has a state department birth certificate because he was born on an airforce base. Was just wondering if he was born when hawaii was a territory if he’d have a state department birth certificate like my ex does.
They could not have been wanting his “personal” information that could be gained much more easily…they want to know what his travel plans are.
I meant “the other” why.
ChimpCo, as incompetent as they are, have released precious little from ANY agency of the government, even under subpoena…
It’s my own personal religious diversity.
okay, that would have been after statehood … so never mind ….
see.. they don’t need no fuckin FISA. They take first and then spin later if they get caught.
If they question Obama, they need to question McCain as he was born in Panama…! ;-)
3 is a conspiracy.
True that for all we know, this could be something motivated by a desire to sell information to Star magazine, or something. OTOH, the seven people that breached the Democratic Headquarters in the Watergate were said to not be politically motivated (just a burglary, looking for money, blah, blah, blah)then were said to be low level employees (Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy,) etc, until the truth finally came out.
I’m shocked. They’ll be watching you for sure :)
I know! I can’t believe she’s questioning the integrity of the State Dept! I always think of Mitchell as a jackboot licker personally….
There had to be an internal threat to talk. Somebody knows a lot and is still contemplating coming forward. Otherwise it would have remained secret.
Gee, they’re going to have a lot of work to make sure they get all your passport files!
Jeff Gannon please pick up the red phone.
-G
Yeah, especially since Obama was born two years after statehood.
Hawaii became a state in 1958…before Obama was born. He was born in the US, period…Whereas McCain’s own US citizenship is actually in doubt. He was born in the Panama Canal Zone when it belonged to the US…now it belongs to Panama…There’ve been some questions about this one already…
open mindedness..”g”
so McCain definitely has a State Department birth certificate …most kids born to service people serving abroad have them …
see my 186…
Agree.
Sorry if I implied other.
Thank God it was done out of innocent curiousity. Makes me feel so much better about it.
LMAO!
Actually it was August 1959.
Valerie Plame Wilson
The FBI will not be investigating? Is that what KO just said? Oh I get it! Condi is the one who breached the passport and they’re covering it up!
But there was no underlying crime!
-G
I forget. We live in a lawless nation. Nevermind.
Move along, nothing to see here, we are the perpetrators and the cops, no need to worry…..
I think we’re forgetting that breaching passports is an American pastime. How silly of us to forget this.
Consular Affairs…that means visas..
LMAO!!!!!
Whoa, I just flipped back to Keith and David Shuster’s on. What did I miss? Did he try to pimp his daughter?
IMHO, the presence of the Social Security Number, brings the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) into play. IANAL, but I think unauthorized access of a Social Security Number is criminal. It doesn’t matter if the SSN is in the Passport file. The SSN has standing on its own.
I wonder how long it will take for Condi to say she can’t comment because it’s an ongoing investigation.
“Look at the birdie! Pretty birdie! Hi birdie! Everyone see the pretty birdie? No? Look over there! Pretty birdie! Awwwww, what a cute little birdie!”
Inspector General Michael D. Brown, aka hecuvajob brownie
privacy schmivacy…. this is the new america doncha know?
Where Red is?
as long as it took you to write that.
There is also the possibility that 3 “curious” employees wanted to see if he was somehow Muslim or something like that…
Is there a new musical on broadway? Aren’t they re-doing South Pacific? We should look for her there… that’s where she was when my neighbors were drowning.
Well if Condoleezza Rice is true to form, she will announce talks on talks about a horizon leading to a roadmap for the resolution of this passport matter.
The test is “was it mere snoopieness or did you pass it on to someone else”. MSNBC
Ohhhhh, we are going to rely on the judgment of Joe DiGenova, more reason to not worry, move along folks…….
“prurient interest” my *ss.
The Friday news dump is going to be a fuckin doozie.
Pete Williams is on the phone, having chatted with Joe DiGenova, Mr Victoria Toensing.
Such a tiny little Village DeeCee is.
Fucking Dick Cheney’s former employee Pete Williams is offering us legal opinions offered by Scooter Libby’s prime media defenders.
Williams is a lying sack of shit.
-G
No one could have…
“The Ain’t nuthin like a dame”!
What other Passport files did these contractors looked up.
There’s never an underlying crime, until you investigate and find that there is. (My initial reaction was to ask, now how the hell would you know that, but then I thought you were probably just being snarky!)
no inspector general at the moment—office is vacant.
No surprise there.
Pete Williams is utterly compromised by the Regime. Having him tell me it was “all innocent snooping” is just like hearing it from Dana Perino. I am comforted – not.
it’s not the crime it’s the cover up.
hahahaha
sort of.
LOL.
Apparently this happened TO the Clinton’s?
back at you.
** standing on chair clapping for Keith’s on-air breaking news reporting and correspondent management **
Obama demands probe over passport breach
So, if the supervisor considers the explanations of the employees’ reasons for accessing the file unacceptable…they are terminated…
Hello.
Why wouldn’t the TRAIN these idiots not to do that sort’ve thing?
i gather cnn and faux news arent too concerned about this story…. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Williams sez govt seldom works the way it should. He would know.
Yep.
I think his source was Mr. Victoria Toensing, Joe DeGenova.
This has been the story for the whole hour so far. When was the last time Keith did that?
Hahaha!
Keith refers to Pete Williams doing “after hours work for us.”
hee hee
Wonder which Dupont Circle bar Pete called from.
1991, daddy Bush and Bill Clinton, big trouble at the time……
damn!! 3 times his passport was breached!! sheesh…….
And let’s not forget Anthrax was sent only to Democrats too. See? It’s a pattern.
This is like “The test is did you rob the bank as a prank or did you need the money?” Yep, that one is going to fly.
Which ever one “Mr. Toensing” was at.
hehehehehe
Yep, my guess is that their “prurient interest” began and ended with Democrats.
HI Teddy,
Just arrived. Thanks for giving an extra highlight to an Ohioan.
Blackwell was a really spanner in the works as to a fair vote in Ohio in 2004. That was ugly. Ummmm…. stolen election?
I want the name of each of these theives names published immediately. If the State Dept. prefers to cover up…there are plenty of us that can investigate this crime for them…looks like Watergate to me.
It’s like medical records. You cannot work in a hospital and start snooping around at people’s medical records. If you work there, you are told that and it says so on the computer…you can be prosecuted for breaching the security…they did it, they knew it was wrong, and they got away with it, until the computer flagged that they were “not authorized” to view the file.
Well, if it gets us off this totally unbalanced and unproductive racial slur business, all the better. This is a much better distraction than acceptance of a discussion of race that consists of “a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism.”
As was mentioned upthread, there were searches of Big Dog’s info, preesumably to pin some crap on him about where he had been during his Rhodes Scholar days. You know, all those secret Marxist cells he visited and coordinated with … /s
So do you think it’s about time for him to be VERY vocal and show some leadership on FISA?
Please?
KO does such an excellent job with live events! He’s absolutely amazing.
Consular affairs…has everything to do with where you are planning to go.
And let’s not forget when George H.W. Bush lost the race to Bill Clinton, al-Qaida came out of nowhere and bombed the WTC. Coincidence? Connection? I think so! Funny how al-Qaida was never mentioned until Bill Clinton came to office even though al-Qaida/Osama was thriving under Reagan and even the CIA was having fun training them and keeping them on the payroll. Spit.
Dammit. I’m off topic! Well, okay, it’s all somewhat connected. File it under, REPUBLICAN HABIT OF ABUSE OF POWER. Okay?
The Republics will try to spin this by asking “what does Obama have to hide?”
It would be better if he had a better bull pen.
Where’s Rachel?
No wonder they released the OBL videos yesterday and today. They knew this was gonna break.
Thanks for the linky Millneryman!
KO has not taken a break yet.
i’m just reminded of that brilliant scholar Bugs Bunny who said “What a MAROON!” I can’t believe folks would just think they could go snooping like that!
Williams offered some bit of cover for the admin with the story about the ’same birthday’ smoke.
Williams is offering spin to minimize the matter.
When was the last time he stepped in? Does he cover State for NBC?
-G
you’re going to dry yourself out with all the spitting tonight. Please don’t get dehydrated.
KO is going to be working Shuster overtime the next few weeks investigating this passport breech.
LOL Ann. This comment I made was supposed to be what the Bush Regime usually does…divert us away from the facts by initially saying no crime has been committed.
And yes, it’s nice to not have to hear about Wright’s comments and how much the neocons are not racists…only Wright is. *rolling eyes* ;-)
Ding!
its why he is the MAN!!! imho
you’re right—no commercial breaks. I guess that means this is important.
cnn on the case
Regular employees don’t…but these were “contractors”…that is what stinks.
nice and good for her but now we know as a fact they will do whatever it takes to steal this election
what about the other states?
those that are fine and dandy with these machines, and what about caging, and what about those democratic counties that will not have enough machines for the electorate to vote?
they stole this election not once but twice, the second time they were even more brazen then the first
this time they WILL be exponentially more brazen, they will do whatever it takes to keep their seat in power
and we have an uphill battle to boot, I would have never thought it possible but polls are actually revealing McCain beats either and both Hillary and Obama
how is that possible with the most depraved administration in the history of this country?
how is it possible that it is even close?
I speak with democrats all the time and although they find a different excuse to use then bigotry, they will NOT vote for Obama and they will NOT vote for Hillary
we climb uphill and I am only given comfort by the mass of people who are voting in this election vs the republican electorate, however the republicans will energize for the general
we have a climb ahead of us and this is a battle that decides whether or not our republic survives
I hope not! Shuster was planning on having Easter weekend off so he could spend it pimping his daughter.
Anytime.
I’m swigging with milk. I’m good for another hour! LOL
He is NBC’s “Justice Correspondent” which, in the current regime, leaves him with lots of free time, which he spends at JR’s in Dupont Circle.
these guys (gals?) need to be outed. Big time.
wonder if KO’s going over….
Where is Condi Rice? Shoe shopping I bet, hence, no comment from her.
I opened a bottle of wine, myself.
Thanks for the warning Teddy! ;~)
I’m sure the Justice Department will be right on it!
Apparently not. Abrams up now.
I wanna buy Keith a drink!
not. too bad. now we’re stuck with Abrams. I actually watched him once last week or the week before. Pathetic.
Abrams takes the hand-off.
oh god dan abrams is actually following up – i’m shocked!!
This could be a blessing in disguise for the Obama campaign if it evolves in to a big story. Something that finally breaks off the Pastor Wright iceberg that is sinking Obama’s poll numbers.
obama’s on LKL
She needs time to pick out just the right shoes before going public.
Obama is live on CNN right now.
At least they know Hawaii is a state.
New Mexico is another story.
I guarantee you that there is a pop-up screen that says that you are violating privacy laws if you proceed to enter a file like that. A “contractor” hired to “enter” data…can’t even get that far into a file and absolutely would not be able to access the file past the warning screen without a special code. Somebody gave them some kind of authority or told them to do it and they would not be prosecuted. Maybe that is why DOJ is not prosecuting them. This stinks to high heaven.
Riesz
We get that you don’t like Shuster. Do ya think you can give that stuff a rest by now? I believe Senator Clinton has let it go. You should as well.
LKL?
Well, Abrams isn’t so bad. He’s not as brilliant as Keith, but he’s also not as misogynistic as Keith, and he doesn’t pimp his daughter like Shuster.
One can hear the GOP demands.
Where has Obama traveled to?
Why won’t he tell us?
He should reveal his travel history.
And on.
-G
And it is not live tonight, it was already recorded earlier today.
Evening, pups
*putting on tin foil hat*
Some shit brewing, huh?
1,787 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Firepup Freedom Fighters:
Mr. Prseident Bush meet Mr. Representative John Conyers.
This is the coup d’gras for telecom immunity and should be the end of Mrs. Clinton-McCain’s campaign for the Republican nomination for President.
Hey Nancy Pelosi, somethin’ jest jumped up on the table here!!
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION – FEAR IS JEST A WORD!!
Yer right– I’m sure she’s forgotten all about it. I know I’d get over it pretty quick if he said that about me. Anyway I have it on good authority that he’s a really nice guy.
we are now one flight up, see all there
Or…has he applied to travel anywhere outside of the US in the near future. This is not the “passport” office, this is Consular Affairs.
Looks like it. Hi wobblybits!
I see that now (blush) — thanks ;-)
dan has gotten too shrill and faux-noise like… what a shame
Excellent! I wouldn’t be able to spit straight if I was drinking wine right now. LOL :-)
Larry King Live looks taped from earlier. Guess we won’t hear about the passport thing.
psst Hi LL!
Hi Ellie!
Let’s give it a rest, please.
Hi Riesz
Larry does not look well, anybody know if he’s been ill ?
Mr. Toensing now live on the phone with Dan. Gone right to the horse’s
mouthass.Joe DiGenova sez since the employees have been fired, the IG has no legal authority over them and cannot interview them now.
If they’ve been fired they can’t be interviewed by the IG (and there is no IG because that office is empty) How convenient.
*spew* … mopping Chianti off the monitor …
one hour and twelve minutes without a commercial.
Stop copying me, Rev!
*g*
DiGenova with the line of the night.
The ‘people at the bottom need to be disciplined’.
That is the GOP modus operandi with all of these asswipes.
-G
Moonie Times reporting Condi was told yesterday. Bet she was pissed to be interrupted.
drinking pinot noir myself. Glad you got a laugh but take care with the ‘puter.
Must have been out shoe shopping again.
Wonder what Stat Dept. official will be thrown under the bus to make this story go away for BushCo.
Andrea Mitchell reports the UnderSecState is assured this was only imprudent curiosity. Have not explained the lag, or why the IG is only now getting involved.
Nothing to see here, move along.
LOL
always get the Repug shaft…
Now Andrea Mitchell reporting — it was harmless curiosity — what a joke!
*going to make a caipisake to drink…this is going to be a long evening*
I was picking up Pinot Noir, then I realized it’s been ages since I had a really good Chianti … I shrink wrapped the puter a long time ago … *g*
Joe DiGenova blames “big government.”
No, Joe, it’s not big government that’s the problem, it’s BUSH government.
Isn’t it peculiar how easily your MSM swallows the drivel that the Repugs let out ?
Hah … you tell ‘em, Teddy !
Shuster reports the IG only told today.
WTF ?!!
teddy at 122–i think she’s trying to do a good job. she dived right into the middle of it and appears to be making great efforts to be even-handed, fair and logical.
Per DiGenova, this is a “conscious effort to suppress” by the civil service.
Fine, then that’s a perfect reason to appoint a special prosecutor or independent investigator with the power to prosecute or whatever.
No shit. I just called bs on Joe DiGenova right through my teevee screen.
Mukasey will get right on it … /s
Relaxs, the talking points have gone out already.
To be repeated by Mrs. Alan Greenspan and Dick Cheney’s former employee Pete Williams.
Chalk it up to:
“Imprudent curiosity by low level employees.”
As someone at Atrios said, that phrase will be the “Third rate burglary” line from Watergate.
The effort to paint this whole story as the work of ‘low level contractors’ and ‘mid level management’.
The spin is furious.
-G
teddy forgot to add—i don’t agree with many of her ideas/proposals, but i can see where she is coming from and where she is trying to head…..even if everything she proposes happens, will still be better than blackwell’s organization running things…..she’s open to revising what she has layed out, that’s good….so, we’ll see.
Shuster sez the employees’ supervisors believe them that it was “imprudent curiosity” and so the State Department believes them too.
It’s Katrina, writ small.
Shuster calls bullshit and makes DiGenova look like a fucking lying sack of shit.
-G
If republican state contract workers do it it is ok.
Eagleburger now, talking about his experience with the Clinton passport fiasco. Sez that the 1991 case was “much worse than this case.” As if he knows.
Spin, spin, spin.
Eagleburger does “not believe that’s the case here” — that it’s overtly political.
They sure got him the talking points fast.
How would Eagleburger know this already?????
Fuckery.
How does the term “contract employees” fit into his big government idea?
Hah, David is head and shoulders above so many of these talking heads …
Yeah, I had to laugh at that one too, when someone mentioned that it would be referred to the DOJ. Once the DOJ gets infiltrated by political operative, who’s gonna prosecute actual crimes if it’s your own party committing them?
kay in maine at 46–i am cracking up!
on the laura ingraham show
it was color therapist not colored therapist….* g* seriously, color, not colored, the kind that comes to your house, for your house….how many people would pay to have someone come to their house to be advised about color………..at least that’s what i heard when i listened, we may have heard different shows.
i can see why colored therapist woulda set you off, but it was color.
rofl.
Yep, the truth is hidden behind what these guys are saying …
As a yoga/meditation teacher, I don’t judge anyone … but is Mukasey f*cking kidding ?
He can’t say that waterboarding is torture and he can’t initiate investigations ?!!
Has he even read the Constitution and does he remember his oath to protect it?
thanks Teddy and congratulations to Debra Bowen,! She deserves it! She has integrity, honesty, and is a hard working patriot diligently keeping our laws and freedoms at heart.
check out this great video where she smoothly grinds, i mean, debates McPherson into the ground. worth watching every minute…
http://cbs5.com/politics/Chronicle.2.448403.html
more informative links…
http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=18
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thanks, flex! great links.
I don’t understand why such an experienced man as Mukasey would act in this manner … doesn’t he understand that his children and grandchildren will have to hear about his treason long ?
Is that the legacy he wants to leave ?
i worked at the phone company
it’s not the government, but we had different levels of access. we signed privacy agreements after reading all the laws you would be breaking if you violated them.
outside techs had a whole different added set of rules but on the office side-
necessary general access by service reps and office people were things like address and phone number, those could be accessed and were just on your computer, no password necessary….there were a few cases where ex’es accessed their ex’es info to get new add or phone number, and were fired and prosecuted for it.
but further records were an ’as needed’ basis.
whatever level you were at had a password for each system, and only had passwords for what you needed to do your specific job.
lose or forget your password was a big deal. went in your file.
printouts of who accessed what and when went to higher ups every single day.
no freakin’ way they didn’t know that someone accessed that system. and no freakin’ way they didn’t know the rules and signed a form stating that. no way.
edit: long … after he’s gone …
Far out.
OMG! Are you serious! Ooopsie. That will teach me to not drive with the window open while listening to the radio. LOL (I smoke) *shaking head at my stupidity right now*
kay at 357–
yeah, i’m serious, they went into this big schpiel about it…….so, yeah, it was color therapist.
you’ve made me laugh before, but this one is record-breaking, i am still laughing.
wonder if there’s a hall of fame for fdl funnies? there outta be, and this one would be in it.
and smoke all ya want.
other people eat crap.
and lie.
and envy.
drink alchohol in excess.
act shitty.
everybody has a vice or two or three, pick one, so i figure, smoke all ya want, your choice.
i don’t do dishes sometimes. i pollute the planet with paper plates cuz i really hate doing dishes. so there.
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kay in maine at 428
i know, i know, i am still laughing!!!!!!
all i could think of was this is the most perfect emily latella example (edit-moment) i have ever seen!!!!!!
is it ok if i call you emily? (edit-latella sounds cooler)
deeply cracking up. my boobs are shaking. i’m wheezing.
i’ll go see what you wrote.
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later latella!!!!!!!!!!
ROFLWBS-rolling on floor laughing with boobs ssssshaking!