Dear Mr. Eid,

I met Mr. Neiwert at Netroots Nation 08 and I am willing to testify that he does indeed have a face. In fact, it even looks like the one he uses when he blogs.

Jim White

PS I have a face, too, and also blog under my real name (although I’m a scientist by training, not a journalist).

Eid =”s political hack. Nothing more, nothing less.

Wow, don’t tell me there’s another republican running from the responsibility of his decisions and choices!! Wowee.

There’s so many, it’s like shooting wolves from a helicopter.

AS a Denver area resident I generally read the sunday Denver Post and i read Eid’s op ed last sunday. One has to understand that rethugs do not accept blame for anything. You can look at any interview on tv to understand this. If a reporter asks a rethug a question regarding anything about their standardbearer the first word out of their mouth is Obama. Eid does make some points about evidence and what could be proven in court. My ex was an AUSA and I have seen first hand the hoops that they must jump through. I do not appreciate his lashing out those who would raise legitimate questions to which an answer must be forthcoming.

[B/t to Nicole at Crooks and Liars.]

what’s a B/t?

Don’t make me start guessing. *g*

a tip of the faceless blogger’s beret?

I don’t know but if it refers to McCain it could refer that period of his life that was Before Time

Colorado’s Rove-appointed U.S. Attorney, Troy Eid,

…whose own picture makes him look like a NYC mafioso defendant….

a tip of the faceless blogger’s beret?

uh, yeah, that’s gotta be it.

(continues to bite tongue….)

Certain US Attorney’s might want to think about their own potential liabilities (criminal in particular) that might come back to haunt them come January 20 2009.

Just saying.

Well were we wrong about any of the facts is the question? If not that just means the blogs caught the story before the media and reported in accurately. What is wrong with that?
What troubles me is the prosecutor is blaming his mistakes on US, so if we had not made the MSM cover the story the prosecutor would not look so bad? That is his complaint?
Has the prosecutor done anything to fix his mistake like investigating the meth heads to see if they are part of any terror networks like STORMWATCH, the Ayran Nation etc!
I bet if the meth heads were hippes and the Republican convention they and their grandparents would have all had their rights violated er lives investigated.
I bet Homeland security isn’t even tapping the phones of the last twenty people the meth heads called before they were arrested.
I bet that everyone arrested at the GOP convention though is getting listened to them their mama and their grandmama’s are getting listened to.
Thanks for voting for FISA OBAMA

David,

fabulous – had no idea he’d gone public with the WATB act.

Rule #1 Blame The Messenger !

using my real name, I

* spotlighted the stuffing out of each of your posts

* wrote letters to Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News

* called Ken Salazar’s office (blerrggh)

will have to go read his little screed and see if there’s an LTE for me in it somewhere :D

January can not come sooon enough

Troy Eid is going to have to come up with a better excuse than this. Particularly as it becomes clear how badly he’s botched this case.

david, it would seem as though his own complaining might help you shed some light on his depravity

nicely done david

Boo hoo! Po lil’ Troy got his feelings all hurt. Boo hoo.

I give up. I have googled WATB. forgive my McCain Brain. what does it mean?

Yeah Mr EiD I met David and Jim they both have faces…and fingerprints as I’m sure you already know. Nope no names here though:)

Hey, Mike,
Could you update the “print” list at the Spotlight link (at the end of each post) with some contact info for the Denver Post? Or even a link here to their Editorial Page honcho?
This is something we should answer, en masse.

Thanks!
FunnyD

bbl, time to commute home!

I’ll have a post sometime in the next day discussing the evidence and the limitations prosecutors face in such cases.

[And sorry about the typo — fixed it.]

Boo f*cking hoo! Po lil’ Troy got his feelings all hurt. Boo f*cking hoo.

Fixed/Malkkkin-ized it for ya.

FunnyD

A Whiny Ass Titty Baby. Coined by Atrios.

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Jaango

EiD had better watch himself because if anything does happen to Obama and it turns out that racist meth heads are the new patsys/Oswalds this season then EiD will get the blame.
EiD will get the blame even if the person is never caught, why because EiD never investigated and proved the meth heads were not part of a larger group.
No Fox News jobs in your future, no corporate board jobs unless they are not afraid of a boycott, no think tank jobs because your rep will be so bad you will discredit Ann Coulter.
But on the plus side I’m sure Henry will invite you to the House.

I thought I was missing something there.

Oh! the things you learn from faceless bloggers! :]

If you don’t investigate then you can’t use FISA to find out if they are terrorists. On the other hand what Prosecutor takes the word of an assassin that yes they were working alone/there are no droids here!
I’m thinking that even under the old rules any judge would give a warrant to spy on the meth heads friends and family.

Eid kept his job in the USAttorney purge carried out by Karl Rove’s minions. Now we know why.

Hippies acting peaceful at GOP convention lets crack heads. Meth heads with guns going after Obama.
They don’t belong to no terrorist group they’re just good ol boys!
I’m thinking that EiD’s last job was the Wassila Meth task force?

Well, I am semi-nameless or perhaps semi-named but definitely faceless. Here is my entry on the Obama assassination plot from my scandals list.

380. On August 24, 2008, the day before the Democratic National Convention began in Denver, Colorado, police arrested a white supremacist and meth head Tharin Gartrell after a traffic stop. In his truck, authorities found two rifles, one with a scope, walkie-talkies, a bulletproof vest, and fake IDs. This quickly led to the arrest of Shawn Adolf and Nathan Johnson. The three had been doing meth in the Denver Hyatt with two women, one the underage girlfriend of Johnson. According to this girlfriend, the men had been discussing ways to kill Barack Obama, the soon to be nominated Democratic Presidential candidate, whom they thought would also be staying in the Hyatt. (He wasn’t) The men then considered smuggling a gun in a camera into Obama’s acceptance speech in INVESCO Field. According to federal records, Adolf said, “It would not matter if he killed Senator Obama because police would simply add a murder charge to his pending charges.” When asked if there were a plot, Nathan Johnson is reported as saying, “Looking back at it, I don’t want to say yes, but I don’t want to say no.” Robert Sawyer who led the FBI investigation recommended that the men be charged with conspiracy to kill Obama. Despite this, the US Attorney for Colorado Troy Eid, a Rove footsoldier who had done unreported lobbying for Jack Abramoff, refused to do so and declared, “The law recognizes a difference between a true threat — one that can be carried out — and the reported racist rantings of a drug addict,” and described the plot as “more aspirational, perhaps, than operational.” The men will be held on drug, weapons, and other outstanding warrants.
Eid’s actions, or rather lack thereof, raise two interesting questions. Would he have done the same if these men had been discussing the assassination of a Republican, like George Bush or John McCain? And would he have declined to press conspiracy charges if the men had had Middle Eastern sounding names instead of being homegrown domestic terrorists?

Is the idea here that Eid is pining for the good old days when it was so much easier to bury a story and cover up ineptitude and inappropriate political decisions?

Dugg it!

David,

Thank you for your reporting, even if you are not a face-less, nameless, lunatic blogger.

I write anonymously. I write speculative and science fiction novels. My readers come from all walks of life, and both political parties. I remain anonymous because my political ideology could affect the sale of my books. I already don’t make enough money to feel secure, and I just can’t afford to risk my income by speaking openly about my politics. Having said that, if anybody at Daily Kos (where I express my views) ever asked my my name or to provide a photograph, then I would do so.

David Eid’s failure to take the assassination threat as seriously as it indeed was points to his own gross incompetence. It’s no wonder he would lash out at people he calls nameless and faceless. Those are the only people he can get away with lashing out at. If he referred to the very open and well known bloggers by name, the resulting fallout would be worse than the problems he already has. He owes his frustrations all to himself, though, and deep down inside him somewhere he knows it.