By the time I was fully awake, it was over, and I lay there in the darkness — half stoned, half asleep, wondering what the hell was going on.
That’s what it feels like now — except this time I have a pretty clear idea what’s coming.
II. Trembler
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Rumsfeld to Judy: Screw you.
At the Pentagon, officials also looked into Miller’s claim that she had a security clearance while working as an embedded reporter during the Iraq war, shortly before her conversations with Libby.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said he was unaware of Miller having a security clearance. He said security clearances are covered by privacy laws, so he couldn’t talk about it.
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“For a security clearance you have to go through any number of specific background investigative checks, and there are different agencies that do those. And depending on the level of clearance that’s required, there’s certain paperwork that has to be filled out and it has to be adjudicated,” said Whitman.
He said commanders can’t simply give a reporter a security clearance while in the field with the unit.
Now Judy should come up with some dirty Rumsfeld laundry to get even. Please Judy …
b. check your dirty 30’s link.
is it really happening ? !!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: annie | Oct 18 2005 6:12 utc | 2
Thanks annie – corrected
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That WaPo article Cheney’s Office Is A Focus in Leak Case doesn´t have any new fact really pointing to Cheney. So why all this noise now. Only catching up on the Miller statement that Fitzgerald asked about Cheney?
Fitzgerald needs to flip someone near Cheney to get there or some really good evidence. Hmm …
Naw, say it ain’t so Mr. Mon…..
80 miles north of the blow? – that means either one of two things – that dormroom was at Evergreen St. College, or Fort Lewis.
My own hangover-assisted memory of that soon to be ash strewn morning took place in a likely similar dorm room just a little further north and a wee bit west.
As for Ms. Miller, is she trying to protect the scooting one by suggesting that he didn’t actually ‘have leak with that woman’ at all, but instead had consensual conversational relations with a covert operative?
And speaking of poll numbers, Tim Russert asked Condoleeza Rice to respond to the the most recent poll which indicates a 2% (not a typo… two point zero per cent) approval rating of President Bush amongst African Americans on the most recent Meet The Press. Rice seemed about as concerned as President Bush was when asked about the ten million person “focus group” who protested against the invasion of Iraq. These guys could care less how many approve or disapprove of them during an odd numbered year. Alexander Haig was reputed to have said “They can protest all they want to, as long as they pay their taxes.”
“Representative democracy”, my curvy ass.
Posted by: Monolycus | Oct 18 2005 8:14 utc | 5
Senior White House Officials Face Prospect of Life in Prison for Outing of CIA Agent Plame Unless They Testify for Prosecution
Ah, if only it were so …
Posted by: Outraged | Oct 18 2005 9:16 utc | 6
b, and all the other non american mooners, the wapo article , although it doesn’t reveal that much ‘new news’ is not business as usual for this reason. for the most part i don’t think many americans are really taking this thing very seriously. many have never heard of it beyond some reporter who went to jail. or remember the 16 words? i came from a family reunion in the south 10 days ago and even the more progressive relatives were clueless. this hasn’t had the constant drumbeat of monica or nothing compared to the whitewater suspense for the average person. when i returned home i forwarded one cousin an email news article and she actually sent it to a friend in dc to confirm. nothing in the local press. the msm has laid off the subject til the last week. the front page of wapo is significant because it is the washington (DC) post, hence, the volcano.
Posted by: annie | Oct 18 2005 14:31 utc | 7
@annie
Well, I was wrong, that piece has new news as I wrote in the Plame V piece. But even if it would be just repetative it would be useful.
WaPo is quite important as it is the Leitmedium of the US mediastream. (Before the NYT had this rank, but that is lost now.) The editors and producers do read WaPo and then do the follow ups in their own media.
So I try to keep an eye on WaPo and on several small oulets like “Editor & Publisher” and the Poynter and Jay Rozen’s site who are all tiny but do have strong echoes in the bigger world.
TV in the US is just coming in on the affair Plame. It will take a while to catch up. It has to catch up if and when Fitzgerald indicts (Wednesday afternoon). They know this and they are starting to move.
We are also only in the prelude. The curtain raises with the indictments. Then we will see the first scene, then the second, … this play is long because the play is about the war on Iraq and that war will not go away or just stop.
There will be plenty on TV and plenty to learn for redstaters…
“Evergreen St. College”
Where men are men and so are the women.
It’s more than just a college — it’s a country club.
Go Geodikes, um, I mean, Geoducks.
Posted by: Billmon | Oct 18 2005 15:35 utc | 9
How is Fitzgerald going to get any airtime if he’s up against the ‘Saddam Show’ that opens tomorrow?
Posted by: GM | Oct 18 2005 16:05 utc | 11
They have kept Saddam in the bag for just this purpose. But their bag is being emptied rather quickly.
Big ups to the hyper-liberal liberal arts schools. Reed, Evergreen, Hampshire, Oberlin – you all my peeps.
Posted by: Rowan, Antioch Radical | Oct 18 2005 18:14 utc | 14
i just posted about the< A HREF="http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Cheney_aide_cooperating_with_CIA_outing_1018.html"> flipper over on plame 5. was so excited i made a mess. anyway,fitz has got his man, one of them anyway. very exciting. now maybe i can get some work done
Posted by: annie | Oct 18 2005 18:31 utc | 16
find it incredible that the shrub’s numbers are soooo low in spite of a completely bought and paid for corporate media. Could it be that people are thinking with their pocketbooks again?
I wonder just what would happen if MSM treated Little Boots the same way they did Bill Clinton. Perhaps the reason they don’t is folks would be really pissed and we would likely have peasants with pitchforks in the streets.
Posted by: dan of steele | Oct 18 2005 19:22 utc | 18
This is all going to get very messy. Careers may be lost, vast monies spent in trials and more back stabbing, recriminations and despair spread around than many can absorb or tolerate. Could it be so bad in its potential somebody may figure how much worse could it get if Fitz had an “unfortunate accident”?
Posted by: steve duncan | Oct 18 2005 20:02 utc | 19
Sadistic fantasy coming thru: I’d like to see Fitzgerald indict the entire editorial board at the Pravda, too. The White House Criminals vs The Media Criminals all taking turns trying to roll on each other to save their own hides = Wholesome Quality Entertainment! My TV might just leave Animal Planet for a change (especially if I’m gonna get a strain of crocs and alligators to root for).
“But at least I’m neither gooey nor a duck.”
Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.
Mmmmmmm…gooey duck.
Posted by: Billmon | Oct 18 2005 22:46 utc | 22
Tried many — even hunted them for money in the days of my youth (sand dwellers of course, not the student variety).
Actually, really like the Evergreen campus.
Could be geoduck could be a saint. Given the last comment I’m guessing the later. Billmon the Benedectine
Posted by: pillbug | Oct 19 2005 1:52 utc | 25
Fair enough – you win.
Would be pinocchioing it if I were to suggest I have any intimate knowledge of the non-molluscan variety.
Regardless, anyway you slice it, 1980 was a very strange year indeed.
The animals feel it first. Look for the stories of yowling zoo animals. The eerie departure of the birds. And the bats! Vast swarms of them, wheeling in silent lovecraftian gyres over the major cities.
I for one will not rest easy until I hear the blessed words “long national nightmare is over” from President Guckert himself.
Posted by: Roger Bigod | Oct 20 2005 4:43 utc | 27