Congrats Merica!
Bush Administration Breaks [another] Record
President George W. Bush and the current Administration have now borrowed more money from foreign governments and banks than the previous 42 U.S. presidents combined.
Throughout the first 224 years (1776-2000) of our nation’s history, 42 U.S. presidents borrowed a combined $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and financial institutions according to the U.S. Treasury Department. In the past four years alone (2001-2005), the Bush Administration has borrowed a staggering $1.05 trillion.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Nov 8 2005 21:48 utc | 4

Lott is getting revenge on Frist and Rove. Today it’s Frist turn. Saying a GOP senator leaked blew Frist whole press conference right out of the water.

Posted by: jdp | Nov 8 2005 22:08 utc | 6

Scotty at today’s White House briefing, being asked about the White House “ethics refresher” course (alphbetical yet!):

And so there will be — in these briefings, which started this morning, they’re organized in an alphabetical way — there will be a general overview of ethics issues, such as the standards of ethical conduct that are expected. There will be a discussion about classified information and the proper handling of classified national security information, how that material is classified, by whom, for how long, who has access to it, how the material is declassified, the badges that people wear to show their security clearances and so forth. The briefings discuss the security precautions that are in place for handling classified information such as the use of safes, or the use of specific locations to view classified information like the Situation Room here at the White House. It will talk about the proper disposal of classified information. It will talk about the handling of classified information when you’re transporting that classified information. And the briefings will include the rules and laws relating to classified information and what’s expected of people. So that’s kind of a general overview of these briefings.

A is for Absolute Loyalty
B is for Bush
C is for Cheney
D is for Don’t Leak
E is for (classified)
F is for (classified)
G is for (classified)
….
K is for “Keep yer traps shut”

Posted by: Anonymous | Nov 9 2005 1:53 utc | 8

“K is for…” was me, too.
Maybe K is for “Karl sez Keep yer traps shut”

Posted by: catlady | Nov 9 2005 2:07 utc | 10

Someone really wants to wash this Dirty Laundry: C.I.A. Asks Criminal Inquiry Over Secret-Prison Article

The Central Intelligence Agency has asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation to determine the source of a Washington Post article that said the agency had set up a covert prison network in Eastern Europe and other countries to hold important terrorism suspects, government officials said on Tuesday.
The C.I.A.’s request, known as a crimes report or criminal referral, means that the Justice Department will undertake a preliminary review to determine if circumstances justify a criminal inquiry into whether any government official unlawfully provided information to the newspaper.

Posted by: b | Nov 9 2005 7:38 utc | 12

A detailed report by Amnesty International (references & Links):

United States of America / Yemen: Secret Detention in CIA “Black Sites”
“They came to take our father at night, like thieves…”
Fatima al-Assad, age 12, daughter of Muhammad al-Assad,
who “disappeared” after his arrest in 2003
All three had entered the USA’s network of illegal detentions, secret transfers and unacknowledged prisons, where suspects are arbitrarily shuttled in and out of US custody, in what journalist Stephen Grey called “a worldwide traffic in prisoners”.(4) According to a former senior US intelligence official, the rules of this game were simple: “Grab whom you must. Do what you want.”(5)

Posted by: Outraged | Nov 9 2005 18:45 utc | 14