Watch the Press Briefing LIVE with White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan.
Today’s Press Briefing is scheduled to begin at 12:45pm – about 20 minutes from now. I suppose that C-Span Iwill cut off Henry Hyde to show Scottie. Note: Today, it’s on C-SPAN 2, not regular C-Span.
This will morph into an OPEN THREAD.
Indictments coming up and guess what happens? A terror threat in Baltimore. How flipping predictable.
It is SO DAMN BORING to listen to that b.s. on the news channels. I’m going to turn on Al Franken.
Predictable but it gives us insight into the Terror Level at the old White House. So far they’ve succeeded in changing the news cycle with every one of these alerts. They will keep it up as long as they can succeed in changing the news cycle.
The raft of reports on the Plame-Thing, the investigation, Meiers, polls in free-fall must starting to hurt.
You know that the PFitz news has to be really bad for the bush regime when they are releasing “pre-emptive terror alerts” before the bad news comes out… lol
Did someone call the Baltimore Mayors office and police to verify that there really was a warning this time?
Raw Story has it…
and aide to Cheney & Bolton!!!
http://rawstory.com/admin/dbscripts/printstory.php?story=1326
more from the story about Hannah…
According to a Newsweek article, a memo written for the Iraq National Congress (INC) raised questions regarding Cheney’s role in the build up to the war in Iraq. During the lead up to the war, Newsweek asserts, the INC was providing intelligence on the now discredited Iraqi WMD program through Hannah and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Cheney’s chief of staff.
“A June 2002 memo written by INC lobbyist Entifadh Qunbar to a U.S. Senate committee lists John Hannah, a senior national-security aide on Cheney’s staff, as one of two `U.S. governmental recipients’ for reports generated by an intelligence program being run by the INC and which was then being funded by the State Department. Under the program, `defectors, reports and raw intelligence are cultivated and analyzed’; the info was then reported to, among others, `appropriate governmental, non-governmental and international agencies.’ The memo not only describes Cheney aide Hannah as a “principal point of contact” for the program, it even provides his direct White House telephone number.”
“…Hannah and Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis `Scooter’ Libby, were the two Cheney employees,’ We believe that Hannah was the major player in this,’ one federal law-enforcement officer told the magazine.
If you look downthread, you will see that I posted this link about 1:30. Nya nya (sticking out my tongue). I know how you feel… it’s so exciting to see the bastards turning on and eating each other. I wonder how Cheney’s ticker is handling this? tick… tick… tick… holy shit… tick…
God is going to have to just forgive me for revelling in the misfortunes of others. 🙂
ooooooooppppppppsssssss 🙂
sorry nag, i did get all excitified 🙂 mucho props to you and to nailin’ the bastards.
Please, don’t apologize…. I was laughing at your excitment because it made me feel exactly the same way. Besides, the point is to let people know, not who scoops who. 🙂
So I have gotten so unbelievably lazy that I am waiting for BooMan or Susanhu or catnip to analyze this for me and tell me what to think, rather than clicking on Raw Story and reading the information myself. Am I in need of a life? Or is it just PISS? And if it is just PISS, why isn’t there a helpful adverstisement on TV that will tell me which pill to tell my doctor I need?
deserves this story. She’s been predicting this for weeks if not months.
Absolutely. Her predictions so far are on the money. I was just teasing Spiderleaf. I can’t wait to read Catnip’s next piece on the subject.
Man. I just got off my arse and read the Raw Story article. It sounds like we’ve got our John Dean. And maybe Deepthroat, too. All rolled into one guy. Yahoo! Hope this is true. We are only one step from the top. Just keep going. You can make it.
Frog March! Frog March! Perp Walk! Perp Walk!
I leave the thread for a few hours and come back to find out y’all are talking about me! At least it’s good stuff. 🙂 Thanks.
taking one of these
Fukitol. Thanks Doc. Thanks Catnip. Thank you America. Please indict these assholes. If the top dog flies out of Washington on a helicopter, bound for pardon-ville, I propose that we have a Booman convention somewhere and get shitfaced together.
Let’s see…. we know it’s Hanna because he says so? (Did anyone watch West Wing last Sunday?)
that maybe the ‘terror alert level’ is really just a reflection of how terrified the administration is at the moment.
hey susan, hey catnip, hey everybody… hi dr. nick! (sorry, I digress…)
I’m on a really old PC for a while and can’t risk dialing into cspan in case it crashes so I’ll have to rely on your most excellent commentary for my fix… 🙂
I’m praying that Catnip and others join in … we are blessed with some fast typists who also have big ears! WOOHOO!
No need to pray…
I have big ears? 😛
I’m eating toast – with cream cheese – but I am standing by…
Ok, so, is the press conference being delayed now so that they can get their fucking story straight??
This is SUCH BULLSHIT!! How stupid we look!
Wow, Scottie gets a daily thread now! His head must be to big to fit throught doorways with all the attention he is getting. 😉
Scottie is probably figuring it’s going to be like “Farmer in the Dell” at the White House, and after the indictments come out he’ll be “the Cheese stands alone…”
It’s always so much fun to watch the WH press officer squirm daily – brings back memories of my youth (1973 or so…)
Maybe the alert in Baltimore is in preparation of Hurricane Wilma hitting Florida this weekend? See, they’ve learned something from Katrina and Rita: natural disaster preparations should include preemptive terror alerts…
Where?
Just watching CNN and they showed one of the cops checking out a truck with a tarp. He does a little peak under the tarp here…a little peak there…yup…now there’s real security in action.
Good thing the tarp didn’t have a wire attached to a triggering device! When did Homer Simpson join the force? (Well, he’s well qualified – he’s an expert on donuts…)
I’m not watching, but that was a special visual. Thanks.
Tunnel is now reopened, BTW, according to CNN.com.
yapping about meetings Bush had with some furriners today…
Bush signing HHS bill this afternoon…border security…blah blah blah…
“I don’t much care what the right wing is saying. The more they churn, the more they will deflate when indictments finally do come down.” -Joe Wilson
From SusanG’s diary at dkos.
Q. about Miers response to a 1989 questionnaire in which she said she would support an amendment to ban abortion (see Susan’s diary)
A. non-answer…Miers strict constructionist…fair and open-minded…personal views, ideology and religion have no role in how someone makes decisions on the bench…quotes Schumer who said that Miers told her that no one knows her views on abortion…
Speaking at a luncheon on Oct. 12, Sen. David Vitter, R-La., compared Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to marriages of same-sex couples. Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese sent the following letter to the Senator today in response. When describing an area in Louisiana, Sen. Vitter said: “Unfortunately, it’s the crossroads where Katrina meets Rita. I always knew I was against same-sex unions.”
There is something very weird about the Right Wing. Here is someone who conflates natural disasters with sexual orientation. This goes along with idiotic stick Ashcroft putting bras on bronze statures to prevent lust. (?) And let us not forget the Justice who thinks orgies are a way of breaking down social barriers and a good way to meet people. The SecState calls the President her husband when she isn’t his wife.
And there is the use of “F-this” and “we’re going to rat-F” that and “He/she is really F-ed.”
These people need some serious help.
Q. Did Bushy see that 1989 questionnaire in the process of vetting?
A. bascially – I don’t know
(spouting off Miers talking points)
Q. from Helen Thomas – an attack in Iraq claimed the lives of 18 children in Iraq – what does the president think about that?
A. the military is investigating that…talking points…
Helen keeps interrupting – what about the children?
A. we fully support our troops…blah blah blah…you’re assuming things that people have different recollections about at this point…that’s why you have to talk to the military…
(Scotty hates Helen)
Q. from another reporter – Helen is asking what the president’s reaction is…
A. talking points…spreading feredom and democracy…there are terrorists in Iraq and they’re attacking some of our troops and our troops are responding…in terms of innocent lives lost, we mourn…(and btw the terrorists don’t care who they hit)
and cannot be expected to “think,” nor even “feel” about children dying in Iraq.
I mean, come on! Let the guy get on with his life already. You reporters are such a bummer.
Clean. . .Clear. . .So clear you can see right through it, just like a vacuum in a bell jar.
but I guess now that Gannon-Guckert is gone…there’s more time for her…
Let’s see…Terrorists don’t care if they kill children. The US Armed Forces doesn’t care if they kill children. Doesn’t that make the US Armed Forces terrorists?
Q. about Miers stance on abortion – are you saying that if a woman is at risk of becoming infertile, Miers would be against that abortion? (that she only believes an exception should be made if the procedure threatens the life of the woman)
A. blah blah blah
Q. most judges who have an opinion one way or the other on abortion find something in the law that supports their position – what about Miers?
A. will not legislate from the bench etc.
boring Q about the tax code
Q. who ran the vetting of Miers when she was on the short list?
A. a number of people were involved…Bill Kelley, Andrew Card
Just up on Raw
Apparently it is John Hannah, a mid level aide to Cheney, that is cooperating with Fitz and may be the original leaker. He was given instructions to leak Plame’s name in order to punish Wilson.
See?? that’s what I predicted in my Fitz: Indictments by Wednesday diary. 🙂
Wouldn’t-ya-know, there’s Bolton again…hmmmm. He’s been Cheney’s henchman for a very long time, visited judy, judy just prior to Libby’s letter and her subsequent release and testimony.
Now, where’s that smilin’ frog… got to get ready for the march.
Peace
Oh please oh please oh please tell me this means I get to see The Mustache That Walks Like A Man do the perp walk.
You nailed it, nip.
Over at firedoglake, Jim J asked who gets the credit for picking Hannah. I said it was you, catnip. Too cool.
OT, I just came across another use of “Valerie Flame” in Bob Novak’s October 6 2003 column in Human Events, entitled (amusingly) “It was not a planned leak”. Don’t know if you’ve seen it.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200310/ai_n9328212
And there’s Bolton’s name too as a target. I commented on that today as well.
Of course, we don’t know for sure that the sources Raw Stroy has are legit or correct so…
Yes, our most intrepid and ever astute Catnip… you predicted this development. Yessirree. I also wonder if he’s singing on his old boss Bolton as well. Oh, this is good stuff.
White House Watch: Cheney resignation rumors fly.
What a beautiful day.
Q. about terrorism
Scotty is referring to the al-Zwahari letter as proof for his talking points about terrorists…wasn’t that letter debunked?
Q. about Rove
A. can’t comment
Q. Has Miers been involved in the grand jury investigation or has she testified before the grand jury?
A. no comment
Q. any replacement nominees for Miers?
A. we’re confident…she’s qualified…blah blah blah
Q. about the terror threat in Blatimore..do you find it significant that there have been no questions in this briefing about that?
A. spoke to some before the briefing…
Q. what did Miers tell Specter yesterday?
A. Harriet does not get into talking about specific cases, if that’s what you’re asking…she’s visiting with several senators blah blah blah…
Q. Specter said she believes there is a right to privacy in the constitution…others say she referred to the Liberty clause…
A. she’s doing courtesy visits…as a general rule, Harriet does not get into talking about specifc cases…
okay – I’m bored now…
Bored?
OK. Let’s throw around some sex-snark!
Who do you think Ms. Judy Miller didn’t sleep with in the Bush administration?
I’m going to say Rove. Even slut-bunnies have some standards.
scottie sounds so bad in his rheteric. I simply have difficulty listening to him with his jerky sentences. Is it that he is having touble finding the words or what? He sounds so childish.
Dem’s press conference on C-SPAN 2.
Kerry, Clinton etc about Repubs not funding low-income people in energy bill (?)
Times reporter entangled in leak case had unusual relationship with military, Iraqi group
CHECK IT OUT… (WTF??!!!)
“Embattled New York Times reporter Judith Miller acted as a “middleman” between an American military unit and the Iraqi National Congress while she was embedded with the U.S. armed forces searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in April 2003, and “took custody” of Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law, one of 55 most wanted Iraqis, RAW STORY has found.“
Spiderleaf: Nya nya
(WTF??!!!) Indeed!!!
on my TV about the DHS appropriations bill he just signed….
The bill includes fewer grants for local first responders (MSNBC put this up, he didn’t mention it)….we’re building a 14-mile fence along the CA border….
All he has to do is click here and he can read all the bad news first-hand.
It appears only these states still like his boss:
Approve Not Net
And these folks are making up their minds right now not to like him starting next week:
Montana 49% 49% 0%
There’s 24 Red States suffering buyer’s remorse now.
US News & World Report
Condi’s stepping stone to run in ’08? And who would replace her at State?
Your speculations, please.
story?
Are we so enured to crooked elections that it’s a case of “move along folks, nothing to see here”?