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Donald Rumsfeld On Meet The Press – Complete Video and Photos

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This is from the November 2, 2003 program of Meet the Press.
Highlights separated by subject on the way.
Somehow I had managed to forget to start a “Bye Bye Rummy” category. I’ll still have to go back and recategorize things properly for it.

Rummy On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 3 (Small – 23 MB)

Rummy On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 3 (Small – 23 MB)

Rummy On Meet The Press – Part 3 of 3 (Small – 23 MB)

Rummy On Meet The Press – Complete (Small – 68 MB)









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Donald Rumsfeld On Meet The Press – Link to Complete Directory

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This is from the November 2, 2003 program.
I’ll be blogging this proper-like later in the day, but I gotta go to tai chi and band practice so it’s gotta wait till later.
However, for those of you that have been waiting for this, and don’t need my charming commentary to get what you need out of it, here’s the directory where everything’s already uploaded:

Rummy On Meet The Press
See you later today. Lots of goodies in the kitty…

Ambassador Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press Discusses “Intimigate” (The Scandal Involving The Outing Of His Wife As A CIA Agent By A Top Shrub Administration Official)

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Ambassador Joseph Wilson was on
Meet The Press (hosted by Tim Russert) last Sunday to discuss the leak from an unnamed top official of the Shrub Administration that ended up blowing the cover of his CIA-employed wife.
The interview with Robert Novak from the same show is also available.
Wilson clarifies some of his own comments over the last week, while Tim Russert takes advantage of the opportunity to clarify some of the facts of the situation in more detail. (Tim is the man!)
I’ve made the clip available in its entirety, in two pieces, and in four smaller pieces to make it easier to download and circulate the parts of interest to you. This is good stuff.
This is from the October 5, 2003 program.
Complete:
Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press – Complete (Small – 39 MB)
In Two Parts:
Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 2 (Small – 18 MB)
Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 2 (Small – 21 MB)
In Four Parts:

Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 4 (Small – 10 MB)

Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 4 (Small – 9 MB)

Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press – Part 3 of 4 (Small – 9 MB)

Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press – Part 4 of 4 (Small – 11 MB)





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Robert Novak On Meet The Press – What He Was Told By A Senior White House Official About Joseph Wilson’s Wife Being A CIA Agent, Why He Printed It, And Why He Won’t Reveal His Source

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Well I certainly understand why he can’t reveal the source. There’s no reason to throw journalistic ethics out the window completely.
This entire situation provides a perfect demonstration of how backstabbing this Administration can be. Novak is one of the few journalists that has stood by the Shrub and his cronies and consistently defended them through all of their folly. Now he has been chosen as the sacrifical lamb to “leak” a story that could potentially land him in jail. This Administration even screws over their “friends.”
It sure seems like the “senior official” interviewed by Novack knew exactly what he was doing. He gave Novak classified information and then sort of half-heartedly asked him not to print it. This is a classic example of a premeditated “leak.” Novak says that he tried to downplay the information by burying it in the sixth paragraph of the article. He also claims that he uses (or “misuses,” by his own admission) the word “operative” all the time, and that “oops” this time he was referring to a “real” CIA operative. (Not sure what he “really” means when he uses the word “operative” incorrectly.)
You can check it out for yourself. Sorry I couldn’t bring you the entire thing. My camera would not cooperate. (I really have to send it in for servicing!) I kept letting it cool down before I tried again, and did this enough times so I could get the important part at the beginning.)
This is from the October 5, 2003 program of
Meet The Press (hosted by Tim Russert).
I’ve made it available in its entirety and as two smaller clips.
Note: the interview with Joseph Wilson from the same program is also available.
Complete:
Robert Novack On Meet The Press – Complete (Small – 28 MB)
In Two Parts:
Robert Novack On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 2 (Small – 14 MB)
Robert Novack On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 2 (Small – 14 MB)











Condoleeza Rice On Meet The Press

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I’m too tired to blog this proper till the AM. But for those of you who might need this information NOW, I thought I’d let you know that it’s available and uploaded here:

Condoleeza Rice On Meet The Press
It’s available as one big 55 MB download or three smaller 18 MB downloads.
I’ll have smaller clips of highlights up in the AM.
Here’s a link to the usual, largely incomplete transcript. (Full text of this below.)
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Dick Cheney On Meet the Press – Subject: The Forged Nigerian WMD Evidence

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This clip is a Dick Cheney classic.
According to Cheney, he doesn’t know anything about anything. He doesn’t know who Ambassador Joseph Wilson is. He doesn’t know who the CIA is. He must not know what a newspaper is either.
This is from the September 14, 2003 program of
Meet The Press, hosted by Tim Russert.
(Link goes to a complete very incomplete transcript.)
Russert: “Were you briefed on his (Joseph Wilson’s) findings of February-March of 2002?”
Cheney: “No. I don’t know Joe Wilson. I’ve never met Joe Wilson…Joe Wilson? I don’t know who sent Joe Wilson. He never submitted a report that I ever saw when he came back…I don’t know Mr. Wilson. I probably shouldn’t judge him…I have no idea who hired him.”
Tim Russert: “The CIA did.”
Cheney: “Yeah but who are ‘the CIA?’ I don’t know.”
Cheney On The Forged Nigerian WMD Evidence (Small – 8 MB)







Dick Cheney On Meet the Press – Subject: The Halliburton Contracts

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This is from the September 14, 2003 program of
Meet The Press, hosted by Tim Russert.
(Link goes to a complete very incomplete transcript.)
Cheney: “I don’t know any of the details of the contract because I deliberately stay away from any of that information.”
Cheney also said that he has “no idea” why there was no bidding process, and to “go ask the Core of Engineers.” He also said that he “has no financial interest of any kind” with the company and hasn’t “for over three years.”
(Can someone please find me a link to the fact that he still receives deferred income from Halliburton every year? I know I’ve seen that several times in different publications. It’s bound to be somewhere else besides in a Daily Show clip. — Thanks! UPDATE! 9/16/03 — Well, that didn’t take long (see snippet below from Chris Floyd in Counterpunch.)
Update: 9/17/03 – New story in Reuters with all the details.

Cheney On The Halliburton Contracts (Small – 6 MB)




From Counterpunch, March 2003:

Old news, you say? Irrelevant to the current crisis? Surely, now that Cheney has been translated to glory as the nation’s second-highest public servant, he is beyond any taint of grubby material concerns? Au contraire, as those ever-dastardly French like to say. At this very moment, while the smoke is still rising from the rubble of Baghdad, while the bodies of the unburied dead are still rotting in the desert wastes, Dick Cheney is receiving one million dollars a year in so-called “deferred compensation” from Halliburton. That’s a million smackers from a private company that profits directly from the mass slaughter in Iraq, going into the pockets of the “public servant” who is, as the sycophantic media never tires of telling us, the power behind George W.’s throne – and a prime architect of the war.

(Thanks, Jim.)

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Dick Cheney On Meet the Press – Subject: The Congressional Budget Office’s Claims That Our Forces Are Already Overextended

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This is from the September 14, 2003 program of
Meet The Press, hosted by Tim Russert.
(Link goes to a complete very incomplete transcript.)
Cheney On The Congressional Budget Office’s Claims That Our Forces Are Already Overextended (Small – 7 MB)