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Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press

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This is from the May 2, 2004 program of
Meet the Press.
This directory contains the entire interview in one big file and three smaller files:

Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press.
Check out Joseph Wilson’s new book:
The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife’s CIA Identity: A Diplomat’s Memoir.
One thing Joseph said that sticks out in my mind is that daddy Shrub said whoever leaked the information about Wilson’s wife was an “insidious traitor.”
Does anyone know where he said this or when? Update: Oh okay. He said it in 1999. But it still applies — to Karl Rove and the Cheney gang in this case:
“I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the names of our [intelligence] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.”

New Searchable Database Charts Bush/Cheney Lies

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This just in from a friend of mine:

As the September 11th Commission grills President Bush and Vice President Cheney about their contradictory statements today, we wanted to alert you to a powerful new tool to help journalists, activists and the public compare the Bush administration’s claims against well-documented facts.
The Center for American Progress today launched a comprehensive

Claim vs. Fact database that documents statements from conservatives like President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Members of Congress and Fox News personalities, and compares those statements to the facts.
Each fact is sourced, and in many cases includes a web link directly to that source.

Air Force One Phone Records Subpoenaed – White House Implicated Over CIA Agent Outing

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Air Force One Phone Records Subpoenaed
By Tom Brune for Newsday.

The federal grand jury probing the leak of a covert CIA officer’s identity has subpoenaed records of Air Force One telephone calls in the week before the officer’s name was published in a column in July, according to documents obtained by Newsday.
Also sought in the wide-ranging document requests contained in three grand jury subpoenas to the Executive Office of President George W. Bush are records created in July by the White House Iraq Group, a little-known internal task force established in August 2002 to create a strategy to publicize the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
And the subpoenas asked for a transcript of a White House spokesman’s press briefing in Nigeria, a list of those attending a birthday reception for a former president, and, casting a much wider net than previously reported, records of White House contacts with more than two dozen journalists and news media outlets.
The three subpoenas were issued to the White House on Jan. 22, three weeks after Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago, was appointed special counsel in the probe and during the first wave of appearances by White House staffers before the grand jury.
The investigation seeks to determine if anyone violated federal law that prohibits officials with security clearances from intentionally or knowingly disclosing the identity of an undercover agent…
White House implicated
The subpoenas underscore indications that the initial stages of the investigation have focused largely on the White House staff members most involved in shaping the administration’s message on Iraq, and appear to be based in part on specific information already gathered by investigators, attorneys said Thursday.

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George W. “The Shrub” Bush On Meet The Press

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This is from the February 8, 2004 program of
Meet the Press.
Okay, I’ve got this split up into two parts and 4 parts — in quicktime movies and MP3s.
The Parts 1 and 2s go together (The movies and audio). The 4 parters are split up more at random.
Okay this stuff should be uploaded now. Sorry for being a bonehead last night 😉
Quicktimes In Two Parts:

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 2 (Small – 69 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 2 (Small – 35 MB)
MP3s in Two Parts:

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 2 (MP3 – 44 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 2 (MP3 – 23 MB)
Quicktimes In Four Parts:

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 4 (Small – 25 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 4 (Small – 32 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 3 of 4 (Small – 25 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 4 of 4 (Small – 24 MB)
MP3s in Four Parts:

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 4 (MP3 – 20 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 4 (MP3 – 32 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 3 of 4 (MP3 – 25 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 4 of 4 (MP3 – 17 MB)















Feds Ready To Nail Cheney Staff Members Hannah and Libby For Outing Joseph Wilson’s Wife

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Cheney’s Staff Focus of Probe
By Richard Sale for Insight.
The Feds have announced that they’ve got hard evidence against Cheney staff employees John Hannah and Lewis “Scooter” Libby that they were involved in the leak that outed Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s CIA operative wife.
About time! Hip hip hooray and all that kinda thing!
But wait a minute! They were undoubtedly just following Cheney’s orders. How come he’s not being held responsible for the actions of his personal staff?
Bogus.

Federal law-enforcement officials said that they have developed hard evidence of possible criminal misconduct by two employees of Vice President Dick Cheney’s office related to the unlawful exposure of a CIA officer’s identity last year. The investigation, which is continuing, could lead to indictments, a Justice Department official said.
According to these sources, John 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 said. Calls to the vice president’s office were not returned, nor did Hannah and Libby return calls.
The strategy of the FBI is to make clear to Hannah “that he faces a real possibility of doing jail time” as a way to pressure him to name superiors, one federal law-enforcement official said.

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British Shrub War Widow Will Be Giving Him A Piece Of Her Mind

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My Husband Died in Vain
By Severin Carrell and Andrew Buncombe for the Independent UK.

President George Bush will be accused this week of lying about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction in a face-to-face meeting with the families of British soldiers killed in the war, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
Mr Bush announced last week he was prepared to meet a small group of families of the British war dead. The names have not been officially revealed but two of the invited families have come forward to talk exclusively to the IoS, saying they will challenge the US President to explain why he went to war without a United Nations mandate and why no chemical and biological weapons have been found.
Lianne Seymour, whose husband, Commando Ian Seymour, was killed in a helicopter crash at the outbreak of the war, welcomed the chance to meet Mr Bush. But she dismissed his claim that the 53 Britons killed so far in Iraq had died in a good cause. She said: “Bush has been suggesting that he’s going to put our minds at rest. He suggests our husbands’ lives weren’t lost in vain. However, I’m going to challenge him on it.
“They misled the guys going out there. You can’t just do something wrong and hope you find a good reason for it later. That’s why we have all the UN guidelines in the first place.”…
Quite how his meeting the families of British servicemen killed in Iraq will be perceived at home is unclear: the President has not attended the funerals of any of the American troops killed. Nor has he visited any of the thousands of injured troops who have returned to the US.

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Re: CIA Leak Investigation — Shrubsters Will “Organize” Notes Before Handing Them Over To Justice Dept.

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Bush Aides Will Review Leak Notes
By David Jackson for the The Dallas Morning News.

White House lawyers will review phone logs and other records supplied by presidential aides before turning the documents over to the Justice Department officials conducting the investigation into who leaked a CIA undercover operative’s identity, officials said Monday.
The disclosure inspired new Democratic calls for an independent inquiry.
“To allow the White House counsel to review records before the prosecutors would see them is just about unheard of in the way cases are always prosecuted,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speaking on NBC’s Today show. “And the possibility of mischief, or worse than mischief, is very, very large.”

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Rumsfeld On Meet The Press: Tim Russert asks “Do you ever say to yourself, or wonder ‘My god, the intelligence information was wrong and what have we gotten ourselves into?'”

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Rummy’s answer: “You know, in my lifetime, I’ve said that many times…” (See complete answer below.)
Russert also asks Rummy about Saddam’s current role, if any, in the latest wave of attacks on the troops.
This is from the November 2, 2003 program of Meet the Press.
Complete Video and Photos
Russert to Rumsfeld: Do you ever say to yourself, or wonder ‘My god, the intelligence information was wrong and what have we gotten ourselves into?’ (Small – 6 MB)
Tim Russert:
“Do you ever say to yourself, or wonder ‘My god, the intelligence information was wrong and what have we gotten ourselves into?’ ”
Donald Rumsfeld:
“You know, in my lifetime, I’ve said that many times, because intelligence is never really ‘right’ or ‘wrong.’ What it is is a best effort by wonderful, hard working intelligence people, overtly and covertly trying to gather in the best information they can and then present it to policy makers. It’s never perfect. These countries are closed societies. They make a point of denying and deceiving so that you can’t know what they’re doing. So it’s a best effort, and it’s pretty good. Is it perfect? No. Has it ever been perfect? No. It will never be perfect, our intelligence information. But we’ve got wonderful people doing a fine job and it seems to me that it’s adequate for policy makers to then look at it and draw conclusions and make judgements.”
Tim Russert:
“Do you think that Saddam Hussein intentionally rolled over in March, and let the United States roar into Baghdad, planning that he would come back six months later with an armed resistance of the nature we’re seeing now?
Donald Rumsfeld:
“I don’t. I think they fought hard south. When the movement was so fast. And then, when some forces came in from north, a great many of his forces decided that they couldn’t handle it, and they disappeared. They disband themselves, if you will, left their weapons in some instances and unformed their formations, and went home. The idea that his plan was to do that I think is far fetched. What role he’s playing today, I don’t know. We don’t know. Very likely, Saddam Hussein is alive. Very likely, he’s in the country. His sons are killed. 42 of his top lieutenants, out of 55, have been captured or killed. So it’s a skinny-downed organization, what’s left. And, uh, is he interested in retaking his country? Sure. Is he going to? No. Not a chance.”

Rumsfeld On Meet The Press: What Did He Mean When He Said The Coalition Could Win The Shrub War “One Way Or The Other” In His Memo?

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This is from the November 2, 2003 program of Meet the Press.
Complete Video and Photos
Rumsfeld: One Way Or The Other (Small – 3 MB)
Tim Russert:
“You also reference to ‘the coalition can win Afghanistan and Iraq in one way or the other.’ What did you mean by that?”
Donald Rumsfeld:
“Oh, that it is (stops) We’re on a track, and we hope the track works, and I believe it is working. You take Afghanistan, Mr. Karzai and Loya Jirga have produced a bonn plan — a way ahead. It’s underway. Uh, will it stay on track exactly? I don’t know. I hope so. I think they’re doing a good job and we’re doing everything we can to help them and so are a lot of other countries, including NATO now. Um, but, but however that sorts out one way or another, that country is not gonna go back and become a terrorist training ground for the Al Queda.”
Tim Russert:
“That appears to be a much more pessimistic assessment than you have made publicly.”
Donald Rumsfeld:
“Not at all. I believe we’re doing well in Afghanistan, and said so.”
Tim Russert:
“And Iraq?”
Donald Rumsfeld:
“Well, I was gonna come to Iraq. Iraq is what it is. It is a tough, difficult situation. When you’re having people killed in the coalition, and we are, and our Iraqi allies being killed that are providing security, and Iraqi people being killed by these terrorists, it isn’t a pretty picture. It’s a tough picture.”