Last week, when the new information regarding Able Danger was released, I incorrectly intimated that this somehow involved Jamie Gorelick’s ‘wall’ decision/enforcement. It does not.
I stand by my other statements regarding Gorelick’s conflict of interest because of her close relationship with the House of Saud.
On a side note, I do find it increasingly pathetic that Thinkprogress is spending all their time demanding that Glenn Reynolds make a retraction for a statement he never made, and to compound that demand with demands he retract statements that remain accurate. Pretty amusing stuff.
Motti Kahlman
Yet another indication that the Bush apologists and endlessly repetitive rightwing jabbering in general are rapidly going out of style.
Rush Limbaugh Loses 43% Of Audience
ppGaz
Wow. I’m looking forward to your treatise on the Bush family’s close relationship with the House of Saud, too.
I’ll assume that you are working hard on it, seeing as you seem to be taking such a long time getting it published.
(Editorial aside: “Seeing as” is used here as a campy mechanism for underlining the sarcasm in the post. Otherwise it is a construction unsuited to the highly important and gravid subject of Jamie Gorelick’s “conflict of interest.” We all know how seriously “conflict of interest” is taken around here!!)
ppGaz
Your link won’t work, but this one will:
Decline of Punditry — Blogs Next?
Good lord, will blogs be the next venue abandoned by people hungry for some straight talk, disgusted with the pandering and the manipulation that used to be the purview of politicians alone, but now is the stock and trade of seemingly every talking/typing head?
John Cole
ppGaz- Which member of the Bush family was on the 9/11 Commission?
Bob
Which member of the Bush family was on the 9/11 commission?
That would be George W. He was sitting on it.
ppGaz
If this is Usenet, that’s a giant Whoosh.
Knowing that you aren’t clueless, I am left to conclude that your question is rhetorical, in a “serious” vein. I put “serious” in quotes because, you know, we really don’t want to get “serious” about this war thing around here. We just want to focus on the personality and snarky parts.
I can’t answer your ‘question’ without really pissing you off.
So I choose not to answer it. Those who got my meaning will still get it, and those who didn’t, still won’t.
kl
The Platonic ideal of the circle just called, ppGaz. It wants its rhetorical style back.
Mike S
I find the Able Danger story interesting. But even more nteresting is the way Shaffer’s story is changing.
MI
haha, ppGaz’s first response is what initially went through my head with I read what John had written. I mean, I know intellectually what John meant, but it was kind of a “whaaaa?” moment, having a Bush *supporter criticize someone’s relationship with the House of Saud.
*Although I’m not sure John even qualifies as much of a Bush suppoter at this point in the game?
JoeTX
Conflict of Interest? Republicans in office are a conflict of interest! Ohio Gov Taft, Tom Noe, Abramhoff, Delay, Cunningham, and on and on and on…
The conflicts of interests start at the top of the 9/11 commission!
JoeTX
More on Zelikow from SourceWatch..
It is interesting that Zelikow had to recluse himself during the transition period between Clinton and Bush when the transfer of intelligence was to occur. It is during this period when most say Bush and co failed to heed the warnings of Clark and others in the intelligence community…
Nash
New sales pitch for Balloon Juice:
“We’re not sayin’ two wrongs make a right, but look over there…Thinkprogress!”
You are practicing the time-honored (it’s been honored since the time apologists for President Bush invented it out of sheer necessity) art of retraction as passive-aggressive theater.
An apology or retraction by a confident man is never followed by justification or misdirection or “yes, Mommy, but he hit me harder” of any sort.
This is, IMHO, the “greatest gift” bequeathed to us by the actions of those in power over the past 5 years: the near one-for-one replacement of true strength and integrity with the empty appearance of strength in the form of verbal aggressiveness.
That Mr. Cole, certainly not a person that anyone would term as amongst the power elite, resorts to this type of behavior just shows how well-established and socially acceptable this mindset has become. It is disgusting.
JoeTx
There has always been a pattern on the right, no doubt thanks to Karl Rove, of deflecting blame.
Here is a great column by Frank Rich from the NYTIMES..
The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan
JoeTx
Here is another good read. Its amazing the circle jerk of names and players that keep popping up over the years.