TSA screener: "Obama will get us all killed"

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Saturday October 03, 2009 · 4:46 PM PDT

2009/10/03 · 16:46

As a few people here know, I'm not much of a dKos participant anymore. No hard feelings involved, just "other priorities," to paraphrase Dick Cheney. But yesterday I had the most incredible encounter with a TSA screener at the Dallas/Ft. Worth international airport, and I needed a venue to vent.

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Friday June 16, 2006 · 4:45 PM PDT

2006/06/16 · 16:45

YearlyKos has already been praised, criticized and dissected by numerous excellent diaries, so this one won't retread the same ground. What follows instead is a more personal story of the YK experience.

I don't often post comments here, let alone full diaries--I'm primarily a lurker. My wife Gina, however, is a different story. Read More

New Robert Greenwald 'War Profiteers' film needs our support

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Tuesday May 02, 2006 · 8:00 PM PDT

2006/05/02 · 20:00

Robert Greenwald and his Brave New Films outfit are working on a new expose documentary in the tradition of "Outfoxed" and "Uncovered: the War on Iraq."

But he needs donations to keep the project going, and more importantly to finish it for a pre-election release. Read More

Iran Shells Kurdish Rebels Inside Iraq

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Monday May 01, 2006 · 8:21 PM PDT

2006/05/01 · 20:21

Pardon the repeat if this has been diaried already, but I was floored when I got to the end of an AP story on demonstrations in front of the Green Zone and read this:

In northern Iraq, Iranian forces shelled a border area used by Iranian Kurdish rebels, forcing some families to flee but causing no casualties.

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Friday April 14, 2006 · 12:39 AM PDT

2006/04/14 · 00:39

The revelation of "secret rooms" at AT&T facilities where NSA personnel could monitor the company's networks has been diaried already, but I have a question... Read More

Waxman Report - Cliff Notes for Intel Committee

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Thursday November 10, 2005 · 8:05 PM PST

2005/11/10 · 20:05

The Washington Post today provided a view of the sorry state of the investigation by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on how prewar intelligence was used to bolster the administration's case for war. It will likely be months before we get anything close to a final report on the use of prewar intelligence, as the Intel Committee has only now instructed its staff to start doing the necessary research. But not to worry--I've just the thing for the kids who didn't do their homework on time. Read More

Blair Lies Again on Pre-War Bombing

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Wednesday June 29, 2005 · 6:08 PM PDT

2005/06/29 · 18:08

Cross-posted from DowningStreetMemo.com

From the Prime Minister's press conference earlier today:

Q: ...There has been confirmation that in the run-up to the war, in the autumn of 2002, there was an increase in bombing activities in Iraq by both the USAF and the RAF, either to provoke or to prepare for the coming war, did you authorise that and if so why?

Prime Minister: ...No as far as I am aware the No Fly Zone, which of course had been operating over Iraq for ages, continued as it was. Of course as the tension rises, inevitably there may be more missions flown, but this wasn't part of a sort of policy decision to go and ramp it up or provoke or anything else.

Well allow me to retort... Read More

WaPo's Getler Hits & Misses on Milbank DSM column

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Sunday June 19, 2005 · 1:54 AM PDT

2005/06/19 · 01:54

Washington Post Ombudsman Michael Getler responds today to reader email regarding Dana Milbank's column on the Conyers hearings. He gets the importance of the DSM, but misses the point on Milbank. Read More

NBC11 (SF Bay) news segment with DSM.com

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Thursday June 16, 2005 · 3:53 PM PDT

2005/06/16 · 15:53

Just a quick note for those of you in the SF Bay Area...

The local NBC affiliate paid us a visit here at the DowningStreetMemo.com control center during the Conyers hearings. It will likely be a short segment that we're told will appear on tonight's 6pm broadcast. If you tune in, you might even see our elusive web goddess, highacidity, actually on camera! Our neighbor Elinor also joined us to watch the hearings on C-SPAN--she brought the pizza.

What's wrong with the media: a microcosm

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Thursday June 16, 2005 · 12:00 AM PDT

2005/06/16 · 00:00

Cross-posted from DowningStreetMemo.com/blog

Today I was interviewed by our local CBS affiliate (KPIX, SF Bay Area) for a story about what are now collectively being called the "Downing Street Memos." Watching the report on the 11 o'clock news, I realized I was seeing the two greatest failings of the mainstream media being played out before my eyes. Read More

C-SPAN Washington Journal--need help for possible appearance

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Thursday June 02, 2005 · 7:10 PM PDT

2005/06/02 · 19:10

Going through today's email for DowningStreetMemo.com I found an invitation to appear on Washington Journal on Saturday--holy crap!

They're going to have a panel on the DSM story and they want me to talk about that but also the internet/blog angle as well.

The kicker, though, is that they said "ideally" I would go to their studios in DC. I told them I'd love to do it, but am in CA and asked if there was a chance I could be patched in remotely.

Assuming I get on, either via a local TV studio or even by phone, I've been out of town all this week and there are a few things I desperately need to get caught up on before Saturday.... Read More

A Tale of Two Sites: 'Downing Street' and 'After'

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Monday May 30, 2005 · 12:30 PM PDT

2005/05/30 · 12:30

I knew sooner or later I'd have to write this. A comment was posted recently on dKos that addressed a perceived lack of coordination between DowningStreetMemo.com--for which I've been acting as spokesperson--and AfterDowningStreet.org, which is the product of much work by John Bonifaz and the coalition he has assembled. In order to clarify, allow me to explain the relationship between our two sites and how it developed. Read More

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