Plame game continues

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Friday November 26, 2004 · 9:50 AM PST

2004/11/26 · 09:50

In a major new article in the WaPo, "Steno" Sue Schmidt reports on the latest twists and turns in the Fitzgerald investigation of who outed Valerie Plame.

Ms. Schmidt, who consistently parrots White House spin, reports that the timing of the Novak story, which was published on July 14 is now in question. Apparently, White House officals could have read the Novak story as early as July 11 when it was available over the AP wire. Here is a key paragraph from the article:

"This lawyer (a lawyer for one of the White House witnesses who talked to the grand jury -- ed.) and two others involved in the case said Fitzgerald has been trying to sort out whether White House officials mounted a campaign to leak Plame's identity, or whether they were merely spinning information that Novak's column had already put into the public domain. Prosecutors are also investigating who originally gave Novak the information."

So this is the latest White House defense strategy.
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6 Killian/TANG memos, not 4

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Sunday September 12, 2004 · 8:38 AM PDT

2004/09/12 · 08:38

Thanks to Viktor for pointing this out. Read his diary here

These are important for fleshing out the Bush TANG story. The first one shows that Killian was concerned about Bush and Bath's "flight certification status" in February 1972, at a time when Bush is rumored to be doing drugs. He is also rumored to have crashed a jet. We do know that he spent a lot of time in a trainer that spring (remedial training?). It also connects Bush and Bath together more tightly. Read More

Oil Security Chief Killed in Kirkuk Ambush

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Wednesday June 16, 2004 · 10:09 AM PDT

2004/06/16 · 10:09

In a further blow to Iraq's efforts to revitalize its oil industry, gunmen ambushed and killed the security chief for a state-run oil company in Kirkuk Wednesday. Meanwhile, gunmen attacked a key oil pipeline in the south for a second straight day.

Police in Kirkuk say the head of security for Iraq's Northern Oil Company, Ghazi al-Talabani, was on his way to work when attackers opened fire on his vehicle. Mr. Talabani was killed and his driver was wounded in the attack

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Bush gets lawyered up -- who leaked (with poll)

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Friday June 04, 2004 · 12:26 PM PDT

2004/06/04 · 12:26

I have been speculating about who leaked the story that Bush has consulted a criminal defense lawyer in relation to the Plame investigation. This story is obviously not good news for Bush.

Who could have this knowledge?

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Evangelicals and Iraq

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Tuesday May 18, 2004 · 2:42 PM PDT

2004/05/18 · 14:42

I've been reading Tim LaHaye's non-fiction book Are we living in the End Times, published in 1999, and it has some very interesting things to say about Iraq and Saddam.

LaHaye, best-selling author of the Left Behind series is one of the leading proponents of the pretribulation rapture scenario, which more or less goes like this:

Regathering of Jews in the Holy Land their becoming the nation of Israel
Rapture of true believers (evangelicals) -- they will be suddenly physically transported directly to heaven
The Tribulation, a seven year period when many very bad things happen, including attack on Israel, rise of the Antichrist, day of God's wrath, Armageddon. (Note: the best part of this from the pretribulation rapture believers' perspective, is that they get to sit in heaven and watch all the action, including the destruction of all the non-believers.)
God's intervention and the Second Coming of Christ
Christ's 1000 year kingdom on earth
End of time, or eternity

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Wednesday May 12, 2004 · 1:14 PM PDT

2004/05/12 · 13:14

With mounting evidence that a shadowy group of former Israeli Defense Force and General Security Service (Shin Bet) Arabic-speaking interrogators were hired by the Pentagon under a classified "carve out" sub-contract to brutally interrogate Iraqi prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison...

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Thursday April 01, 2004 · 5:35 PM PST

2004/04/01 · 17:35

Analysts, pundits, and pollsters are comparing Falluja to Mogadishu ("Black Hawk Down"). They are predicting that the images of Americans being mutilated in Iraq could powerfully shake U.S. public support for the occupation and may play into the presidential campaign. Examples:

"Gruesome Iraq Images Could Shake U.S. Opinion" Reuters
"Killings challenge US will" Christian Science Monitor
"Grisly video could shake confidence" USA Today
"Bush should beware the Mogadishu effect" - Howard Fineman, MSNBC

Four days after the Moadishu events, Clinton withdrew the troops from Somalia. Bush, of course will do the opposite in Iraq. Read More

60 Minutes wins Sunday nite ratings battle

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Monday March 22, 2004 · 6:37 PM PST

2004/03/22 · 18:37

With a Nielson rating of 10.3/18% share, 60 Minutes won its time slot, and was the highest rated show seen nationally on Sunday night.

Presumably, a large number of American males kept the TV on CBS after watching an exciting basketball game.

If some of what Richard Clarke said sinks in, it could be very good news for Kerry. Read More

USA Today/CNN/Gallop Poll: No Bush Bounce

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Monday March 08, 2004 · 6:28 PM PST

2004/03/08 · 18:28

After a week of campaigning, Bush lost ground to Kerry in the latest national USA Today/CNN/Gallop Poll. Hilights:

Kerry leads Bush 52 - 44
54% said use of 9/11 images in Bush's ads was "inappropriate
Bush's approval rating fell back to an all-time low of 49%. It has floated in a narrow range, just above or below 50%, since mid-January.

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Wednesday February 25, 2004 · 5:08 PM PST

2004/02/25 · 17:08

In a blow to the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has told the White House and fellow Republicans that he will not bring up legislation to extend its May 27 deadline, officials said on Wednesday.

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More wacky stuff from Tom Friedman: Bush is like a crazy ax murderer, but that's a good thing!

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Thursday December 11, 2003 · 4:07 PM PST

2003/12/11 · 16:07

You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried!

Whenever I think of President Bush's invasion of Iraq, the image that comes to mind is that famous scene in the movie "The Shining" where Jack Nicholson, playing a crazed author, tries to kill his wife, played by Shelley Duvall, who's hiding in the bathroom. As Ms. Duvall cowers behind the locked bathroom door, Mr. Nicholson takes an ax, smashes it through the door, and with a look of cheery madness peers through the splintered wood and announces, "Heeeere's Johnny."

That's the U.S. invasion of Iraq...the U.S. just crashed right through the locked door: "Heeeere's Dubya."

Here's the article: Breaking and Entering

Of course, according to Tom, the invasion of Iraq will lead to peace in Israel, and democracy will blossom throughout the Arab world.

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