https://www.dailykos.com/user/lobezno/rss/index.xml News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 17:16:43 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 17:16:43 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/15/187430/-Fox-s-Hume-Dick-admits-to-having-had-beer-with-lunch LIVE on FOX: Brit reveals that Cheney admits to having had beer at lunch, but claims that it was 4 to 5 hours earlier... Update: This was a presage to the airing of the interview later in the afternoon... rss@dailykos.com (lobezno) Beer Dick Cheney DickCheney Shooting _187430 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:24:54 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/6/176577/-I-called-the-Hudson-Institute-to-ask-about-hiring-Libby <a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/007378.php">TPM</a> points to <a href="http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=58926">this</a> little tidbit about our friend Scooter... apparently, the Hudson Institute has retained Libby as a "senior advisor" and the press release blabs on about how his expertise will be sooo valuable to the Hudson's mission. </p><p> Quote:"Scooter Libby brings decades of experience to Hudson Institute that will strengthen our robust research efforts. We look forward to drawing on his expertise," said Hudson Institute Chairman Walter P. Stern.</p><p> What he should have said:"Scooter Libby brings decades of experience to Hudson Institute that will strengthen our robust propaganda efforts. We look forward to subsidizing his legal defense."</p><p> So I called the Hudson to confirm and inquire why... </p><p> The conversation is below the fold...<br> rss@dailykos.com (lobezno) HudsonInstitute KennethWeinstein ScooterLibby ValeriePlame _176577 Fri, 06 Jan 2006 19:33:38 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/28/65849/-Breaking-News-FBI-probes-Hallibuton-contracts USA Today has it <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-10-28-fbi-halliburton_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA">here</a>...<p> <div class="blockquote">FBI investigating how Halliburton got Bush administration contracts<br> WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI has begun investigating whether the Pentagon improperly awarded no-bid contracts to Halliburton Co., seeking an interview with a top Army contracting officer and collecting documents from several government offices.<p> The line of inquiry expands an earlier FBI investigation into whether Halliburton overcharged taxpayers for fuel in Iraq, and it elevates to a criminal matter the election-year question of whether the Bush administration showed favoritism to Vice President Dick Cheney's former company.<p> FBI agents this week sought permission to interview Bunnatine Greenhouse, the Army Corps of Engineers' chief contracting officer who went public last weekend with allegations that her agency unfairly awarded a Halliburton subsidiary no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars in Iraq, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.</div> rss@dailykos.com (lobezno) _65849 Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:00:46 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/15/60871/-GOP-s-illegal-tactics-in-TN-hit-new-low When you think they can't go any lower, they ridicule the handicapped and blame the Dems...<br> Steve Clemons' <a href="http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000119.html">Washington Note</a> has the dish... Thanks <a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_10_10.php#003688">Joshua</a> for the heads up...<p> <div class="blockquote">October 15, 2004<br> DIRTY TRICKS MONTH: REPUBLICANS HAVE NOT LEARNED THEIR FLYER LESSON<p> WHAT IS IT WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE SOUTH and disgusting political flyers and mailers?<p> A nasty flyer has turned up in Tennesse politics which depicts a handicapped athlete running on a track with George Bush's face pasted on.<p> The text reads:<p> Voting for Bush is Like Running in the Special Olympics -- Even if You Win, You're Still Retarded.<p> The Traditional Values Coalition and other right wing operations in the South jumped on this fast alleging that Tennessee Democrat Craig Fitzhugh's office, which shares space with the Kerry/Edwards Campaign, was distributing this flyer...</div> <p> This is "a crass, below-the-belt political strategy to attack" handicapped children, not to mention "cheap and tawdry"...<p> Oy, what's next?... rss@dailykos.com (lobezno) _60871 Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:04:16 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/12/59603/-Brits-officially-admit-intel-bogus &nbsp;The <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=571592">Independent</a> has it here....<p> <div class="blockquote">The 45-minute claim was false<p> After two years, one war and at least 16,000 deaths, the Government finally admits it<p> By Marie Woolf, Chief Political Correspondent<p> 13 October 2004<p> Tony Blair's claim that Iraq was within 45 minutes of launching weapons of mass destruction &#173; a central plank of his case for war &#173; fell apart yesterday as the Foreign Secretary formally withdrew the infamous claim and revealed MI6 had abandoned its source for the bogus intelligence.<p> In a humiliating climbdown, Jack Straw told MPs in a special Commons statement that MI6 has severed ties with the sources for both the 45-minute claim and intelligence that Saddam Hussein had produced a biological weapons agent in 2000.<p> The decision to lay to rest the most notorious intelligence claim in the case for war increased pressure from Labour and opposition MPs for the Prime Minister to make a full personal apology for the decision to invade Iraq "on a false premise".... </div><p> ... the unanswered questions remain: Where did the intel originate, and why are the Brits stepping back from it so explicitly now? rss@dailykos.com (lobezno) _59603 Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:35:29 +0000