You got that right, Twist_U_Up. And Bush just cut brush...
Even though they're the only business mentioned by name in the Constitution, Corporate McPravda – ABCNNBCBSFoulNoiseNutwork – doesn’t do squat when it comes to informing the American public about what the Bush Family Evil Empire is about and what they are doing to the United States of America, its Constitution and We the People.
Because of DU, however, we know these things about the Bush Family Evil Empire that most Americans know just a little, if anything, about. And we know what we know about BushCo because we help each other learn. We help spread the Truth about the BFEE.
We live in a time where we can change the course of history. Thanks to the perfect storm of Truth, we Democrats can retake Congress and relegate the BFEE to the dismal ash can of history and its members to prison, where they belong.
First: The Foley scandal has given the Democrats the ammo needed for a sea change in both houses of Congress.
The short story on ex-U.S. Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.): A known child molester was given a position to oversee laws designed to protect children from child molesters. What’s worse, Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) covered it up. In America, married households may now be a minority, but parents who have kids hate child molesters. Same for most people, in general: Child molestation generates universal hatred.
That’s why Fox and so many other “news” media have tried to connect Foley, “by accident,” to the Democrats. Even Huffington Post made the connection. Once an idea is in a person’s head, it takes a LOT of Truth to drive it out. Consider the nonexistent ties between Osama and Saddam that so many Americans still believe to exist. So, if the connection between the House Republicans and Foley can be made in the minds of enough Americans, they will not vote for Republicns.
Eleven GOPers Fingered in Foley Cover-UpBy Justin Rood - September 30, 2006, 9:32 PM
Roll Call's John Bresnahan reports:
As of Saturday evening, nearly a dozen House GOP lawmakers and staffers have acknowledged that they knew of the initial batch of non-sexually explicit messages from Foley to a 16-year-old former House page, some of them for a year or more. These include Hastert <(IL)>; Majority Leader John Boehner (Ohio); National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Reynolds (N.Y.); Reps. Rodney Alexander (La.) and John Shimkus (Ill.); Mike Stokke, the Speaker’s deputy chief of staff; Ted Van Der Meid, Hastert’s counsel; Paula Nowakowski, Boehner’s chief of staff; Jeff Trandahl, the former Clerk of the House; and another Hastert aide and Alexander’s chief of staff, according to public statements and GOP insiders.
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001645.php Which brings me to the second, and the better thing for our country. Let’s talk about the end of the BFEE.
Lost in Foley-GOP-Pagegate scandal are the “Bush administration” lies regarding what they knew before 911. The public record shows almost every public utterance regarding September 11 of George W Bush, Dick Bruce Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft and their assorted toadies have been false. Here’s what the public is starting to see: They are all liars. Consider, please, the following:
Condescenda said she doesn’t remember an emergency briefing on July 10, 2001. She said so recently. And she certainly said so during her testimony before the 9-11 Commission. Yet there’s the White House records saying she was briefed. Liar.
Rice Denies Book's Assertion She Brushed Off CIA Terror Warning
`Incomprehensible,' she says of the idea that she ignored Tenet's anxiety over a strike before 9/11.By Paul Richter
LA Times Staff Writer
October 3, 2006
State Department officials acknowledged late Monday that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was at a 2001 meeting where she was reportedly warned of the need to act on an impending terrorist threat to the United States.
They said she met with then-CIA Director George J. Tenet on or around July 10. A new book by Bob Woodward says she brushed off Tenet's warning at that session.
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"The idea that I would have ignored that, I find incomprehensible," Rice told reporters late Sunday during the flight. "I am quite certain that it was not a meeting in which I was told that there was an impending attack, and refused to respond."
The State Department said Monday that a meeting around the time described by Woodward had in fact taken place, based on government records, but that no new information was given to Rice, who then was President Bush's national security advisor.
In his book, Woodward writes that Tenet and J. Cofer Black, then director of the CIA's counterterrorism center, decided on July 10, 2001, that they had to request a dramatic, "out-of-cycle" meeting with Rice to describe their anxiety over the chance of an attack against American interests, possibly within the United States.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-book3oct03,1,531509.story?coll=la-news-politics-national&track=crosspromo Gee. Let’s put that in perspective, please Mr. Scheer?
Rice More Sordid Than Foley by Robert Scheer
Published on Wednesday, October 4, 2006 by Truthdig.com
They are such liars. And no, I am not speaking only of the dissembling GOP House leaders led by Speaker Dennis Hastert who, out of naked political calculation, covered up for one of their own in the sordid teen stalking case of Rep. Mark Foley.
Call me old school, but I am still more concerned with the Republicans molesting Lady Liberty while pretending to be guarding the nation’s security, an assignment which they have totally botched. The news about the Foley coverup, while important as yet another example of extreme hypocrisy on the part of the Republican virtues police, should not be allowed to obscure the latest evidence of administration deceit as to its egregious ineptness in protecting the nation.
On Monday, a State Department spokesman conceded that then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice had indeed been briefed in July 2001 by George Tenet, then-director of the CIA, about the alarming potential for an Al Qaeda attack, as Bob Woodward has reported in his aptly named new book, “State of Denial.”
“I don’t remember a so-called emergency meeting,” Rice had said only hours earlier, apparently still suffering from some sort of post-9/11 amnesia that seemed to afflict her during her forced testimony to the 9/11 Commission. The omission of this meeting from the final commission report is another example of how the Bush administration undermined the bipartisan investigation that the president had tried to prevent. Surely lying under oath in what was arguably the most important official investigation in the nation’s history should be treated more seriously than the evasiveness in the Paula Jones case that got President Bill Clinton impeached. Nor is it just Rice who should be challenged, for Tenet seems to have provided Woodward with details concerning the administration’s indifference to the terrorist threat that he did not share with the 9/11 Commission.
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Such weaseling would be funny if the topic were not so serious. But there is no way Rice can squirm out of this one, despite her impressive track record of calculated distortion on everything from Iraq’s nonexistent WMDs to the trumped-up ties between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Can there be any better case for turning over control of at least one branch of Congress to the opposition party so that we might finally have hearings to learn the truth of this matter, which is far more important, and sordid, than the Foley affair?
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http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1004-33.htm In brushing off the briefers, she had the nerve to ask them to go see Ashcan and Rumsferatu. Ashcan said he never got a briefing, but wished he had. It certainly explains why he stopped flying commercial in July 2001. Liar.
Rumsfeld, Ashcroft received warning of al Qaida attack before 9/11By JONATHAN S. LANDAY, WARREN P. STROBEL and JOHN WALCOTT
McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Mon, Oct. 02, 2006email thisprint this
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and former Attorney General John Ashcroft received the same CIA briefing about an imminent al-Qaida strike on an American target that was given to the White House two months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The State Department's disclosure Monday that the pair was briefed within a week after then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was told about the threat on July 10, 2001, raised new questions about what the Bush administration did in response, and about why so many officials have claimed they never received or don't remember the warning.
One official who helped to prepare the briefing, which included a PowerPoint presentation, described it as a "10 on a scale of 1 to 10" that "connected the dots" in earlier intelligence reports to present a stark warning that al-Qaida, which had already killed Americans in Yemen, Saudi Arabia and East Africa, was poised to strike again.
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Clarke told McClatchy Newspapers that Rice focused in particular on the possible threat to President Bush at an upcoming summit meeting in Genoa, Italy, and promised to quickly schedule a high-level White House meeting on al-Qaida. That meeting took place on September 4, 2001.
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http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/15662785.htm Bush said, before it became public knowledge, that he never heard nothing about no Osama. Yet, we discovered in March 2003, that was false.
Decoding The PDB
Larry C. Johnson is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. He served with the CIA from 1985 through 1989 and worked in the State Department's office of Counter Terrorism from 1989 through 1993. He also is a registered Republican who contributed financially to the Bush Campaign in 2000. Are George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice really as clueless as they are claiming to be? Bush and Rice are both on the record misstating what was in the 6 August 2001 PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing). They both insist the information was only “historical” and “not actionable.” They apparently are not alone in their faux ignorance. Republican partisans and even some members of the media are busy bolstering the spin that this was “an historical memo.” Absolute nonsense!
I wrote about 40 PDB’s during my four-year tenure at the CIA. This particular PDB article was written in response to a presidential request. I am told that Bush’s request was a reaction to the intelligence warnings he was hearing during the daily CIA morning briefings. Something caught his attention and awakened his curiosity. He reportedly asked the CIA to come back with its assessment of Bin Laden’s intentions. The CIA answered the question –Bin Laden was targeting the United States.
The PDB article released Saturday is a classic CIA response to such a request. It lays out the historical and evidentiary antecedents that undergird the analyst’s belief about the nature of the threat and provides current intelligence indicators that reinforce the basic conclusion of the piece—i.e., Bin Laden was determined to attack the United States. It is true that the piece did not contain specific details about the plot that was launched subsequently on 9/11. However, the details that are included in the piece are so alarming that anyone familiar with the nature of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda should have asked, “What are they planning and what can we do to stop it?”
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Published: Apr 12 2004
http://www.tompaine.com/Archive/scontent/10224.html And now we’re discovering the CIA felt they weren’t getting anywhere. So they went to see Bush, on vacation for the month of August in Crawford.
The smirking turd from Crawford was briefed on his pig farm on Aug. 6, 2001. George W Bush even had the nerve to tell the briefer: “All right. You’ve covered your ass, now.” Liar.
Ron Suskind, George W. Bush and the Aug. 6, 2001, PDBRon Suskind's "The One Percent Doctrine" is out this week, and the Washington Post's Barton Gellman says it's full of "jaw-dropping stories" about the Bush administration's war on terror.
Or lack thereof.
We've known for years now that George W. Bush received a presidential daily briefing on Aug. 6, 2001, in which he was warned: "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." We've known for almost as long that Bush went fishing afterward.
What we didn't know is what happened in between the briefing and the fishing, and now Suskind is here to tell us. Bush listened to the briefing, Suskind says, then told the CIA briefer: "All right. You've covered your ass, now."
-- Tim Grieve
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/06/20/911pdb/index.html All of them deny getting briefed about Osama bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S. Doesn’t that seem odd? The records show they, too, got briefed. There’s even a nice power point presentation to connect the dots to airplanes and buildings. I’m sure it’s classified. Yet, they all continue to assert they didn’t know anything about OBL’s plans.
So, America, how much more proof do you need?
Like a broken record, I am wont to say the BFEE fears one thing more than anything else—the truth.
Why? The truth shows them to be the treasonous, warmongering, mass-murdering, gangsters they are.
Every so often, history provides us with the occasion to make it. Which is another way of saying change it from happening, or keep something from happening the way Bush wants.
The Bush Transnational Crime Family wants America to think they are powerless. That DIEBOLD will count their votes wrong. That their votes don’t matter. That one party is the same as another.
They aren’t. It does. They do. They aren’t.
That’s what we’re about, DU. We can do something about it.
Let’s go get these Bush bastards! We got the Truth. It's what America's waiting for.