White House Press Corps Fails to Ask McClellan About Bush’s Authorization of Leak
By on Apr 6th, 2006 at 1:46 pm
White House Press Corps Fails to Ask McClellan About Bush’s Authorization of Leak
Yesterday, Patrick Fitzgerald submitted a court filing which revealed that, according to Scooter Libby, he was authorized to leak classified information by President Bush. This morning, it was reported by the New York Sun, the National Journal and many other publications.
When the White House press corps had an opportunity this morning to ask Press Secretary Scott McClellan questions, they didn’t ask him about it. At 9:30AM, on route to Bush’s speech in North Carolina, reporters asked McClellan about immigration, terrorism, Katrina and Iran. But there wasn’t a single question about President Bush authorizing Scooter Libby to share highly classified information with reporters.
Read the full transcript HERE.
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That’s your liberal media for ya.
What a worthless bunch of sods they are (’cept for Helen Thomas that is).
April 6th, 2006 at 1:48 pmI doubt that McClellen would call on any, who would ask a tough question.
April 6th, 2006 at 1:51 pmOf course they didn’t. They have failed at their jobs and should all be fired immediately — except Helen Thomas.
April 6th, 2006 at 1:51 pmHow do you figure this is a Liberal Media?
3/4 of the newspapers and TV / Radio stations are owned by Republican.
April 6th, 2006 at 1:53 pmObviously, Scottie would have refused to answer any questions about Libby. But now the press isn’t even going to ask anymore?
April 6th, 2006 at 1:56 pmAt least it’s finally been picked up by WaPo, via the AP:
Now let’s see if someone pays attention…and how the repugs try to spin this as they continue to jump off the trainwreck that their handpicked administration continues to be…
April 6th, 2006 at 1:58 pmThe right is completely justified in trashing the “liberal” media. If they weren’t biased they would have asked Scotty to denounce these insidious rumors. (This is a sarcastic comment.)
And they wonder why ratings are plummeting. Maybe Katie Couric will ask the tough questions on CBS.
http://www.lcoliberal.blogspot.com
April 6th, 2006 at 1:58 pm… it’s also been picked up on CNN …
April 6th, 2006 at 2:01 pmwhy do they even show up? for the hopes of another off-the-record chat with the lying criminal in the oval office? What’s the use…
April 6th, 2006 at 2:01 pmThat’s your liberal media for ya.Comment by Preznit Pinhead
Well, Mr. Preznet, maybe they are afraid of being left out of being invited to junior’s next “informal” and “off the record” press conference. Or being bitch-slapped and ignored for nearly four years like they did Helen Thomas.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m thinking that the White House press corps is now made up of the “Main Steam media” that the far right is always complaining about. The liberal media would have taken him to task.
April 6th, 2006 at 2:02 pmJust one more reason why I haven’t bought a newspaper or watched television news since Oliphant drew a cartoon portraying the press as Gw’s lap dogs. The midia are useless.
April 6th, 2006 at 2:05 pmThe Press Corps.
April 6th, 2006 at 2:06 pmThey have no balls.
No balls!
“Obviously, Frank, that’s an on-going investigation, and the President has a policy, that you know very well, frank, opf not commenting on on-going investigations…”
April 6th, 2006 at 2:07 pm/scottie
Well of course they didn’t ask. Unka Karl would get mad at them.
April 6th, 2006 at 2:09 pmKauft Rosen, liebt euch!
April 6th, 2006 at 2:09 pmhttp://www.loosechange911.com
April 6th, 2006 at 2:10 pmWhile Bush was getting ready to board Air Force One this morning (shown on CNN), a reporter did ask him, as he was going up the stairs, about the leak. Bush just kept walking up the stairs. No response or acknowledgement of the question.
April 6th, 2006 at 2:11 pmThat question wasn’t on the WH Authorized Question Listfor today. If and when the prez ever has a real press conference, he will not allow the question either. These guys give crooks a bad name!
April 6th, 2006 at 2:12 pmThe President signed an Executive Order allowing the VP to disclose classified information. Was this order signed before Cheney instructed Libby to spill the beans?
April 6th, 2006 at 2:13 pmImagine that.
April 6th, 2006 at 2:13 pmThe President signed an Executive Order allowing the VP to disclose classified information. Was this order signed before Cheney instructed Libby to spill the beans?
April 6th, 2006 at 2:13 pmMaybe they could ask him if Bush OK’d the attack on Plame or just the NIE leak.
Oops! Trick question! They’re the same.
April 6th, 2006 at 2:17 pm.
So Libby’s pulling a Jeb Magruder or a John Dean, eh?
Shit, Fitz may well have bagged himself the trifecta: Rove, Cheney AND Bush!
April 6th, 2006 at 2:17 pmTHIS WHOLE LIBBY BULLSHIT IS MERELY THE SMOKE FROM A FAR GREATER FIRE,
that fire being the reason why Plame was outed as an intelligence agent in the first place, which was to punish her husband for daring to expose the FALSE (or FALSIFIED) ‘pre-invasion intelligence’ as just that, FALSE (or FALSIFIED).
And that being the greater issue, which not only has the Administration still quite defensive, but I also hope would remain the American People’s concern…
That being the greater issue, this lesser one of the LIBBY BULLSHIT begs the question:
“If it’s true, as Mr. Libby says, that he was authorized by the President or Vice President to disclose information that had in some way been declassified by the President or Vice President, then why is it this matter has consumed so much time and expense up to now? Would not Mr. Fitzgerald’s time and effort (and the American People’s concern) been wasted up to now, if indeed Mr. Libby had been authorized to divulge this information; if indeed that information had been declassified?”
If the LIBBY BULLSHIT is indeed true, why did not the President or the Vice President say so earlier?
April 6th, 2006 at 2:17 pmLibby: Bush Authorized Plamegate Leak…
The story has been broken by the NY Sun (I can’t get it to load), but here is a synopsis from the Smoking Gun.
April 6th, 2006 at 2:22 pmAPRIL 6–A former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney told a federal grand jury that President George Bush authorized him to leak information…
I wonder what Bush told the newbies in his “off the record” talks a week or so ago?
April 6th, 2006 at 2:24 pmBecause the President and Vice President are dips*its.
April 6th, 2006 at 2:25 pmAt least half of the Washington Press Corp is in bed with the administration, so you can’t expect them to ask any tough questions. I’ve got one question I’d like to ask: Did the President or Vice President tell the FBI agents who were investigating this incident that they didn’t know who leaked this information? If they were asked that question and lied about it, that’s obstruction of Justice and lying to the FBI. Come on bloggers, lets get to the bottom of this!
April 6th, 2006 at 2:25 pmIt’s not like Scottie would answer the question anyway. “Cannot comment on an ongoing investigation…”
April 6th, 2006 at 2:25 pm[...] The transcript can be found at THINK PROGRESS here. [...]
April 6th, 2006 at 2:28 pmCorporate.
Media.
Whores.
April 6th, 2006 at 2:33 pmThe only major on-web news outlet not to be carrying this as the front page main story right at this moment is MSNBC.
Do you think the “liberal” media will wake up? Will a nation respond with a request for Emperor Bush’s head on a platter?
Or will this be swept under the rug in a week or two?
April 6th, 2006 at 2:35 pmThe President signed an Executive Order allowing the VP to disclose classified information. Was this order signed before Cheney instructed Libby to spill the beans?
It was signed in March, 2003.
April 6th, 2006 at 2:35 pmAnd suddenly Congress has a “breakthrough” on immigration to knock it out of the TOP STORY spot? How convenient!!!!
April 6th, 2006 at 2:39 pmI don’t think press knew the story yet. Bloomberg broke it around 11 AM today.
April 6th, 2006 at 2:42 pmAre you kidding me!
If I was a Whitehouse regurgitator, ‘er “reporter,” I would not risk getting kicked off the “C” list by asking a non-approved question either of an official or at a press conference. They do not even serve those miniture wiener òrderves at the “D” list parties.
Christ! They could even yank my Whiteho press pass, and I would have to go back to being a fashion reporter in Hoboken.
No thanks! I will just stay here in lovely D.C, where government flunkies are paid to tell me how wonderful my last column was. And supply me with the talking points for my next column. Yes, this is the life. Now where are some more of those wonderful weenies?!
April 6th, 2006 at 2:43 pmThe press has no purpose any more except to “catapault the propaganda.”
April 6th, 2006 at 2:46 pmLiberal press is a contradiction in terms — the press is all Bush/conservative/Republican, all the time. The press is corporate, and corporate is Bush-friendly.
As for the “leak” I don’t think too much will happen even with this admission – I am sure Rove and Gonzales already have the king’s ass covered.
But how will Bush explain his being on camera saying, “I want to know who leaked the information, if it’s someone in the White House, I want to know”. How will be explain his lie — obviously, the press isn’t going to challenge him.
Yeah, and the other half is on its knees.
April 6th, 2006 at 2:50 pmOooooooohhh. Good memory Marie!!!! Thanks.
April 6th, 2006 at 2:59 pmIt is still unclear that Libby is accusing Bush of authorizing the outing of Plame, though we all know Cheney did and we all know that Bush has known that for years and lied as ususal when he suggested that he even cared. Here is one source saying Bush did not give specific authorization:
But the documents included no indications that either Bush or Cheney authorized Libby to disclose the identity of Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA agent whose husband is Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador critical of Bush’s Iraq policy, the AP said.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/04/06/1546994.htm
April 6th, 2006 at 3:01 pmWhere the hell was Gregory?
April 6th, 2006 at 3:02 pmThank goodness for blogs. The US media is only propaganda machine in action. The real news is read and on the web. Unfortunately, US media chose to be good at golf, singing contests and football,baseball etc. Leave it there folks. The mentality of the press, liberal or lying is not the real issue at all. Does anyone else feel like an ultimatum was issued re: NO QUESTIONS on that subject( cause our stories aren’t straight yet… case in progress… WH won’t comment on ongoing investigations blah blah blah)……………
April 6th, 2006 at 3:13 pmHow do you figure this is a Liberal Media?
3/4 of the newspapers and TV / Radio stations are owned by Republican.
Comment by Mary Poppin
Nonsense dummy, they are publicly traded (owned by the public) corporations. On the other hand the last time the writers broadcasters, producers, journalists and editors were polled 99% of them voted for the Donks, so STFU.
April 6th, 2006 at 3:14 pmWhite House Press Corps (in unison – except for Helen): Mr. McClellon, sir, may we have second helpings of steaming bullshit on your menu today?
April 6th, 2006 at 3:27 pmYou’re right I-RIGHT-I, rich people are to blame.
April 6th, 2006 at 3:29 pmBush in February, 2004:
“I want to know the truth,” the president continued. “Leaks of classified information are bad things.”
He added that he did not know of “anybody in my administration who leaked classified information.”
April 6th, 2006 at 3:31 pmWhy is everyone all excited that the press didn’t ask a good question? Eric Brewer of BTC asks good questions and the liberal blogosphere ignores them – not to mention the expected reaction of the MSM.
All Eric pointed out recently was that figures posted to the DHS’s own site show we are LOSING the war on terror. At the same time that Bush and Scotty are saying we are winning it. Get that? (Dexter waves hand in front of readers eyes for signs of life)
Liberal bloggers “chirp chirp chirp” The democrats? chrip chirp chirp….
Did you see it pushed anywhere? Hell no. Is it important? Apparently not.
Eric posted about his question here:
http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1191
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060130-2.html
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, just look at the facts. If you look at the facts, many of al Qaeda’s known leadership have been put out of business.
The side point is that even if the press/bloggers did push this no one cares. Some people think if Olberman or Stewart mentions something people “know” about it. Folks, the right hasn’t just built a noise machine, they have effective control of the majority of the country’s minds. When the cult gets the spin ready people will ask the questions the way they need to be asked.
It’s called a dictatorship.
The Pravda press corp very likely hadn’t even heard this. Understand most of them listen to Rush and Ingraham for their news. You saw Tweety bowing to his hero…his hero is Tom Delay folks, his hero! and Tweety is still on the air. Non one will take him off, not even sour ratings matter. Ratings have NOTHING to do with is going down in America.
It will come up when Scott and the cult have a smoky enough reply. Not a reply that answers the question just one that will cloud the issue enough for Intsty and the brain mops to keep the cult under control.
Here’s another one that was ignored by everyone. The most important question asked of the administration since Jan 2000. It is at the root of the nation’s problems. It should be asked everyday till it is answered.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/12/20041206-6.html
America is gone folks, gone. We need to rename her and quit soiling the name United States with what this cult is doing to her. It isn’t fair to a once great nation anymore than what Falwell does to Jesus’ name.
April 6th, 2006 at 3:31 pmIt wouldn’t have mattered if they asked Scotty or not. Scotty’s answer would most likely be, “I cannot comment on an ongoing investigation.” The guy uses this so many times that he sounds like a broken record.
April 6th, 2006 at 3:33 pmI love the game of dominos,touch one and the whole chain falls ;)
April 6th, 2006 at 3:34 pmMR. McCLELLAN: Well, just look at the facts. If you look at the facts, many of al Qaeda’s known leadership have been put out of business.
was suppose to be in the blockquotes, sorry, after that is me writing.
April 6th, 2006 at 3:35 pmWhat? Are you kidding? How can McClucken answer any questions “with an on-going investigation”?
April 6th, 2006 at 3:43 pmAnd as far as bush saying that anyone involved with the leak wouldn’t be in his administration, well, does that mean he can now look in the mirror and fire himself? Oh, please say it’s so …
April 6th, 2006 at 3:53 pmLOL!!!! Wait till CAty gets to ask the questions. Can’t you just see the spinners shaking in their boots?
So Bush was involved- he needs to resign, per his own comments. Impeach and prosecute him.
Prosecute for involvement in 9/11 as well- We need answers for these 115 ommissions and distortions of the 9/11 Commission:
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050523112738404
April 6th, 2006 at 3:54 pmSome questions: 1) When, how and who declassified; 2) did Bush Cheney, et. al. tell the truth when they were interviewed by federal agents; 3) was the method of declassification typical or anomalous; 4) was there a conspiracy to “cover up” in any way?
Whatever the answers to these questions it does little good for Libby regarding his actual charges.
April 6th, 2006 at 3:55 pmI am glad they didn’t ask McClellan. That would have just obligated the media to mention and waist time with his idiotic comments. There are far better sources to ask…
April 6th, 2006 at 4:00 pmV’s SPEECH from “V For Vendettaâ€â€”Translated slightly, for Americans
“Good evening, America. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security, the familiar, the tranquility, repetition. I enjoy them as much as any person. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone’s death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.
There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the annunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance, and depression. And where once you had the freedom to object, think, and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillence coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn’t be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now President, George W. Bush. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence.
Last night I destroyed the (Old Bailey)…., to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you’ve seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Congress, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.”
April 6th, 2006 at 4:03 pmThere has never been such a thing as the liberal media. The media always bend the way the political winds blow. Always has, always will.
April 6th, 2006 at 4:17 pmJudd – Now’s your chance – YOU should apply for the position as the omnipotent progressive reporter. God knows, Helen Thomas hasn’t washed or screwed that wig on since Mary McGrory went that “big typewriter in the hole” and there are not nearly enough progressives in Washington.
April 6th, 2006 at 4:18 pmI know your topic is poor journalistic skills; please be so kind as to answer me the following question.
When will progressive journalism tackle the Aztlan movement to return the Southwest to Mexicao?? Specifically, I am referring to the traitor, “Dr.” Armand Navarro. Take a peek what they have in store for us http://www.aztlan.net . Seems like the defintion of “domestic enemy” is found on this website…..
Your story is WRONG. the news did not come out until 10:45 or so, after the briefing.
I agree that the press has not been doing its job for the past 6 years, but please get your facts straight.
April 6th, 2006 at 4:21 pm[...] Think Progress » White House Press Corps Fails to Ask McClellan About Bush’s Authorization of Leak White House Press Corps Fails to Ask McClellan About Bush’s Authorization of Leak [...]
April 6th, 2006 at 4:27 pmI can’t put it better than this: WTF?
April 6th, 2006 at 4:44 pmThey hadn’t confirmed it at the time, that’s why they didn’t ask.
April 6th, 2006 at 4:55 pm[...] Of course, these current revelations may go the way of the dodo bird in short order, as the corporate media is likely not too keen to admit and discuss at length their handmaid role in reporting the news as dictated by a gaggle of Machiavellian criminals. If you doubt this, consider the fact that after it was revealed Bush gave the order to out CIA agent Valerie Plame—that is to say, Dick Cheney and the Straussian neocons gave the order because Bush does not tie his shoes without first consulting them—the corporate media, gathered around Press Secretary Scott McClellan in standard fashion (for their daily script snippets), did not bother to bring the issue up, instead concentrating on immigration, terrorism, Katrina and Iran. “But there wasn’t a single question about President Bush authorizing Scooter Libby to share highly classified information with reporters,” comments Judd on the Think Progress blog. RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Return to Home Page Syndicate entries using RSS and Comments (RSS). This theme contains valid XHTML and CSS. Powered by WordPress 1.5.2. [...]
April 6th, 2006 at 4:56 pmWHY DO THOSE STENOGRAPHERS IN THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORP. EVEN BOTHER SHOWING UP?
I’M SURE THE WHITE HOUSE COULD JUST E-MAIL THEIR PRESS RELEASES TO THEM.
THAT WAY, THEY WOULDN’T HAVE TO RETYPE IT.
April 6th, 2006 at 4:57 pmI wonder what #41 thinks about #43 now? According to #41, #43 is a traitor. He must be so proud…
April 6th, 2006 at 5:01 pmIf we can’t turn this thing around and get SOMEONE in power to oppose the administration (the press, congress, the supreme court) then emigration is probably the only option. And we better do it before they start up the camps.
April 6th, 2006 at 5:03 pmIs it still worthwhile to read the papers or listen to what they say? For the most part it is propoganda. When there is an interesting article you hear about it, it gets picked up.
April 6th, 2006 at 5:11 pmThe “Press Corps” is as irrelevant as Wolf Blitzer and Brian Williams and the NY Times. Like the genius idea of Victoria Clarke to “imbed” reporters during the ‘03 Iraq invasion, so as to not get that icky real journalism we got in Vietnam, Karl Rove long ago figured out the carrot/stick way to keep these guys in line. Be feisty, and you get frozen out. Be soft, and you get leaks. Only now, after thousands of deaths, and the destruction of civil liberties, and polls going south, and our air being defouled, and New Orleans destroyed, have they dared to ask a real question… and even so, the briefly combative David Gregory seems to have gotten The Treatment. And Helen Thomas won’t get called on, we know that.
April 6th, 2006 at 5:14 pmMighty Moron, why am I not surprised you’d be drawn to Aztlan. They sound like a perfect organization for you, and they seem to share virtually all of your values.
The way you talk about ’secular jews’, liberals, and gays – the only thing you seem to disagree with them on is zionism. Otherwise they’d be a perfect place for your – er. um, skills…
April 6th, 2006 at 5:15 pm#3 – Zookeeper – A question for you: Is Helen Thomas a reporter or a journalist??
April 6th, 2006 at 5:18 pmSo, we’re back to square one. It’ll be interesting to see what Mr. Stewart has to say about this tonight.
April 6th, 2006 at 5:36 pmHear is the answer Scotty would have given anyway…
April 6th, 2006 at 5:36 pmâ€I won’t comment on an ongoing investigation. I think that the American citizens understand that that is just not the way things are done here in America.â€
He always says that as if the white house press core are not American citizens. Well I’m here to tell you I am an American and no Scotty I don’t understand why you all are so corrupt and un-American.
The WH Press CORPS(E) died more than five years ago! That’s a fact. Other than Helen Thomas, who was fed to the sharks by her own colleagues, there is not a watchdog among the members of this shameful group.
They have NOT been resurrected. Here’s their epitaph….
April 6th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
[...] We’re pretty hard on the press sometimes here in the goutosphere. We complain when they get it wrong, when they get played by the right, when they seem to have no greater desire than to suck up to the powerful. Well, I think it’s time somebody pointed it out: they have a hard job, a very hard job, and it can’t be made any easier by the frontal lobe damage. Take a look at this pathology: Perseverance, or the inability to shift between modes of thinking, is the most reliable deficit associated with damage to the DL prefrontal cortex (Brauer Boone, 1999). Perseverance is perhaps most indicative of a lack of cognitive flexibility and ability to think abstractly. It is commonly tested for and quantified with the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (WCST)… Patients with DL damage show perseverance errors in this task. They keep sorting according to the old rule even in the face of obvious discrepancy. This is frequently interpreted as a failure of working memory as relevant past behavior is required to perform the task successfully. [...]
April 6th, 2006 at 5:50 pmIt’s time we stopped calling them journalists and simply refer to them as presstitutes.
April 6th, 2006 at 5:50 pmThis whole corporate fascist cabal is going to fall —- the chimp in chief, the gutless Congress (BOTH PARTIES to the corporate fascist takeover of our democratic republic and turning it over to the corporate EMPIRE), and the corporate gutless media whores and propagandists, who protected this fascist cabal — they should and will all fall by the people simply stopping everything else and taking to the streets.
April 6th, 2006 at 5:53 pmwhat in the world is up with the press? pissey-assed, panty wearing pussies.
April 6th, 2006 at 5:57 pmNote that Libby was told by Cheney that Bush approved sharing classified information after Libby had initially balked about violating the law. Libby believed Cheney. But was Cheney telling Libby the truth?
April 6th, 2006 at 6:01 pmDoes anyone have some e-mail addresses for these brain-dead white house beat “reporters’? I desperately want to send them a WAKE UP!!!!!! call….
April 6th, 2006 at 6:08 pmPress Corpse Inaction!!
April 6th, 2006 at 6:18 pmI always tell myself to ignore this silly business yet here I am, throwing my hat in the cesspool once again, correcting the uncorrectable. Trying to convince the already convinced.
There are two people in America that can declassify information willy-nilly. Those two people are the President and the Vice-President. They do not authorize “leaks.” That sentence is an oxymoron. Any information authorized by them is just that, “authorized.” THE PRESIDENT CANNOT AUTHORIZE A LEAK! IT SIMPLY ISN’T A POSSIBILITY. I’m not talking emotionally, I’m talking constitutionally, legally. If the president says that James Bond is a secret agent then he’s a secret agent. If Arianna Huffington says that James Bond is a secret agent then James is setting his standards really low or he is caught up in the chat rooms on grannywhores.com.
April 6th, 2006 at 6:24 pm[...] Some are saying that Bush has the ‘right’ as president to declassify the information — but those people are mostly lying Republicans or their media handmaidens. Others claim that this is a serious offense, as bad or worse than any crime committed during Watergate. Imagine, a sitting president leaking classified information for political purposes, as the GOP likes to squeal in chorus, ‘during a time of war.’ [...]
April 6th, 2006 at 6:41 pmPhoenix Woman, what a dream come true that would be.. Rove , Cheney and Bush , in jail where they belong. AHHHH I am fantasizing
April 6th, 2006 at 6:54 pmYet another republican slams bush for his ineptitude.
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=131659
The REAL conservatives bailed on bush months ago. All that’s left is the radical fringe of the republican and christian extremists.
April 6th, 2006 at 6:57 pmI-Right-I …….. In the words of your vice president…….. Go Fuck yourself!
April 6th, 2006 at 7:04 pmSo much for “freedom of the press.” The press in this country is owned by the corporations and the corrupt white house. What did all our soldiers, past and present , fight and die for?
April 6th, 2006 at 7:23 pmWhy do people complain about the media? They are simply fulfilling their corporate mission, which is to make the GOP look good. There is no news any more. It’s all gop/corporate propaganda.
We have government-controlled press in this country. 90% of the media is owned by a handful of corporations, and that handful is 100% gop.
It’s not quite as bad as in the old Soviet Union, but it’s getting close. In the Soviet Union, there were two main sources of news – Pravda (meaning Truth in Russian) and Novosti (meaning News). Ordinary Russians had a saying: In the News there is no truth, and in the Truth there is no news.
Not much different from what we have here today, is it.
April 6th, 2006 at 7:29 pmRe Gary Penton #82, he is a friggin liar.
Bush lied us into a preemptive corporate oil-war.
Bush lied about WMDs.
Bush lied about leaking information to try to discredit Joe Wilson and his truth about the Bush lies about WMDs.
Bush lied
And he lied.
And he lied.
There is no legal issue of this cox sucker lying to the American people and killing their sons.
He is a liar. And he will go. PERIOD.
Gary, forget your legal BS about declassifiying national security information being authorized by the president.
Bush is not our president.
He is a lying cox sucker — and he will go.
April 6th, 2006 at 7:34 pmSWRM seeks pubescent girls and boys for photos and watersports and buggery.
No fatties.
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April 6th, 2006 at 8:06 pmThis comment is for Mary Poppin— Your comment about the repugs owning the media may not be quite correct. Go to Google— Type in Who Rules America— You may be surprised at what ytou find.
April 6th, 2006 at 8:06 pmThis comment is for Mary Poppin— Your comment about the repugs owning the media may not be quite correct. Go to Google— Type in Who Rules America— You may be surprised at what ytou find.
April 6th, 2006 at 8:06 pmApril 6th, 2006 at 8:06 pm
This comment is for Ray Thompson -
You’re not talking to republicans here. Once should suffice. By that of course I mean one chance to molest children.
April 6th, 2006 at 8:11 pmComment for Ray Thompson about media control. You want us to believe anything on that site you recommend? News for white people by white people is how they tout themselves on their home page. Get back on your meds, you’re delusional. Ohmygod the Jews are coming!! The Jews are coming!!!!
April 6th, 2006 at 8:27 pmIf anyone tried to open the NY Sun link, it was at times either disabled or you were directed to a Washington financial paper (guess someone doesn’t want us to read it) However, the Guardian UK link is still operative.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5738152,00.html
WASHINGTON (AP) – Vice President Dick Cheney’s former top aide told prosecutors President Bush authorized the leak of sensitive intelligence information about Iraq, according to court papers filed by prosecutors in the CIA leak case.
April 6th, 2006 at 8:30 pmBefore his indictment, I. Lewis Libby testified to the grand jury investigating the CIA leak that Cheney told him to pass on information and that it was Bush who authorized the disclosure, the court papers say. According to the documents, the authorization led to the July 8, 2003, conversation between Libby and New York Times reporter Judith Miller.
There was no indication in the filing that either Bush or Cheney authorized Libby to disclose Valerie Plame’s CIA identity.
But the disclosure in documents filed Wednesday means that the president and the vice president put Libby in play as a secret provider of information to reporters about prewar intelligence on Iraq.
The authorization came as the Bush administration faced mounting criticism about its failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the main reason the president and his aides had given for going to war.
Libby’s participation in a critical conversation with Miller on July 8, 2003 “occurred only after the vice president advised defendant that the president specifically had authorized defendant to disclose certain information in the National Intelligence Estimate,” the papers by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald stated. The filing did not specify the “certain information.”
“Defendant testified that the circumstances of his conversation with reporter Miller – getting approval from the president through the vice president to discuss material that would be classified but for that approval – were unique in his recollection,” the papers added.
Libby is asking for voluminous amounts of classified information from the government in order to defend himself against five counts of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI in the Plame affair.
He is accused of making false statements about how he learned of Plame’s CIA employment and what he told reporters about it.
Her CIA status was publicly disclosed eight days after her husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, accused the Bush administration of twisting prewar intelligence to exaggerate the Iraqi threat from weapons of mass destruction.
In 2002, Wilson had been dispatched to Africa by the CIA to check out intelligence that Iraq had an agreement to acquire uranium yellowcake from Niger, and Wilson had concluded that there was no such arrangement.
Libby says he needs extensive classified files from the government to demonstrate that Plame’s CIA connection was a peripheral matter that he never focused on, and that the role of Wilson’s wife was a small piece in a building public controversy over the failure to find WMD in Iraq.
Fitzgerald said in the new court filing that Libby’s requests for information go too far and the prosecutor cited Libby’s own statements to investigators in an attempt to limit the amount of information the government must turn over to Cheney’s former chief of staff for his criminal defense.
According to Miller’s grand jury testimony, Libby told her about Plame’s CIA status in the July 8, 2003 conversation that took place shortly after the White House aide – according to the new court filing – was authorized by Bush through Cheney to disclose sensitive intelligence about Iraq and WMD contained in a National Intelligence Estimate.
The court filing was first disclosed by The New York Sun.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006
HALIBURTON & CHENEY. Reporters have had years to ask the White House about the Haliburton-Cheney connection. Cheney hides, so they let it go. If he stopped hiding, they’d probably still let it go. Forget about his shooting a guy. He’s a war profiteer who owns tons of Hal. stock and the company has been caught so many times cheating and fabricating items it never delivered that it’s no longer even news.
–TheStranger
April 6th, 2006 at 8:34 pmhttp://ivangoldman.blogspot.com/
April 6th, 2006 at 8:36 pmLying sacks of manure!
April 6th, 2006 at 9:16 pmTwo words about the alleged Washington press corps…
Gutless.
Bastards.
Reminds me why I left news reporting. They’re so concerned with protecting their access to power and the ensuing perks. Why don’t they all just do what Chris Mathews has done; bend over and open wide.
April 6th, 2006 at 9:30 pmHm. Has anyone considered that since
a) McLellan won’t comment on on-going investigations
b) everyone associated with this admin seems to be in the process of being indicted
that
c) the long-term strategy is to have everyone in the admin involved in an investigation so that the admin won’t even have to talk to the press anymore?
April 6th, 2006 at 10:13 pmI was equally disappointed in the News Hour with Jim Lehrer…PBS…supposedly a “bastian of liberalness”… not even a mention.
Tomorrow is another day.
April 6th, 2006 at 11:14 pmWill the horror story of the last five plus years regarding the American government have a good ending? Is this the end of America, or will the grass roots of everyman America rise up to purge the abcess of power that grips the current state, like the altruistic hero of a great Frank Capra movie? Stay tuned and watch, but you may no longer find the ending in the oligarchy liasoned mainstream press.
April 7th, 2006 at 12:19 amLibby names names…
Scooter Libby has testified at his obstruction of justie trial that President Bush authorized the leak of classified information on Iraq that ultimately led to the disclosure of Valerie Plame’s identity….
April 7th, 2006 at 12:27 amOnly the New York Times chose not to accept the “new and improved” WH treatment of the press. The 1-on-1’s were bypassed and even the meals. Everyone else jumped on it and you’re seeing the results.
April 7th, 2006 at 12:47 amBush takes after his mother — very vindictive. We all knew he, Cheney and Rove were behind the outing of Plame. That’s been their strategy from the outset — anyone gets in their way, they’re instantly vilified. What I don’t understand is why nothing sticks to Robert Novak, who actually reported Plame’s connection with the CIA, when Judy Miller was jailed for refusing to give up a source, but hadn’t actually reported anything!!
April 7th, 2006 at 2:11 amAMAZING! It wasn’t even picked up by Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show” for 6 Apr! I wonder if they already had that one in the can for an early weekend (since it was the Thursday show and they have no Friday program). A long weekend in the Bahamas, Jon?
April 7th, 2006 at 2:13 amhey the only time the washington press corps got upset about the white house lying to them was when they didn’t get the cheney hunting story. this press won’t ask a serious question unless they have it in writing that they won’t lose their jobs and that the white house won’t declassify them, spy on them, won’t send them to iraq, and won’t by them levy front property in new orleans. they are not cowards though, that would suggest they have ideals and conscience and jsut can’t bring themselves to do the right journalistic thing, its much worse than that, they are pimps and whores who luv being whter they are, owe their coporate bosses the non-stories they generate and have about as much right to be called journalists as bush and his gang have the right to be calleds statesmen. cnn, nbc, abc, cbs, its all a joke, a serious joke that is helping to destroy our democracy and the balance fo power between the branches of government. is it any wonder that for those who listen to air america the big stories have been coming from them–they first pressed the stroy on torture, they have pressed the story on outing the last two years when the others simply gave us all the whtie house talking points. do you really think the likes of blitzer, malvaux, mrs. greenspan, cokie_-cookie” roberts , katie couric, and all the others–not to mention the bought and paid for party members like hemmer, hume etc. at fox, have right to be called journalists. stenographers, entertainers, incompetants–but not journalists!
April 7th, 2006 at 3:59 amInteresting that Bush and both parties in the Congress refuse to militarize the Mexican border?! If the “War on Terror” is real, then the border would have to be controlled to entry, but nobody in DC wants that to happen! The issue is about American security, and not immigration, so why confusion about it in Washington?
The borders, like our ports, are basically intentionally unprotected, so WE the people of the United States are being conned by some secret globalist agenda! Secure borders would mean drug smuggling from Mexico would cease, and real terrorists would not gain entry! Inspections of 100% of the cargo entering our ports would also cease drug smuggling, and other illegal contraband items! Also a secure border with Mexico would protect us from the “Bird Flu” and other contagions, since Mexico is highly unsanitary! Everyone in the Congress needs to level with the American citizenry and tell us WHY they refuse to protect Americans? WHY do they care more about Mexican migrants flooding across the border? WHY do they want stagnant wages in America and an economy so weak that it could collapse by this Christmas? WHY do they want anarchy to come to America?
April 7th, 2006 at 5:32 amI’m glad that I’m an American, and I’m glad that I’m free, but I wish I were a little doggie, and W. was a tree.
April 7th, 2006 at 7:42 amI was a long-time member of the DC press corps and you are all correct!!
Russert and Williams and Hume all LIVE for their long liquid lunches at the White House, weekend trips to Camp David, Lincoln Bedroom naps, so they refuse to ask any hardball questions.
I used to watch CBS reporters (other than Knoller) follow Daddy Bush around like puppy dogs, BEGGING him for crumbs left on the ground. Patheitc.
They are all SCUMBAGS and will pay the price — probably becoming Rush’s drug dealers when W freezes them out.
Signed,
April 7th, 2006 at 1:35 pmSidney Leader
Former CNN Supervising Producer, Atlanta, GA
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April 7th, 2006 at 1:40 pmWho really cares about the goddamn WH press corp. McCllelan is a worthless lying creep who probably gets the willys when he looks at himself in the mirror. The idea that he is a ‘public servant’ is absolutely laughable. He reminds of that Iraqi TV reporter who denied the US were in Baghdad, while in the backround bombs and bridges were exploding.
April 7th, 2006 at 2:01 pmAre the leftist/feminist dupes, conduits and useful idiots that form the White House press corps required to register as lobbyists?
April 7th, 2006 at 2:50 pmNo more than you are required to register as a whore, Tom
April 8th, 2006 at 6:15 amIts called deception operations.
The intent is to get information to a target audience with the intent of making that audience react in a specific way. The operation is successful when those in the information chain believe the information is valid and of high value, and then act on it in the anticipated manner.
The Bush administration reacting to the distributed information as a leak gave credibility to the value of the information.
Anybody in the White House information chain that thought it was an Authenticated Classified piece of information and leaked it is now a known security risk to the Bush administration.
Anybody outside of the White house information chain that believed the information was Authentically classified, then published it under the auspices of the “Freedom of the Press”, became a tool to distribute the information to U.S. citizens.
U.S. citizens reacted to the information as creditable, and ended up supporting the Bush administration plan to invade Iraq.
So in essence,
Bush fed information to the press to sway the American people to support his agenda. Denying he did it, made it seem that he did not authorize it, thereby allowing the information to be perceived as creditable.
The fact that American citizens were the targets of this deception operation, this “Psyop campaign” should be enough evidence to impeach, censure, or give a vote of no confidence to the current administration.
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