BREAKING: Key Rove Aide Resigns From White House Over Abramoff Scandal
BREAKING: Key Rove Aide Resigns From White House Over Abramoff Scandal
Susan Ralston, Karl Rove’s key aide in the White House, submitted her resignation today “in the wake of congressional report that listed hundreds of contacts between disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House.” (Read the letter.)A recent House Government Reform Committee report highlighted her role in the Abramoff corruption network:
[The report] singled out Ralston — Rove’s assistant and Abramoff’s former employee — who was lobbied 69 times, the most contacts with any individual named in the report. She also received numerous tickets to concerts and sporting events.
“Her role in brokering requests to Rove from her former boss raises questions … about some of her activities,” the release said.
Some background on Ralston:
– She worked at two lobbying firms with Abramoff prior to joining the West Wing
– Jack Abramoff recommended her hiring to Karl Rove
– She had testified in the Valerie Plame leak investigation
– She once said she was “involved in much of what goes on at the White House”
White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said, “We support her decision and consider the matter closed.” The White House may consider the case closed, but Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and others believe serious questions remain, including “whether officials accepted items like concert tickets and whether they reported them on financial disclosure forms.”
UPDATE: Waxman issued a statement, stating:
It looks like the White House is trying to make Susan Ralston the scapegoat. … It is ludicrous for the White House to say it considers the review of Committee report “complete” when it has not provided answers to any of the most important questions involving Mr. Mehlman and other senior White House officials.
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must be friday!!
October 6th, 2006 at 5:00 pmTGIF EVERYONE!!!
October 6th, 2006 at 5:01 pmShe’s a cutie.
October 6th, 2006 at 5:02 pmHow deep does this rabbit hole go?
October 6th, 2006 at 5:03 pmI’m supprised they didn’t wait until later so that no reporters would pick it up until the weekend so they could spin it
October 6th, 2006 at 5:04 pmCaption for photo: How does it feel standing next to the devil?
Stupid girl: Oh! I look up to this guy, ain’t I brain dead, tee-hee!
October 6th, 2006 at 5:05 pmWow! Maybe there is a god afterall.
A demi-god. But a god nonetheless.
If there was a real BIG god, then ReichWingNuts would clearly see the error of their ways, repent, and step up to fixing the mess they created.
October 6th, 2006 at 5:05 pmWe are living in the twilight zone.
Let’s change that eh?
October 6th, 2006 at 5:06 pmThat’s why they used that picture to show duba with the girl taking the blame away from him – don’t you get it?
October 6th, 2006 at 5:08 pmI seem to remember when Abramoff was first indicted, that the local Philippine newspaper published an article reporting that she was resigning then. The White House issued denials and she went off on the publication/was ticked off at being put in the spotlight, no?
October 6th, 2006 at 5:10 pmRalston – My Pet (scape)Goat.
October 6th, 2006 at 5:12 pmOur Ms Ralston is just a bubbling font of corruption, isn’t she?
October 6th, 2006 at 5:13 pmI have a great idea. Why don’t certain people have a party. That way they could find ways to share what they have in common. Ya know? Sort of come together. That way we might be able to kick the the bastards that have run this country into the ground back to the hole they crawled out of.
Party list:
Al Gore
Bill Clinton
Russ Feingold
Waxman
Pelosi
Conyers
Kos
John at Americablog
Digby
Glenn Greenwald
Murtha
Powell
The three retired Generals that just spoke out against Bushy
Hillary
Reid
Kerry
Josh Marshall
Peter Daou
Eschaton
Jane Hamsher
Trex ( sp?)
Jimmy Carter
Bill Moyers
Jennifer Granholm
Ted Kennedy
There could be place cards, party favors and everything!
October 6th, 2006 at 5:14 pmYup, a nice cozy party in the interests of America
I think everyone in this current administration will soon be looking forward to Post Pardon syndrome.
October 6th, 2006 at 5:14 pmShe has her left hand on his chest and is standing very close. Is that overly friendly?
October 6th, 2006 at 5:15 pmNice! I wonder why she waited so long…
October 6th, 2006 at 5:16 pmCaption contest:
Bill and Monica, Part II
October 6th, 2006 at 5:18 pmIs that overly friendly?
Comment by PAL
Damned pages, they ruin everything. /sarcasm
October 6th, 2006 at 5:20 pmIs that all you care about. Grow up.
October 6th, 2006 at 5:21 pmI wonder if semen stains show up on a grey dress.
October 6th, 2006 at 5:21 pmIs that all you care about. Grow up.
Comment by SpudgeBoy
He’s trying to reinforce his masculinity.
October 6th, 2006 at 5:22 pmPAL – yes I’d say they look pretty cosy!
If that was my man…..ewwwwwwww, can’t seem to finish the thought, feeling queasy…
October 6th, 2006 at 5:27 pmi also thought that looked to be a very friendly pose…
October 6th, 2006 at 5:27 pmlol
Good one unbelievable. B.T.W. I loved KO’s special comment. Did ya see the look on scarborough’s face during the cutscene? HE even looked impressed…
October 6th, 2006 at 5:32 pmthus making her the surrogate mother to Jack and Karl’s butt-baby of corruption. let the parade of gop values march on!!
October 6th, 2006 at 5:34 pm#
Oh yah, I almost forget we were wondering what neo-con freaky friday would bring us!!
Try not to drink too much and bwahhahahahhaaa at Rove Abramoff and Exley!!
October 6th, 2006 at 5:38 pmAnd the chips keep falling. The prosecutors will put pressure on her so that she’ll eventually talk, which should lead to bigger fish.
America’s Least Wanted
October 6th, 2006 at 5:42 pmbig surprise…like rats off a sinking ship.
October 6th, 2006 at 5:45 pmthoes fools…yes we WILL REMEMBER ON MONDAY….DUH!
October 6th, 2006 at 5:49 pmHell, by Monday the newcons will have say she’s the reason for the Foley incident (refuses his advances which caused his downward spiral). The Ralston’s departure now makes it clear that republicans are tough on torture, spending, military and keeping babies safe from predators.
October 6th, 2006 at 5:53 pmWhere’s Chimpy’s other hand? Could that have something to do with Miss Ralston’s goofy grin?
October 6th, 2006 at 5:58 pm69 times, hmmmmmmm
October 6th, 2006 at 6:06 pmOur country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson
October 6th, 2006 at 6:06 pmI loved KO’s special comment. Did ya see the look on scarborough’s face during the cutscene? HE even looked impressed…
+Comment by newprog — October 6, 2006 @ 5:32 pm
I thought it was gas… :)
October 6th, 2006 at 6:12 pmOk no-one said small fish. I’ll say it.
Small fish.
I want a bigger fish to fry. Like the Rovian deep see angler.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:14 pmOh let’s hope Karl Rove’s resignation will be Karl Rove’s October suprise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 6th, 2006 at 6:15 pmLike the Rovian deep see angler.
Comment by ForTruth
That will never happen — Rove has something on GWB. I’d love to know what it is…
October 6th, 2006 at 6:21 pmIf she’s ‘resigning’ on a Friday of the Rethug week from hell (hee hee hee), then what’s in store for the weeks to come?
October 6th, 2006 at 6:22 pmThat will never happen — Rove has something on GWB. I’d love to know what it is…
Comment by Zooey
Hee, can we start guessing what Rove has “on” GWB? Or would Rove just “hold it against him”.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:23 pmOr would Rove just “hold it against himâ€.
Comment by ForTruth
Every Thursday night at 8 p.m., GWB is Rove’s leather slave. :P
October 6th, 2006 at 6:25 pmThursday nights at 8. They are misssing must see tv.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:35 pmThat’s how they know Pickles won’t catch them.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:37 pmThats right, Ralston was named as being involved in the Plame leak. She is not as fair and innocent as she looks.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:39 pmThat’s how they know Pickles won’t catch them.
Comment by Zooey
Good thing or she could run her car right over him. Owch
October 6th, 2006 at 6:40 pmI was thinking she could slap the ugly off him, but that’s a lot of slapping.
Didn’t Pickles kill somebody with her car?
October 6th, 2006 at 6:43 pmDidn’t Pickles kill somebody with her car?
That’s what I heard.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:45 pmMust Google…
October 6th, 2006 at 6:47 pmYah, I think mebbe also it accounts for Arbusto’s grin.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:47 pmArbusto is a sockpuppet in and of himself.
Didn’t Pickles kill somebody with her car?
That’s what I heard.
Comment by ForTruth
Yeh that’s what I heard twice before
October 6th, 2006 at 6:48 pmBreaking news:
Pickles resigns herself to being George’s wife.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:49 pmThat’s how they know Pickles won’t catch them.
Comment by Zooey
Good thing or she could run her car right over him
Yah I heard it was a pickle that arbusto choked on.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:49 pmMust Google…
Comment by Zooey
I heard you must Google
October 6th, 2006 at 6:50 pmOn the evening of 6 November 1963, two days after her 17th birthday, Laura Welch failed to stop her Chevy sedan at a stop sign and smashed into a Corvair being driven by a school chum, Michael Douglas, also 17. Laura and her passenger, Judy Dykes, were treated for minor injuries at a nearby hospital, where they learned that Douglas had died from his injuries. No police charges were filed, apparently, but paperwork from the accident is missing or unclear and the details of the incident are a bit of a mystery.
Wow. Driving a Corvair in the vicinity of Laura Bush — the guy didn’t have a chance.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:50 pmDid you hear that a pickle gave dubya a black eye?
One of Lauras pickles
Thats what I heard.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:52 pmI heard you must Google
Comment by Dog_named_Boo
What have you heard? I swear, none of it is true…
October 6th, 2006 at 6:52 pmYah, I wouldn’t give pickles a SUV thats for sure.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:55 pmI heard you must Google
Comment by Dog_named_Boo
What have you heard? I swear, none of it is true…
it is too, too true!
October 6th, 2006 at 6:59 pmheard it, heard it
from you you you!
all of it, all of it
shocked be me!
true true true
another interesting thing about that story…
October 6th, 2006 at 7:03 pmit was the corvair that brought ralph nader his fame and notariety…
“unsafe at any speed”, 1965… that was his beginning…
katy,
That’s what I meant! That guy could have bought the farm any driving that car, but no, he gets hit by Laura Bush. Wonder why no charges?
October 6th, 2006 at 7:07 pmYa got nothin’ Dog! :)
October 6th, 2006 at 7:08 pmThanks for Googling that Zooey,
I heard she ran a guy down on purpose, like a disgruntled lover or something. Now I know it was just bad driving. No ticket or charges, how conveinient.
October 6th, 2006 at 7:10 pmMy parents had a Corvair in the 70’s it was always having problems. I rode in it and I have problems.
October 6th, 2006 at 7:11 pmOne – Must be Friday after 5 PM.
Two – The newspaper report sounds like dictation by the White House. She if facing indictment for thousand of dollars of “gifts” from Abramoff. Her annual limit is $20.
October 6th, 2006 at 7:11 pmI’ll be back later now, ya hear.
October 6th, 2006 at 7:11 pmMy parents had a Corvair in the 70’s it was always having problems. I rode in it and I have problems.
Comment by ForTruth
See how bad it was?
Thanks for Googling that Zooey
I’d Google for you anytime, Truth. :)
October 6th, 2006 at 7:13 pmI’ll be back later now, ya hear.
Comment by ForTruth
Fair warning?
October 6th, 2006 at 7:14 pmzooey, i think you have to consider all the circumstances around that accident… small town… 60s… “nice kids”… that’s how things were back then… unless it was obvious negligence or recklessness… and even then…
small towns are like that… still sad that the kids are so bored they go “riding around” as something to do…
the details of that accident may never come out – or, it may be just as in the news reports… but a corvair doesn’t have much of a chance getting rammed with a sedan…
October 6th, 2006 at 7:26 pm.
Thanks katy,
I guess it’s in the past. Right now, what I truly wish is that Laura Bush would stop doing that Botox. She’s seriously freaking me out.
October 6th, 2006 at 7:35 pmme too!… i know what you mean… so plastice looking…
what i wish for laura is the backbone to tell her husband what a lout he is… i bet she’s as anxious for 08 as anyone… “that’s all george – i can’t take it any more”…
don’t you wonder if those girls are ashamed also… i know they run in the crowd that will never ask anything serious of them, but they still have to see what a mess he’s made… ehh… maybe not…
October 6th, 2006 at 8:06 pmI traded in my Corvair for a 1963 Karman Ghia for $140. The only reason I got that much was because the tires only had 120 miles on them and the gas tank was almost full. I ditched the thing in Delaware after experiencing carbon monoxide fatigue while returning from Christmas vacation (College) from NJ to Texas. The ER doctor told me that the level of CO in my blood was, in all respects, potentially fatal. Gasoline heaters are not advisable in a car.
October 6th, 2006 at 8:10 pmwalt – which car did you “ditch”? … and literally? as in an accident? or get rid of?…
October 6th, 2006 at 8:22 pm“gasoline heaters” even sounds like an accident waiting to happen…
#71 – katy,
October 6th, 2006 at 9:25 pmI ditched the Corvair. I was lucky enough to pull into a a toll station where all Hell broke loose when I said I was woozey. They thought I was a DUI at first.
Ralston’s letter says “I have been moved by your compassion toward others.” My take is that she is dubious about whether Bush will come through on a pardon. She also knows that she may now feel very preasured by investigators to reveal more than Bushco would like. She also knows with the information that she has that Bush might not be there to hand out pardons by that time she needs one. She is in tight spot.
What do you do in her case: make a plea bargain and mia culpa, or hang out to dry in hope that you will be pardoned. It will be interesting what she reveals and how soon? Timing is everything. Choosing a mea culpa usually will incurr some you-a- culpas, too. I would like to know what she perceives as her risk in choosing a mea culpa, that goes, above and beyond a prison sentence?
October 6th, 2006 at 9:34 pmKaty I am just thinking how much you could have got for that Karman Ghia today. It would be have been even more profitable though to have just drained the gas tank and kept the gas in a gas can then today you’ld be rolling in the doe!
October 6th, 2006 at 9:41 pm#
Like the Rovian deep see angler.
Comment by ForTruth
That will never happen — Rove has something on GWB. I’d love to know what it is…
Comment by Zooey — October 6, 2006 @ 6:21 pm
As in ALL Neo-Con cabal procedures ALA Skull and Bones, the group holds some sort of sexual or other nefarious scecret over the individual members, thereby allowing for group sway of the individuals. In Skull and Bones it is reported that individuals are forced to masturbate in a coffin and then some with Geronomo’s skull (maybe cum in it, who knows) But there always seems to be some law or moral code that is broken and then that forces the individual to be complicit with the group. It is truly a sick and traitorous mind think that happens in these groups. Skull and bones, Freemasons, etc. They are all Neo-Con crap.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:19 pmTHEY MUST BE EXPUNGED FROM THE BODY POLITIK. THE SOONER THE BETTER.
Wretched Refuse,
Ick. I think I’ll just stick with my GWB as Rove’s leather slave idea. :P
October 6th, 2006 at 10:50 pmThe first indication that something was amiss was the near silence. Usually when I was in the vicinity of the Speaker’s office there was a regular din. There are so many that rely upon The Speaker daily. Also so many go to The Speaker for advice, even just for a bit of inspiration. I became aware of hushed voices and then a clatter of things upon the floor. He had literally dropped what he was doing! I heard him exclaim “What? No. No! The rascal! Not while I’m Speaker! This will not stand!” He grabbed the bible from its place at hand and set forth. The crowd parted before him at the sight of the determination in his eyes, his knit brow. He marched like a righteous lion in the defense of all that is good, across the way, elbowed aside some shady types, forced his way through the door, into that dark den of sin that was Foley’s office, snatched the phone from the texting man’s hand and, hurled it across the room to shatter in a thousand pieces. He could be heard from one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the other thundering, “Be gone with you and your dark ways Sir! You’ll not mark or defile this noble body of sevants to the public good! I am aghast an appalled!” and, amid thanks and congratulations, growing as he passed, into cheers and shouts of admiration, humbly returned to his office, our champion, House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:58 pmi prefer zooey’s scenario also…
but have to admit that wretched’s story sounds completely possible…
i’ve always thought they are all tied together through dirty deeds…
maher!
October 6th, 2006 at 11:00 pmI thought I read somewhere that the guy was Pickle’s ex. And of course, rich white girls do not go to jail in Texas.
October 7th, 2006 at 12:09 amIs it for REAL this time?
It had been reported a couple of times Susie was resigning, or moving to another department within the gov.
Good discussion over @ http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364×2334789
Ralston May Be More than a Footnote
By Phil Tajitsu Nash, Dec 16, 2005
As of last Friday afternoon, one of the hottest questions on the D.C. political gossip circuit was whether Filipina American Susan Ralston was still on the job at the White House as a top assistant to both President Bush and his closest aide, Karl Rove. Cristina D.C. Pastor and Rita Gerona-Adkins of the Philippine News beat the nation’s daily papers to a scoop on Dec. 7, by reporting that Ralston was leaving the White House to work at the Commerce Department.
Her departure could be interpreted as bad news for Rove, both because of her legendary organizational skills, and because her testimony to the grand jury investigating the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson’s name to the public could cause legal difficulties for Rove.
Only one week before, reports had been leaked that Ralston had been recalled to testify before Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, in his investigation of whether or not Rove tried to cover up some of his conversations with reporters.
Ralston testified this time that Rove specifically instructed her to not log a July 2003 phone call that Rove had with a Time magazine reporter.
In her first grand jury testimony in August, Ralston, who screened all calls to Rove, said the call was not logged because the reporter had phoned in through the White House switchboard, and then transferred to Rove’s office (instead of calling directly).
http://news.asianweek.com/news/view_article.html?articl...
I’ll see if I can find the other reference
Edit to add:
In this week’s print edition, it was reported that a source close to Ralston said she had moved to the Commerce Department. The reason for her move, according to the source, was “too much pressure†on the job.
A Commerce department spokesman said it would not issue a statement on the report.
Reports are that the Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald may again ask Ralston to appear before another grand jury looking into the Plame matter.
As Rove’s deputy, Ralston is responsible for managing the activities of the Office of the Senior Adviser, including areas related to policy, strategic planning, political affairs, public liaison, and intergovernmental efforts of the White House. Her bio says she is also responsible for the development and production of presidential and major surrogate events.
One of her biggest tasks was providing coordination between the White House and the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004.
http://www.philippinenews.com/news/view_article.html?ar...
This Article is About the Plame Scandal, But Mentions Abramoff
Susan B. Ralston, 38, has worked as an assistant and side-by-side adviser to Karl Rove since 2001, helping manage his e-mail, meetings and phone calls from her perch near his office in the West Wing. That has made her an important witness in the CIA leak investigation, as the special prosecutor has sought to determine whether Mr. Rove misled investigators about his contacts with reporters about Valerie Wilson, the undercover operative whose identity was made public in 2003.
Ms. Ralston is also entangled in another political scandal: the case of Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist, who employed her in the same frontline capacity during a stretch of time that is now under criminal investigation.
Ms. Ralston is not considered a suspect in either case, and several close colleagues say it is by sheer accident that she has been swept up in both investigations. Lawyers involved with the two cases say no other person besides Ms. Ralston has played a pivotal role in each one. She has appeared at critical junctures in both: it was Ms. Ralston who patched through a phone call from Matt Cooper, the reporter for Time magazine, to Mr. Rove on the day in July 2003 that they discussed Mrs. Wilson, then known by her maiden name, Valerie Plame. And Ms. Ralston, while in Mr. Abramoff’s employ, drafted a memorandum about his suites at local arenas, which he used to entertain clients and public officials who have since gotten in trouble for accepting his favors.
Ms. Ralston has been interviewed by investigators in the Abramoff case, which is examining Mr. Abramoff’s work on behalf of Indian tribes and other lobbying interests, as well as his complicated financial arrangements. She worked for him, first at the firm Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds and then at the firm Greenberg Traurig, before she moved to the White House early in President Bush’s first term.
Ms. Ralston has also testified at least twice before the grand jury in the leak case.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102705A.shtml
http://comlogic.blogspot.com/
October 7th, 2006 at 12:11 amTime to swiftboat Karl Rove, and get him to resign, and to leave Washington forever!
October 7th, 2006 at 12:44 amIf the definition of “terrorism” includes threatening to cause harm to the
population – to achieve political gain, Karl Rove is the number one terrorist on earth.
Put Susan Ralston under oath and ask her how many terror alerts have been
intentional false alarms designed to change the subject or “bury the lead.”
When the recent London False Alarm caused every television in the US to
feature the headline “TERROR IN THE SKIES,” it was done with the specific intent
to bury two other stories that broke hours later…that just happened to be about Israel:
The AIPAC (Franklin) spy trial was NOT thrown out of court &
US sailor, Ariel Weinmann, was arrested for transferring submarine secrets to Israel.
Considering Israel’s nuclear-capable sub is about to unload on Iran, radio silence was required.
No one heard these two stories, because the media was screaming about a nonexistent threat.
Have you seen this?
Updated Saturday, September 30, 2006 3:04 PM EDT
IRAN WAR PLAN EXPOSED!
PREPARE FOR THE SINKING OF A U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER –
The USS Enterprise – CVN-65!
The existence of a hideous plan to sacrifice a U.S. Aircraft Carrier as a
pretext for war with Iran is presently being uncovered!
The Hal Turner Show has been told that within the next five (5) weeks,
the United States will “suffer” a missile attack upon the aircraft carrier
USS Enterprise, presently on patrol near the Persian Gulf. This attack
will appear to be from numerous “Silkworm” and/or “Sunburn” missiles
which will sink the vessel and kill most of the 5,000 crew onboard.
The “attack” will be blamed on Iran and thus provide the Bush
Administration with an excuse to go to war with that nation.
The Hal Turner Show has learned that the missiles used to attack
the USS Enterprise will not be fired from or by Iran, but rather will
be a “false flag operation” made to LOOK as though Iran carried out the attack!
The USS Enterprise is the worlds first nuclear powered aircraft carrier.
It was Commissioned in 1961 and is due to be decommissioned in
2014 or 2015. The ship was selected to be the “victim” of this “attack” due to its age.
THOSE PLANNING THE ATTACK ARE INSIDE THE U.S. AND ISRAELI
GOVERNMENTS and view the loss of the Enterprise crew as a necessary
sacrifice to induce Americans to support war against Iran. Put bluntly,
the ship and crew are to be cannon fodder.
I am being fed more information and expect to be able to name names
as to who is behind this plan. Check back often.
LIBERTY REDUX | Homepage | 10.01.06 – 10:09 am
Found on Rawstory message board
Here is the DRESS REHEARSAL for the sinking of the USS Enterprise:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-05-17-ship-reef_x.htm
Aircraft carrier sunk in Gulf of Mexico to create artificial reef
Updated 5/17/2006 4:38 PM ET
IN THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — As hundreds of veterans looked on
solemnly, Navy divers blew holes in a retired aircraft carrier and
sent the 888-foot USS Oriskany to the bottom of the sea Wednesday,
forming the world’s largest deliberately created artificial reef.
Clouds of brown and gray smoke rose in the sky after more than
500 pounds of plastic explosives went off. The rusted hulk took
about 45 minutes to slip beneath the waves, about four hours faster than predicted.
VIDEO: Navy ship sunk to create reef
Korean and Vietnam War veterans aboard charter boats watched
from beyond a one-mile safety perimeter as the “Mighty O” went
down in 212 feet of water, about 24 miles off Pensacola Beach.
Lloyd Quiter of North Collins, N.Y., who served four tours on the
ship in Vietnam, wept.
“I’m a little stunned. It’s a little hard to take,” he said.
AND WHY DID THEY FEEL THE NEED FOR THE DRESS REHEARSAL?
BECAUSE WHEN THEY TRIED IT A YEAR EARLIER, IT TOOK 25 DAYS TO
SINK THE USS AMERICA WITH HIGH EXPLOSIVES!
http://www.cdnn.info/news/industry/i050522a.html
USS America 1048-ft aircraft carrier sunk off North Carolina
Powered by CYBER DIVER News Network
NORTH CAROLINA (22 May 2005) — The retired aircraft carrier
USS America is on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, sunk by the
Navy in a series of explosive tests that upset some veterans.
The 84,000-ton, 1,048-foot warship that served the Navy for
32 years rests about 60 miles off the coast and more than 6,000
feet down, according to Pat Dolan, a spokeswoman for Naval Sea Systems Command.
She did not give a location, but the Navy previously said the
explosions would take place off North Carolina.
With the country (intentionally?) distracted by a sex scandal, and Rove’s
REAL October Surprise imminent, it’s time to shift the focus back to Iran.
The ONLY thing that would justify the cancellation of elections and the
declaration of Martial Law would be a “Nuclear Crisis.” The only thing
that will prevent Bush’s entire cabinet from going to prison is the cancellation of elections.
A FALSE FLAG attack on a US Naval vessel would be declared the equivalent
of an attack on US soil. This would “justify” Israel attacking Iran
with Sub-launched nukes. Keep in mind, both the sinking of the US vessel and
the purported retaliatory strike could all come from one Israeli sub. As
described above, it’s tough to sink an aircraft carrier. Apparently the only
way to ensure that there are no witnesses (see USS Liberty incident) is
to vaporize it with a mini-nuke. Did we send any to Israel in the recent delivery?
The “terrorists” are in the White House – and run the Propaganda machinery.
What did Ralston and Abramoff know about false terror alerts, and when did they know it?
How many other Republicans know that the terror threats are MANUFACTURED?
How many others know that 9/11 was an inside job that Cheney ran through NORAD?
How many know that GHW Bush is the ACTUAL President, and everything we are being
put through is specifically designed to cover the trail of his own criminality?
Assume that nearly every Congressman and Senator is being blackmailed. Once you
see the ability of Israel (Comverse) to wiretap every phone, and realize that only
men of low moral character are allowed to enter the political arena (through the
AIPAC filter), it becomes crystal clear how the US Congress was effectively neutered.
The truth is the only cure for blackmail. Expose it all…URGENTLY.
It’s time for the US Navy to step forward, and neutralize the Israeli sub and stop
October 7th, 2006 at 11:02 amthis madness.
Exley. You’re right, she’s cute. Clinton would have been all over that.
October 7th, 2006 at 12:22 pm.
RICE KNEW.
With every passing day, in every conceivable way, every 9/11 conspiracy theory ever posited looks closer to the truth than any story told by this administration.
Rice not only knew for a fact it was coming, she called her friend Willy Brown to warn him not to fly.
She failed to call the rest of America. Even more criminal, she failed to call the head of WTC security to alert him to evacuate the second tower. She knew for a FACT that another plane was on the way.
Are there enough lamp posts around the White House to hang all of the members of the Bush Cabinet who had foreknowledge of 9/11?
If not, I’d like to propose a funding requests for more lamp posts…and plenty of rope.
THEY ALL KNEW.
Hang’em high!
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October 7th, 2006 at 12:35 pmComment by paul — October 7, 2006 @ 12:22 pm
Exley. You’re right, she’s cute. Clinton would have been all over that.
Comment by paul — October 7, 2006 @ 12:22 pm
I don’t think so, Cliton never re-use Bush’s gf
October 7th, 2006 at 12:46 pmyangho. Nice!
October 7th, 2006 at 12:50 pmKarl needs a conspicuously hot “beard” hanging around his office, so no one catches on to the fact that he is Jeff Guckert’s #1 White House Client. No doubt her replacement will be another petite female from a culture that values female subservience and obedience. Malkin, anyone?
October 7th, 2006 at 12:52 pmMalkin has the subtance to occasionally disagree with her party; do you?
October 7th, 2006 at 1:15 pmPaul (#88) Malkin is a skank with no integrity, principles or “values.” She is a bombastic bitch and she is in bed with the Administration. I wouldnn’t give her the time of day, or her hideous writings. Wonkette, kicked her ass all over the blog last Friday (9/29) and she was furious about it.
Rove, Ralston, et al., are going to get their just punishment–it is just a matter of time. Revenge is a dish best served cold!
October 7th, 2006 at 1:37 pm