‘An intriguing question.’
By on Mar 21st, 2007 at 3:14 pm
‘An intriguing question.’
Tony Snow explained that the standoff between the Executive Branch and Congress revolves around Bush’s right to “privileged communications with close staff members.” But he also stated that “the president has no recollection” of conversations about the attorney firings being raised with him. That means, as CNN’s Ed Henry noted, that the White House is now claiming executive privilege over conversations that never existed. Snow’s response to this dilemma? “That falls into the intriguing question category,” he said.
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a tangled web indeed
March 21st, 2007 at 3:16 pmRemembering the parade of White House aides who testified to Congress in Iran Contra, I don’t see how Bush et al. have any case here.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:17 pmROFLMAO @ Snow. What a tool.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:17 pmC’mon Baby, let’s do the twist..
March 21st, 2007 at 3:18 pmC’mon Baaabyyyy now do the twist….
in the wind.
The only thing that would make this better to watch would be if Scott McClellan joined him up there, so they could look stupid together… One for the road, Bushies.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:20 pmHeelllp, I’mmm cho-oking…
-Tony Snowjob-
…yeah right…
…just like he (STILL) wants to find out who (in his administration) leaked Plame’s name…
…so he can fire them…
…not enough for ya yet, huh DUHmerica?
March 21st, 2007 at 3:23 pmSnow job is just pathetic, he is lying as much as ever. All this shows is Snow never really left Fox news, its the same old garbage.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:25 pmFalls into the unanswered questions category. They are piling up.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:26 pm“That falls into the intriguing question category.â€
That falls into the bullsh** answer category.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:27 pmThis intriuging question is making it’s way thru the left wing blogs….
March 21st, 2007 at 3:29 pmThe LIES are coming back to bite this White House in the butt!
March 21st, 2007 at 3:30 pmCan you have a crisis when there is no crisis? Or a scandal when there is no scandal?
March 21st, 2007 at 3:31 pmintriguing
March 21st, 2007 at 3:31 pmRoafer,
You can take the shill out of Fox News, but you can’t take the Fox News out of the shill.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:31 pmRichard Armitage and Joe Wilson are no longer in the administration for Bush to fire.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:32 pmthe White House is now claiming executive privilege over conversations that never existed…
or an election that never existed,
or WMD’s that never existed,
or mushroom clouds that never existed,
or planes crashing that never existed,
or yellow cake uranium that never existed,
or a commitment to justice that never existed,
or facts Bush used as justification that never existed.
But at least they’re consistent.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:34 pmYes, but Alberto and Karl are still available for fire…
March 21st, 2007 at 3:34 pmPatrick in a bind
March 21st, 2007 at 3:35 pmAnd it deserves an answer. “That’ falls into the intruguing question category” isn’t an answer.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:35 pmHere’s an “intriguing question”: how the f-ck does this administration manage to stay alive?!?
March 21st, 2007 at 3:36 pmFire for what?
March 21st, 2007 at 3:36 pmCan you have a crisis when there is no crisis? Or a scandal when there is no scandal?
An intriguing question.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:38 pm>“That falls into the intriguing question category,†he said.
I guess “Zip it” is no longer an operative answer to give to Mr. Henry.
I see an easy answer tho’: The conversations did exist but all parties, not just Mr. Bush, do not recall the conversations.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:39 pmfire for warming my toes on cold mornings
March 21st, 2007 at 3:41 pmShorter Patrick1:
Move over Jake, quit hoggin’ the goat!
March 21st, 2007 at 3:42 pmTo summarize…
the PR bobblehead gives a non-statement
regarding a Presidential denial
to confirm the non-existance
of non-relevant conversations
regarding a non-existant strategy
to perform a questionable action.
Simple boy say:
March 21st, 2007 at 3:43 pmA little smoke means work. A lot of smoke means a fire.
Crisis?
March 21st, 2007 at 3:45 pmWhat crisis?
The various commitees in Congress are going about their constitutionally correct business.
No crisis in that…
As far as scandal, well, the only scandal for America is that there are so many investigations into so many seperate facets of the current mis-administration.
If any one has a crisis, it’s Dick and George and Karl and Harriet and Alberto and Tony and…..
#15 Patrick1…
Honestly what are thinking here? This is not a party issue this is an abuse of power issue. Both parties will be accountable not one or the other. If bush were a DEM he would be an EVIL TWISTED DEM and accountable. He happens to be an EVIL TWISTED REP and just as accountable.
The stock market is crashing, energy is more and more scarce, people are at odds and the issue is TRUST. If we replace this guy I hope we are luckier and his party means little if he is a liar. I knew Clinton was a liar during the whole “I never inhaled†thing and he kept on BSing the country. Bush has a different color tie but his lies are hurtful just the same.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:48 pmHonesty is the best policy.
I get this email from the democrats asking to impeach Bush …. BUT its of the menu ,,,,, then why sign for it
Bush to Congress: Drop Dead
After weeks of administration lies about the “Pearl Harbor Day Massacre” of eight U.S. Attorneys, the Senate and House Judiciary Committees are preparing to subpoena Alberto Gonzales, Harriet Miers, and Karl Rove.
But George Bush went on TV to declare he will “oppose any attempts to subpoena White House officials.” Why? Obviously because Bush, Gonzales, Miers, and Rove conspired to fire U.S. attorneys who were prosecuting Republican corruption. That’s obstruction of justice – grounds not only for impeachment but also prosecution.
Bush promised to fight any subpoenas in the courts if he has to. Of course we know the Republican-controlled Supreme Court will take Bush’s side, just as it did in 2000 when it threw out 175,000 never-counted Florida votes to steal the Presidency for him.
Ultimately Congress has just one tool to force Bush and Cheney to respect the Constitution: Impeachment and Removal.
Over 74,000 of our supporters have urged their Representatives to Impeach Bush and Cheney. Help us reach 100,000:
March 21st, 2007 at 3:50 pmhttp://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/88?ad=d7
Fired U.S. Attorneys: a brief overview of the 8:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2007/03/06/GR2007030600062.html
March 21st, 2007 at 3:51 pmI’d note that Dubya, in defending his position, said: “It will harm the president’s ability to get good information….” But that would only cover the stuff that people said to him, What they said to each other doesn’t qualify under that rationale…..
Cheers,
March 21st, 2007 at 3:52 pmCongress? We don’t need no stinkin’ Congress.
Given George W’s pattern he just wants Congress to go away. If it isn’t by signing statements, so they can’t over ride a veto, it’s by sliding legislation into bills so he doesn’t have to deal with any oversight by Congress (but, they were never going to do that according to Gonzales).
He had to know this entire issue was going to come up sooner rather than later. If it wasn’t this investigation, it would have been another.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:52 pmThe only power being abused is by an insane group in Congress suffering from Bush Hatred Syndrome. Apparently after only a few months they have run out of ideas.
The stock market is up 150 points today, fyi.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:53 pmI’d note that Dubya, in defending his position, said: “It will harm the president’s ability to get good information….†But that would only cover the stuff that people said to him, What they said to each other doesn’t qualify under that rationale…..
Cheers,
Comment by Arne Langsetmo
It’s also based on the absurd premise that Bush is interested in hearing a diversity of opinions rather than the established fact that he’s only interested in hearing what he wants to hear.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:02 pmPatrick1- You make me ill. But that won’t stop your kind from getting their asses kicked in the next chunk of time. And you will…..Americans are tired of your kind of attitude.
It is selfish, juvenile, uninformed, snotty, and cowardly.
Nutshell? No one admires a snot like you …….you only care about your “club” and yourself.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:02 pmPatrick1, I’d like to ask you a serious question. If the Bush Administration didn’t do anything wrong, what are they trying to hide?
March 21st, 2007 at 4:03 pmIn Iraq, public anger is at last translating into unity
March 21st, 2007 at 4:06 pm#33
AP
Created: 3/13/2007 6:11:21 PM
Updated: 3/13/2007 6:47:05 PM
NEW YORK (AP) – Stocks took their worst beating in two weeks today on continued troubles for subprime lenders.
The Dow industrials finished with a loss of more than 242 points, the Nasdaq composite index was down 51 and three-quarters and the S-and-P 500 dropped 28 points.
This was after the 400 pointer and 500 pointer from last month. So the trend is to FALL and a liar in office will sink the whole thing in pretty short order.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:06 pm#5 Mike
The only thing that would make this better to watch would be if Scott McClellan joined him up there, so they could look stupid together… One for the road, Bushies.
Scott McClellan is probably thanking his lucky stars that he doesn’t have to front for a bunch of lying crooks anymore.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:06 pmreminds me of the scene in apocalypse now where capt. willard, when asked about the assassination of a tax collector, states:
“Sir, I am unaware of any such activity or operation – nor would I be disposed to discuss such an operation if it did in fact exist, sir. ”
ITMFA (but impeach cheney first)…
March 21st, 2007 at 4:08 pmHey it reminds me of a former administration of lies and deceipt… (done in an old codgers voice with the head shaking)
March 21st, 2007 at 4:08 pmwell I don’t recall, Nancy and her astrologer were in cahrge that day… Oliver North you say, hmm nope never heard that name… isn’t it time for daddys sponge bath now…
That falls into the intriguing question category
Uh, that would be the “we haven’t fed Jake a line to hide from a debate he can’t handle” category.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:08 pm.
Tobey,
Nice article…a must-read.
Thanks!
March 21st, 2007 at 4:09 pmThey spin so fast, they can’t stay out of their own way.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:09 pmThese guys are VERY good at lying by not telling the truth and even BETTER at lying by telling a wrong truth.
For example, “the president has no recollection†of conversations about the attorney firings being raised with him does not mean there were no conversations. The conversations could have been raised by the President himself! We need a TEAM of people to listen to what they say and to LOOK for the weazling because they used a team to CREATE the illusions.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:09 pmThe only power being abused is by an insane group in Congress suffering from Bush Hatred Syndrome.
Another idiot who hasn’t seen the evidence.
“Bush hatred”? I haven’t seen a rightwing coward hide behind that line in what seems like years.
Come out, come out wherever you are!
But you won’t.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:10 pm.
Dem Leaders endorse Iraqi “Oil Theft†Law
Among the many problems with the Democrats War Supplemental is the not so small fact that it endorses passage of the Iraqi Oil Law.
“Democratic leadership is actively handing over Iraq’s oil to U.S. companies as some sort of war bounty,†said Antonia Juhasz, analyst with Oil Change International.
Not so fast, say Dem Leaders and allies. Their “clever plan†is that Bush’s benchmarks will not be met in the next eight months, after which, the bill will require withdrawal. Its the best they can get right now, they say.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:14 pmProblem is, it’ll be game over and mission accomplished for Big Oil in Iraq in that time. The oil law is on a fast track for approval by the Iraqi Parliament within the next 2 months. Last week, Representative Dennis Kucinich authored a Dear Colleague letter to Representatives urging them to remove this benchmark from the law. Democratic leadership reportedly debated it behind closed doors, but ultimately has left the reference to the law in. Representative Kucinich has vowed to offer an amendment to strip the language, but Democratic leaders are likely to rule it out of order. Looks like the Dems are all bark and no bite when it comes to taking on what Big Oil wants most.
It’s an abuse of power for the Executive Branch to use prosecutors in a political role – to prosecute their political opposition and avoid prosecuting criminals in their own party. This would be true no matter whether the President has a D or an R by his or her name.
It’s also an abuse of power to claim that members of the Executive Branch, whose salaries are paid by US taxpayers, cannot be held accountable for their words and actions by our elected representatives.
The AG sat right there in front of a Congressional committee and said that the prosecutors were not fired for political reasons. Then later, evidence becomes available showing that indeed they were. The AG does not have a right to lie to Congress and avoid accountability. Congress has a duty to investigate the inconsistencies in the stories coming from the Executive Branch. They are all accountable to US.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:15 pmCan’t talk now, got a Presidential cock in my mouth.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:17 pmHere’s where Republican talking points go to die.
Hey, how come the people calling for the investigation/Gonzalez’s resignation are BOTH Republicans and Democrats, while the people defending the White House are ONLY Republicans?
Who’s being “partisan” now, trolls?
It’s OK, I’ll wait while you go get new talking points.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:17 pm.
Meanwhile, the House of Commons in Britain is trying to support the right of the Iraqis to make their own decisions regarding their oil.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:18 pmEDM in British Parliament
Katy Clark has tabled Early Day Motion 1180 with cross-party co-sponsorship, please encourage your MPs to sign it: “That this House notes that Iraq’s economy is heavily dependent on oil and that decisions about the future of Iraq’s oil industry will have a major bearing on that country; further notes that the constitution of Iraq states that oil and gas are owned by all the people of Iraq; expresses concern that the British Government, in its involvement in the drafting of Iraq’s new oil laws, has sought the views of international oil companies regarding the possible types of contracts that the Iraqi Government should offer; believes that decisions on the Iraqi oil industry should be made by the Iraqi people without outside interference; and calls on the Government to disclose to the House all representations it has made in relation to the oil law.”
The AG sat right there in front of a Congressional committee and said that the prosecutors were not fired for political reasons.
Which is why Tony Snow had to claim that “loyal Bushies” didn’t mean anything about politics. They’re both lying, but only Gonzalez lied to Congress.
Spin that, trolls!
March 21st, 2007 at 4:18 pm.
Alex, I’ll take LyingMotherF*ckers for 600.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:19 pm“Bush hatred� I haven’t seen a rightwing coward hide behind that line in what seems like years.
Comment by Grand Moff Texan — March 21, 2007 @ 4:10 pm
Our trolls are particularly cowardly, it seems, because they bombard this site daily with the Bush hatred thing.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:20 pmDemocrat Party leaders endorse Oil Law
Representative Dennis Kucinich wrote to fellow Democrats urging them to remove passage of the oil law as a required “benchmark” for the Iraqi government as part of the US Congress’ Iraq supplemental spending bill. The Democratic leadership debated it behind closed doors, but ultimately has left the reference to the law in. Representative Kucinich has vowed to offer an amendment to strip the language, but Democratic leaders are likely to rule it out of order.
SEE THE DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO STEAL IRAI OIL TOO ………
March 21st, 2007 at 4:24 pmOur trolls are particularly cowardly, it seems, because they bombard this site daily with the Bush hatred thing.
Comment by VerbalKint
It allows them to change the subject from the damage Bush has done to people like us, who actually give a shit about this country.
Fine, troll cowards: do it. Show how much you don’t give a fuck about your country. Show your undying support for ANYTHING Bush does, not matter the consequences. Show us why you’d be happier in a police state, you cowards.
You’re simply not up to being and American.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:25 pm.
Democrat Leaders endorse Iraqi “Oil Theft†Law
March 21st, 2007 at 4:25 pmSEE THE DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO STEAL IRAI OIL TOO ………
Bush will ignore the “benchmarks,” so it’s a wash. Geeze.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:26 pm.
Red herring is a GOP specialty.
Sticks and Stones
March 21st, 2007 at 4:31 pmEddy Henry must have been eating the Bush Hatred variety of Wheaties this morning!
I don’t know how Tony Snowjob keeps a straight face.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:32 pmExecutive privilege over no recollection? Good golly, Miss Molly. I’ve never heard of that one before from any law school or a Law and Order episode, either. The WH can’t have it both ways, although they seemed hell bent on trying.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:33 pmComing soon: Constitutional Crisis
I think there is a chance (good chance) that some of these USA were fired to prevent further investigation of Republican officeholders.
If that is the case, we are talking about the crime of obstruction of justice.
In 1974 the Supreme Court held that executive privilege is not intended to shield administration officials from criminal investigation.
Unless the current US Supreme Court has left planet earth, they should come down on the side of Congress.
But all this will take time to play out. And during this time, Gonzo will be the AG and they will slow play it.
Its going to be a long, tough fight. But at the end of all this, I would sure hate to be a Republican running for re-election. Or, a Republican running for President.
by fmrgop on Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 03:42:12 PM PDT
March 21st, 2007 at 4:34 pm“the president has no recollectionâ€
Is this a known unknown, an unkown known, or is the the executive priviledge of “I don’t recall” at work here?
March 21st, 2007 at 4:41 pmkm4:
You think the “long” fight might take, oh I don’t know, over a year or two?
March 21st, 2007 at 4:43 pmTony’s big ego is forcing him to let bits of truth seep out, so his buds outside the WH won’t make fun of him for completely selling out.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:43 pmImpeach Bush!
That way we get Cheney! (who will really mess with the Dems)
You guys are so stupid I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:44 pmJaded Prole:
Executive Privilege applies even if the President’s staff confer amonst themselves and the decision made never rises to his level.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:44 pmRove was part of the WHIG group.
The White House Iraq Group was “little known†until a subpoena for its notes, email, and attendance records was issued by CIA leak investigator Patrick Fitzgerald in January 2004, a legal move first reported in the press and acknowledged by the White House on March 5, 2004.[27][28]
So, Karl has basically been subpeonaed before. Mushroom Clouds does have a Rovian ring to it.
The only power being abused is by an insane group in Congress suffering from Bush Hatred Syndrome.
Thats not a pyschological term, and it not is not provable by any means, It’s pundit buffoon babble. You can’t PROVE insanity more than you can PROVE whatever the hell BHS is. It’s silly to even use such terminology. It’s old and It’s lame. REALLY LAME. And a poor excuse to boot.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:49 pmCurious about something, TPers: is the Bush administration offering more or less resistance to providing information on this than the Clinton admin. did during Whitewater (that is, after they fired the USAs working on Whitewater to put their own in).
Wait, before you answer, let’s think back to the Rose Law firm billing records. Hmmm, mysteriously disappeared. Hillary? “I don’t recall anything about anything you’re going to ask me”.
Seems like you guys are condemning the Bush admin. before they have even remotely approached the level of deceipt and resistance achieved by the Clinton administration. At least wait until they sink that low before you start screaming for their heads…
March 21st, 2007 at 4:52 pm“Impeach Bush!
That way we get Cheney! (who will really mess with the Dems)
You guys are so stupid I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Comment by Cynicon Implant — March 21, 2007 @ 4:44 pm”
You don’t understand…..
When we say impeach Bush, it includes Cheney! So there will be TWO impeachments taking place.
EVERYONE knows that Bush can’t wipe his arse without Cheney, so it will have to include Cheney!!!
Though I don’t expect you to figure this out!!!!
March 21st, 2007 at 4:53 pmExecutive Privilege applies even if the President’s staff confer amonst themselves and the decision made never rises to his level.
Comment by Jake
So what have they to hide? I remember the talking point during the wiretapping boondoggle was just that. Why if your innocent you have nothing to hide right? Right?
March 21st, 2007 at 4:54 pmCurious about something, TPers: is the Bush administration offering more or less resistance to providing information on this than the Clinton admin. did during Whitewater (that is, after they fired the USAs working on Whitewater to put their own in)
I guess you forget that this Admin resisted the 9/11 commission as well. What about that? Huh? Huh? Talk about resistance to providing information. Why if you have nothing to hide, why hide it?
March 21st, 2007 at 4:56 pmExecutive Privilege applies even if the President’s staff confer amonst themselves and the decision made never rises to his level.
Comment by Jake
BMS.
Bush Misremembering Syndrome. Libby must have caught it in those WHIG meetings.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:59 pmYou guys are so stupid I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Comment by Cynicon Implant — March 21, 2007 @ 4:44 pm
Why are you calling me stoopped CI?
March 21st, 2007 at 5:00 pmExecutive Privilege applies even if the President’s staff confer amonst themselves and the decision made never rises to his level.
Comment by Jake — March 21, 2007 @ 4:44 pm
Is that what I said yesterday?
March 21st, 2007 at 5:01 pmGood, then I am going to start siting Executive Privilege about everything, because I am an American, Bush is my president and he works for me. Therefore I deserve Executive Privilege.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:02 pmAt least wait until they sink that low before you start screaming for their heads…
Comment by Cynicon Implant — March 21, 2007 @ 4:52 pm
CI – but Karl said we weren’t ever going to answer questions remember?
March 21st, 2007 at 5:03 pmClinton admin. did during Whitewater (that is, after they fired the USAs working on Whitewater to put their own in)
Comment by Cynicon Implant
I don’t seem to recall that happening. Would you please provide a link or more information.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:04 pmSo Jake,
If the next Democratic President’s Attorney General ordered a group of prosecutors to be fired because they had investigated and prosecuted too many Democrats and not enough Republicans (in his view), and then the AG tells Congress that they weren’t fired for political reasons when there is evidence they had, and Congress wants to investigate, …
It would be totally OK with you for that Democratic President to claim executive privelege and not allow staff to be questioned under oath.
You really think they are beyond accountability to our elected representatives?
If you do, then you not believe our government belongs to “we the people” as I do.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:04 pmSeems like you guys are condemning the Bush admin. before they have even remotely approached the level of deceipt and resistance achieved by the Clinton administration. At least wait until they sink that low before you start screaming for their heads…
Comment by Cynicon Implant
Shirley U. Jest. The culture of corruption far outdoes oral sex between consenting adults. Don’t you guys ever get tired of obsessing over a clenis? Screaming heads? You did it before during and STILL way after the multi-million dollar Starr investigation, he was charged, then acquitted. Remember?
March 21st, 2007 at 5:05 pmYou guys are so stupid I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Comment by Cynicon Implant
Stupid is misremembering.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:07 pmAt least wait until they sink that low before you start screaming for their heads… -CI
Your still screaming about Bills penis for chrissakes. I am really starting to think most of you here, such as Jake, are quite light in your loafers.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:10 pmBush and Cheney REFUSED to go UNDER OATH to the 9/11 Commission.
They start illegal wars in Iraq, and Osama is still FREE.
Scooter Libby, ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT, is a FELON, convicted of obstructing justice and perjury for Cheney.
CIA spy specializing in WMD is exposed, ruining her career, the CIA front company, and TRASHING NATIONAL SECURITY.
Bush and Gonzales spy illegally on Americans, Gonzales admits that he’s “sorry”, and won’t do it anymore (BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAH)!
The list goes on.
Bush is a MURDERER coxucker PUNK and a TRAITOR to the USA and EVERYTHING it ever stood for.
Cheney, Rummy, etc. as well.
Our “president” and his puppetmaster REFUSED TO
SWEAR TO GOD TO TELL THE TRUTH about 9/11 and their involvement with the Bin Ladens and Saudi TERRORIST FINANCIERS.
BURN IN HELL, you TRAITORS.
God Bless America, the Democrats, SUBPOENAS, and the WORLD!
March 21st, 2007 at 5:12 pmPatrick1, I’d like to ask you a serious question. If the Bush Administration didn’t do anything wrong, what are they trying to hide?
Comment by verse18 — March 21, 2007 @ 4:03 pm
LOL, Verse18, asking questions to Patrick1 is a waste of time. He’s not interested in what Bush has done or if he has overstepped his bounds. Partrick would like Bush to be Emperor.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:12 pmMore drooling by Jake
Jake, focus now, pay attention.
The key part of the ruling against Nixon’s claim of executive privilige is â€
Absent a claim of need to protect military, diplomatic, or sensitive national security secrets,
Now tell me are the firings military? No
Diplomatic? Nothing diplomatic about the handling for sure.
Sensitive national security secret? No
Even if Bush lied and talked about it with Rove or Meyers, it still does not meet the criteria set forth by the Supreme Court for a claim of Executive Privilige.
Please cite any court ruling in your rebuttal for verification.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:18 pmPartrick would like Bush to be Emperor.
Patrick1 would lick the dingleberries off the turdblossom no matter how times he had sex with monica, times he lied, billions of taxpayers money lost, no matter how much corruption, no matter how many prostitutes, Foggos, Cunninghams, Foley and Gannons there were.
In fact Patrick 1 would lick the sweat off all of their nads if he was told to do so by \/\/.
Howsad P1 is.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:19 pmClinton admin. did during Whitewater (that is, after they fired the USAs working on Whitewater to put their own in)
Comment by Cynicon Implant
I don’t seem to recall that happening. Would you please provide a link or more information.
Comment by dlet
dlet, why else would Clinton have place a friend (Paula Casey) in the USA position in Arkansas?
March 21st, 2007 at 5:29 pm#83 Deep thoughts from a fool.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:30 pmHe had to know this entire issue was going to come up sooner rather than later. If it wasn’t this investigation, it would have been another. — Dogjudge
This is exactly the point that was made byGreenwald in his Update II. So that we can keep focus on the backstory, I’m extracting it below:
It appears that Jake is confirming all this with his seemingly “prescient” attempts at defending the administration. Recall that Jake had already identified the “differences” between Nixon and Bush yesterday afternoon, long before Tony Snow refused to discuss them this morning. It looks like we have a mole, not a troll.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:32 pmYou guys are so stupid I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Comment by Cynicon Implant
I thought we were the stupid ones.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:36 pmWayne, what the Jakes are claiming is actually quite subtle. They want to establish a differentiation between information requested for a criminal investigation (assuming that a Special Prosecutor has been appointed, I suppose) versus that requested for a congressional investigation. The difference arises because the Congress has no independent means of prosecuting a charge of contempt, but must rely on the Executive Branch to provide such service. It appears ingenious on the surface, but in the end it is simply a question of process, meaning where in the chain of events does it become privileged versus non-privileged information. I don’t think they have a ghost of a chance of winning that kind of specious argument. It’s so complicated and tedious, even Tony Snow refused to make comment this morning.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:45 pmComment by jakeoff #87
hahahahahaha!!!
Bullseye!!!
March 21st, 2007 at 5:50 pmRon Ziegler is his hero.
March 21st, 2007 at 6:02 pmCynicon: “is the Bush administration offering more or less resistance to providing information on this than the Clinton admin. did during Whitewater”
Repubs spent over $100 million investigating this 20-year old land deal. They spent most of the taxpayer money AFTER their own Resolution Trust Corp. ruled that the Clintons had done nothing wrong. If you’re whining and crying about what the Bushies are facing today, I’m guessing you’d have to be institutionalized if we were working under the “Clinton rules.”
March 21st, 2007 at 6:20 pmWOW Twice in one week – Ed Henry must have passed through puberty — he has grown a couple.
March 21st, 2007 at 8:32 pm[...] The Decider’s Privilege? Jump to Comments If the President has no recollection of the discussions, then why is Bush invoking executive privile… [...]
March 21st, 2007 at 8:55 pmTHIS DEFINITELY FALLS INTO THE CATEGORY OF PSYCHOBABBLE GOBBLEDYGOOK AND NONSENSICAL PRATTLE, OF WHICH Snow IS AN ACKNOWLEDGED MASTER-Baiter, MUCH LIKE Lewis Carroll aka Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s JABBERWOCKY(tm):
“Twas brilling, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in ther wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
OR AS Snow MIGHT SAY IT:
I don’t remember if it was tomorrow
Or the day after the Sixth Monday in July
The President’s brow did furrow
And he said “I’m a bird and I can FLY!!!!”
The President says he can’t recall
March 21st, 2007 at 9:25 pmAnd that is fine for me
So what ever he has NEVER SAID to all
Is STILL “Executive Privilege” to Thee!
Simply a “Gotcha”.
March 21st, 2007 at 11:11 pm#12 Can you have a crisis when there is no crisis? Or a scandal when there is no scandal?
Can you have a brain when there is no brain? Or a mind when there is no mind? Not to mention a conscience.
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:35 amSeems like you guys are condemning the Bush admin. before they have even remotely approached the level of deceipt and resistance achieved by the Clinton administration. At least wait until they sink that low before you start screaming for their heads…
Comment by Cynicon Implant
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