Comments on: Breaking: White House releases letter on NSA program.

By: william

william — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:22:53 +0000

Do you think that staying as Attorney General is helping George ???

The longer you stay the more information that will come out, if George is your friend then leave

By: WhereIsTheLetter

WhereIsTheLetter — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:54:02 +0000

Can someone help me out — Am I missing something obvious: I am unable to find a copoy of the letter. Not asking anyone to do any research, just wondering: Has this letter been disclosed anywhere?

Maybe TPInterns/Staff could provie a link to it as an update?

By: Well Well Well

Well Well Well — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:20:18 +0000

Check this out, look for the guy that has not name under the person who posted.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003268.php

This guy is something and he is making waves, apparently there is much more to the TSP that people think. He know something.

By: Iggy

Iggy — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:59:59 +0000

What Executive Order are they talking about?

The Washington Post says:

“The Bush administration’s chief intelligence official said yesterday that President Bush authorized a series of secret surveillance activities under a single executive order in late 2001″

I’ve looked through the EOs for 2001, and I don’t see anything – unless it’s the one establishing the Department of Homeland Security, which says nothing about this.

Which one is this? Aren’t Executive Orders supposed to be public?

By: stephennnn

stephennnn — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:50:03 +0000

Borrowing from T.S. Eliot..
This is the way a Repubic ends.
This is the way a Republic ends,
This is the way a Republic ends,
Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:35:25 +0000

Comment by Probus â€” July 31, 2007 @ 6:36 pm

Yes, program and technical management at CNN is rapidly sliding downward. They are emulating Fox News – they don’t see that the nation is beginning to move away from the likes of Fox News, and the twisted conservative agenda they spew daily with hate and mistruths; CNN is looking at the Fox performance of the past and modeling themselves.
But past performance is no guarantee of the future – Fox News has already peaked and is on the downward side, and like a snowball, it is gathering speed as it goes down. CNN is on the wrong side.

By: Sluggo

Sluggo — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:19:33 +0000

Yet another step closer to the day the Congress Republicans running for re-election will have to decide to either vote to impeach Chaney and Bush or get voted out of office. The polls are trending very strongly against the Bush Gang.

What fun….

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:05:44 +0000

Where’s a link to the full letter?

By: bjobotts

bjobotts — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:54:30 +0000

And this is the same administration group to come up with the massive Patriot Act consisting of thousands of pages of detailed laws and issues??? Must have written it much earlier and had a rough draft ready to go before the attacks of 9/11 to get it to congress so fast, and rammed it through before most reps could even get it all read. Hmmmm.

By: sponson

sponson — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:42:34 +0000

The only thing “clarified” by this is that Gonzales did, in fact, perjure himself. Specifically, he said that he met with the “Gang of Eight” on March 10, 2004, and that because of their urging about these “other intelligence activities” he went to strongarm Ashcroft, sedated in a hospital bed. He said that at least twice in the hearing. At another point, he said he had done it “on behalf of the President,” but when asked if that meant Cheney, he refused to answer the question. At least 3 of the Gang of Eight said no such thing occurred; Every one of the four Republicans in that group has been silent. It’s all you need to know, the 3 Democrats told the truth.

By: Arroyo

Arroyo — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:42:00 +0000

Have they blamed Joe Wilson yet?

By: Probus

Probus — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:36:20 +0000

What is wrong with CNN? They put a picture of Gates instead of McConnell. A few days ago the confused the Secretary of Defense with Sen. Jeff Sessions. They need to get their facts right. Just shows how sloppy they are.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:34:17 +0000

If past history is any judge, Arlen Specter will be statsfied.

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By: TheToonguy

TheToonguy — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:07:55 +0000

Thanks, that clears everything up. We’ve got to impeach the AG. Any questions?

By: gorn by any other name

gorn by any other name — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:07:00 +0000

Come on, people. You don’t understand Ringo’s point. He said NOBODY CARES. But we care. That makes us NOBODIES. Get it?

That’s why this Administration doesn’t need to listen to the Congress, and why Republican candidates don’t need to participate in e-mocracy, because We the People are NOBODY. That government of the people, by the people, and for the people does not exist anymore, sorry Abe.

By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:53:08 +0000

And, I hope it isn’t lost on the American public that the same people who think their beloved leader can do whatever he wants were cheering on investigations into the Clintons’ Christmas list, their firing of a couple people from the Whitehouse Travel Office and 20-year old land deals for which they had already been exonerated way back in 1994. The double-standards are pathological – it they don’t recognize them, and many don’t, they are literally insane.

By: Cali4nian

Cali4nian — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:51:54 +0000

Alberto didn’t lie. There is a TSP. The rest is secret until it can be declassified to save somebody else from embarrassement. And trust what you’re told. Have they ever led you astray before?

By: Juan C

Juan C — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:50:07 +0000

Ah, but Aristotle and Plato and their concept of Politeia: GRIPPING!
Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

heh. I thought the same. Its our nerd troll.

By: VerbalKint

VerbalKint — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:39:40 +0000

What they are really saying is the our beloved Chimperor can do whatever the hell he wants to.

Thanks for doing your part to enable this fascism, trolls.

By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:39:07 +0000

Philonous thinks this obstruction of justice, perjury and election fraud thing is such a bore. Yawn! Ah, but Aristotle and Plato and their concept of Politeia: GRIPPING!