CREW seeks Condi’s email policy.
By on Nov 26th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
CREW seeks Condi’s email policy.
Responding to a July interview on CNBC in which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she doesn’t have a blackberry because “they don’t let me play with almost anything technological now,” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request “seeking documents stating the Department of State’s policies governing the Secretary of State’s methods of communicating via e-mail with audiences both internal and external to the U.S. government.”
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Hard to track verbal conversations isn’t it? No trail there.
November 26th, 2007 at 2:45 pm“they don’t let me play with almost anything technological now,â€
That would leave Bush out, eh, Condi?
And who are ‘they’, pray tell?
Who do they let you play with now?
November 26th, 2007 at 2:45 pmWill be THE most un-documented administration EVER. Funny since bush wants undocumented people from all over to come to the US to keep the American worker down.
November 26th, 2007 at 2:46 pmSo they want to know if she really has a blackberry or not?
I think I’m missing why this is worth mentioning.
November 26th, 2007 at 2:47 pmSpongeboo? Are you braindead? Her e-mail would be quite the treasure trove of files…..
November 26th, 2007 at 2:49 pmAre vibrators “technological”? Should I be posting this over at Wonkette?
November 26th, 2007 at 2:50 pmWhoever heard about a government being held accountible for what it does??
Oh wait, its that pesky piece of paper called the Constitution, isn’t it??
When the George W. Bush Library is opened, will most of its documents be hidden or lost?
November 26th, 2007 at 2:50 pmThe only documents that MIGHT still exist are Bush’s military records on Microfiche unless hes had them altered or destroyed already.
November 26th, 2007 at 2:52 pmthebobh
Spongeboo? Are you braindead? Her e-mail would be quite the treasure trove of files…..
Yes, yes it would.
But why does it matter if they were sent via blackberry, or a laptop, or a desktop, or a PDA, who cares how she sends it.
November 26th, 2007 at 2:53 pmLet’s not forget that Bush also claims not to e-mail.
Yet this official White House picture shows a computer suspiciously on and at the ready behind him.
What for? Gaming? Memoirs? Stylish effect?
November 26th, 2007 at 2:54 pmLet’s not forget that Bush also claims not to e-mail.
Yet this official White House picture shows a computer suspiciously on and at the ready behind him.
What for? Gaming? Memoirs? Stylish effect?
Jeff Gannon’s homepage?
-GSD
November 26th, 2007 at 3:01 pm“Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she doesn’t have a blackberry because “they don’t let me play with almost anything technological now”
Is it just me or does this remind anyone else of the Barbie doll that proubly proclaimed that Math is hard.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:16 pm#10 CitiDC
Shrub said in an interview that he likes to use Google to look at his Crawford ranch from the satellites
November 26th, 2007 at 3:18 pm@MapleStreet
Ah, yes. The famous I use “the Google” quote.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:19 pmI wonder how many emails Condi has sent to herself saying: “He loves me. He loves me not. He loves me. He loves me not…”
I also wonder if she has signed any emails “Condi Bush”.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:24 pmHave Iran Contra documents been released? Have GW’s military records been released? Have Cheney’s Energy meeting notes been released? Have the WMD’s been found? had to slip that one in as well. Have the RNC emails been released? Have the whitehouse emails been found? Has OBL been found? and the list goes on and on.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:29 pmThey may find that Condi has an assistant at the ready at all times to do her electronic communicating for her. I had a boss like that once — couldn’t operate a computer if his life depended on it. If he wanted to send somebody an e-mail, he’d dictate it to me and ask me to send it for him.
Of course, that was about 13 years ago. I would hope that Condi has entered the 21st century.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:30 pmI somehow suspect that members of the Busch Crime Family prefer the walk-n-talk…
November 26th, 2007 at 3:30 pmComment by cold_hard_left — November 26, 2007 @ 3:24 pm
Ahh, the pussy is here. Tell me pussy, why do you keep dodging my questions? You recently praised the new Australian prime minister for being a self-avowed economic conservative, and did so in a taunting way, so I ask you, as the determined Bush bootlicker that you are, do you believe that Bush has governed according to economic conservative principles? Now don’t be a cut and run coward again. Answer the question.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:30 pmHave Iran Contra documents been released? Have GW’s military records been released? Have Cheney’s Energy meeting notes been released? Have the WMD’s been found? had to slip that one in as well. Have the RNC emails been released? Have the whitehouse emails been found? Has OBL been found? and the list goes on and on.
Comment by hellinabucket — November 26, 2007 @ 3:29 pm
Don’t you know? Our pussy friend doesn’t do questions.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:31 pmCondi (alias Cunti) no longer emails…But she does continue to mouth out BJ’s in most major US as well as International Airport Restroom Stalls…and YES…she has an extremely wide stance!!
November 26th, 2007 at 3:33 pmNevertheless, I have to repeat (again) my other question for cut ‘n run pussy:
Since you declared VICTORY! in Iraq the other day, does that mean you support bringing the troops home? And lest you forget, I remind you that some measly 5,000 troop rotation doesn’t count for squat when we have a quarter-million men-at-arms in Iraq.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:33 pmHave the Clinton documents been released yet from the WJC library, or are the Clintons still stonewalling?
Comment by cold_hard_left — November 26, 2007 @ 3:24 pm
I know when you’re a troll, it’s hard to “grasp” the subtitles of anything other than yer own privates, but I think this is what is at issue here, *sshat…
Bush Aide Addresses Missing RNC E-Mails
At Senate Hearing, Jennings Is Silent on U.S. Attorneys’ Firings; Rove Is Absent
By Paul Kane
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Friday, August 3, 2007; Page A02
A young White House political aide was grilled inconclusively by the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday about the firings of U.S. attorneys after Karl Rove, the president’s senior political adviser, failed to show up at the committee’s hearing in response to a subpoena.
J. Scott Jennings, 29, the deputy political director for the White House, refused to address the firings but tried to explain how thousands — or possibly millions — of White House e-mails to and from the political office were transmitted only through communications accounts controlled by the Republican National Committee.
That use of the RNC accounts put some of the political office’s messages outside the reach of the National Archives, which sought to preserve them under a federal law mandating eventual public access, and the reach of Democratic congressional investigators, who have sought to look at them for evidence of improper actions.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:36 pmI’ve answered your moronic questions twice in earlier posts. Unfortunately, sometimes TP takes it upon itself to delete my posts so you may have missed them if you weren’t paying attention.
Comment by cold_hard_left — November 26, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Yeah, right.
How many troops do you support bringing home from Iraq? Give me a number. 50,000? 100,000? 150,000?
And start answering the questions posed by hellinabucket in #17.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:38 pmAnyone – anyone at all – who STILL supports Bloody George Bush is either stupid or evil.
Which are you, CHL?
November 26th, 2007 at 3:44 pmIn sum, I don’t believe that Bush’s economic policies have been conservative enough, in large part because he has signed too much legislation laden with pork passed by the Democratic controlled congress.
Comment by cold_hard_left — November 26, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
Um…Congress has only had a Democratic majority for less than a year. What’s Bush’s excuse for ratcheting up our debt faster than any other administration in history during the other six years of his administration? And what does this have to do with Condi’s e-mails?
November 26th, 2007 at 3:47 pmBy the way, why is it moronic to ask whether Bush has governed according to conservative economic principles, or whether we should bring the troops home???? These seem like important questions to me.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:48 pmSince Clinton has been out of office for 6 + years and his e-mails have yet to be released, I think it only fair that Bush should release his (if there are any) 6+ years after Clinton’s e-mails are released. Fair enough?
Comment by cold_hard_left — November 26, 2007 @ 3:36 pm
But Bush has nothing to hide, right? So why wait the 6+ years? Release them now, and that will force Clinton to release his. Fair enough?
November 26th, 2007 at 3:50 pmIn sum, I don’t believe that Bush’s economic policies have been conservative enough, in large part because he has signed too much legislation laden with pork passed by the Democratic controlled congress.
Comment by cold_hard_left — November 26, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
Who is the liar here? Bush has threatened to veto or vetoed several bills from the Democratic Congress for having relatively small amounts budgeted to non-WAR PROFITEERING, non-CORPORATE WELFARE purposes, whereas he didn’t veto a single PORK LADEN bill passed by Republicans during the first six years of his administration. His has been the most spendthrift administration EVER.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:52 pmWhat a loser.
But only a loser could support Bush at this point.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:53 pmSo you VALUES REPUBLICANS base YOUR VALUES on the actions of others? That explains why you rule and torture like dictators, and terrorists!!!
Comment by republicans hate facts — November 26, 2007 @ 3:55 pm
Remember, this is the two-wrongs-make-a-right crowd. Republicans love to bemoan moral relativism but they are far bigger moral relativists than Democrats. But, after all, projection is a critical psychological phenomenon in the Republican mental pathology. The most extreme example, of course, is their excuse that Bush isn’t as bad as Saddam. Talk about setting the bar low!
November 26th, 2007 at 4:07 pmAnd George HW Bush has been out for exactly 15 years.
How many of his papers have been released?
How many have held under wraps beyond the 15 year FOIA limits?
How many have been reclassified and continue to be hidden by either Bush under the Administration’s executive order.
Remember, it is Bush who created this mess in the first place with the overly broad EO. His government issued the restrictions.
November 26th, 2007 at 4:07 pmOh yeah, the other linchpin philosophy of Republicans is that the ends justify the means.
November 26th, 2007 at 4:08 pmVerbalKint
the other linchpin philosophy of Republicans is that the ends justify the means.
Nothing wrong with that, it’s better than the means justifying the end.
November 26th, 2007 at 4:14 pmWhatever happened to the subject of this thread? Oh, Condi. Not important. Never mind.
November 26th, 2007 at 4:30 pmRepublicans like Jeffy Gannon, GWB, Larry Craig, Mark Foley agree that the “ends” justifies the means.
November 26th, 2007 at 4:40 pmSo #28 I guess what you are saying is that the troop rotations the pentagon said would occur way back when the surge began are a draw down? But isn’t this still telling the enemy when we are leaving? Also if the surge is working so spectacularly, why are they ending it?
As to your numerous comments on Clinton’s emails, geez, it always come to that for you bushies doesn’t it? But Clinton… seems to be your favorite response. It’s as if you have an uncontrollable spasm whenever anyone questions anything having to do with this administration. Well why don’t you read a little closer and note that no one is asking for any emails. They are asking what the state department’s email policy is… Big difference between a policy and the actual emails.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:23 pmRemember, this is the two-wrongs-make-a-right crowd. Republicans love to bemoan moral relativism but they are far bigger moral relativists than Democrats.
Comment by VerbalKint — November 26, 2007 @ 4:07 pm
Simply accusing others of having your character flaws doesn’t make it so. Nor does it change the fact that you have them. ;)
November 27th, 2007 at 12:49 am#48, yes anyone who wants to hold the governnment accoutnable must be part of the vast Clinton conspiracy. Because when you’ve got nothing it always helps the rightwing moonbats to salivate when you mention the name clinton…regardless of the validity of what you are saying…it always works.
November 27th, 2007 at 10:37 amHow insane do you have to be to believe this?
“I don’t believe that Bush’s economic policies have been conservative enough, in large part because he has signed too much legislation laden with pork passed by the Democratic controlled congress.”
Comment by cold_hard_left — November 26, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
November 27th, 2007 at 1:31 pmSo, the man who would “return honor to the office” would follow Bill Clinton’s example? Does that make Clinton honorable? Or, does it make Bush dishonorable?
“Since Clinton has been out of office for 6 + years and his e-mails have yet to be released, I think it only fair that Bush should release his (if there are any) 6+ years after Clinton’s e-mails are released. Fair enough?”
Comment by cold_hard_left — November 26, 2007 @ 3:36 pm
November 27th, 2007 at 1:34 pm