‘Senior’ Bushie: ‘They should have burned the NIE.’
By on Dec 13th, 2007 at 9:45 am
‘Senior’ Bushie: ‘They should have burned the NIE.’
In the e-mail version of the Politico Playbook this morning, Mike Allen quotes “a senior administration official” lamenting that “they should have burned the NIE and kept the tapes.” The official was referring to the administration’s debacles with the intelligence community since the new NIE on Iran was released and the CIA revealed that it had destroyed videotaped interrogations.
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Or maybe burned themselves, kept the tapes, and made paper airplanes with the NIE..
December 13th, 2007 at 9:48 amhttp://www.tshirtinsurgency.com
Quick, call Dr. Brown and tell him to fire up the Delorean!!
December 13th, 2007 at 10:00 amAs Thomas Friedman wrote, a drug producer that stops extracting opium, but continues to grow poppies, is still a drug producer. This NIE lets the drug producer off the hook on a technicality.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:00 amJason M. Hendler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day
Poppies do have legitimate uses too.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:02 amAnother attempt to ‘fix the facts around policy’.
Some idiots NEVER learn.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:03 amYeah, that’s the way to support your point, Jason manHandler. Quote Thomas Friedman to add some intellectual heft. That oughta do it. We’ll completely overlook the fact that your point makes no sense, because you backed it up with some wisdom from the inventor of the Friedman Unit.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:04 amPapaver somniferum, the opium poppy, is also grown for its seeds, which are used in baking.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:05 amWell, JMH, Friedman has said stupid things before, and will again. And nothing in the NIE that I’ve heard has said in effect “go ahead and ignore Iran, nothing to see here” as you’re implying. What the 16 intelligence agencies are agreeing on is that there is no need for an immediate call to bomb Iran, as so many conservatives and some foolish Democratics are having wet dreams about.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:07 amComment by Bruce Gorton — December 13, 2007 @ 10:05 am
So, according to Friedman and JMH, if you enjoy a nice poppy-seed roll every morning, you must be a drug abuser?
December 13th, 2007 at 10:10 amPaging Rosemary Woods, paging Ms. Woods… you’re wanted in the Oval Office….
December 13th, 2007 at 10:10 amThey should’ve appointed Gore.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:11 amWell said, Jane. Both 8 and 9. With umber 8 you addressed Jason with the seriousness the topic deserves, and in 9 you addressed him with the seriousness that Jason deserves.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:12 am#1; If you’ve got the gasoline, I got the matches. Gives new meaning to the term burning Bush. (:-D)
December 13th, 2007 at 10:13 amThanks, Ralph, I appreciate the cleverly-worded compliment!
Uncle Ho, good morning, nice to see you!
December 13th, 2007 at 10:19 amJane E. Schneider
Yep.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:21 amHiya Jane!
Sock it to JMH.
You go girl!
December 13th, 2007 at 10:23 amComment by Bruce Gorton — December 13, 2007 @ 10:21 am
Damn, I like poppy-seed rolls. (sigh) I guess there’ll be plenty of bakeries under surveillance soon!
‘Morning, Arn–I’m an agnostic, but if I’m wrong and there is a Judgement Day, then I agree with you completely on this one.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:33 amUhhhh.. Jason M.
“a drug producer that stops extracting opium, but continues to grow poppies, is still a drug producer.”
Like most things Friedman says, that doesn’t make much sense.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:38 amHe also blatantly lies a lot.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:39 amAs Thomas Friedman wrote…
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — December 13, 2007 @ 10:00 am
Sorry man, you lost me already.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:40 amI saw him at Starbucks last week and he didn’t even leave his 20 cents in the tip jar. no joke.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:40 amhis mustache looked good, though. I almost tried to touch it, but I was usig all my strength to resist punching him in the kidneys.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:42 amNice. If the NIE says what we want it to, parade it around and make sure everyone sees it. Also, if it says what we want, there is no doubt about its veracity. But if it doesn’t say what we want – if it weighs the same as a duck, and is made of wood – BURN IT!!!
December 13th, 2007 at 10:47 amComment by cold_hard_left — December 13, 2007 @ 10:36 am
Why single out this particular anonymous senior administration official, when so much “news” for the last several years has come from so many anonymous senior administration officials? I agree that we shouldn’t have to constantly rely on anonymous reports for “facts”, but let’s not cherry-pick which anonymous sources to believe. And we wouldn’t have to put up with so much anonymity if this administration would actually tell the truth to the American people once in a while.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:48 amThomas Fried man also said that it didn’t matter whether we found WMD or not i Iraq, what was important was to show the “Arab Street” that we were willing to shed American blood. He lost any credibility he had with that statment.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:54 am#3 ~ The Oklahoma City bombing was caused by a truck full of fertilizer. By your logic our nation’s farmers are supporting terror by continuing to pursue agriculture.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:57 amdon’t forget the producers of box cutters. damn terrorist box cutter makers.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:03 amHas there been one iota of factual evidence to contradict the latest NIE?
December 13th, 2007 at 11:04 amBobwurst; Thomas Friedman had credibility?
December 13th, 2007 at 11:06 amArn, you’re right, not very “christian”. As I’ve said before, I was raised Roman Catholic, but got turned off organized religion due to the hypocrisy I witnessed by so many pious church-goers. I truly feel that my morals/ethics are more like what one should expect from true christians than what one sees from so many political and television religious leaders shouting their piety into a microphone.
BTW, what IS it with all of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in my neck of the woods–there’s at least 5 or 6 enclaves of them within about 5 square miles!
December 13th, 2007 at 11:06 amif it weighs the same as a duck, and is made of wood – BURN IT!!!
Comment by Chris L — December 13, 2007 @ 10:47 am
Even if it has a carrot for a fake nose? ;)
December 13th, 2007 at 11:08 amThe Modern Bush Republicanâ„¢ likes their toture porn, but hates facts that lay bare their empty rhetoric.
The Modern Bush Republicanâ„¢ can quote any source, no matter how silly, and claim to have “won the debate”. Their deftness at cut and paste knows no rival.
http://www.FEARandSMEAR.com
December 13th, 2007 at 11:18 am#27: “The folks not sounding very “christian…”" . From what I read in “The King James” version of my Bible. There is nothing much “Christian” about most of these folks.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:23 amThe NIE will be burned in six months.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:54 amThe NIE will be burned in six months.
Comment by PatrioticLiberalChristian — December 13, 2007 @ 11:54 am
Is that what Thomas Friedman predicts? Because JMH thinks that’s a source that we should take seriously.
December 13th, 2007 at 12:17 pmA “senior administration official” has revealed that troll cold_hard_left makes a lot of sense.
Troll cold_hard_left immediately denounced the source as untrustworthy.
Most TPers recognized the source as drunk and insane.
December 13th, 2007 at 1:42 pmJane,
Someone with poppy seeds on their muffin isn’t a drug user, because that is not the “effective” part of the plant. The drug producer is stock piling the “effective” part of the plant for nefarious purposes in the future.
December 13th, 2007 at 1:44 pmAll I have to say is I’m looking forward to 2008. If things happen as I think they will, then Jason Hendler will be even further in the margin. And if the Democrats get the spine that control of all three branches of government should give them, a whole lotta chickens are going to come back to roost for the Republicans in 2009….and some crows too. I hope Jason likes crow, because if there is an iota of justice in this world, then for four years starting in 2009, that’s going to be what’s for dinner…
December 13th, 2007 at 2:16 pmSomeone with poppy seeds on their muffin isn’t a drug user, because that is not the “effective†part of the plant.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — December 13, 2007 @ 1:44 pm
Uh, Jason, Opium (and other drugs) are made out of the poppy plant seeds, making these the effective part of the plant when it comes to drug making.
Not to mention Jane’s facetiousness should have been obvious…
December 13th, 2007 at 2:37 pmComment by Jason M. Hendler — December 13, 2007 @ 1:44 pm
Hey, JMH, I only took yours and Friedman’s “logic” a step further down the ridiculous path you started. And, unless you’re a mind-reader, how would you know why anyone anywhere grows poppies? My neighbor has some, who knows why she’s growing them, should I report her?
December 13th, 2007 at 2:37 pmNot to mention Jane’s facetiousness should have been obvious…
Comment by Gregor Samsa — December 13, 2007 @ 2:37 pm
Thanks, Gregor, I thought I was making it obvious, too. Should I have added a smily face to my last comment to indicate to the humorless that it’s not completely serious?
December 13th, 2007 at 3:52 pmDoes the congress not have the power to see that employees who call for the violation of federal laws are fired?
December 13th, 2007 at 4:07 pmBesides poppies are just nice to look at. And they easily reseed
December 13th, 2007 at 4:12 pmDoes the congress not have the power to see that employees who call for the violation of federal laws are fired?
Comment by candide — December 13, 2007 @ 4:07 pm
Not when Bush adds signing statements to laws, protecting the violators rather than the whistle-blowers.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:15 pm