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Friday, March 23
Attention: Would the gent who was photographing me please get in touch?
by
margieburns
on Fri 23 Mar 2007 12:52 PM EDT
This is an APB, or a plea for help of a mild social sort, or a general bulletin-board message:
Would the nice man who snapped discreet photos of me, on board the Washington Metro, whoever you are, please get in touch with me? Regrettably I cannot recall the date -- since I didn't commit it to memory in the first place. But any information appreciated.
Just to reassure you, I am in no way on your case. Photographers are almost as bad off as writers. I have no problem with a little unobtrusive snapshotting. Also, I have no ulterior motive ... more »
Monday, March 19
Imagine briefing Dick Cheney: ‘Now, don’t tell anybody about this . . .’
by
margieburns
on Mon 19 Mar 2007 07:39 AM EDT
Watching the webcast of Friday’s hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was a new lesson in GOP denial over the CIA leak.
The new talking point used by administration apologists is that ‘Nobody in the White House knew Valerie Plame was covert.’ Sometimes they cling to a veneer of dignity by softening it: ‘there is no evidence that anyone in the White House knew Mrs. Wilson’s status was covert.’
Then they get a little blunter and blame the CIA point-blank for not taking adequate precautions to protect Plame’s cover. Rep. Tom Davis, Republican of Virginia, who agrees ... more »
Saturday, March 17
"Grovel to senators, be nice to civil servants, and learn how to leak"
by
margieburns
on Sat 17 Mar 2007 08:36 AM EDT
[Advice to incoming GOP political appointees and nominees from former Treasury official Bruce Bartlett, January 1, 2001. Published in the neocon Weekly Standard. No comment needed:]
"WASHINGTON will soon be inundated with a fresh wave of political appointees. This being the first Democratic to Republican transition in 20 years, many of the new people will find themselves in the Washington pressure cooker for the first time. And quite a few are leaving corporate America with its well-established rules for a city that operates under a completely different set. How they cope will be important to the success of George ... more »
Wednesday, March 14
Genuine VIPS: "Stop the Bleeding" in Iraq
by
margieburns
on Wed 14 Mar 2007 02:25 PM EDT
BY LARRY C. JOHNSON, RAY McGOVERN, RAY CLOSE, DAVID C. MACMICHAEL, and COLLEEN ROWLEY (Steering Group, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity [VIPS])
MEMORANDUM FOR: Speaker of the House | Senate Majority Leader
SUBJECT: Denouement on Iraq: First Stop the Bleeding
In the coming weeks a Congress that is willing to assert its prerogative as a co-equal branch of government has a unique opportunity to stop the needless deaths and maiming of U.S. troops in Iraq and ... more »
Thursday, March 8
The more things change, the more they stay the same in Niger
by
margieburns
on Thu 08 Mar 2007 09:20 AM EST
A further reminder, following the post earlier this morning, of the fallout for the little nation of Niger in that "Iraq/uranium" story the Bush administration tried to foist off onto the world. From the BBC, July 14, 2003:
"Niger upset by uranium slur
In Niger, there is continuing anger and dismay at suggestions that it would consider selling uranium to Iraq.
Last week local newspapers were full of criticism of President George W Bush during his whistle-stop tour of Africa when allegations of contact with Iraq again became headline news.
Calls were made in Niger for President Bush to ... more »
Wednesday, March 7
Exploiting Niger's resources, exploiting lies, exploiting the unfamiliar
by
margieburns
on Wed 07 Mar 2007 09:16 PM EST
NigerUranium
The more things change, the more they stay the same . . .
On November 12, 1979, the government of the small, poor, struggling African country of Niger published a “Statement on Uranium Exports.” This rather melancholy statement issued by Mahamadou Halilou, Niger’s Minister of Information, reads, in part:
“Some organs of the press recently published a report which resembles a detective story. According to the report, consignments of uranium concentrate often disappear on the way to their destination and finally find their way to Libya and Pakistan. These allegations ... more »
Friday, March 2
More on that Marseilles "report": "barrels" of uranium from Niger
by
margieburns
on Fri 02 Mar 2007 12:57 PM EST
Following up on my most recent post in bradblog, I am getting more and more intrigued that a small office in an outpost of empire could so deftly turn up exactly the ‘raw intelligence’ our neocon PNAC movers and shakers in Washington desired. Our man in Marseilles . . .
This would be the office that turned in a convenient report dated November 25, 2002, that “a large quantity of uranium was currently stored in barrels” in the Benin port of Cotonou, “and that Niger’s President had sold this material to Iraq.” (DX64.7)
(Note ... more »
Thursday, March 1
Reminder: CIA leak at the White House, Andrew Card at McDonald's
by
margieburns
on Thu 01 Mar 2007 07:11 AM EST
In December 2000, when the Bush team was preparing to move into the White House, Newsweek ran the following about incoming White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card:
“And he can be as hard as Texas dirt. As a close friend tells it, Card was managing a McDonald’s during his college years at the University of South Carolina when he realized someone was stealing money. None of his employees would admit to the crime. He fired them all.” (December 11, 2000)
Card is not from Texas; he is from Massachusetts, where he facilitated the ... more »
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