I’m headed out to Drinking Liberally for the evening. If you need a pick-me-up, I recommend viewing the video of Teddy Kennedy roaring and raging against Trent Lott’s opposition to health care for children. It made my day.
If you still need more chicken soup for your soul, check out John Nichol’s take on Ted Steven’s seat in Alaska.
Have a good evening and try not to launch any unnecessary land wars in Asia.
Wal-Mart allows “volunteer” teens to be baggers..another child labor abuser.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20056614/site/newsweek/
You gotta watch this satirical commercial for Coal…
VERY well done. Like one of those ads for Oil & Natural Gas. Says at the end that it’s from the US Dept of Energy but it’s not. Found it over at Grist and noticed that not many have seen it yet. ENJOY!
haven’t seen this mentioned here – The United States Under President Hillary Clinton. Worth looking at if only for the picture (no it’s not the “cleavage” picture).
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“Some of his ideas are from another century.”
Bob Woodward
A diary will follow on August 2.
Larry King – July 31, 2007
KING: In that regard, “The New York Times,” which is — as you said, it’s not your favorite paper, reports it was you who dispatched Gonzales and Andy Card to then Attorney General John Ashcroft’s hospital in 2004 to push Ashcroft to certify the president’s intelligence gathering program.
Was it you?
CHENEY: I don’t recall the — first of all, I haven’t seen the story. I don’t recall that I gave instructions to that effect.
KING: That would be something you would recall.
CHENEY: I would think so. But, certainly, I was involved because I was a big advocate of the Terrorist Surveillance Program and had been responsible and been working with General Hayden and George Tenet to get it to the president for approval.
By the time this occurred, it had already been approved about 12 times by the Department of Justice. There was nothing sort of new about.
KING: But you didn’t send them to get Ash…
CHENEY: I don’t recall that I was the one who sent them to the hospital.
Intelligence Chief Says Bush Authorized Secret Activities Under One Order
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. The disclosure makes clear that a controversial National Security Agency program was part of a much broader operation than the president previously described.
The disclosure by Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, appears to be the first time that the administration has publicly acknowledged that Bush’s order included undisclosed activities beyond the warrantless surveillance of e-mails and phone calls that Bush confirmed in December 2005.
In a letter to Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), McConnell wrote that the executive order following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks included “a number of … intelligence activities” and that a name routinely used by the administration — the Terrorist Surveillance Program — applied only to “one particular aspect of these activities, and nothing more.”
“This is the only aspect of the NSA activities that can be discussed publicly, because it is the only aspect of those various activities whose existence has been officially acknowledged,” McConnell said.
Data Mining Figured In Dispute Over NSA
Report Links Program to Gonzales Uproar
≈ Cross-posted from my diary —
Data Mining Programs and Cheney/Rumsfeld TIA – ARDA – DTO ≈
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is C Span going to broadcast the hearing on Tillman this AM?
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Today, the Oversight and Govt. Reform Cmte. holds a hearing on Army Cpl. Pat Tillman’s death by fratricide. Senior Defense Dept. officials describe what they knew about the incident. Witnesses include; Gen. Richard Myers (Ret.), Gen. John Abizaid (Ret.), Gen. Bryan Douglas Brown (Ret.), and fmr. Def. Sec. Donald Rumsfeld.
Retired general may lose star over Tillman case
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."