'Course, when you've got Secret Service agents shooting each other in a Keystone Kops "accident," you have to wonder at the quality of their ranks, as well.
Posted by iamcoyote at April 23, 2007 11:02 AMAnd---what about all those unexplained Jeff Gannon/Guckert visits???????
Posted by Betsy at April 23, 2007 11:31 AMHow many times has our country been compromised by the Bush White House?
How many days have they been infesting the Executive? Seriously, I find it hard to believe that the Israelis haven't been given reams of highly classified information by the "likudniks" throughout the administration. The odds are that Pootey-poot, former KGB guy that he is, has long been turning his attention to the careless antics of this crowd. The Chinese and even the Iranians play games several levels of subtlety deeper than the Mayberry Machiavelis.
With who knows how much official White House business being transferred through the Internets tubes and many 3rd party servers?, I have no doubt that there is probably some 13 year old Danish script kiddie who has enough information to become a millionaire, if everybody else didn't already know it anyway.
THAT is how Congress should go after the "missing" emails. Damn it! That's a grotesque breach of National Security and it should be tied around their necks like the stinking albatross it is. Daddy party my hairy white ass! These creeps have endangered us all in so many ways the mind boggles!
Posted by DeminNewJ at April 23, 2007 11:34 AMSteve Clemmons has a fine piece questioning the lack of protocol given to Paul Wolfowitz's girlfriend who worked for Liz Cheney getting the clearances she got. Talk about not adhering to national security objectives...
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/
Not that Big Hank isn't up to the task but we may just have to clone Waxman!
And back on the e-mail/security topic, txj over at dKos has a good diary about the entire network of Republican networks Michael L. Connell and his twin companies -- New Media Communications (GW43.com etc.) and especially, Govtech Solutions that have been set up INSIDE the .gov domain. These taxpayer funded networks are at the core of the White House, the Departments of Justice, Energy and State, and the most hermetic committees on Capitol Hill like Intelligence and the Judiciary. The interesting question he asks at the end is about why should we worry.
Whether the conflict of interest is real or apparent matters little, because so far no one has even asked the question: should a top campaign consultant with a history of electoral fraud be a systems administrator for federal government IT networks?
And, what happens in 2009 if the networks being used by the Edwards Administration are still the ones designed with who knows how many back doors by this same man?
Posted by DeminNewJ at April 23, 2007 12:10 PMI haven't heard much in the GOP controlled Media, but I wonder how the Iran War is going. Since the bombing was supposed to commence on the 17th to coincide with the dark moon, we should have made pretty good progress knocking out the Heathen's nuke force by now.....
Posted by T2 at April 23, 2007 12:53 PMYeah, T2, it's funny we don't hear about the Iran war anymore. You don't think unnamed "Russian intel officers" lied, do you? Egad! What's this world coming to?
Posted by iamcoyote at April 23, 2007 01:06 PMWhite House Security is plenty fine. It has to be, if only to prevent a bunch of violent angry liberal kooks from harming our President.
Posted by lordtyranus2 at April 23, 2007 01:30 PMCan we name anything that Bu$hCo has been competent at? Anything other than stealing elections and slick propaganda, neither of which actually counts as competence because both required lying and cheating.
Posted by Marie at April 23, 2007 01:39 PMHe's been quite competent at pissing a bunch of leftwingers off, and convicing some to go to Canada.
Posted by lordtyranus2 at April 23, 2007 01:51 PMMarie, the Cheney admin did what it set out to do, get rich off the taxpayers, undermine the Justice Department, stack SCOTUS with activist judges, and destroy industry regulation. They don't care about governing, obviously, since they're not good at it, but they hoped to prove that government doesn't work by being deliberately incompetent. Luckily, the Dems are showing that government can work when you have people that know how to do it properly in positions of authority.
Posted by iamcoyote at April 23, 2007 02:00 PMHe's been quite competent at pissing a bunch of leftwingers off, and convicing some to go to Canada.
What the hell are you prattling on about?
You know, it's okay to tell the world that the man gives you a woody. And given his predilections, he might take you up on it.
Posted by phidipdies at April 23, 2007 02:49 PMPhid: Lord doo-doo does not prattle, he rumbles.
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Do you not fear the wrath of his tractor beam, brave phiddy?
Posted by TIKI AL at April 23, 2007 03:42 PMDo you not fear the wrath of his tractor beam, brave phiddy?
I sense the Force is weak with that one, Lord Tiki.
Posted by phidipides at April 23, 2007 04:36 PM"I sense the Force is weak with that one, Lord Tiki."
...and I sense my chocolate going down the "wrong throat" with THAT one.
I thank George Lucas for not having a Lord Tiki character as I would have to live in my parents basement like Lord Trollanus.
Posted by TIKI AL at April 23, 2007 05:30 PMWait, wasn't Lord Tiki the leader of the Ewoks? That's how I've always envisioned you, TIKI.
Posted by iamcoyote at April 23, 2007 05:49 PMWait, wasn't Lord Tiki the leader of the Ewoks? That's how I've always envisioned you, TIKI.
Puh-leeze. Everyone knows Tiki was the great Lord who defeated Seth the sixth Sith on Suoe, the Seventh planet in the system of Syng. See? It was an epic battle.
Posted by phidipides at April 23, 2007 08:05 PMYou are thinking of Chief Chirpa, crafty leader of the Ewoks who along with Santa Clause I have been mistaken for on many occasions by the children in line at the Walmart vision center.
Posted by TIKI AL at April 23, 2007 08:07 PMYes, Phid, that was an epic battle on Soue.
Our battle cry still rings in my pointed ears: Sooo-eeee! Sooo-eeee!
The visual of the fallen Soue pigs with light lazers stuck up their collective arses still haunts me.
Posted by TIKI AL at April 23, 2007 08:18 PM