Jun 23 2005
Karl Rove Comments
He is NOT an elected official (Senators) of this country, He did NOT disparage our military or our country, He did NOT help the recruitment PR for terrorists, He did NOT make baseless claims (he just stretched them too far and too broadly).
So there is no meat there. Democrats would have been smarter to not respond and give it press time.
Nuff said.
[…] I must confess that the Able Danger/Mohammed Atta story has, like the Plamegate scandal, so many threads to follow that I find it difficult isolating the significant facts, times, documents, etc., so as a public service to those who may be similarly confused, I present the musings of the MinuteMan and AJStrata. Clearly something is here; but it’s safe to say, at this point we’re not sure what… This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 10th, 2005 at 12:27 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. […]
[…] On the heals of a New York Times story revealing that the 9/11 commission knew of, but ignored, the Able Danger/Atta angle, the always-excellent MinuteMan is now convinced, as AJStrata was from the beginning, that the Able Danger story represents a monumental intelligence foul-up: …At this point we ought to await a description of the one hour condensed briefing that, per Weldon, was given to Gen. Hugh Shelton in January 2001 – that would seem to represent a clear, contemporaneous version of the Able Danger product. It is still dimly possible that the Able Danger briefing given to the 9/11 Commission conflated the initial effort with some post-9/11 updating, and that the original Able Danger briefing either had no names, or too many names to have been useful. Very dimly possible. […]
[…] AJStrata joins the MinuteMan and others in broaching the subject of Congressional Hearings into the Mohammed Atta / Able Danger breaking story. For once, I’m gonna ignore my usual cautious impulses and agree; let’s look into this thing fully… […]
[…] It’s starting to feel like a blogswarm…thanks to utron, AJStrata (read his latest Able Danger news here) and Greg Bullock (whose latest delicious takedown of MoDo can be found here) for pointing out these links from Little Green Footballs, Captain Ed, Rick Moran, and Dr. Sanity, and just for good measure, I’m throwing in the great Tom Maguire. The upshot: people are really excited about two possibilities: […]
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[…] The WPO reports that:In a more than two-hour deposition, Woodward told Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald that the official casually told him in mid-June 2003 that Plame worked as a CIA analyst on weapons of mass destruction, and that he did not believe the information to be classified or sensitive…Woodward’s statement said he testified: “I told Walter Pincus, a reporter at The Post, without naming my source, that I understood Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA as a WMD analyst.” Pincus said he does not recall Woodward telling him that. In an interview, Pincus said he cannot imagine he would have forgotten such a conversation around the same time he was writing about Wilson. “Are you kidding?” Pincus said. “I certainly would have remembered that.”First up, that destroys Fitzgerald’s time line. Libby cannot be the first administration official to “out” Plame. Secondly, it destroys Fitzgerald’s credibility as an investigator. How could he have missed Woodward? Thirdly, we now have journalists (Pincus and Woodward) having a lot of trouble remembering who said what to whom and when. So, why should anyone believe a journalist ahead of Libby? I doubt anyone was deliberately lying; rather they trusted to the vagaries of their memories. Fitzgerald is now between a rock and a hard place. If he withdraws the indictment against Libby he’s telling the world his investigation was a waste of time and money. If he proceeds to trial, he’ll lose, proving to the world that his investigation was an even bigger waste of time and money. Libby’s lawyer has already hit back:William Jeffress Jr., one of Libby’s lawyers, said yesterday that Woodward’s testimony undermines Fitzgerald’s public claims about his client and raises questions about what else the prosecutor may not know. Libby has said he learned Plame’s identity from NBC journalist Tim Russert. “If what Woodward says is so, will Mr. Fitzgerald now say he was wrong to say on TV that Scooter Libby was the first official to give this information to a reporter?” Jeffress said last night. “The second question I would have is: Why did Mr. Fitzgerald indict Mr. Libby before fully investigating what other reporters knew about Wilson’s wife?” History may soon lump Fitzgerald in with Ronnie Earl as a zealous, partisan and incompetent prosecutor. Good links at The Strata Sphere, Decision 08, and Just One Minute Posted by: Pat on Nov 16, 05 | 12:48 pm | [0] comments [0] Views | Permalink | [0] TrackBack | Go to Main Page Random Posts A coincidence for 9/11 conspiracy theorists Telling the U.N. Off A Good Game var site=”sm6blogger” Judicious Asininity >>www.asininity.com 2004PHP […]
[…] The Strata Sphere links to an ABC story about a surge in the sale of disposable cell phones. Should be worried? Here’s a key quote from the report:The FBI is closely monitoring the potentially dangerous development, which came to light following recent large-quantity purchases in California and Texas, officials confirmed. In one New Year’s Eve transaction at a Target store in Hemet, Calif., 150 disposable tracfones were purchased. Suspicious store employees notified police, who called in the FBI, law enforcement sources said. In an earlier incident, at a Wal-mart store in Midland, Texas, on December 18, six individuals attempted to buy about 60 of the phones until store clerks became suspicious and notified the police. A Wal-mart spokesperson confirmed the incident. The Midland, Texas, police report dated December 18 and obtained by ABC News states: “Information obtained by MPD [Midland Police Department] dispatch personnel indicated that approximately six individuals of Middle-Eastern origin were attempting to purchase an unusually large quantity of tracfones (disposable cell phones with prepaid minutes attached).” At least one of the suspects was identified as being from Iraq and another from Pakistan, officials said. “Upon the arrival of officers, suspects were observed moving away from the registers — appearing to evade detection while ridding themselves of the merchandise.” Will the NYT, the leakers and the rest of the pro-terrorist elites take any responsibility when the next attack on American soil happens? I doubt it. But the administration should be making that case right now. Posted by: Pat on Jan 13, 06 | 10:52 am | [0] comments [0] Views | Permalink | [0] TrackBack | Go to Main Page Random Posts Fiscally Speaking Increased Chatter Hate America 101 var site=”sm6blogger” Judicious Asininity >>www.asininity.com 2004PHP […]
[…] I always start with Just One Minute who has a great record of staying on top of stupid story. His latest post lists Libby’s witness list:_Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of state. _Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary. _Marc Grossman, former undersecretary of state for political affairs. _Colin Powell, the former secretary of state. _Karl Rove, the deputy White House chief of staff. _George Tenet, the former CIA director. _Joseph Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador. _Valerie Plame Wilson. _Stephen HadleyI particularly like the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are on the list. […]
[…] And where might that be? The good old US of A. Once the 9/11 hijackers got inside the US it is as if they had entered a cone of silence. If they called their contacts in the Muslim world or vice versa, the NSA could monitor it but couldn’t do anything with the information they gained, as AJ Strata notes. This blindness came about from the layers of checks and balances added since the Vietnam era. It was the Carter administration that created FISA, the Reagan administration that left it in place, and the Clinton administration that strengthened the wall between intelligence and criminal investigations. They created the conditions that cloaked Al Qaeda’s plotting in the US. As is now becoming apparent, the Bush Administration moved quickly to remove the blinkers. But the traitors in the CIA and other branches of government are doing all they can to convince Americans that the Bush administration is invading their privacy. If they succeed in their campaign, the blinkers will go back on, and Al Qaeda operatives and Iranian agents and Latin American Marxists and all the scum that hate America will be free to do what Bush has been trying desperately to stop: another devastating attack on America. Posted by: Pat on May 14, 06 | 9:42 pm | [0] comments [0] Views | Permalink | [0] TrackBack | Go to Main Page Random Posts Charles Krauthammer lays out Syrian Strategy Who’s Side are You on? From Moron to Machiavelli var site=”sm6blogger” Judicious Asininity >>www.asininity.com 2004PHP […]
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[…] AJ Strata is not liking Coulter’s brashness anymore than I am, and his commenters are taking him to task (and immediately, predictably, calling him a ‘closet liberal’) for daring to not appreciate her. Apparently now, if we do not subscribe to intemperate demagoguery, we are not conservatives. […]
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[…] I must say I have always admired reader SBD’s talent and diligence in finding news articles that have direct bearing on stories, and finding them first! So it seems with the Haditha charade. SBD posted this comment on June 8th (from this post): A cameraman working for Reuters in Haditha says bodies had been left lying in the street for hours after the attack. […]
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[…] Reader Crosspatch noted a series of like sounding, yet unsourced and unspecified death figures for Iraq in the comments of this post. One would have to wonder, in light of all the shenanigans discovered with AP and other media credibility on Iraq stories, whether these have any basis in reality. So I also did some searching on vague stories with anonymous sources of deaths in Iraq and found these: […]
[…] Which still leaves the real question. What on earth were MI6, Berezovsky, Litvinenko and British mercenary firms doing with at least three planeloads of dirty bomb material? […]
[…] But my fellow CoCers have written a bunch of pieces that I intend to read in the next few days. You might want to do so as well. Here’s the link. […]
[…] The blogosphere knows through reporters like Michael Yon that the US operations in Baqubah are trapping al Qaeda fighters driven out of Baghdad. The locals are only too willing to help:A positive indicator on the 19th and the 20th is that most local people apparently are happy that al Qaeda is being trapped and killed. Civilians are pointing out IEDs and enemy fighters, so that’s not working so well for al Qaeda. Clearly, I cannot do a census, but that says something about the locals.The surge has just started and is already showing results. Harry Reid and company are in the unfortunate position of hoping for failure. If the surge succeeds in greatly reducing the ability of al Qaeda and the Mahdi army to terrorize Iraq, then Harry “the war is lost” Reid is going to look very stupid. Meanwhile, back on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, US forces may be making life unpleasant and short for foreign terrorists operating there. A J Strata reports on s successful strike on a terrorist camp in Pakistan:Major Update: Many of the dead have been identified as Arabs and terrorists:The terrorists who have been killed in blast in Datakhel area near the Afghan border in abandoned area of Miramshah have been identified. Military sources while talking to Online confirmed that explosion in the suspected religious seminary in Datakhel area near the Afghan border on Wednesday claimed 33 lives out of which 27 persons including four injured have been identified as foreigners. Military sources further confirmed that out of 23 deceased, 19 have been identified as Arab, while four belonged to Turkmenistan. Similarly, four injured have also been identified as Arab. Now the area has been under strict security after the deployment of military personnel.Stay tuned! Seems to have been a success.There is speculation that the strike was carried out using a new weapon system deadly accurate from 300km.The system, called High Mobility Artillery Rockets, or HIMARS is reportedly a complement to Predator drones, particularly when weather prevents the high-altitude strikes, and are the new favorite when significant firepower is desired. The truck-mounted artillery rocket system (hence the “high mobility” moniker) first entered service in June 2005 at Fort Bragg, N.C., to complement the venerable MLRS rocket, which is heavier and more constrained in its movements and flexibility. HIMARS carries a single six-pack of rockets on a standard Army 6×6 all-wheel drive (MLRS carries 18 rockets). The six-pack can be configured to shoot a wide array of rockets and missiles, from cluster bombs to a single missile system with a range up to 300 kilometers. HIMARS can fire a variety of non-cluster bomb rockets from the standard MLRS range of 32 kilometers to 300 kilometers. The HIMARS launcher can also aim at a target in just 16 seconds. A crew of three operates the launcher, and it is possible for the crew to select preprogrammed targets stored in a fire control computer to increase flexibility. With HIMARS, the United States certainly has the ability to fire deep into Pakistan from Afghanistan, and with GPS-aided precision, the missiles have a greater ability to hit the target (with the MLRS, accuracy is to within about 1,000 feet). There have also been reports of laser-guided rockets and missiles available on HIMARS, further improving accuracy. The US now has the means to respond quickly enough to kill Bin Ladin when someone rats him out. Please, let it be before the Democrats surrender to al Qaeda in January 2009. Posted by: Pat on Jun 21, 07 | 10:58 pm | [0] comments [0] Views | Permalink | [0] TrackBack | Go to Main Page Random Posts UN Peacekeepers in shoot-out among themselves The ‘S’ Factor Why Great Britain is no longer Great var site=”sm6blogger” Judicious Asininity >>www.asininity.com 2004PHP […]