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tom moody pictured here is secretly a mac lover. and those are just the ones hell show us!


- bill 11-23-2005 10:54 pm [link] [add a comment]

whats the site that always has video of important news stories? id like to hear Jean Schmidt getting booed off the floor one more time.

also misquoted attributed source.
- bill 11-23-2005 6:37 pm [link] [1 comment]

my weather bug monitor is reading a sultry 28 degrees. is god running out of oil? whats going on here?
- dave 11-23-2005 5:51 pm [link] [10 comments]

NOLA photo link farm
- mark 11-23-2005 2:21 am [link] [1 comment]

Best Christmas lights ever. At least for some definition of the word 'best'. (.wmv file.)
- jim 11-23-2005 12:21 am [link] [12 comments]

In February 2002, after a briefing on the status of the war in Afghanistan, the commanding officer, Gen. Tommy Franks, told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq -- a war more than a year away. Even at this early date, the White House was signaling that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was of such urgency that it had priority over the crushing of al Qaeda [...]

At a meeting of the Senate intelligence committee on Sept. 5, 2002, CIA Director George Tenet was asked what the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) provided as the rationale for a preemptive war in Iraq. An NIE is the product of the entire intelligence community, and its most comprehensive assessment. I was stunned when Tenet said that no NIE had been requested by the White House and none had been prepared. Invoking our rarely used senatorial authority, I directed the completion of an NIE.

Tenet objected, saying that his people were too committed to other assignments to analyze Saddam Hussein's capabilities and will to use chemical, biological and possibly nuclear weapons. We insisted, and three weeks later the community produced a classified NIE.

There were troubling aspects to this 90-page document. While slanted toward the conclusion that Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction stored or produced at 550 sites, it contained vigorous dissents on key parts of the information, especially by the departments of State and Energy. Particular skepticism was raised about aluminum tubes that were offered as evidence Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program. As to Hussein's will to use whatever weapons he might have, the estimate indicated he would not do so unless he was first attacked.

Under questioning, Tenet added that the information in the NIE had not been independently verified by an operative responsible to the United States. In fact, no such person was inside Iraq. Most of the alleged intelligence came from Iraqi exiles or third countries, all of which had an interest in the United States' removing Hussein, by force if necessary. former fla sen bob graham (d)

Note, that classified NIE was not available to every congressperson. Just to members of the Senate and House committees on intelligence.

Graham asked Tenet to produce an unclassified version of the NIE. But what the CIA produced was a propaganda piece absent any of the reservations or caveats presented in the classified edition of the document. The vast majority of senators and congressment, much less the American people, did not see the full classified document.

Hence, Bush's claims that congressional Democrats had access to the same intelligence that the administration had is pure bullshit.

daily kos


- bill 11-22-2005 2:12 pm [link] [add a comment]

better concept than content - romeo and juliet in emoticons.
- dave 11-20-2005 6:32 pm [link] [add a comment]

I don't think this has been posted, worth a look and a chuckle in my humble opinion:

http://www.bigad.com.au/movie.html
- selma 11-17-2005 8:32 pm [link] [8 comments]

Notes from NOLA

- mark 11-17-2005 9:26 am [link] [add a comment]

74 degrees. im an outdoorsman. which is to say yes the windows are open.


- bill 11-16-2005 9:32 pm [link] [add a comment]

This is a president who even in the best of times is insular, out of touch, and completely unwilling to have alternative points of view brought to him. Now, according to administration sources he's kicked out everyone else in his Oval Treehouse except for his mom, and three people who remind him of his mom? Shudder.

- bill 11-16-2005 4:41 am [link] [add a comment]

the jewish brain (it was a cover story in new york magazine not the new yorker you idiot!)


- bill 11-15-2005 6:39 pm [link] [add a comment]

Superballs. Quicktime required. 18 MB.

Probably want to right click and save as..., or, on Mac, ctrl-click and save as...
- jim 11-10-2005 9:18 am [link] [add a comment]

whats kansas's fucking problem
- bill 11-09-2005 4:27 pm [link] [1 comment]

Super sped up satellite feed of the entire hurricane season, with each storm named and its' path traced. Wow.
- jim 11-09-2005 2:49 am [link] [5 comments]


check out
poor George.
- julie 11-07-2005 7:06 pm [link] [1 ref] [1 comment]

"Mr. WILKERSON: I'm privy to the paperwork, both classified and unclassified, that the secretary of State asked me to assemble on how this all got started, what the audit trail was, and when I began to assemble this paperwork, which I no longer have access to, it was clear to me that there was a visible audit trail from the vice president's office through the secretary of Defense down to the commanders in the field that in carefully couched terms -- I'll give you that -- that to a soldier in the field meant two things: We're not getting enough good intelligence and you need to get that evidence, and, oh, by the way, here's some ways you probably can get it. And even some of the ways that they detailed were not in accordance with the spirit of the Geneva Conventions and the law of war.

- bill 11-07-2005 3:17 am [link] [add a comment]

treason


- bill 11-04-2005 10:01 pm [link] [add a comment]

wingnut


- bill 11-01-2005 6:16 pm [link] [2 comments]

100 scariest things


- bill 10-31-2005 11:10 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

psueing the bloggers

"play dirty. we're bigger than you!"
- bill 10-31-2005 6:06 pm [link] [add a comment]