Posted on 11/02/2005 4:51:46 AM PST by Chairman_December_19th_Society
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!
Good morning!!
Do not let the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our freedom, die in vain!!
Quick start--network hosed here so I'm doing wireless.
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
We seem to be on the same sleep (????) schedule.
Good morning.
Sounds like a fun trip, kay. Travel safely. We look forward to a happy report.
Good morning. My sleep pattern is like a maze. It zigs and zags.
Good morning.
Off to read some news.
Good morning!
Mornin', 2/3s. Have a good day and be careful on that bike.
Thanks, L! Have a wonderful day yourself!
One thing I do not like about being on Eastern time is that Fox is in reruns until 6AM. I guess I will go check the news threads, too.
.....there's another story brewing.
"When Mr. Novak called the agency to verify Ms. Plame's employment, it not only did so, but failed to go beyond the perfunctory request not to publish. Every experienced Washington journalist knows that when the CIA really does not want something public, there are serious requests from the top, usually the director. Only the press office talked to Mr. Novak.
".. if the CIA truly, truly, truly had wanted Ms. Plame's identity to be secret, it never would have permitted her spouse to write the op-ed. Did no one at Langley think that her identity could be compromised if her spouse wrote a piece discussing a foreign mission about a volatile political issue that focused on her expertise?
The CIA sent her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, to Niger on a sensitive mission regarding WMD. He was to determine whether Iraq had attempted to purchase yellowcake, an essential ingredient for nonconventional weapons. However, it was Ms. Plame, not Mr. Wilson, who was the WMD expert. Moreover, Mr. Wilson had no intelligence background, was never a senior person in Niger when he was in the State Department, and was opposed to the administration's Iraq policy. The assignment was given, according to the Senate Intelligence Committee, at Ms. Plame's suggestion.
Mr. Wilson was not required to sign a confidentiality agreement, a mandatory act for the rest of us who either carry out any similar CIA assignment or who represent CIA clients.
When he returned from Niger, Mr. Wilson was not required to write a report, but rather merely to provide an oral briefing. That information was not sent to the White House. If this mission to Niger were so important, wouldn't a competent intelligence agency want a thoughtful written assessment from the "missionary," if for no other reason than to establish a record to refute any subsequent misrepresentation of that assessment? Because it was the vice president who initially inquired about Niger and the yellowcake (although he had nothing to do with Mr. Wilson being sent), it is curious that neither his office nor the president's were privy to the fruits of Mr. Wilson's oral report.
Although Mr. Wilson did not have to write even one word for the agency that sent him on the mission at taxpayer's expense, over a year later he was permitted to tell all about this sensitive assignment in the New York Times. For the rest of us, writing about such an assignment would mean we'd have to bring our proposed op-ed before the CIA's Prepublication Review Board and spend countless hours arguing over every word to be published. Congressional oversight committees should want to know who at the CIA permitted the publication of the article, which, it has been reported, did not jibe with the thrust of Mr. Wilson's oral briefing. For starters, if the piece had been properly vetted at the CIA, someone should have known that the agency never briefed the vice president on the trip, as claimed by Mr. Wilson in his op-ed.
Where'd you get that tidbit?
And this.....
Wilson now claims no such connection existed. But Robin Butler, head of the British investigation of prewar intelligence, concludes, "It is accepted by all parties that Iraqi officials visited Niger in 1999. The British government had intelligence from several different sources indicating that this visit was for the purpose of acquiring uranium. … We conclude also that the statement in President Bush's State of the Union Address … was well-founded." Furthermore, the bipartisan U.S. Senate Committee on Intelligence, before which Wilson testified, concluded that when Bush spoke those 16 words in his State of the Union speech, his statement was based on credible intelligence -- both then and now. The Senate Committee found that Wilson, upon his return from his Niger trip, gave an oral report to the CIA, which provided "some confirmation" that Iraq had sought uranium in Niger.
We transferred about 15 goldfish from one pond to another a few days ago. So far so good.
Sarah's Oscar has almost tripled in size since she bought him a few weelk ago. It's a daily change in size.
Wilson: Do over.
I got that from today's WSJ - which is subscription on the web and I can't give you a link.
The fish are not so good....yesterday the ammonia spiked again and my new fish went into hiding....
I haven't checked then this morning.
Dang it! I can't figure it out. The tank is big...the fish are few...why the heck is the ammonia spiking?
We need to loudly and long trumpet "racism" whenever the left makes these types of statements. Throwing Oreo cookies at someone because they don't toe the party line. That is such a racist action. We need to be blunt about saying something like, "You racist. But that is what I expect from a party whose leader belonged to the KKK." Then, leave that statement hanging for them to deal with. The leader I refer to is Sheets Byrd who we can name as the Patriarch of the RAT party.
I added 45 pounds of live rock on Friday....I read in one of my books that my cause a temporary chemistry problem......
Agree. If I remember...this happened once before for the same reasons.
Have a safe trip, kayak. You've been working entirely too hard.
>>The tank is big...the fish are few...why the heck is the ammonia spiking?
Just checked ammonia----off the charts....
I gave the tank another dose of anti-chemicals.....
I bet something died (I have a shrimp, snail, crab, etc - not seen in a while)
I think it was deliberate that Wilson wasn't required to sign a confidentiality agreement; that's typically pretty SOP.
This is an editorial written by Zell Miller about Wilson:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1514509/posts
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