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Found at Starbucks: The Pentagon's Papers
American Progress (Lefty Org?) ^
| March 31, 2004
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Posted on 03/31/2004 9:10:56 PM PST by IncPen
As most of America slept early last Sunday morning, the Bush administration hustled and bustled to prepare for the Sunday morning talk shows among others Colin Powell was appearing on "Face the Nation" and Donald Rumsfeld was booked on "Fox News Sunday." Condoleezza Rice was not scheduled to appear until prime time, when she would make a star appearance on CBS' "60 Minutes" the last in a long line of media appearances that caused 9/11 Commissioner Richard Ben Veniste to quip that "Condi Rice has appeared everywhere but at my local Starbucks."
Well, others in the Bush administration did, apparently, make an appearance at the local Starbucks. And as theWashington Post reports today, one of them obviously readying himself to prep Defense Secretary Rumsfeld left his notes on the table. Talking points, hand-written notes on spin tactics that reveal the White House was worried about former Bush adviser Richard Clarke's charges, and a hand-drawn map to the Secretary's house were found by a resident of DuPont Circle, who made them available to the Center for American Progress. The name of said resident is being withheld at his request, as he fears that he may be accused on national television of being "disgruntled."
Link to the papers (pdf)
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To: IncPen
Somebody at a meeting with Rumsfeld took notes. It says, don't tar Clark, he's an idiot and this will go away. Chill, the looney Left is going to whine about it but there is nothing there.
Big deal.
(Although, the Administration needs to fire the guy who left the notes because he's an idiot. He needs to protect information from the White House.)
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posted on
03/31/2004 10:07:08 PM PST
by
Joe_October
(Saddam supported Terrorists. Al Qaeda are Terrorists. I can't find the link.)
To: Howlin
Why would they include a map to Rumsfeld's house?So the rent-a-mob who hit Rove and Elaine Chao over the weekend can hit a new house this weekend?
To: IncPen
I just bet they were left.
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posted on
03/31/2004 10:09:45 PM PST
by
dalebert
To: IncPen
A floppy disk left outside near the whitehouse, now prep papers left in starbucks.
Either these folks are absent minded professors or they're setting folks up "big time".
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posted on
03/31/2004 10:10:53 PM PST
by
swheats
To: IncPen; nuconvert
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posted on
03/31/2004 10:14:37 PM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: wirestripper
We need to get a conservative only coffee house! That would be Dunkin' Donuts...
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posted on
03/31/2004 10:17:35 PM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: piasa
LOL!
To: finnman69; Pokey78
Where's our eight-word bumper sticker?
I gotcher eight words tight here:
"I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN!"
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10/10/2003 6:05:45 PM EDT by
Old Sarge (Serving You... on Operation Noble Eagle!)
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posted on
03/31/2004 10:22:30 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: Alamo-Girl; Cindy; Shermy; Grampa Dave; ALOHA RONNIE; Angelwood; kristinn; doug from upland
Wait Podesta minute here bump...
DuPont circle is just chock full of nuts.
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posted on
03/31/2004 10:22:40 PM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: All
1) They called it "The Pentagon's Papers" to try to bring to mind "The Pentagon Papers" and Richard Nixon but anyone with an IQ room temp. or higher will understand there is no connection. They are trying to infer that George Bush is Richard Nixon, which is a preposterous idea.
2) Whomever found them was a moron for turning them over to CAP instead of returning them to the Pentagon.
3) There is nothing exceptional about the papers. There is nothing that isn't already publicly known. The information in the papers is 100% consistent with what the Bush administration has said publicly. There is no secret strategy, no dirty tricks campaign. If they think they have a big scoop, they are wrong. Referring to their contents as "spin" is it's self spin and completely disingenuous. As if you's expected differently from a Glueboy Soros organization...
5) They added their own notes and comments to the PDF file in a way that makes them seem like part of the document. This is even more disingenuous. If anything, they should have left their comments as part of a separate document.
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posted on
03/31/2004 10:22:57 PM PST
by
adam_az
(Call your state Republican party office and VOLUNTEER FOR A CAMPAIGN!!!)
To: piasa
A "government in waiting" bump!
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posted on
03/31/2004 10:23:32 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: adam_az
They called it "The Pentagon's Papers" to try to bring to mind "The Pentagon Papers" Bingo. For a bunch of folks who were previously in the White House, they sure have been coming up with the lamest stuff and lamest malcontented 'whistleblowers' ; I keep expecting them to put a flaming shopping bag full of Daschle-crap on the White House porch in the hopes that they can get Bush to step in it to put it out while they are giggling over their wit down at the playground.
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posted on
03/31/2004 10:32:57 PM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: IncPen
I think this is all having the effect of making Democrats look petty. This is accompished through the magic of Democrats being petty. Are they really going to stand up and condem the White House for going easy on Clarke?
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posted on
03/31/2004 10:34:03 PM PST
by
MattAMiller
(Kerry: Recommended by 9 out of 10 shadowy foreign powers)
To: piasa
Yep.
Nuts and fruitcakes.
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posted on
03/31/2004 10:52:26 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: piasa
dim-o-crats are playing politics while America's enemies are admiring dim-o-crats. Hmmmm...let's look at that picture for a moment. Freeze frame.
Either you're for US or against US.
That about sizes up America's enemies.
Well, back to the war on terrorism....
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posted on
03/31/2004 10:55:53 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: Mo1
Thanks for the ping.
I;ll read this INTERESTING thang later this morning.
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posted on
03/31/2004 11:05:36 PM PST
by
onyx
(Kerry' s a Veteran, but so were Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh and Benedict Arnold.)
To: JOE6PAK
Good one! LOL Thanks, definitely bumpersticker material.
;-)
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posted on
03/31/2004 11:57:09 PM PST
by
Tunehead54
(Have a nice day or else!)
To: PureSolace
What are the odds this was a plant? :)
My thought as well. During last election, something like this happened, too, but I can't recall the specifics.
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posted on
04/01/2004 12:04:27 AM PST
by
hummingbird
("If it wasn't for the insomnia, I could have gotten some sleep!")
To: IncPen
FYI:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1108878/posts Found notes may show Bush plan on Clarke
UPI ^ | 3/31/04 | Pamela Hess
Isn't it interesting that the notes reveal a White House that has character? Imagine if the notes were found from a Clinton aide. It would say something like, "We have to pull out the FBI files. Say he's a flamer, attack his Grandma, call Peter Jennings and have him do a hit piece."
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posted on
04/01/2004 12:53:14 AM PST
by
backhoe
(Liberals - they require a delusional utopia...)
To: nuconvert; Mo1; Miss Marple
Clinton flack John Podesta and Open Society Institute and Open Society Policy Center(George Soros outfit).
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posted on
04/01/2004 3:11:02 AM PST
by
Dog
To: backhoe
Thanks Backhoe. I searched Pentagon and Starbucks... Always good to bump for the masses...
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posted on
04/01/2004 4:47:23 AM PST
by
IncPen
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