Found at Starbucks: The Pentagon's Papers

American Progress (Lefty Org?) ^ | March 31, 2004 | unsigned

[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)

[Joe_October]

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.)

[hellinahandcart]

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?

[dalebert]

I just bet they were left.

[swheats]

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".

[piasa]

See this thread as well : Notion Building (Clintonistas plot their return to power), The New York Times Magazine ^ | 10/12/03 | MATT BAI

[piasa]

We need to get a conservative only coffee house!

That would be Dunkin' Donuts...

[Howlin]

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!"

4 posted on 10/10/2003 6:05:45 PM EDT by Old Sarge (Serving You... on Operation Noble Eagle!)

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[Old Sarge]

Where's our eight-word bumper sticker?

[piasa]

Wait Podesta minute here bump...

DuPont circle is just chock full of nuts.

[adam_az]

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.

[Howlin]

A "government in waiting" bump!

[piasa]

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.

[MattAMiller]

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?

[Cindy]

Yep.

Nuts and fruitcakes.

[Cindy]

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....

[onyx]

Thanks for the ping.
I;ll read this INTERESTING thang later this morning.

[Tunehead54]

Good one! LOL Thanks, definitely bumpersticker material.

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[hummingbird]

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.

[backhoe]

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."

[Dog]

Clinton flack John Podesta and Open Society Institute and Open Society Policy Center(George Soros outfit).

[IncPen]

Thanks Backhoe. I searched Pentagon and Starbucks... Always good to bump for the masses...