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CNN is Debunking Richard Clarke!!! (Are Pigs Flying?)
4/26/04
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Posted on 04/26/2004 3:03:51 PM PDT by Timeout
Wolf Blitzer just did an amazing segment on his Inside Politics program.
He led off with a detailed explanation of Clarke's allegation that the Clinton administration's "shaking the trees" led to the capture of the millenium bomber in Seattle. Wolf explained that Clarke had claimed in his testimony that a similar high-alert level prior to 9/11 might likely have prevented that horror. Wolf further showed how Condi Rice had denied Clarke's charge, saying those border agents were not on high alert.
Then Wolf brought on the actual border patrol agent who stopped the bomber in Seattle. He gave her plenty of time to tell what happened. (Bomber came across on ferry, gave unsatisfactory answers and was sweating profusely prior to agents discovering "powder" in the wheel well of his car. She was awesome!)
Then Wolf lowered the boom: "Were you on high alert due to the millenium?"
She said, "No, we weren't. In fact there WAS NO elevated alert system at that time. We were just doing our jobs."
Nailed! What's amazing is that CNN bothered to run this "old news". What's gotten into them? And it was probably a 15 minute interview...quite long for your average political show. I was stunned.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911commission; clarke; richardclarke
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To: Timeout
Another Clinton Accident - just a dog:
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posted on
04/26/2004 3:49:30 PM PDT
by
Helms
To: Lancey Howard
Geesh! It's simply a good business decision to come clean and tip their hat to the Administration.
They have to claim some credibility.
To: Timeout
What this means is that CNN now realizes the Democrats have no chance in November, so they better start reporting news like they should. Sort of suck up to the Administration...
To: Timeout
CNN & ABC are not going to bite the hand that feeds them. The stench of burning rat brain cells is in the air.
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posted on
04/26/2004 3:51:44 PM PDT
by
JoeSixPack1
(Mr. Ed and Wilbur's wife had a kid named John..)
To: cardinal4
What tide is that?
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Billy's gonna be selling his memoirs at the same time Kerry's implosion is taking place.
Hillary Clinton is running.
To: river rat
"Don't read too much into this folks.. CNN is smart enough to realize their credibility is near zero, and Clark was just one anchor too many on their sinking ass..." Also, Clarke has cast his lots with ABC, exclusively, and won't go on any other networks. CNN is not happy and is punishing ABC and Clarke. JMHO...
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posted on
04/26/2004 3:54:46 PM PDT
by
eureka!
(God Bless and protect our troops and comfort the families of the fallen.....)
To: DCPatriot
Naw. She will never run. Her own internal polls tell her how much she is despised.
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posted on
04/26/2004 3:55:03 PM PDT
by
cardinal4
(Terrence Maculiffe-Ariolimax columbianus (hint- its a gastropod.....)
To: Timeout
What's gotten into them? Probably just the shock of their ratings.
To: counterpunch
This was a direct attack on the Clinton administration's assertion that they were on high alert. It has nothing to do with John Kerry. I don't buy for a second that Clinton instructed a compliant CNN to run it.
Agreed. More than likely CNN knows something is going to
break, and wants to get ahead of the story.
69
posted on
04/26/2004 3:58:51 PM PDT
by
MamaLucci
(Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
To: Lancey Howard; Peach
It's easy to be a Johnny-come-lately to the truth when most of the rabble is no longer paying attention and the lies have already done their damage.Exactly. It's CNN's attempt at looking "fair and balanced". And nothing more IMO.
Prairie
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posted on
04/26/2004 3:59:01 PM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(Resign and testify you feckless, duplicitous, devious traitor. Yes, Jamie, I mean you!)
To: DannyTN
Simon Barsinister's truth ray is working and soon the world won't be able to stand itself and they will willingly submit control of the world's affairs to the only person still able to lie to them.
Shouldn't Sweet Polly Purebred have reported this?
To: Timeout
Maybe, just maybe, CNN and a few of the other media outlets realize that many of us are not spun by the spin they put on things. Maybe, just maybe, they are starting to realize that their slipping ratings are because more and more people trust them less and less. Maybe, just maybe, they are trying to become more impartial ... to actually be journalists rather than propagandists for liberal causes.
Maybe, just maybe, monkeys will fly out of my butt.
I suspect that someone somewhere in CNN said that no one was buying Clarkes BS, so maybe, just maybe, they should do one token story that had some aspect of balance in it so as not to appear as complete whores to the DNC. Their motivation is ratings, not principles, dollars, not integrity.
Or maybe, just maybe, they screwed up and let the truth slip out.
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posted on
04/26/2004 4:20:03 PM PDT
by
spodefly
(A 7mm intellect in a .284 caliber world, or something.)
To: Timeout
To: TomGuy
Earlier today I posted that, after Kerry's horrible showing on GMA, the DNC is probably in emergency session trying to figure out what to do.What struck me was the way Chas. Gibson went after Kerry.
Not a good sign for Kerry, Or us.
Then this afternoon I saw McAullife attacking Pres. Bush's National Guard record.
Did he defend clinton's anti- war record and clinton's 'visit' to the USSR. YES Boy, does that flip-flop pi$$ me off.
I'll bet Hillary is behind the whole Kerry medal issue.
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posted on
04/26/2004 4:38:59 PM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: Peach
First ABC this morning hammered Kerry.
CNN this evening takes the bite out of Clarke's charges.
Maybe pigs do fly.
Nope, they have their orders from on high.
75
posted on
04/26/2004 4:39:13 PM PDT
by
Jemian
(JT is #13.)
To: Jemian
You're right, of course. Silly of me to forget Her Shrillness and those FBI records...her ability to blackmail anyone at will was exposed in that book for which Jim Robinson wrote the Foreward "Hillary"s Secret War."
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posted on
04/26/2004 4:41:12 PM PDT
by
Peach
To: JustAnAmerican
I was in a Dekalb County, GA (home of Cynthia McKinney) government building getting my car tag and paying my ad valorem taxes this past Saturday, April 24th...and the televisions in the large waiting area were tuned to FoxNews.
Talk about a shock.
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posted on
04/26/2004 4:49:26 PM PDT
by
Chunga
(.)
To: Focault's Pendulum
That's exactly what happened to my ex wife.
78
posted on
04/26/2004 7:22:27 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,Election '04...It's going to be a bumpy ride,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø)
To: DCPatriot
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Billy's gonna be selling his memoirs at the same time Kerry's implosion is taking place.
Hillary Clinton is running.
Although it would be very difficult, I think it could actually happen.
79
posted on
04/26/2004 9:45:45 PM PDT
by
EternalHope
(Boycott everything French forever. Including their vassal nations.)
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