Posted on 01/08/2006 5:44:19 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, January 8th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman and ranking Democrat, respectively, of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and Sam Brownback, R-Kan.; General Motors Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat; Specter and Leahy.
Completely off the subject, I had a great laugh yesterday when I went to a bargain book sale and found an enormous stack of biographies of Teddy Kennedy, written by none other than Adam CLYMER. It was on sale for the low, low price of $2.00!!
Thanks. That's what I thought. Maybe the Democrats on TV this morning haven't had time to read the latest talking points.
So disappointed. I guess the current line is then, "I'm too dumb to protect the country from Bush, but smart enough to protect it from terrorists."
Risen Book: Clinton Gave Iran Nuke Blueprints
Don't expect this to get much play:
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/1/7/120534.shtml
In a hairbrained scheme that was personally approved by then-President Clinton, the CIA deliberately gave Iranian physicists blueprints for part of a nuclear bomb that likely helped Tehran advance its nuclear weapons development program. ...
Reports Risen: "It's not clear who originally came up with the idea, but the plan [to give Tehran nuclear blueprints] was first approved by Clinton."
Beginning in February 2000, the CIA recruited a Russian scientist who had defected to the US years earlier. His mission: Take the nuclear blueprints to Vienna to sell them - or simply give them - to the Iranian representatives for the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Dubbed "Operation Merlin," the plan was supposed to steer Iranian physicists off track by incorporating design flaws in the blueprints that would render the information worthless.
But in what may turn out to be one of the greatest foreign policy blunders of all time, Operation Merlin backfired when the Russian scientist spotted the design flaws immediately - and even offered to help Iran fix the problems.
Wow.
Of course disinformation operations are nothing new. And operations like this have backfired before, and will backfire in the future.
However: It seems that lately we're not giving the executive the benefit of the doubt as to his intentions. We seem to be only interested in whether or not he was 100% right in his call.
Clinton was a "miserable failure" here. He aided and abetted Iran's nuke program, no matter what his intention was.
Think the New York Times will give this part of Risen's story above-the-fold, three-column treatment?
Thanks, I watched it too. Michelle nowadays plays the best watchdog of media & dems.
This women thinks we need MORE "Progressives" on the school boards?
LORD HAVE MERCY!
Sounds about right to me. They want to protect American against Republicans and conservatives, while they plunder the treasurary.
Mornin' my FRiend.
The weekend F & F has a tendacy to muddle things, as you know. Maybe, they will buy your groceries for you.
MOrning EC, Mona has been awesome.
True, but at least people are learning what their strategy really is.
LOL! they might make goo door stoppers?
Notice that no Republican callers to C-Span are claiming to have THEIR phones tapped......It's not faaaaaaaair that only dems are being spied on. /s
At least they didn't say it was in Virginia. Down here in Louisiana, people still think I am from Virginia.
Love your "Dump Goober" bumper sticker! LOL
GO MONA! Mona made the point, for those not watching, the MSM IS liberal, BUT may not be liberal enough for the left.
Good morning rod.
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