Posted on 02/19/2006 5:03:51 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, February 19th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Chertoff; Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., and Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va.; basketball player Shaquille O'Neal.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Chertoff; British ambassador to the United States David Manning, German ambassador to the U.S. Wolfgang Ischinger and French ambassador to the U.S. Jean-David Levitte; retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, formerly in charge of Iraqi army training.
"We have a relationship with this company because they have been a participant in some of our cargo and port security measures," Mr. Baker said. "Remember, our interest in port security extends well beyond the United States. If we discover weapons of mass destruction inside a U.S. port, we've already lost. So we do a lot of screening abroad, and our general experience with this company has been positive."
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This may be part of the story that Secretary Chertoff did not want to discuss. There have been serious overseas scrutinies of containers and container ships that are heading for US ports since shortly after Sep 2001.
Our pandering congressmen squeal that only 5% of containers are examined on entry. They do not mention all the measures that are in place overseas.
Let the bidding war begin!!
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When the VP looks a Lynne it always seems to me to a fresh and appreciative look almost someone who cannot believe their good fortune to have won the greatest prize possible. I remember him saying during a TV interview that marrying Lynne was his greatest achievement in life. I also remember she was very flattered almost embarrassed and it did not come over as rehearsed again with Dick Cheney's attitude to the media he would not see any reason to rehearse something like this.
That is my question exactly. Having said that, I do not want under any circumstances to give a Muslim country any economic control over our strategic physical assets that the US cannot live without. Also, knowing that entities such as Al Qaeda are willing to wait years to attack us, it wouldn't take much to put just a handful of Jihadists into important operational positions that could cause the US a world of hurt.
Jack is in enough unfriendly territory as it is!
I really like the idea of including any talking points we identify as keywords. It might help if we come up with a standardized way to flag them as such. It would give us a way to search on articles and discussions that tie in with the current talking points being pushed.
Maybe "DNC talking point -" followed by the particular word. We'd do the same them for Republican talking points, as well. If that's too long we might work on a short hand way to do the same thing, e.g. "DNC says" or even an acronym of some sort.
I'm going to ping the admin moderators on this message as a way of asking if this is something that a) would make sense and b) we might need to set up a seperate thread to work out a labeling convention.
I think we will go our own way and cover the stories that are important to us - Able Danger and the Barrett Report are 2 of them. I also think Tony, Rush, Levin and the others will do the same, especially if they hear from us. The Saddam tapes is one that needs to be covered more fully, with the correct translation and not the edited one that ABC used to support their agenda.
Ray Robison on the Saddam tapes
The American Thinker ^ | February 18, 2006 | Roy Robison
Posted on 02/18/2006 5:25:09 PM PST by little jeremiah
Ray Robison on the Saddam tapes
Ray Robison, whose letter we published yesterday, writes again, regarding the Saddam tapes, John Loftus, and appearance of Bill Tierny last night on Hannity & Colmes. Here is the complete letter:
Last night, Bill Tierney was on Hannity and Colmes talking about the Saddam Tapes. I was fascinated as Bill Tierney defended the information he claims to be present on the tapes. How eerily familiar he looked. I realized it was like a mirror for me.
I saw in him the frustration of knowing that the most significant reasons that President Bush led this nation to war against Iraq were legitimate reasons, yet the “conventional wisdom” is that we were at best wrong, and at worst criminal in that endeavor.
It looks to me to be the frustration of the vanquished, believing something to be true which was confirmed by your every sense, yet history being re-written around you as all that you believed and know is erased as flawed intelligence. This was obvious to me when he blew up at Alan Colmes telling him he wouldn’t let Alan silence him on this issue, showing that Bill, like me is very tired of having to remain silent as idiots who have no first hand experience to the subject constantly define and redefine the issue.
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(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581385/posts
Saddam Translator: ABC Re-interpreted Tapes
NewsMax ^ | 2/17/06
Posted on 02/17/2006 10:45:00 AM PST by areafiftyone
The FBI translator who supplied the 12-hours of Saddam Hussein audiotapes excerpted by ABC's "Nightline" Wednesday night now says the network discarded his translations and went with a less threatening version of the Iraqi dictator's comments.
"What you heard on ABC News was their translation," former U.N. weapons inspector Bill Tierney told ABC Radio's Sean Hannity on Thursday.
"They came up with something different on a key element regarding terrorism in the United States," Tierney insisted.
In the "Nightline" version of a 1996 recording, Saddam predicts that Washington, D.C. would be hit by terrorists. But he adds that Iraq would have nothing to do with the attack.
Tierney says, however, that what Saddam actually said was much more sinister. "He was discussing his intent to use chemical weapons against the United States and use proxies so it could not be traced back to Iraq," he told Hannity.
In a passage not used by "Nightline," Tierney says Saddam declares: "Terrorism is coming . . . . In the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction. What if we consider this technique, with smuggling?"
Tierney's full translations are set for release this weekend by The Intelligence Group in Washington, D.C.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1580625/posts
The Saddam Tapes: Gentlemen, Start Your Spin Machines!
The Powers That Be/MND ^ | Thursday, February 16, 2006 | Doug Powers
Posted on 02/16/2006 4:22:37 PM PST by Nasty McPhilthy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1580066/posts
THE SADDAM TAPES AND THEIR SOURCE (Loftus a nutjob?)
NRO ^ | 2/16/06 | Byron York
Posted on 02/16/2006 1:16:45 PM PST by pissant
This morning the New York Sun has a new report on the so-called "Saddam Tapes." The article, entitled "Furor Erupts Over Recordings of Saddam," reports that two former CIA directors, James Woolsey and John Deutch, have resigned from something called the Intelligence Summit, run by a former federal prosecutor named John Loftus.
The Intelligence Summit is scheduled to release the Saddam tapes tomorrow. Loftus has been a moving force behind the appearance of the tapes; last week, the Sun reported that the House Intelligence Committee was studying the tapes, which "were provided to [the] committee by a former federal prosecutor, John Loftus, who says he received them from a former American military analyst." The Sun said the committee had authenticated the tapes through its work with the intelligence community.
Now, the Sun reports that Woolsey and Deutch resigned from Loftus' group because of their concern over "new information they received regarding one of the summit's biggest donors, Michael Cherney, an Israeli citizen who has been denied a visa to enter America because of his alleged ties to the Russian mafia."
Whatever the status of Cherney, and whatever the motives of Woolsey and Deutch, what is missing from the story is some perspective on John Loftus. I first encountered his name in the fall of 2003, when I was working on a story about Bush hatred. I was looking at the people who claim that the Bush family got its wealth from financing the Nazis, and I discovered that one of the sacred texts of that particular worldview is a book, The Secret War Against the Jews, by the authors Mark Aarons and...John Loftus. In 1995, when the book appeared, Anti-Defamation League director Abraham Foxman, who can reasonably be counted on to speak out against people who financed the Nazis, called it "so exaggerated, so scantily documented, so overwrought and convoluted in its presentation, that Loftus and Aarons render laughable their claim to offer 'a glimpse of the world as it really is.'"
One might guess that the Sun is not aware of Loftus' other work, but that would be incorrect. In January 2004, the paper published an article on those notorious MoveOn.org ad submissions that compared George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler. The story included a quote from Loftus, who said the ads were basically accurate. "The Bushes played a significant role in bringing money into the Third Reich," Loftus told the paper. "They literally financed Hitler. It was all about the money. It wasn't about the ideology."
Loftus has other interests. A visit to his website finds, among other things, a May, 2002 article by him entitled "What Congress Does Not Know About Enron and 9/11." In the article, Loftus reports that the now-defunct energy company had a contract with the Taliban to build a pipeline, and that Vice President Dick Cheney, determined to help out Enron, forbade U.S. intelligence sources from investigating the Enron/Taliban/al Qaeda connection in the months leading up to the September 11 terrorist attacks. After outlining this somewhat Fahrenheit 9/11-like theory, Loftus concludes, "The Enron cover-up confirms that 9/11 was not an intelligence failure or a law enforcement failure (at least not entirely). Instead, it was a foreign policy failure of the highest order. If Congress ever combines its Enron investigation with 9/11, Cheney’s whole house of cards will collapse."
Now, Loftus is on to the Saddam tapes. If the House committee is correct, the tapes are legitimate. But their release is sure to be accompanied by forceful commentary from John Loftus. In assessing that, you might want to be careful.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1579937/posts
EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Tapes -- Inside Saddam's Palace
ABC News ^ | February 15 2006 | BRIAN ROSS and RHONDA SCHWARTZ
Posted on 02/15/2006 12:24:52 PM PST by jmc1969
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1579207/posts
LOL!!
I am willing to just give to someone....actually- I think I will send it to MNJohnnie so he send it to the troops...
in fact- I might have to buy the whole set for the troops..
Laredo Morning Times - Thursday, June 4, 1998Continental Stevedoring & Terminals Inc. has a business relationship with P&O, via interest in a commonly owned entity, Eller-I.T.O Stevedoring Company. I get the feeling that more digging will result in a mass of names that would take a chart or visual aid to grasp. ;-)
BY CATHERINE WILSON
AP Business WriterMIAMI - Three men associated with the Port of Miami, including its ousted former director, were charged Wednesday with stealing $1.3 million and using the money on Super Bowl tickets, lingerie and bar tabs.
They also are accused of using stolen funds to donate $120,000 to the Democratic National Committee in 1994.
Since 1990, the three "have used the Port of Miami as a personal bank," said U.S. Attorney Thomas Scott. Calvin Grigsby, owner of the company that ran the port's container cargo cranes, and former- port director Carmen Lunetta were charged with conspiracy, embezzlement and money laundering. Port contractor Neal Harrington was charged with embezzlement and theft.
Lunetta was forced to resign as port director last year after a judge ruled that Grigsby's cargo company had to open its books to public scrutiny. The port, owned by Miami-Dade County and the eighth-busiest cargo port in the country, lost a total of $22 million in five years while Lunetta controlled the purse strings.
Grigsby owns Fiscal Operations Inc., which since 1982 has operated the towering gantry cranes that handle all of the port's containerized cargo. Public money diverted from the port was held in Fiscal Operations accounts, the indictment charged.
Fiscal Operations collects nearly $8 million a year in ship fees, with the county's share being around $1 million a year in recent years.
Harrington was part owner and a director of Continental Stevedoring & Terminals Inc., a major port contractor which rented cranes from Fiscal Operations.
The $120,000 donated to the Democratic Party in 1994 came from Harrington at Lunetta's request, and Continental was reimbursed, prosecutors said.
Both TIME and NEWSWEEK are planning covers of Cheney for high impact on newsstands Monday,
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I have been trying to observe this kind of "high impact" for a few years. The supermarkets that I frequent do not display these weeklies any more - having filled their racks with Oprah, Martha Stewart, US, Essence, TVGuide, etc.
"High impact" is not what it used to be.
A lot of good and intereting work here Cboldt - I think it deserves a separate thread
Those are beautiful! The love is so very apparent.
"High impact" is not what it used to be."
So true!
Color me stupid. Who is the orca?
Unfortunately....the Republicans that have been on these shows talking about this are as uninformed as the dems...
Consequently, they are also making this sound much more scandalous than it is....and, since THEY have nothing to do with this...it is just another chance for Congresscritters to get huffy about being left out....just like with the NSA surveillance.
If so, I saw 10 minutes of it once...... too dark..... to much jumping around on the screen, too much violence....... not my style.
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I'll take "Random Harvest" (1942) with Greer Garson and Ronald Colman...... you can have that "24" intrigue, thank you.
That goes double for light-loafers-Lindsey G.
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