Posted on 09/06/2009 10:15:07 AM PDT by the Real fifi
Clarice Feldman It seems that Obama is not going to get away with blaming the Brits for releasing the Lockerbie bomber. At least not if Downing Street can help it. The British say the White House and Secretary of State Clinton were fully informed of the decision and are deflecting blame onto the British now that the decision has proven to be unpopular.
(Of course, given how the American press hides stories, like Van Jones that reflect badly on the President, unless Americans seek out alternate media or read the foreign press the White House deflection will probably work.)
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Because his numbers are dropping like lead.
It will never be brought up.....
Ridiculous! And the ports deal was a good one for the US which would have made it far easier to monitor sipping thry out the ME..opposing it was idiotic.
To take that and assume Bush would and did approve this, is slander.
And I cannot imagine someone with his executive skills leaving the FBI director so out of the loop.
Well, I don’t know what Mueller knew, or when he knew it, but I do think he was an absolutely lousy appointment. From the get-go he carried water for the clintons and the left and made not the least attempt to clean the corrupt clintonoids out of the top levels of the FBI.
After his letter to the Scots if he stays no one in the FBI will have any respect for him IMO.(Unless of course the Brits are lying.)
At the time of al-Megrahi’s release here is what Obama said:
[quote]President Obama today described the release from prison of Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, as ‘a mistake’.
Within minutes of Mr Obama’s comments, al-Megrahi arrived in Libya to a “hero’s welcome”. Pictures from Tripoli showed hundreds of supporters, some waving Scottish flags, greeting al-Megrahi as he got off the plane.
Speaking on a radio talk show broadcast from The White House, President Obama said:“We have been in contact with the Scottish Government indicating that we object to this [the release al al-Megrahi]. We thought it was a mistake.
“We are now in contact with the Libyan Government to make sure that he is not welcomed back in some way but instead should be under house arrest.” [/quote[]
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6804000.ece
I can’t say that I would miss Mueller, although I suppose Obama would then find someone worse.
I didn’t mean to suggest that Bush did it on purpose. The chad wars and clinton’s refusal to have a transition and the footdragging on appointments by the Democrats in congress delayed all Bush’s appointments, and as I recall Mueller wasn’t put in until about a week before 9/11. I don’t think many people knew how he would handle the job, and maybe Bush picked someone whom he thought the Democrats wouldn’t give him too much of a fight over.
But I did wish Bush had gotten rid of him somehow and put somebody decent in the job. Now we’ll probably get a junior Holder in there.
That may well be true-I am not arguing his merits, only noting the difficult position he’s in if Obama was lying—as he appears to have been-when the release took place.
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