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Post-Threat Chagrin Around The Tower (LA Times Bush-bashing spin on LA terrorist plot announcement)
Los Angeles Times ^ | February 9, 2006 | Tanya Caldwell

Posted on 02/09/2006 2:37:29 PM PST by Libertarian444

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Other downtown employees saw the new details as a political move by Bush to "keep us living in fear" and garner support for the war on terrorism.

"It's a travesty.... I mean, we've caught him lying so many times," said Mark Lea, who works at a major law firm in the Wells Fargo building next door. "He's only doing this to draw up support for his domestic spying."

Patrick Grover, who works on the tower's 2nd floor, agreed.

"I'm not alarmed [by the threats]," Grover said. "I'm alarmed that they're exploiting it years later."

Grover called Bush's announcement "malarkey," criticizing the president for supposedly setting up a "smokescreen" now that the administration's spying policies are under attack.

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(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: jihadinamerica; lalaland; laterroristplot
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1 posted on 02/09/2006 2:37:33 PM PST by Libertarian444
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To: Libertarian444
Many Californians don't believe there's a war on, or that rogue elements of the Islamic Caliphate attacked us on 9/11.

"W" probably should have let one of the planned attacks take place, but not in LA ~ more like in San Francisco.

2 posted on 02/09/2006 2:38:54 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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To: Libertarian444

[sacasm on] "We don't need no stinkin LA" [sarcasm off]


3 posted on 02/09/2006 2:39:00 PM PST by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: Libertarian444

To quote Jack Nicholson, "I wish you'd just say Thank You and be on your way."


4 posted on 02/09/2006 2:39:06 PM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: Libertarian444
These dweebs might as well be putting up a terrorist 'please bomb here' sign.

West coast Leftism is just as deranged as East coast Leftism.

5 posted on 02/09/2006 2:39:33 PM PST by keithtoo (It's STILL not safe to vote Democrat)
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To: Libertarian444

You didn't tell us. Why did you tell us?

Please spy and protect us. Why did you spy?

You got a rope to hang us? It's new. What a waste of good new rope.

Keep talkin d-tards, keep talking.


6 posted on 02/09/2006 2:41:58 PM PST by kinghorse
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To: Libertarian444

Let'em hit the blue states. They like it!!!

Just protect the red states. We dont like to be blowed up.


7 posted on 02/09/2006 2:42:42 PM PST by right right
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To: Libertarian444

When a nuclear device goes off in L.A. during President Hillary's reign, I hope they're the first to go. Hey, It's only a "smokescreen" anyway!


8 posted on 02/09/2006 2:43:20 PM PST by appleharvey
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To: Libertarian444

I wouldn't know why terrorist would target LA anyway, they kill themselves off without help now.


9 posted on 02/09/2006 2:45:01 PM PST by Wasanother (Terrorist come in many forms but all are RATS.)
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To: Libertarian444

"keep us living in fear"


It's the new talking point for the dems. Hillary has started using it already.


10 posted on 02/09/2006 2:48:26 PM PST by CyberAnt
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To: Libertarian444

Blah blah blah blah blah. A lib attorney calling Bush a liar? That's hilarious.


11 posted on 02/09/2006 2:49:20 PM PST by doug from upland (INDICTING HILLARY -- now that is something that's good for America)
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To: Libertarian444
The "questionable timing" spin machine is running full tilt and coming to a network evening newscast near you, if you can stomach watching it.

I'm glad to see the administration going on the offense against the leaking wannabe princes of the Senate.
12 posted on 02/09/2006 2:50:15 PM PST by conservative in nyc
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Lisa Cyrus, an employee on the building's 16th floor, said she would have quit her job had she known there was such a threat to the building when she started working for FTI Consulting in 2002. "I would've gotten another job," said Cyrus, who added that she was already nervous when she was working next door at the Wells Fargo building during the Sept. 11 attacks.

Job? where would she get one of those??? According to the MSM the economy stinks!!!
13 posted on 02/09/2006 2:50:52 PM PST by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: Libertarian444; commish; Common Tator; Coop; Howlin; JohnHuang2; Nick Danger; Buckhead; Dog Gone
""It's a travesty.... I mean, we've caught him lying so many times," said Mark Lea, who works at a major law firm in the Wells Fargo building next door."

So here's a little bit of LA Times propaganda. Note that they explicitly mention where Mark Lea works...but they don't tell you is that he's not an attorney (see link below).

They could have just said that "Mark Lea works in the Wells Fargo building next door," but no, they went out of their way to allude to a law firm (i.e. an attempt to give Mark more credibility than he deserves on a *legal* opinion such as "domestic spying" or "Bush lying").

http://members.calbar.ca.gov/exam/browse.aspx?a=l

14 posted on 02/09/2006 2:54:40 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: doug from upland
"A lib attorney calling Bush a liar? That's hilarious."

See post #14. The LA Times wrote their propaganda in such a way as to make Mark Lea appear to be an attorney, but he's not.

15 posted on 02/09/2006 2:55:38 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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" 'It's a travesty.... I mean, we've caught him lying so many times," said Mark Lea, who works at a major law firm in the Wells Fargo building next door. 'He's only doing this to draw up support for his domestic spying.' "

What an F'in' idiot! They haven't caught "him" lying at all. This asinine fool would rather LA be attacked then even begin to look at the real threat.
16 posted on 02/09/2006 2:55:39 PM PST by George - the Other (400,000 bodies in Saddam's Mass Graves, and counting ...)
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To: muawiyah
What! Are there no loony liberals in L.A.?????
17 posted on 02/09/2006 3:01:26 PM PST by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, over there, We won't be back 'til it's over Over there.")
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To: George - the Other

Since no one has "caught" "W" lying any times at all, his statement simply demonstrates that this Mark Lea guy is so totally out of touch.


18 posted on 02/09/2006 3:03:04 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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To: Southack

Thanks for the info. So typical.


19 posted on 02/09/2006 3:03:56 PM PST by doug from upland (INDICTING HILLARY -- now that is something that's good for America)
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To: Southack

That's just the July 2005 California Bar pass list. If "Mark Lea" passed the bar before July 2005, his name wouldn't be on it.

I think you're probably right that he's not a lawyer, though. If he were, the L.A. Times likely would have said it.


20 posted on 02/09/2006 3:04:58 PM PST by conservative in nyc
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