If there were any doubts that Alberto Gonzales was a poor choice for attorney general, they should be gone now: According to a Justice Department inquiry, then-Attorney General Gonzales was lax in handling highly classified documents about a terrorist surveillance program and terror detainee interrogations, even taking classified notes home and failing to store them in a specially installed safe because he “did not know the combination.” What part of “classified information” did he not understand? Of course, this is the same man who cited faulty memory or ignorance in not answering 71 questions put to him by the Senate Judiciary Committee during one 2007 hearing.
Speaking of classified documents: The New York Times’ Paul Krugman noted that “the White House Web site featured photos of the president talking to Gulf state governors about Hurricane Gustav while ostentatiously clutching a red folder labeled ‘Classified.’” Krugman went on: “Assuming that the folder contained something other than scrap paper, is the planned response to a hurricane a state secret? Are we worried that tropical storm systems will discover our weak points? Are we fighting a Global War on Weather?”
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Knowing Dubya, the red “Classified” folder was a prop to make him look important.
Or maybe it contained his own personal pair of blow-up water wings.
A map back to the limo?
Something to throw everyone off so no one would remember Katrina? The same way Rhonda is leading what should be a convo about Gonzo in a different direction.
Looks like it’s going to be another rousing day on WEBlog.
“Are we fighting a Global War on Weather?””
Maybe Bush thinks hurricanes are Saddam’s WMDs!
If Sandy Berger does it, it’s one thing. If Gonzo does it, it’s another. It’s Repub. logic and morals at their finest.
I suspected (and apparently bush also) that Katrina was the work of Al-Quida, designed to undermine the oil infrastructure and make bush look bad!
Where are all the outraged Republicans?
The red folder probably contained more damning items on what they didn’t do right the first time. But we aren’t privy to that information on how bad it REALLY was- or maybe what our enemies learned while we were down for the count.
Can anyone be really surprised about this?
Bush surely knows how to find/appoint quality people!
Speaking of classified documents: The New York Times’ Paul Krugman noted that “the White House Web site featured photos of the president talking to Gulf state governors about Hurricane Gustav while ostentatiously clutching a red folder labeled ‘Classified.’” Krugman went on: “Assuming that the folder contained something other than scrap paper, is the planned response to a hurricane a state secret? Are we worried that tropical storm systems will discover our weak points? Are we fighting a Global War on Weather?”
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Duh!
Radar systems go bonkers. Satellite views are blocked and all sorts of things go wrong during a hurricane.
Plus, there are many military installations, ships and DoD infrastructure also in the path of hurricanes. Defense nets are no less impervious to gigantic storms than the rest of the population.
Duh!
Radar systems go bonkers. Satellite views are blocked and all sorts of things go wrong during a hurricane.
Plus, there are many military installations, ships and DoD infrastructure also in the path of hurricanes. Defense nets are no less impervious to gigantic storms than the rest of the population.
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:lol:
Oh…I get it. :D
So hurricanes mean the POTUS becomes so harried that he’s justified in carrying about TOP SECRET documents!
This is so wrong, on so many levels, that the mind boggles in proportions not normal to the usual mindboggling that today’s GOP tends to give the average US citizen on a daily basis. Jesus, this is like deluxe boggling.
Boggling with whipped cream and a cherry on top. :D
It’s like hurricanes are a BRAND NEW phenomenon, at least for Augustus Stupidus, ipso facto he and his AG get free passes when it comes to sashaying about with top secret documents in their personal possession.
Jesus, these Bush people are S T U P I D U S. :D
Hope the moron didn’t set them down and walk off!