March 28, 2004


Ahhh, the smell of springtime (and liars)

What is it they say? When it rots it starts at the head? Were they talking about a fish or the 1600 Crew? Well, you can be sure that if Condi [Never met a mattress I didn't like] Rice is mentioned it has to involve lying, protecting the status-quo and decimating National Security. What the hell is she a doctor of anyhow, bullshit?

National security adviser Condoleezza Rice, at the center of a controversy over her refusal to testify before the Sept. 11 commission, yesterday renewed her determination not to give public testimony and said she could not list anything she wished she had done differently in the months before the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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But Rice gave no ground on the administration's decision that she will not appear in public before the panel or testify under oath because Bush officials believe doing so would compromise the constitutional powers of the executive branch. The renewed refusal came despite the panel's unanimous plea for her testimony.

Republican commissioner John F. Lehman, who has written extensively on separation-of-power issues, said that "the White House is making a huge mistake" by blocking Rice's testimony and decried it as "a legalistic approach."

"A legalistic approach"? Gee, where have we heard that said in reference to someone else in the Whore House?

I think that the republicans are slowly coming up with a new definition of "is". And it has nothing to do with truth, justice and the American Way...thanks again to Preznit Remarkably Incurious for bringing the grown-ups from the Nixon Administration back to Washington.
posted by Jo Fish on 03.28.04 at 11:25 PM





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Why doesn't she want to testify under oath? She can still lie her ass off.

 posted by: merl on 03.29.04 at 01:11 AM [permalink]

I have been preparing for a class I am auditing as a senior citizen on the U.S. Supreme Court. This week we are taking up the Warren Court, including its decision in the case of U.S. v. Nixon back in 1974. As I read the case and certain explanatory text materials, I thought of the situation that George W and Condi are facing. Perhaps the Congress and the Commission will have the balls to issue subpoenas. But I doubt that the courts would expedite the matter as was done in U.S. v. Nixon so that the voters will have the benefit thereof for this November.

posted by: Shag from Brookline on 03.29.04 at 04:51 PM [permalink]

1. The 9-11 Commission is not an arm of Congress, it is an independent entity and there can be no "separation of powers" claim.

2. Other NSAs have been called by, and testified before such commissions several times in the past.

3. The White House knows that there isn't enough time left to enforce a subpeona, so they don't care.

They should never have challanged Clarke. The man is a skilled bureaucrat who has survived through four Presidents and knows more about playing the game than the entire White House.

 posted by: Bryan on 03.29.04 at 05:38 PM [permalink]

Just for the record:

"Dr. Condoleeza Rice was born on November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama. She entered the University of Denver at age 15 and graduated in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in political science. Rice then went on to earn a master's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1975 and a doctorate Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. Dr. Rice has also received honorary doctorates from Morehouse College, the University of Alabama, and the University of Notre Dame."

Yet another overly-educated idiot.

 posted by: Brenda Helverson on 03.29.04 at 10:21 PM [permalink]

What was her honoray doctorate from 'bama? James Baker's ass't sec of state was the communications Dean. Two women whose endorsement could get a journalist implanted...

 posted by: Mr.Murder on 03.30.04 at 03:12 PM [permalink]

She would rather testify under OAF... where she's always been.

 posted by: Mr.Murder on 03.30.04 at 03:14 PM [permalink]


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