(Untitled)- March 28, 2004 Cassandra Asks Knock knock A RiddleQ: How do you get Condi Rice to shut up A: Swear her in. Cassandra is brought to you by Bill Fristspecializing in high dudgeon and low farce.http://blogs.salon.com/0003456/2004/03/28.html#a141 (Untitled)- March 27, 2004 White House retreat on 911 claims 1. By KENNETH R. BAZINET and THOMAS M. DeFRANK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON - A member of the 911 commission said yesterday that national security adviserCondoleezza Rice indicated in a private session she was wrong to have once stated no one expected terrorists to use planes as missiles. The White House reportedly also backpedaled yesterday on whether President Bush pressed counterterror czar Richard Clarke the day after the attacks to find evidence.http://blogs.salon.com/0003456/2004/03/27.html#a140 (Untitled)- March 27, 2004 Cassandra HostsGuest Editorial Adventures in Over-Writing For some bizarre reason, the Bush Administration is determined to alienate the families of the victims of 911.Already unhappy about the broken promises of increased funds for first responders, a great many of them were hurt by Bush-Cheney's use of images of Ground Zero and a casket of remains in campaign ads.If that wasn't bad enough, the Bush people turned unhappiness to anger by dismissing the 911 families' objections, calling them...http://blogs.salon.com/0003456/2004/03/26.html#a139 (Untitled)- March 27, 2004 Cassandra WondersOkay, Let's Look A Sauced Goose Bill Frist is leading the charge to declassify Richard Clarke's previous testimony in order to search for contradictions.Dr. Frist makes ominous noises about perjury charges.Meanwhile, back at the ranch,Condi Rice has decided to ask that she be allowed to amend her previous testimony.Obviously, Senator Frist, non-partisan protector of the Republic,will surely now ask that Dr. Rice's testimony should also be brought to lightand any moment now he...http://blogs.salon.com/0003456/2004/03/26.html#a138 (Untitled)- March 26, 2004 Cassandra SwoonsHer Mother, Her Sister, Her Mother, Her Sister. Let's see If We've Got This Straight Okiedoke, The White House had the right to waive Richard Clarke's confidentiality because he was speaking for the administration in the backgrounder in question.andas Scott McClellan points out,Clarke has to explain the contradictions in what he told the 911 Commission and what he said in the backgrounder.because,as Scott McClellan further points out:"This was Mr. Clarke describing what he knew..http://blogs.salon.com/0003456/2004/03/26.html#a137 (Untitled)- March 26, 2004 Cassandra AffirmsWeird Priorities Le Coup D'Etat, C'est Moi! Cassandra understands why the Bushies are so pissed at Richard Clarke He somehow thinks that the oath of office he took was to the Constitution rather than to the Bush Family.Former Navy Secretary John Lehmann knows which side his flag is buttered on.He didn't even try to make a pretense when he quoted from a transcript slipped to him by Fox to be used in trashing Clarke.In defense of party he'd bravely sacrifice his last country....http://blogs.salon.com/0003456/2004/03/26.html#a136 (Untitled)- March 26, 2004 Cassandra Ain't TalkingFox Burns A Source Fox not only makes up news,now they're making up rules too.Fox has come up with a novel release clause to journalism's unbreakable rule against burning a source:The White House gave them permission.It works this way:They promise the source(in this example Richard Clarke)anonymity, so that he will talk to them on background.Then later, when what he says pisses off his former employerthe Bush White House,Fox gets permission from that very same employerto..http://blogs.salon.com/0003456/2004/03/26.html#a135 (Untitled)- March 26, 2004 Cassandra PredictsAnybody Need A Term Paper Subject Flip Flop Cassandra has a research project to offer.We'd do it ourselves, but why not share the funGo back to the news reports just after Clinton bombed Al Qaeda sites in the '90s.Make a list of the Republicans who denounced the then President for "wagging the dog,"that is to say, staging a military action to distract attention from his very domestic problems.Now, make a list of those Republicans who denouncing Clinton for not taking more...http://blogs.salon.com/0003456/2004/03/26.html#a134 (Untitled)- March 26, 2004 Cassandra Is ReassuredYour Government At Work Considering the possibility of studying the feasability of undertaking a review. MR. McCLELLAN (White House Spokesman): Well, Mike, I think that we did take steps to change some of the ideas that had been discussed in the previous administration. In fact, Mr. Clarke has stated such in his comments that have now been released in a transcript by a news station. He made that very clear, that we were -- immediately upon coming into office, this...http://blogs.salon.com/0003456/2004/03/25.html#a133 (Untitled)- March 24, 2004 Cassandra VomitsWe Distort, You Deride Fear and Malice Fox news slipped a transcript of a background briefing with Richard Clarke to Republican members of the 911 Commission.Shortly thereafter Fox began playing a tape of the briefing.Fox slipped a transcript of a 2002 briefing by Clarke on background to Republican members of the 911 Commission.They said the tape, in which Clarke was a representative of the Bush Administration putting forward that administration's position contradicts what he...http://blogs.salon.com/0003456/2004/03/24.html#a132 |
