First, No Brief on Iraq, Now No Brief on USA

Re: First, No Brief on Iraq, Now No Brief on USA

One word: mineshafts!

I hope the subway tunnels are deep enough.


Could this White House get anymore arrogant without actually seizing power? How?

Joe( I was going to say by rescinding Habeas Corpus, but they've ALREADY done that.)Nation

Re: First, No Brief on Iraq, Now No Brief on USA


having spent four years with the Corps of Engineers working on defense emergency preparedness throughout the nation you best drap yourself with a white sheet and crawl slowly to the closest cemetary, we all die.

btw Bush and his Presidential entourage secret to a place about 50-60 miles southeast of Gettysburg, PA, or did when I inspected it back in '74.

And as as Terry Southern, Stanley Kubrick and Dr. Stranglove predicted, it IS an old mineshaft.

but the point to be made is the insistence that Bush, et al are royalty and that they are unaccountable to the citizens from whom their power arises.

That location has been replaced, but I cannot tell you where.


Joe(because I do not know)Nation

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Senator Clinton's request had nothing to do with politics and her campaign for the presidency. It was crucially important for her to make a public request for the DD's plans for withdrawal.

Similarly we can assume that DeFazio's inquiry was based on the most pristine of intentions. The American people need to know what these plans might be, and he would never take any of the information found in an official report out of context for partisan gain.

Who is this wanker Jeff Kosseff?

"Oregonians called Peter DeFazio's office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack."

All twelve of them? Does anyone really believe that this was widespread concern of Oregonians. I bet that "Oregonians" have called DeFazio's office worried that aliens are engaged in extensive anal probes of American citizens and that Big Foot is feeling put upon because of these beef jerky ads on TV. Is Petey attempting to dig into The Truth of these issues?

"Norm Ornstein, a legal scholar who studies government continuity at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said he "cannot think of one good reason" to deny access to a member of Congress who serves on the Homeland Security Committee."

Whether or not the American Enterprise Institute is "conservative," no one would mistake Ornstein for a conservative. Are readers supposed to grant Norm's comments greater credence because he is part of a "conservative" think tank? Interesting logic here.

This Administration is overly defensive, but to suggest that it's refusal to play into Defazio's hands is indicative of a conspiracy is pure nonsense.