Paraphase Condi's testimony in one sentence

They were historical documents and not terrorists alerts.

:-)

or "There was no way we could do anything!"

</Sgt. Schultz>

Thought I was listening to a John Dean flashback or Sgt. Schultz.



Props to "Billmon" for the grafik

I didn't have enough information and besides, I thought the FBI was handling the Al Qaeda cells in the US that weren't a serious threat.

totalbullshit one word?
:evilgrin:

BS

complete details to the attack" "it is not my fault" "shaking trees doesn't work"
"restructuring"

that memo remains classified for very good reasons which I think you know, Mr Commissioner.

junior was doing the best he can yap yap yap yap they hate us cuz of who we are yap yap yap yap yap

I picture Condi at her desk, with a mirror, practicing that smile and checking the gap in her teeth for food bits.

Waiting for the phone to ring, someone telling her what to do.

I heard the phrase "to the best of my recollection" used so many time was before Sam Ervin's committee back in 73-74

I think "to the best of my recollection" is code for "I don't want to go to jail for perjury"


--MAB

or the names (spelled correctly) of all the hijackers (and their mothers' maiden names) or the specific targets for each plane or provided the hijackers' flight school transcripts, so I couldn't do anything . . . it's Clinton's fault.

You have the *Condi BS decoder ring* too?

:D

heck's a silver bullet?

And therefore, it's not my fault.

quack quack quack

He was swatting my tits and I was tatting his fly.

Welcome to DU

When? What? HOw? Dont know not my fault

we would have moved heaven and earth to defend the USA...if only, Ronald R. hadn't teamed up with OBL and helped him fight the Russians...if only, the founding fathers had made this a dictatorship in 1776, Bush and I wouldn't have to answer these dumb questions about what we were doing...if only, the Crusaders had wiped out the Islam, we wouldn't have had any problems.

a tactical response to immediate events that occured during the job I started six months ago.

Basically, the best she can say was I was studying the issues. Unfortunately, her job requires that she can hit the ground running.

given sketchy plans by the Clinton administration, there was no specific threat only vague chatter, no one told me exactly what to do, and it wasn't my job to think for myself.

...well, I can't recall exactly that we did.

Courtesy of Jon Stewart, the most brilliant poltiical commentator of our time.

she said: "I was not asked to do something!"
LIHOP at its best.

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Sorry, that's plagiarized.

That comment was from Henry Champ on CBC's NewsWorld right after the hearing.

And lucky me -

I get to watch part of it all over again, it's being covered on CPAC, which I gather is like the State's CSPAN?

CPAC covers our Government in the Parliament, live every day, no commercials.

Congressman Roman (?) just came on - you know, the guy that offered Condi an opportunity to take a break

ON EDIT: - I got it now, just passed the point where she interrupted him

- Mr. Romer, Mr. Romer .... MR. ROMER !!!

Thanks CONdee :mad:

entitled "Bin Laden determined to attack the US" despite its name was not a warning and so we couldn't shake the trees and didn't want to swat at flies and although there was chatter about a gathering threat there was no actionable intelligence that planes could be used as missiles made it through the structural flaws to prevent the attacks on us because of who we are.

"Okay, I admit it, I'm just a former college professor and I'm in way over my head."

Was obviously "out of the loop":eyes:

"Thousands of dead Americans in the streets" is not really a warning.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

Been here more than a week and you're the first to welcome me. Heard about the site on Air America (last time I said "AA" I was accused of being an alcoholic).

Welcome to DU!

:hi:

Yes, I know the title of the PDB was "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the US", but most of the warnings were abroad and Yes, I know there was mention of Al Queda hijacking airliners, but who could have imagined they'd crash them, and YES, WE KNEW THERE WERE AL QUEDA CELLS IN THE US, but we can't put one and one together to make 2, and YES, we knew they were training at flight schools and didn't want to know how to land, but we thought it might be because they wanted to get better at Microsoft flight simulator, and 'I do not recall', and 'To the best of my recollection', and Yes, I am quite good at fillibustering to take up the limited time, and No, I will not admit any kind of failure or apology, and NO ONE IN THIS ADMINISTRATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HAPPENED...got that ?

Clinton's, Congress's, Richard Clarke's, the CIA's, the FBI's fault!

"Don't blame me. All the problems were structural."

I bet she mother's Bush, as he talks like that also.

/B. Simpson

"I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything"

...and we were ALWAYS right."

my name being on an oil tanker and Congress and the American people wouldn't let us do that without a really good reason so we made sure that we had a really good reason by just kinda sorta letting all these warnings pile up to their logical conclusion which was the attack on 9/11 and actually it took a lot longer than we figured we were hoping that it would happen on July 5 but OBL was really inefficient and late so it didn't actually happen until September 11 and by that time the president and vice-president had been on vacation just about as long as they figured they could get away with so thank goodness for JEB in Florida at least the president had a safe place to be because he is god's chosen one and I really am tired of answering all these boring questions I want to retire and spend my money.

Yes, Dr. Rice's testimony convinced me of LIHOP.

... and we're really not interested in nation-building."

</bob-boudelang>

:evilgrin:

:kick:

This is NOT over for Bush, Condi, etc.
It is the beginning of their demise..an end to the takeover of our Government for the power it offered them.

oh, sorry, that's not a sentence is it.

n/t

Arrogance.

could not have prevented the World trade center attack.

acted on it.

But the deputies never told the principals what they should be doing, and if they did, I don't recall anyone listening although the president did ask someone to swat some flies.

and dutiful about cleaning up their bad policies that our deputies failed to get our attention about a vague threat that we never were told about yet were totally alert to, which was never actually made."

but he can't sit still long enough to listen to anything longer than a page.

I want to be sure to be clear about this ...

We have to be clear about this ...

:crazy:

enough when strategic structural changes are in order.

Like invading Iraq.