Keystone Kops - Frist can't keep his lies straight anymore

Roland99

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Wed Nov-09-05 10:01 AM
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Keystone Kops - Frist can't keep his lies straight anymore

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/11/08.html#a5766

This morning, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) wrote a letter to intelligence committee chairmen about the recent leak of information to the Washington Post about secret CIA detention centers in Europe.

As was reported earlier, Lott told Ed Henry that he thinks it was republicans that leaked it. Frist said that he didn't sign the letter earlier, but it looks like he did now. This saga is like one of those old silent movies. The likely scenario will be that the republicans will say they are so principled that they will investigate even their own on this one. Time for the keystone cops to go to a couple of ethics classes too.

More like the Keystone Gops. ;)

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sam sarrha

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Wed Nov-09-05 10:11 AM
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1. i hear that Rove gives some great Ethics Classes ....at the White House

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boobooday

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Wed Nov-09-05 10:26 AM
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2. Who is teaching these Ethics classes?

I would say that there might be someone working on the White House staff who knows what ethics are, but they are probably working as janitorial staff.

If Bush selected a random janitor from Washington D.C. to teach the ethics classes, they might have some legitimacy.

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calimary

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Wed Nov-09-05 10:35 AM
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3. This is just incredibly hilarious. Ol lott turns out to be quite the

loose cannon, doesn't he?

Probably figures it's simply payback for their throwing him to the wolves. Which they did, and it was um... well... uh... understandable, shall we say? He did finally get his. But it seems some people NEVER stop keeping score. It figures, though - this is the kind of mentality we're dealing with, with the GOP. Snippy little piss-ants, ALL of them. When are all those nice, upstanding, mature "adults" they kept boasting about going to be back in charge, anyway?

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npincus

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Wed Nov-09-05 10:47 AM
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4. it's out of their hands now... the CIA is calling for an investigation

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/politics/09inquire.html

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 - The Central Intelligence Agency has asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation to determine the source of a Washington Post article that said the agency had set up a covert prison network in Eastern Europe and other countries to hold important terrorism suspects, government officials said on Tuesday.

The C.I.A.'s request, known as a crimes report or criminal referral, means that the Justice Department will undertake a preliminary review to determine if circumstances justify a criminal inquiry into whether any government official unlawfully provided information to the newspaper. The possibility of this new investigation follows by less than two weeks the perjury and obstruction indictment of I. Lewis Libby Jr., then Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, in a leak case involving other news reporting about a national security issue.

Republican leaders in Congress also jumped into the matter over The Post's article, asking the Intelligence Committees of the House and the Senate on Tuesday to investigate whether classified material had been disclosed. At the same time, the Senate rejected a Democratic call for an independent commission that would conduct an investigation into claims of abuses of detainees in American custody.

Eric C. Grant, a spokesman for the newspaper, said it would have no comment on the new developments concerning its article. A spokesman for the C.I.A. said a crimes report had indeed been sent to the Justice Department but would not otherwise comment.

The front-page article, published last Wednesday, said the agency had set up secret detention centers in as many as eight countries in the last four years.

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Roland99

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Wed Nov-09-05 11:04 AM
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5. Almost feels like a backlash against the CIA *by* the administration

The CIA has long taken the brunt of criticism for intelligence failures, missed opportunities, etc. when their actions have been at the behest of the executive branch. I think the CIA is tired of taking their shit and has been working to release what information they can to paint the admin in the bad light it so deserves and how the CIA is getting "hit back hard".

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npincus

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Wed Nov-09-05 11:09 AM
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6. shows ya what happens when they fuck with the wrong people

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Roland99

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Wed Nov-09-05 11:12 AM
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7. I'm sure the CIA is hiding so many skeletons on prior and current admins..

that a world war would break out if they released them all.

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