Kerry on the Confirmation of General Michael Hayden as CIA Director

John Kerry on the Confirmation of General Michael Hayden as CIA Director
May 26th, 2006 @ 1:17 pm

As I reported earlier, the Senate voted 78-15 today, to confirm General Michael Hayden as “Bush’s choice to replace Porter J. Goss, who announced May 5 that he was stepping down after 20 months on the job.”

John Kerry issued the following statement in regards to the confirmation and his vote against the nomination:



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Kennedy and Kerry. I am blessed.

In the end Hayden was still confirmed.

Ohio calls for '04. He might also ask if he still has the computer files and e mails
too? And how much of the data was passed on to bush/Cheney 04 & Choice Point.

... Bush is still getting everying he wants.

This is not a government representative of the people;
it answers only to rightwing thuggery and corporatism,
with a complicit media to make it look a certain way.

I'm so disgusted.

Sue

Computer files with d-bases of voters were hacked through 5 & 6 firewalls.

Whoever did it was very good. Phones were jammed & hacked too. SBC = ATT = NSA.

Wonder how that Hoffa body hunt is going?

AG Gonzales has to go very soon as well.

Sounds to me like all the heavy "marketting" and targetting of voters the GOPs said they did in Ohio was their cover for how they "knew" so much.

Diebold machines had infrared data ports that data could be inputted into the machines without
a physical connection

Blackwell had access to all the central tabulators on the county level @ his office ....
"the story" (I don't know if this is true or not) was that he could input data into the
central tabulators. This could explain the 19,000 votes loaded into the Miami county
vote total AFTER THE MACHINES WERE TURNED OFF AND VOTING HAD STOPPED.....
These 19,000 votes were at exactly the same ratio of all the other previous votes.
i.e. 62.39 % bush vote 36.11 % Kerry vote .... the % #s are not true ....
see Conyers report.

You are right "they" knew how many votes were needed to switch and null out for
bush to win before 11/2/04

to point out that Hayden is not a good choice for this position. Shouldn't this be common sense?

For God's sake, is the BFEE holding something over every congressional member?

:shrug:

"For God's sake, is the BFEE holding something over every congressional member?"

Boy it sure looks that way. I absolutely don't understand most of the legislators at all.

I think they've literally lost their minds.

Sue

is that they are all beholden to the same corporate influences. That makes all of them(Ds and Rs alike) tainted and in desperate need of replacement.

I guess we'll see come post November mid terms...

...think he's gonna do a heckuva job.

Is there anything you'd like to say to your fellow caucus members, Senator?

-MR

Kerry, with Clinton, Harkin and Dayton, was one of only 4 to vote no on all 3 bad appointments today. Still, you blame him for the others?

to do it in a primary.

If you like the kind of Dem who often refers to fellow Dems with contempt and scorn, fine. Some of us prefer those who don't grandstand at the expense of others.

"...he was the Administration’s principal spokesperson and defender of an illegal domestic spying program."

That should have clinched the vote against Hayden's confirmation.

and send the Haydens, Negropontes, and Chartoffs of this world packing.

I agree with JK, "wrong nominee in the wrong place for the wrong job" is Bush's legacy. I can't wait to see how Hayden's going F'up the CIA now :cry:

just 15 Senators voted no on the confirmation of an active general as head of the CIA when bush is in the toilet.

EDIT~ What's with the Michigan Senators? It's looks like my Senators from New York didn't vote for a military state.

EDIT~ Never mind I just saw ol' suck em up schumer's name on the "Rubber Stampers".

Feingold must think he's terrible cause he always voted to let the resident have who wanted cause he was resident..think ashcroft.

But, as I said bush is in the toilet now.

split who does the dirty on votes like these. Sometimes it's Murray, sometimes it's Cantwell. Cantwell is up for reelection this year so Murray is taking the low road. At least that's how it looks to me. :(

It looked natural :shrug: