Digby found the damning quotes:At a public appearance, Bush's pointman in the Office of National Intelligence was asked if the NSA was wiretapping Bush's political enemies. When Hayden dodged the question, the questioner repeated, "No, I asked, are you targeting us and people who politically oppose the Bush government, the Bush administration? Not a fishing net, but are you targeting specifically political opponents of the Bush administration?" Hayden looked at the questioner, and after a silence called on a different questioner. (Hayden National Press Club remarks, 1/23/06)In this exchange, the questioner forced Hayden to drop the masquerade about spying on terrorists. In his silence, he as much as admitted that the American intelligence community goes after anyone who doesn't like Bush. You and me.
We must do everything we can to assure that "the silence of Hayden" becomes famous. Video must exist. Every Democrat should work to assure that this man receives the most uncomfortable grilling that any political appointee has ever undergone.
More about Goss: Once more, we hear the famous question asked of Number 6: "Why did you resign?" Goss has offered a truly bizarre answer -- he says his resignation was "just one of those mysteries." Not good enough, Porter. We want information...IN-FOR-MA-TION...and by hook or by crook, we will get it.
Even the New York Daily News scoffs at the "couldn't get along with Negroponte" yarn, an impromptu concoction if ever I saw one. (If the administration's going to do improv, they should hire Colin Mochrie.) Karl Rove would never have approved of the timing: On Drudge, the Goss tale has reduced Patrick Kennedy to footnote status.
Larry Johnson claims that his sources tell him that Goss did not partake of the hookers at chateau Wilkes. Here's a thought: What if Goss, old spook that he is, helped set up the sting, in order to entrap his fellow congressmen? Maybe he's a mack, not a john. After all, someone had to introduce those legislators to spooked-up "businessmen" Brent Wilkes and Mitchell Wade...
6 comments:
He is just there to get rid of it. It's a union and takes some time.
hm. could the 'mysterious' response by goss have been a clue? what's more mysterious than cia ops? and he should know. i'm inclined to think the head spook may have just got spooked himself.
i think this is all about turf war and the push for iran. straw going down on the same day is not a coincidence. goss let too many whistleblowers out and drew too much attention to his pseudo-cleanup for their tastes. they're in a desperate rush to get all the pr pins in line for this mad attack on iran before the fall line comes out next november.
i also have grave misgivings about hayden because he is air force, and the uber-fundamentalism the academy, at least, has fostered petrifies me when thinking of a zealot in that position. especially given his part in the nsa crimes and justification. one wonders what he was thinking during that dead time before he switched to another questioner. "hm. well, we'll sure have to unleash our nsa power on your sorry ass, nosey reporter asking the wrong questions."
do we know who that reporter was? he likely needs protection.
i also think gannon's revival and confessions are interestingly timed. i believe all this hooker talk, especially the gender whispers, are warnings to those who know there are goods out there on them. tow the line or you're toast.
the question then becomes, who are 'they'? who's zoomin' who? who are the good guys and who are the bad guys? we know the cheney/rummy guys are bad, but i'm not prepared to say that therefore the cia is the good guys.
i'm so confused. i think it's time for some serious navel gazing....
navel gazing always rearranges things.
it occurred to me that this announcment that goss was resigning occurred just as fitz and team libby were meeting with the grand jury.
i don't know, but the last time we got such an abrupt resignation was scottie choking up on the wh lawn while the grand jury met to review rove's various testimonies. and just as abruptly, rove's portfolio was rendered more, um, manageable. and less security clearance vulnerable.
just a thought, but it'll be interesting to see if they send up another smokescreen the next time fitz schedules the grand jury. and just as interesting to see what that smokescreen might be.
You better get the other bigger picture.
Hookers and Bribery is just a symptom.
As usual it distracts easier from
the restructure of the whole U.S. Intelligence Apparatus.
Hayden and the NSA- the most ignored "9/11 connection"
A 'rant' based on research, compiled between 2001 and 2006,
by ewing2001
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It seems to me that the Bush administration is running out of people it can trust. Hayden is a poor choice for the job, but the pickin's are slim at this point.
I think Larry Johnson is stupid. He's pro torture. He's vomit. He feels people should be sleep deprived who are arrested and given no reason. Plus the guy is not smart at all. He's probably protecting someone.
Goss And Foggo are indeed stupid enough to partake in hookers and bribery and to get caught by someone with an ax to grind.
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