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Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:32 PM
This could get interesting:
22 Million 'Lost' Bush-Era E-Mails Recovered
And you have to wonder if Melanie Sloan of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington was smirking when she said this:
Sloan said the latest count of misplaced e-mails "gives us confirmation that the Bush administration lied when they said no e-mails were missing."
That needed confirmation?
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Going through these 22 MILLION emails is part of the Obama plan for job creation. Accepting applications soon.
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The "lost" emails!!
To: Condi@WhiteHouse.gov
From: GW@WhiteHouse.gov
Subject: Coke
Hey, Condi, are there any Cokes left in your mini-fridge?
If so, can you bring 2 up, one for me and one for Petreus...he's here and is thirsty.
Thanks,
GW
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Is it just me or does anyone else smell that? Smells like an independent special prosecutor. Obstruction of justice, Bush's admin's favorite.
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The lyin' sacks of Bush-it should all be spending quality time in prison.
I support my tax dollars going to prison togs for George W. "Chimpie" Bush, Dick "The Dick" Cheney & Karl "Porcine Pig" Rove.
I support my tax dollars going to prison togs for George W. "Chimpie" Bush, Dick "The Dick" Cheney & Karl "Porcine Pig" Rove.
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Now too bad we can never get back whatever documents Cheney was burning in his closet!!!
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/…
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/…
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I'm just afraid that the tape of R.M. Nixon's classic, theatrical, "That would be WRONG", is going to be supplanted by some stupid email quip involving an emoticon.
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Off-topic, but - Dan, I just got a tip that Joe McDermott has been selected as the new King County Councilmember. Any confirmation of that yet?
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22 million? The tip of the iceberg. These are only those which were sent/received via the White House's own mail service. They were probably all routine too.
Mother Jones summed it up in February 2008, though at the time it was but a smoking gun:
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2008/02/more…
An interesting point made in that article:
"it was revealed that White House officials, including Karl Rove and Andrew Card, had been using Blackberry's and email accounts issued by the Republican National Committee, a practice that potentially allowed administration officials to skirt the archiving function of the White House servers."
With the least transparent administration of the modern era, you gotta wonder what the George W. Bush Presidential Library is going to look like.
Mother Jones summed it up in February 2008, though at the time it was but a smoking gun:
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2008/02/more…
An interesting point made in that article:
"it was revealed that White House officials, including Karl Rove and Andrew Card, had been using Blackberry's and email accounts issued by the Republican National Committee, a practice that potentially allowed administration officials to skirt the archiving function of the White House servers."
With the least transparent administration of the modern era, you gotta wonder what the George W. Bush Presidential Library is going to look like.
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This is big.
Really big.
Really Really Big.
It will probably trim this years $1.8 Trillion deficit by at least half.
And make the deployment of 20,000 of those extra troops to Afghanistan unnecessary.
It will undoubtedly break the deadlock on healthcare reform and pave the way for Single Payer.
And repeal DADT and DOMA.
And flush Osama from his cave.
And put, at a minimum, 2.85 million Americans back to work.
And cut 3 or 4 degrees Celsius from the global temperature.
Trust me...
This is important.
Really big.
Really Really Big.
It will probably trim this years $1.8 Trillion deficit by at least half.
And make the deployment of 20,000 of those extra troops to Afghanistan unnecessary.
It will undoubtedly break the deadlock on healthcare reform and pave the way for Single Payer.
And repeal DADT and DOMA.
And flush Osama from his cave.
And put, at a minimum, 2.85 million Americans back to work.
And cut 3 or 4 degrees Celsius from the global temperature.
Trust me...
This is important.
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@13 Do one where some conservatives discover fudged climate change data.....and make you name "conservative yuppy"
it'll be cute, i promise
it'll be cute, i promise
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In addition to the evidence, hope we find something like what Boswell copied from a friend's journal:
"Tenth month, 1753. 23. Indulgence in bed an hour too long. Twelfth month, 17. An hypochondriack obnubilation from wind and indigestion. Ninth month, 28. An over-dose of whisky. 29. A dull, cross, cholerick day. First month, 1757-22. A little swinish at dinner and repast. 31. Dogged on provocation. Second month, 5. Very dogged or snappish. 14. Snappish on fasting. 26. Cursed snappishness to those under me, on a bodily indisposition. Third month, 11. On a provocation, exercised a dumb resentment for two days, instead of scolding. 22. Scolded too vehemently. 23. Dogged again. Fourth month, 29. Mechanically and sinfully dogged."
"Tenth month, 1753. 23. Indulgence in bed an hour too long. Twelfth month, 17. An hypochondriack obnubilation from wind and indigestion. Ninth month, 28. An over-dose of whisky. 29. A dull, cross, cholerick day. First month, 1757-22. A little swinish at dinner and repast. 31. Dogged on provocation. Second month, 5. Very dogged or snappish. 14. Snappish on fasting. 26. Cursed snappishness to those under me, on a bodily indisposition. Third month, 11. On a provocation, exercised a dumb resentment for two days, instead of scolding. 22. Scolded too vehemently. 23. Dogged again. Fourth month, 29. Mechanically and sinfully dogged."
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@13- You are right- This IS big.
Really Really big.
All the deficit and deployment of troops and global warming denying happened because WE ALLOWED it to happen. Because people like Seattle Hipster don't want to fix the underlying root cause of these issues - a criminally reckless administration. If we let this type of secrecy and lies continue unpunished - if we do not hold those we elect accountable for their actions, we are doomed to continue these bad policies.
Really Really big.
All the deficit and deployment of troops and global warming denying happened because WE ALLOWED it to happen. Because people like Seattle Hipster don't want to fix the underlying root cause of these issues - a criminally reckless administration. If we let this type of secrecy and lies continue unpunished - if we do not hold those we elect accountable for their actions, we are doomed to continue these bad policies.
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Nice setup, but I would have taken the joke in a different direction, to wit:
To: Condi@WhiteHouse.gov
From: GW@WhiteHouse.gov
Subject: Coke
Nice setup, but I would have taken the joke in a different direction, to wit:
hey darlin
me and the turd here got the heebeejeebees from all this war talk
we sure could use some sugar in our coffee
if you catch my drift heh heh
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You would need some Democrats with balls to actually do anything with these emails, if they contain anything. The way the Obama administration has been supporting the Bush era unitary executive belief, the only thing that is going to happen is Obama's DOJ filing a brief asking all these emails to be classified.
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poor poor bitter little bitch.
Bush was elected.
By the people.
(oooh- that Florida recount still stings, I bet...)
Four years later he was re-elected.
By the people.
Bush WAS held accountable.
The people gave him another four years.
Not YOUR people, I understand.
But THE people.
Of the United States.
You girls hate Bush.
You are insanely obsessed with Cheney.
We get it.
You want to criminalize policy differences.
You what to lock them up because you disagree with them.
We don't do that in America,.
not yet, at least.
sorry.
poor poor bitter little bitch.
Bush was elected.
By the people.
(oooh- that Florida recount still stings, I bet...)
Four years later he was re-elected.
By the people.
Bush WAS held accountable.
The people gave him another four years.
Not YOUR people, I understand.
But THE people.
Of the United States.
You girls hate Bush.
You are insanely obsessed with Cheney.
We get it.
You want to criminalize policy differences.
You what to lock them up because you disagree with them.
We don't do that in America,.
not yet, at least.
sorry.
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That would be cute.
But the New York Times has beaten me to it....
"Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir. They show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.
"The correspondence revealed an effort to withhold scientific information. “This is not a smoking gun; this is a mushroom cloud,” said Patrick J. Michaels, a climatologist.
"In several e-mail exchanges, Kevin Trenberth, a climatologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and other scientists discuss gaps in understanding of recent variations in temperature. “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t,” Dr. Trenberth wrote.
"In a 1999 e-mail exchange about charts showing climate patterns over the last two millenniums, Phil Jones, a longtime climate researcher at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, said he had used a “trick” to “hide the decline” in temperatures.
"At first, said Dr. Michaels, his instinct was to ignore the correspondence as “just the way scientists talk.”
"But he said that after reading more deeply, he felt that some exchanges reflected an effort to block the release of data for independent review."
That would be cute.
But the New York Times has beaten me to it....
"Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir. They show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.
"The correspondence revealed an effort to withhold scientific information. “This is not a smoking gun; this is a mushroom cloud,” said Patrick J. Michaels, a climatologist.
"In several e-mail exchanges, Kevin Trenberth, a climatologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and other scientists discuss gaps in understanding of recent variations in temperature. “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t,” Dr. Trenberth wrote.
"In a 1999 e-mail exchange about charts showing climate patterns over the last two millenniums, Phil Jones, a longtime climate researcher at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, said he had used a “trick” to “hide the decline” in temperatures.
"At first, said Dr. Michaels, his instinct was to ignore the correspondence as “just the way scientists talk.”
"But he said that after reading more deeply, he felt that some exchanges reflected an effort to block the release of data for independent review."
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@24 When you use the word 'girl' as an insult, as if it's something to be ashamed of, you insult all women and girls. Find a less hateful way to be hateful oh nameless coward.
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