Commissioner Thompson CAME OUT SWINGING DEFENDING BUSH

[LittleApple81]

on Hardball. Now Ben Veniste is rebutting.

[Zinfandel]

1. All planned around Bush's speech tonight, same with Ashcroft....

The whole gang will be out setting the table for Bush and then hitting every show after Bush's speech.

[CatWoman]

2. I saw that jerk

He said the PDB was junk, contained old outdated data, and that the Dems were trying to hang it around *'s neck.

Jerk!!

p.s. the 9/11 widows are on -- Kristen B.

[liveoaktx]

3. EVEN IF the August 6th PDB was full of junk it was STILL

the President's responsibility to follow up on this information. I have to agree that the FBI testimony today was truly scary in that it showed how ill-coordinated the agency was, even between themselves. However, as President, where theoretically, the buck stopped at his desk instead of at the fishing pole in his Bass pond, it would have behooved him to vigorously follow up and prove or disprove the info. For example, if it's true that all those field investigations were baloney or only investigating, say, one person at a time with regards to fundraising, that still has nothing to do with the top guy who has the burden of protecting the country doing something to ensure a thorough vetting.

[liveoaktx]

18. One more comment on Thompson bouncing up and down in his chair

Even IF it is proven now that the info within that doc regarding the field investigations, etc is junk, the president DID NOT KNOW THIS nor did Condi Rice. So it's very easy to look back NOW to try to get Bush off the hook, but on the face of the PDB it was a current, urgent threat that required a response.... ANY response other than ***duh**** from the President and his incompetent National Security administrative assistant.

[LittleApple81]

4. The advantage is that he lost his cool. And he is so repulsive that

I think he caused more damage than good. Then Ben Veniste very calmly trotted out what Condi had said.

[goclark]

5. Help me, what did the CIA analyst say n/t

[LittleApple81]

6. The women are smarter than most of the people I have heard

discussing the commission.

[thebaghwan]

7. Thompson is a very interesting asshole. The CEO of my wife's former

company hired Thompson to investigate a scandal he and other members of the board of directors were involved in. Thompson did exactly as he was told by CEO Georgine and only investigated what they told him. He failed to look at the federal pension laws in any way. This was the Ullico scandal which the WSJ called big labor's Enron yet nobody has ever heard of it.

[LittleApple81]

8. Watch now: one of the women color coded the PDB. She had

pretty good conclusions about what was domestic (yellow), green what could have been declassified at that time.
The majority of it was present tense (not historical) and domestic threats.

[AussieInCA]

9. widows just blew thompson and rice's bs on historical memo

highlighted all the domestic info in the memo and all the present warnings mentioned in it.

[CatWoman]

10. WHOA!!!

The widows "color coded" the memo.

Current info was highlighted in yellow.

Domestic info was highlighted in orange.

Those colors were screaming at you in that document.

[AussieInCA]

11. OMFG widows used the Terror Alert Status system on the PDB!!!

[CatWoman]

12. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

GO GIRLS, GO!!!

[oregonjen]

14. How do I contact these women?

I want to send them my support. Anybody have an address for them?

[liveoaktx]

16. If ONLY Po Po Bushies had had the Aug 6th PDB colorcoded!!!!

for his multi-modal learning prob! Bwahahahahahahahah

[LittleApple81]

13. They said that Reno had worked around the walls between CIA and FBI

so it could be done.

[LittleApple81]

15. Tweety wants them to say that civil liberties should be cancelled.

THEY SAID NO! PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO DO THEIR JOB IS WHAT IS NEEDED.

[LittleApple81]

17. Anybody that did not watch this, PLEASE CATCH THE REPLAY

later in the evening. It is worth it.

[LittleApple81]

19. He has another woman right now that worked for Freeh. n/t

[LittleApple81]

20. He also has Schirilo, a former FBI assistant director. n/t

[LittleApple81]

21. Alice Fisher former assistant attorney general... she is not making

much sense. HIRE THE JERSEY GIRLS.