Di Genova on Abrams is trying to push blame on "big government bureauocracy"

[mod mom]

but THESE WERE CONTACTORS! Has anyone else picked up on this?

[high density]

1. Well they were contracted to work for the government

But I mean... What the heck is he talking about, we're idiots for needing our government to have the functions in the State department? He makes no sense.

Lawrence Eagleburger is throwing up a lot of chaff... Way worse than De Genova

[mod mom]

3. 1st impressions sometimes stick so thus the misinformation being put forward.

Abrams didn't correct them about the contractors.

[montanacowboy]

4. And what else would Abrams expect

from Eagleburger and DeGenova? OMG, two of the worst of the worst.

[neverforget]

2. and lawrence eaglburger saying it's not a big deal.....

move along nothing to see here.

[mod mom]

5. How does he know it was political, because the contractor said it wasn't?

[high density]

8. Yes he's already come to the conclusion that there's nothing to see here

Because some low level person says there's nothing to see here.

[mod mom]

16. Why are they placing blame it on CONTRACTING OUT OF DATA!

[high density]

17. I don't think they are

The problem seems to be that the "office supervisors" didn't tell their superiors. I don't think that's to be blamed on whether or not they're contractors.

[joshcryer]

14. Why would people trying to find info do it *3* times when once is enough?

There's no conspiracy here.

[LSparkle]

6. Eagleburger is a rude, pompous ass -- sounded like he'd had a few

He kept asking "what?" and interrupting. Couldn't POSSIBLY have been any political
intent to this ...

Yeah, right, OK ...

[K Gardner]

9. He was HORRIBLE, lol !

[neverforget]

11. He was out of it and in total defense mode for Bush.

Oh goody. Tucker is on

[uponit7771]

20. I LOFL when he kept sayin "what!??!"...it sounded like he couldn't hear a damn thing

[Bigleaf]

Yeah, Eagleburger is a lot worse than Joe was, and I'm no lover of Joe.

But he was a lot more credible than Eagleburger.

[FrenchieCat]

10. Right....he said that what he dealt with was much worse......cause why?

Here you have 3 breaches done in a period of 70 days....one per month, by 3 separate "contractors"...who said We were just curious, and who were fired before anyone could questions them AND Obama wasn't notified until today. :wtf:

I would have hung up on Eagleburger! and that other sorry Republican fuck blaming big government.

[joshcryer]

12. Uh, Clinton's situation was much worse, it was political, this is a case of contractors just being..

...curious.

[stillcool]

22. You aren't serious are you?

[babylonsister]

7. Look how 'helpful' DiGenova was when this happened to Bill Clinton:

and his remark does make me wonder why he's defending this admin, though not really. He's trying to minimize this, seems to me.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5181342&mesg_id=5181342

snip//

The Newsweek story about the tampering investigation hit the newsstands on Oct. 4, 1992. The article suggested that a Clinton backer might have removed incriminating material from Clinton’s passport file, precisely the spin that the Bush people wanted.

Immediately, President George H.W. Bush took the offensive, using the press frenzy over the tampering story to attack Clinton’s patriotism on a variety of fronts, including his student trip to Moscow in 1970. With his patriotism challenged, Clinton saw his once-formidable lead shrink.

Clinton’s campaign ultimately was saved by quick-thinking Democrats on Capitol Hill who exposed the passport leak as a political dirty trick. That forced the elder Bush into a quasi-apology for the scandal, which became known as “Passport-gate.”

After Clinton won the election, however, the criminality of the dirty trick was swept under the rug by Republican special prosecutor Joseph DiGenova, who was appointed to investigate by a federal judicial panel run by right-wing appellate judge David Sentelle.

[TwilightGardener]

13. "Nothing to see here! Just idle curiosity! Nothing to see here! Look away!"

[PM7nj]

Tucker too...

Tucker was just pushing this too...

[uponit7771]

15. Bureauocracy by THREE DIFFERENT PEOPLE! LOL!! This aint no accident

[mod mom]

18. CONTRACTORS oversee the 3 different people-who gets the contracts given out by *?

[uponit7771]

19. Abrahms notes some temperal proximity to Abamas wins...

[TomClash]

21. No, the reporters are dolts

Interesting how DiGenova and teh State Spokesman Sean McCormick had identical talking points.