CIA Director George Tenet was steamed when Valerie Plame Wilson’s covert identity was revealed — and his people put it to him to insist on a serious investigation. Tenet would not back off when others in the White House tried to evade at the time — and Tenet demanded that this investigation take place.
. . .and while they are at it, Ned Flanders could enter the local “John Bolton Look-Alike Contest.” That might get a few more entries than the Ned Flanders look-alike contest, although JB could go for it. Jon Stewart has got to pick this up. . .or Saturday Night Live. Or even Tim Russert.
Just an hour ago, I mentioned that Frank Gaffney made a wrong-headed linkage between the Gaza pull-out and the London bombings. Now, Gaffney is asserting that we are all at risk from the United Nations imposing a global tax on unsuspecting citizens everywhere.
I may be making comparing things that should not be compared, but nonetheless, the connection was made when catching up with some reading this morning.
There’s a lot going on in the world. Most of you probably know that there was a low casualty terrorist incident in London involving four bombs. I’ve spent the last several days with some seriously smart — and dangerous — people out at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Interesting. Bush did not pick someone who is a flaming right-wing ideologue for the Supreme Court.
Reports are coming in that conflict with CNN’s tip that Edith Brown Clement will be nominated by President Bush tonight. Apparently, ABC News is reporting that she will not be the nominee. Keep your powder dry. . .More later.
There will be a great number of legal analysts who pore over the record of Edith Brown Clement to debate whether she is the next version of an ideologically-predictable Antonin Scalia or a more pragmatic Sandra Day O’Connor-type. President Bush is allegedly primed to nominate her at 9 p.m. Eastern time tonight.
So, the failure to get a deal on the NSA intercepts and Syria testimony documentation is all Senate Majority Leader Frist’s fault? So goes it if one thinks through White House spokesman Trent Duffy’s comments on the Bolton nomination at Friday’s press gaggle aboard Air Force One enroute to Charlotte, North Carolina.
When nominations by the President make sense, they typically fly through without a hitch. Just check out the line-up that Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will discuss on Friday, July 22nd: Ms. Karen P. Hughes To be Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, with the Rank of Ambassador The Honorable Josette S….
