Comments on: Dick Vetted the Intelligence Two Weeks Ago

By: Leen

Leen — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:36:50 +0000

Sy Hersh told Wolf Blitzer “It’s not over yet, there is still Israel” they are very angry about this
report and may pre-emptively attack Iran.

Sy Hersh with Wolf
http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..know-when/

Justin Raimando one of the only reporters who will write about Israel’s reaction to NIE

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12014

December 7, 2007
Iran: Why Won’t We Take Yes For An Answer?
Israel’s amen corner tries to spin the NIE report

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12014

By: Leen

Leen — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:32:23 +0000

Sy Hersh

Hersh: Bush Told Olmert Of NIE Two Days Before President Was Allegedly First Briefed On It

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/…..sh-iran-2/

By: Rayne

Rayne — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:35:53 +0000

rOTL — thanks, good point there. I forgot about the contract that the Hunts signed in Kurdish territory some time back, should post that in there, too. Hunts must have felt comfortable and not in fear of whatever was going to happen.

I’m still wondering why they wanted to build a pipeline from northeastern Iraq all the way west to a seaport in Israel, rather than run one north-south inside Irag to an Iraqi port. Just seems fishy.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:08:34 +0000

Rayne, if you revisit this thread, I just spotted news that the oil majors are going to be signing with Baghdad, using Saddam’s old oil laws. I’m sure there’s more to the story, but this announcement is a significant timeline datapoint.

An update is at Iraq Oil Report; money and business activities are honest in a rather ruthless, sometimes uncouth, fashion. Implications for global politics not yet clear.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:55:52 +0000

Wow, that is interesting. Why on earth would anyone with a blood clot be at high altitude. True, there are clotting drugs (and I’m guessing they were checking his blood frequently to assess clotting factors and refine the meds), but that is quite a piece of info. Even for a hard-driving personality, long flights can be risky And for a man with a history of heart attacks…? Seems odd.

FWIW the ‘refresh button’ on comments probably only shows up if a reader is logged in. if not logged in, it may not show. Also, it may show better on some browsers (and browser versions) than on others. Different browsers read and display page features in different ways.

By: SunnyNobility

SunnyNobility — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:43:59 +0000

Week of Feb 19, 07 Cheney went on a 9 day trip. Reported: Japan, Australia, Guam, Pakistan, Oman & Afghanistan. Feb 26, surprise visit to
Pakistan accompanied by dep dir CIA, Steve Kapas. This was the claimed assassination attempt trip (Afghanistan-Taliban), also the blood-clot trip (clot reported 5 March). He was to be on blood thinners for at least 2 months.

May 9, 07 Cheney appears in Baghdad w/new Ambassador Ryan Crocker. Pissed about upcoming 2 month parliament recess. Said he was going to Abu Dhabi. Dau Liz flew separately to UAE. He also went to England on this trip.

What was important enough for Dick to risk this second flight while still recovering from flight induced blood clot?

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:45:55 +0000

eyes

Working on all those things, yes. A couple of them we should have inplace over the weekend.

By: eyesonthestreet

eyesonthestreet — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:28:54 +0000

Can I assume “the timeline” link will be added to the above post as an update, or better yet, as a side bar at “Emptywheel” homepage?

Three things I miss:
1) the list of “Recent Posts” in right margin
2) the ability to go onto the newer and old posts without having to return to the main page
3) the old “reload” button at the end of comments(so you don’t have to relaod the whole page) as the previous FDL page used to have.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:29:17 +0000

Whoa…that Simile is pure coolness. Might take me a little parsing if the Excel conversion doesn’t work well, but a tab-delimited upload will be fine with me.

Thanks for that legwork!

By: TheraP

TheraP — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:09:25 +0000

Re @98:

When I say “they have a program to help people,” I am referring to the so-called mortgage rate freeze. Yes, they’ve agreed to do that - for certain people. But how to find the people? How to sort for who deserve that? Etc.

I’ve read that it’s not possible to implement the program, even though they have it out there… they’ve helped, you see… even if you can’t figure out how to access the help!