I must say, it works, or did work very well. Oh yes and skdadl mentions MM’s circular references to 9/11, making sure we don’t forget to be afraid. No point in letting such an expensive operation lose its punch over the years.

Here’s a good question: Do Mukasey and the many others like him really believe this crap, or 2) are they threatened/blackmailed into going along with the charade, or 3) have they been “mind-controlled”?) Those are the only three possibilities I can come up with; be glad to hear any others. Oh yeah, there is a fourth one. 4) They are not really human and so have different standards of conduct.

MM: Everyone is forgetting 9/11.

Franks: If we could do one thing to protect the country, what would that be?

MM: Pass this legislation. And remind people to be afraid.

Huh???? he wants the people of the US be afraid for???? and against who???

Our own shadow??? Did he really say this??? This is a really-really scary statement about what this administration can and will do in order to keep the “status quo” alive!

Cohen: if you can consider Memphis, we need the help. VP, in the abstract, he would not have EP extended to him. Addington told us Cheney not in Executive or Legislative, he said he was a barnacle attached to legislative branch, does he have executive privilege.

MM: VP is member of executive branch. One of closest advisors to President. That’s where he sits. Aside from any abstract theory of whether there’s a barnacle status.

Did anyone else catch this statement from MM? The VP is a “member of the executive branch” If I remember he said he is either a part of the executive branch nor congress, he is separate in his own dept?

What do you think?

How is it that Goopers can introduce into the subcommittee’s record Rove’s written answers, not under oath or subject to cross examination, and not given to the subcommittee itself, when Rove refused to appear in response to a valid subpoena? It’s a Congressionally sponsored PR statement; it tells us less, rather than more, about what Rove did. Oughtn’t the Dems to object to that?

The good news is that the harder Rove fights, the more, it seems, he has to hide.

It seems that the Bush Administration love say there is no paper when things are looking bad (no WH emails here!), but then they like to produce documents and to point to papers when things are looking worse (here’s my Hadley email, Mr. Fitzgerald!; here are my written answers, Senators!).

Trying to figure out their equation for determining when producing paper outweighs the benefit of playing dumb.