Comments on: Could Cheney’s Lawyer’s Leak Break through the Cloud over Cheney?

By: fatster

fatster — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:47:51 +0000

Oh, *blush*, you are most kind.

By: x174

x174 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:24:32 +0000

jeez, i forgot how sinister and sickeningly convoluted everything was under the bush-cheney klepto-reprobates: every illegal corrupt activity commingled with every other illegal corrupt activity into a blizzard of depraved crookedness (oh what glorious things Obama has inherited from his mentors!)

thanks for doing all of the nitty-gritty on this ancient (limitless) crime, emptywheel.

Also i appreciate your cogent, terse summary:

“DOJ considers breaking through a cloud created by obstruction of justice to be no more than political opposition.”

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:03:59 +0000

You’re too modest, you bring new and interesting info all the time. I thank you for it.

By: fatster

fatster — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:29:12 +0000

You do not have early Alzheimers and you are not good at self-diagnosing. All this stuff is so complex, so crazy that the mind balks.

(At least that’s how I avoid a self-diagnosis of creeping Alzheimers–I’m past the age of “early”.)

Glad I could provide you with some info. Sail on!

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:24:20 +0000

Jeez, that is creepy. I kind of recall reading about him some years ago in the New Yorker in an article that felt sinister.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:16:01 +0000

Btw, want to bet this is about those JSOC ops?

it’s hard to believe it’s about anything else.
Pressure’s building from somewhere; these sure look like smoke signals.

By: NealDeesit

NealDeesit — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:40:44 +0000

“But O’Donnell’s leak was just that, and as such constitutes not only an explicit waiver to release the materials, but devastating proof that DOJ’s hand-wringing about ~~letting~~ revealing this information ~~out to be~~ was misplaced.”

Fixed, I think.

By: Petrocelli

Petrocelli — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:36:38 +0000

And our batshit crazy is their Kathy Weymouth …

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:17:24 +0000

Good point. I hadn’t thought of Mukasey that way, but now that you mention it, it seems to fit.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:15:33 +0000

… the only surprising thing is that he was so transparent.

Surprising, really? In my experience, upper-crusters are frequently quite straightforward in their expressions of contempt for the rest of us. “What kind of fools do you take us for?” “First rate!!!”