As most of America slept early last Sunday morning, the Bush administration hustled and bustled to prepare for the Sunday morning talk shows – among others Colin Powell was appearing on "Face the Nation" and Donald Rumsfeld was booked on "Fox News Sunday." Condoleezza Rice was not scheduled to appear until prime time, when she would make a star appearance on CBS' "60 Minutes" – the last in a long line of media appearances that caused 9/11 Commissioner Richard Ben Veniste to quip that "Condi Rice has appeared everywhere but at my local Starbucks."
Well, others in the Bush administration did, apparently, make an appearance at the local Starbucks. And as the Washington Post reports today, one of them – obviously readying himself to prep Defense Secretary Rumsfeld – left his notes on the table. Talking points, hand-written notes on spin tactics that reveal the White House was worried about former Bush adviser Richard Clarke's charges, and a hand-drawn map to the Secretary's house were found by a resident of DuPont Circle, who made them available to the Center for American Progress. The name of said resident is being withheld at his request, as he fears that he may be accused on national television of being "disgruntled."
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Political machines aren't run like they were in the old days...good well oiled machines. Neocons aren't even good scam-artists.
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Hehe, and they accused Dean of being a latteophile.
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Clicked the link first before replying,i`m not sure but i think its not the first time and its certainly not the last time something like this has happened with government documents.
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That site don't accept direct linking, use cut&paste on the url.
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It's like a scene from a Rogue Warrior book where safes for top secret documents are sold off with the documents still in them. I can't say I'm surprised though, I expect nothing but the best incompetance and stupidity from the US government.
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I think it happened in the UK, some government official left reasonably sensitive documents on the train a while back.
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The_Lumberjack wrote:I think it happened in the UK, some government official left reasonably sensitive documents on the train a while back.
It was an MI5 worker, it wasn't too senstive the stuff, they don't let those guys carry laptops home with stuff that will really threaten national security.
But that's all changed now given MI5 has had a revamping and is now the size it was in the Cold War. Blair may slaughter the military, but the intel. services get good stuff.
It's not that surprising. What's more disturbing is the sheer number of people that the Administration seems to have employed in its political efforts. It seems that there is no real distinction now between running the government and campaigning for George Bush. When you have whole cadres of federal employees churning out talking points and recommended angles of attack to fax and E-mail off to conservative radio talk-show commentators, FOX News, CNN, etc., you have to wonder what the hell the government thinks its job is.
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Can you imagine what would happen if these people stopped campaigning and actually tried to run the country? There'd be rioting in the streets, I tells ya!
