Hometown paper shows that he lied about multiple things:
1) That he hadn’t talked to Earle (he had, in August)
2) That he was never asked to testify (he was, and his refusal is the reason the grand jury waited until the last day of their term to indict him)
3) Contradicted by his own lawyer, DeLay claimed that he believed he wasn’t going to be indicted, but his lawyer says in the same article that he was told in August the Grand Jury was ready to indict him.
This is a classic rant dealing with the fake outrage coming from the right wing of the internet these days.
Washington Post - maybe Rumsfeld will finally stop lying, so we don’t have to hear Joe Biden call him a liar on this every week.
President Bush from the White House Rose Garden Yesterday: LINK
At this moment, more than a dozen Iraqi battalions have completed training and are conducting anti-terrorist operations in Ramadi and Fallujah. More than 20 battalions are operating in Baghdad. And some have taken the lead in operations in major sectors of the city.
In total, more than 100 battalions are operating throughout Iraq. Our commanders report that the Iraqi forces are operating with increasing effectiveness. As Iraqi forces show they’re capable of keeping the terrorists out, they’re earning the trust and confidence of the Iraqi people, which ensures the success of a free and democratic Iraq.
This is what the heroes of Hurricane Rita had to go through, driving school buses loaded with black people chosen for photo op purposes (to be seen getting evacuated via yellow school bus out of the Houston area). Beaumont Enterprise:
As they sat outside on folding chairs [in Dallas at the Reunion Arena], having a smoke, they described seeing people on their front lawns glaring at them with shotguns in hand, and pickup trucks with nooses hanging in back (most of the bus passengers were black).The drivers said whenever they tried to stop to rest or let their passengers use the restroom, town officials had court orders waiting for them to get out of town, an assertion those town officials later denied.
Driver Toni Soularie, 49, said she nearly had a violent confrontation when she pulled into a rest area.
“This officer said he was going to shoot me if I didn’t get back on the bus,” she said. “At that point I was prepared to let him shoot me. I had this invalid on the bus who was already embarrassed because she urinated all over herself. And I was not going to let her embarrass herself again. We just got off.
“But the officer stayed right there with me - made sure we were going to get back on.”
Some things never change in the Town that Shot Kennedy.
Because they just got indicted, that’s why. You heard it here first: I say Libby has been privately informed by the Prosecutor that he will be indicted. Also, this little speculative argument, which looks into some strange language in the DeLay indictment and concludes that he has made a deal with Earle to plead nolo contondere.
WILL NAME LIBBY AS SOURCE TO GRAND JURY TOMORROW
In the AIPAC-Wolfowitz-Feith-Israel spy case.
Pentagon’s objection fails, so of course they are expected to appeal. This is going to end up at the bench of John Roberts. As the legal delays drag on, the question is, will they end up on Seymour Hersh’s desk first?
Did he keep a copy of the CD-ROM?
