Associated Press chronicles the predictable, weekly Friday night dump of horrific, disgusting information about the poseur who says he is the US President.
Associated Press chronicles the predictable, weekly Friday night dump of horrific, disgusting information about the poseur who says he is the US President.
Many have argued that Sampson’s testimony is damning to A.G. Gonzales. And, in minor ways, it is. It shows, if Sampson told the truth, that Gonzales lied when he said he had no role in the firing of the U.S. Attorneys. However, this lie was to the press and public and not under oath.
On the issue that matters most, if Gonzales perjured himself, Sampson fell on the sword for his former boss, risking perjury charges himself. Arlen Specter, reminding Sampson that he was under oath, asked him if any of the firings were for political reasons.
Specter: Then, are you prepared to swear under oath that no U.S. Attorney was asked to resign because the U.S. Attorney was pursuing an investigation which you thought was too hot or was failing to undertake a prosecution which you though should have been made.
Sampson: To my knowledge that was the case.
Specter: (sounding incredulous) OK.
Now, what did Gonzales say under oath on January 18, 2007: I would never, ever make a change in a United States attorney position for political reasons or if it would, in any way, jeopardize an ongoing serious investigation. I just would not do it.
Listen to the questioning by Arlen Specter at NPR Morning Edition. (Starts at 4:13).
Gonzales quote available at Law.com.
Bodies keep piling up, 178 killed and look what happened in Bush’s shining example town, Tal Afar:
Hours after truck bombs killed 85 people on Tuesday in a Shi’ite area of Tal Afar, up to 70 Sunni Arab men were shot dead in a town which only a year ago was held up by U.S. President George W. Bush as an example of progress towards peace.
Iraq’s Sunni vice president urged the government on Thursday to do more to purge security forces of militias after a group of Shi’ite police shot scores of Sunni Arab men after the two truck bombs in Tal Afar, near the Syrian border.
The governor of Nineveh province, which includes the town of Tal Afar, said policemen who took part in the reprisal shootings were arrested but then freed again to prevent unrest.
She works directly for the freaking Attorney General of the United States (or at least she did before suddenly taking a leave of absence last week).
But one of Goodling’s lawyers, John Dowd, said in a statement yesterday that “the potential for legal jeopardy for Ms. Goodling from even her most truthful and accurate testimony under these circumstances is very real.”
25 years too late of course. He will hopefully be taking the “tricklek-down” route to prison pretty soon.
All that Leahy has to do now is give her immunity and the walls will come crashing down. All of the pundit class (except for the blogs) now have egg on their face, a government employee witness pleading the fifth to every question, who works directly with the White House, is the definition of criminal scandal.
I thought US soldiers were now stationed in each Iraqi police station in Baghdad?
March 25 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 2045 GMT on Sunday:
* Denotes new or updated item.
* DIYALA - Four soldiers were killed north of Baghdad in Diyala, a restive province where U.S. commanders recently asked for more troops to fight al Qaeda and other militants, a U.S. statement said. Two more soldiers were wounded in the attack.
* BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in northwest Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
BAGHDAD - Two people were killed and five wounded in a mortar attack in Abu Dsheer in southern Baghdad on Sunday, police said.
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said a total of 33 people were killed in Saturday’s suicide truck bomb attack on a police station in the southern district of Dora. Police said 20 were killed, including policemen and detainees, and 26 wounded.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol, killed an Iraqi soldier near Yarmouk hospital in western Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - A suspected sniper shot dead a man in the al-Sinak area in central Baghdad, police said.
TIKRIT - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed a captain and wounded three other policemen in Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, the Iraqi-U.S. Joint Coordination Centre said.
ISHAQI - Iraqi soldiers detained 12 suspected insurgents in the town of Ishaqi, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, the Iraqi-U.S. Joint Coordination Centre said.
HASWA - U.S. and Iraqi troops clashed with gunmen in the town of Haswa, 50 km (30 miles) south of Baghdad, as a Sunni mosque was bombed in an apparent revenge attack for the destruction of a Shi’ite mosque there a day earlier. Police said five people were wounded in the Sunni mosque attack and the clashes and a number of suspects detained.
LATIFIYA - Iraqi soldiers killed an insurgent, detained 71 others, and discovered two car bombs and 10 weapons caches on Saturday in the town of Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, the Defence Ministry said.
RAMADI - Day-long clashes erupted between Iraqi police and tribesmen opposed to al Qaeda on one side and al Qaeda militants on the other in the Sunni Arab insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, police Lieutenant-Colonel Ahmed al-Dulaimi said. Fifteen suspected al Qaeda supporters were captured, police said.
MOSUL - Police said they found the bodies of five people, including a policeman, in different districts of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad.
RAMADI - The U.S. military gave more details about the seizure of a chlorine truck bomb near a police station on Friday in Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad. They said the vehicle contained five 1,000 gallon drums of chlorine and two tons of explosives. The seizure was first reported on Friday.
BAGHDAD - Iraqi and U.S. soldiers detained 16 insurgents and found two weapons caches on Saturday during search operations in the western Ghazaliya district of Baghdad, police said.
MOSUL - Gunmen killed Ali Amin, director of a gas factory, near his house in a drive-by shooting in Mosul, police said.
What it’s like at the receiving end of an illegal National Security Letter, of which the FBI has issued thousands.