Filed at 9:37 pm, Thursday February 23rd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
AMERICAblog says Reuters picks apart the “but he didn’t know about it” defense.
The obvious problems with this defense that I see, are that firstly, if he didn’t know about it, the President was defending something he didn’t know about until the day before or whatever. Along those lines, if he wasn’t informed, it makes him […]
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Filed at 7:17 pm, Thursday February 23rd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
As I mentioned earlier, it’s not just progressives who are conserned sbout the ports deal. In fact, Conservatives are just as worried, if not more so (usually for racist reasons though). Editor & Publisher:
Cal Thomas of Tribune Media Services (TMS) said in his column: “There have been some dumb decisions since the United States was […]
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Filed at 5:58 pm, Thursday February 23rd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
RAW STORY has obtained a copy of a letter sent from 11 members of congress (all of them Democrats) to Attorney General Gonzales, Rumsfeld, Snow and Chertoff, raising questions about the legality of the Port deal. Go read the letter in its entirety here.
Update: BradBlog has more on the legal angle:
Patrick Malloy is an attorney […]
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Filed at 2:18 pm, Thursday February 23rd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Okay, this Ports deal story. I covered it briefly before, but its time for a little more depth.
The basic story is that the Administration is turning over control of 6 large ports in the United States to the security control of a company which is owned by the United Arab Emirates (a state which apparently […]
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