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Sep

Astonishing News

by Tim F.

NYT:

Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, on Wednesday recanted his claim that the new surveillance powers recently given to the government helped foil a terrorist plot in Germany.

“Information contributing to the recent arrests was not collected under authorities provided by the Protect America Act,” Mr. McConnell said in a statement issued late in the day.

A Bush official admitted that he was wrong. Pegging signs of the imminent apocalypse is Michael Stickings’ purview so I won’t speculate about whether this means that the dead will soon rise out of their graves. But it sure doesn’t happen often*.

(*) Excepting abu Gonzales, who made a sort of side career out of correcting himself.

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6 Responses to “Astonishing News”

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    September 13th, 2007 at 7:22 am Reply to this comment

    Nikki

    McConnell said it on Tuesday; he recants on Wednesday. But it’s still going to be the conventional wisdom, isn’t it?

  2. 2
    September 13th, 2007 at 8:17 am Reply to this comment

    numbskull

    “Wrong”?

    Tim, get out from under the fume hood.

    He LIED and got called on it.

  3. 3
    September 13th, 2007 at 8:34 am Reply to this comment

    KCinDC

    Nikki is right. How do you think the media coverage will compare between the original lie and the later correction?

  4. 4
    September 13th, 2007 at 9:15 am Reply to this comment

    Surabaya Stew

    Can’t any of these f*ckers get their stories straight? How do they decide who starts the lie and when it gets “corrected”?

  5. 5
    September 13th, 2007 at 9:50 am Reply to this comment

    David

    The reason the Petraeus testimony was on Monday and Tuesday was due to Washington taking the rest of the week off. That this was released “late in the day” was your basic document dump. No, it won’t get much media play, at all.

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    September 13th, 2007 at 10:38 am Reply to this comment

    Jake

    “In fact, F.I.S.A., which you repeatedly claim is ‘outdated,’ was precisely the tool that helped disrupt this plot,” Mr. Reyes said. “The new law did not lead to the arrests of the three terrorist plotters, as you claimed.”

    Beauty.

    “Information contributing to the recent arrests was not collected under authorities provided by the Protect America Act,” Mr. McConnell said in a statement issued late in the day.

    In addition to Reyes calling him out, I’d like to think his counterpart in Germany told him to StFu. BAdmin has a habit of taking credit for successes in other countries. I seem to recall some Bushie back patting when the UK rounded up the shampoo bombers.

    I think it stems from the same mindset that makes them believe the US is the first country to ever experience a terrorist attack by a non-domestic organization and it must be fucking annoying for any nation that’s been dealing with this crap for years. But for all I know the Cheerleader-in-Chief thought his hard work during Yale games was directly responsible for any wins.

    Ah-ha!

    He was the head football cheerleader his senior year, a member of his class rock-and-roll band, the Torqueys – not singing or playing an instrument but clapping…