Tinker:
These guys running Washington DC nowadays are simply crazy doing that unhanded strong arming of the American people with the IRS that is not only abusive but also truly illegally...Are you kidding me!?
I wonder just what does the Manhattan New York elite cocktail party crowd think of the latest Washington DC leaders. Are they as distressed about the IRS and Benghazi incompetence and law violations as they were about Richard Nixon misuse of the federal government power.
I wonder what Maureen Dowd think about this latest Washington DC incremental abuse of the Americans people Constitution of the United States.
Sometimes I wonder if the professional writing skill of Maureen Down is not harmed by her delightfully swimming around in her own literal fat cat New York Times fish bowl, always out of touch with the great big beautiful world out side of Manhattan New York happy feeding grounds.
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Carl Bernstein: IRS targeting not Watergate
By KEVIN ROBILLARD | 5/13/13 7:17 AM EDT
Updated: 5/14/13 1:00 AM EDT
Journalist Carl Bernstein said President Barack Obama is no Richard Nixon on Monday, and he would know.
“It’s terrible,” Bernstein said of the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups in an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “Outrageous. Heads ought to roll. Simple as that. … From what we know so far, some high-up heads.”
“It’s terrible,” Bernstein said of the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups in an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “Outrageous. Heads ought to roll. Simple as that. … From what we know so far, some high-up heads.”
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The conservatives appearing on Benghazi-obsessed Fox News are a damage patrol with an approach that goes like this: “Lies, paranoia, subpoena, impeach, Watergate, Iran-contra.”
(Though now that the I.R.S. has confessed to targeting Tea Party groups, maybe some of the paranoia is justified.)
Welcome to a glorious spring weekend of accusation and obfuscation as Hillaryland goes up against Foxworld.
The toxic theatrics, including Karl Rove’s first attack ad against Hillary, cloud a simple truth: The administration’s behavior before and during the attack in Benghazi, in which four Americans died, was unworthy of the greatest power on earth.
After his Libyan intervention, President Obama knew he was sending diplomats and their protectors into a country that was no longer a country, a land rife with fighters affiliated with Al Qaeda.
Yet in this hottest of hot spots, the State Department’s minimum security requirements were not met, requests for more security were rejected, and contingency plans were not drawn up, despite the portentous date of 9/11 and cascading warnings from the C.I.A., which had more personnel in Benghazi than State did and vetted the feckless Libyan Praetorian Guard. When the Pentagon called an elite Special Forces team three hours into the attack, it was training in Croatia — decidedly not a hot spot.
Hillary Clinton and Ambassador Chris Stevens were rushing to make the flimsy Benghazi post permanent as a sign of good faith with Libyans, even as it sat ringed by enemies.
The hierarchies at State and Defense had a plodding response, failing to make any superhuman effort as the siege waxed and waned over eight hours.
In an emotional Senate hearing on Wednesday, Stevens’s second-in-command, Gregory Hicks, who was frantically trying to help from 600 miles away in Tripoli, described how his pleas were denied by military brass, who said they could not scramble planes and who gave a “stand-down” order to four Special Forces officers in Tripoli who were eager to race to Benghazi.
“My reaction was that, O.K., we’re on our own,” Hicks said quietly. He said the commander of that Special Forces team told him, “This is the first time in my career that a diplomat has more” chutzpah “than someone in the military.”
The defense secretary at the time, Leon Panetta, insisted, “We quickly responded.” But they responded that they would not respond. As Emma Roller and David Weigel wrote in Slate: “The die was cast long before the attack, by the weak security at the consulate, and commanders may have decided to cut their losses rather than risking more casualties. And that isn’t a story anyone prefers to tell.”
Truth is the first casualty here when competing fiefs protect their mythologies. Some unhinged ideologues on the right cling to the mythology that Barry and Hillary are out to destroy America.
In the midst of a re-election campaign, Obama aides wanted to promote the mythology that the president who killed Osama was vanquishing terror. So they deemed it problematic to mention any possible Qaeda involvement in the Benghazi attack.
Looking ahead to 2016, Hillaryland needed to shore up the mythology that Clinton was a stellar secretary of state. Prepared talking points about the attack included mentions of Al Qaeda and Ansar al-Sharia, a Libyan militant group, but the State Department got those references struck. Foggy Bottom’s spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, a former Cheney aide, quashed a we-told-you-so paragraph written by the C.I.A. that said the spy agency had “produced numerous pieces on the threat of extremists linked to Al Qaeda in Benghazi and eastern Libya,” and had warned about five other attacks “against foreign interests in Benghazi by unidentified assailants, including the June attack against the British ambassador’s convoy.”
Nuland fretted about “my building leadership,” and with backing from Ben Rhodes, a top White House aide, lobbied to remove those reminders from the talking points because they “could be abused by members” of Congress “to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings, so why would we want to feed that either?”
Hicks said that Beth Jones, an under secretary of state, bristled when he asked her why Susan Rice had stressed the protest over an anti-Muslim video rather than a premeditated attack — a Sunday show marathon that he said made his jaw drop. He believes he was demoted because he spoke up.
Hillary’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, also called Hicks to angrily ask why a State Department lawyer had not been allowed to monitor every meeting in Libya with Congressman Jason Chaffetz, who visited in October. (The lawyer did not have the proper security clearance for one meeting.) Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah, has been a rabid Hillary critic on Fox News since the attack. Hicks said he had never before been scolded for talking to a lawmaker.
All the factions wove their own mythologies at the expense of our deepest national mythology: that if there is anything, no matter how unlikely or difficult, that we can do to try to save the lives of Americans who have volunteered for dangerous assignments, we must do it.
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Op-Ed Columnist
When Myths Collide in the Capital
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Senators questioned Hillary Clinton in January about the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi.By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: May 11, 2013
THE capital is in the throes of déjà vu and preview as it plunges back into Clinton Rules, defined by a presidential aide on the hit ABC show “Scandal” as damage control that goes like this: “It’s not true, it’s not true, it’s not true, it’s old news.”The conservatives appearing on Benghazi-obsessed Fox News are a damage patrol with an approach that goes like this: “Lies, paranoia, subpoena, impeach, Watergate, Iran-contra.”
(Though now that the I.R.S. has confessed to targeting Tea Party groups, maybe some of the paranoia is justified.)
Welcome to a glorious spring weekend of accusation and obfuscation as Hillaryland goes up against Foxworld.
The toxic theatrics, including Karl Rove’s first attack ad against Hillary, cloud a simple truth: The administration’s behavior before and during the attack in Benghazi, in which four Americans died, was unworthy of the greatest power on earth.
After his Libyan intervention, President Obama knew he was sending diplomats and their protectors into a country that was no longer a country, a land rife with fighters affiliated with Al Qaeda.
Yet in this hottest of hot spots, the State Department’s minimum security requirements were not met, requests for more security were rejected, and contingency plans were not drawn up, despite the portentous date of 9/11 and cascading warnings from the C.I.A., which had more personnel in Benghazi than State did and vetted the feckless Libyan Praetorian Guard. When the Pentagon called an elite Special Forces team three hours into the attack, it was training in Croatia — decidedly not a hot spot.
Hillary Clinton and Ambassador Chris Stevens were rushing to make the flimsy Benghazi post permanent as a sign of good faith with Libyans, even as it sat ringed by enemies.
The hierarchies at State and Defense had a plodding response, failing to make any superhuman effort as the siege waxed and waned over eight hours.
In an emotional Senate hearing on Wednesday, Stevens’s second-in-command, Gregory Hicks, who was frantically trying to help from 600 miles away in Tripoli, described how his pleas were denied by military brass, who said they could not scramble planes and who gave a “stand-down” order to four Special Forces officers in Tripoli who were eager to race to Benghazi.
“My reaction was that, O.K., we’re on our own,” Hicks said quietly. He said the commander of that Special Forces team told him, “This is the first time in my career that a diplomat has more” chutzpah “than someone in the military.”
The defense secretary at the time, Leon Panetta, insisted, “We quickly responded.” But they responded that they would not respond. As Emma Roller and David Weigel wrote in Slate: “The die was cast long before the attack, by the weak security at the consulate, and commanders may have decided to cut their losses rather than risking more casualties. And that isn’t a story anyone prefers to tell.”
Truth is the first casualty here when competing fiefs protect their mythologies. Some unhinged ideologues on the right cling to the mythology that Barry and Hillary are out to destroy America.
In the midst of a re-election campaign, Obama aides wanted to promote the mythology that the president who killed Osama was vanquishing terror. So they deemed it problematic to mention any possible Qaeda involvement in the Benghazi attack.
Looking ahead to 2016, Hillaryland needed to shore up the mythology that Clinton was a stellar secretary of state. Prepared talking points about the attack included mentions of Al Qaeda and Ansar al-Sharia, a Libyan militant group, but the State Department got those references struck. Foggy Bottom’s spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, a former Cheney aide, quashed a we-told-you-so paragraph written by the C.I.A. that said the spy agency had “produced numerous pieces on the threat of extremists linked to Al Qaeda in Benghazi and eastern Libya,” and had warned about five other attacks “against foreign interests in Benghazi by unidentified assailants, including the June attack against the British ambassador’s convoy.”
Nuland fretted about “my building leadership,” and with backing from Ben Rhodes, a top White House aide, lobbied to remove those reminders from the talking points because they “could be abused by members” of Congress “to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings, so why would we want to feed that either?”
Hicks said that Beth Jones, an under secretary of state, bristled when he asked her why Susan Rice had stressed the protest over an anti-Muslim video rather than a premeditated attack — a Sunday show marathon that he said made his jaw drop. He believes he was demoted because he spoke up.
Hillary’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, also called Hicks to angrily ask why a State Department lawyer had not been allowed to monitor every meeting in Libya with Congressman Jason Chaffetz, who visited in October. (The lawyer did not have the proper security clearance for one meeting.) Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah, has been a rabid Hillary critic on Fox News since the attack. Hicks said he had never before been scolded for talking to a lawmaker.
All the factions wove their own mythologies at the expense of our deepest national mythology: that if there is anything, no matter how unlikely or difficult, that we can do to try to save the lives of Americans who have volunteered for dangerous assignments, we must do it.
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By MARK SHERMAN | Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department
secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and
editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top
executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls. Read more...http://news.yahoo.com/
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By MARK SHERMAN | Associated Press - Associated Press/Mark Humphrey, File - FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2012 file photo, Gary Pruitt, president and CEO of The Associated Press, speaks at the Associated Press Media Editors (APME) conference in Nashville, …more.
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls. Read more...http://news.yahoo.com/
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Good morning, Tiger Fans. I hope you all had a great weekend and that all you Moms out there had a great Mothers’ Day.
As promised, today I’m posting a new Q&A interview I conducted with NFL draft guru and Louisiana football expert Mike Detillier about some of the recent going-ons in LSU football. In it, I ask Mike about Tigers drafted in the NFL, the LSU spring game, the Jeremy Hill mess, his prediction on the upcoming season, and much more.
Click here to read my full interview with Mike Detillier, and then contact me to chime in with your thoughts.
After having most of my interview with Mike ready to post, LSU picked up the huge commitment from D’haquille Williams Friday night, so I had to get back with Mike to get his opinion on the 6'3" game-changing receiver as well. Mike had some pretty strong words about Williams and I think you'll like what he had to say. One thing is for sure, Williams has generated a lot of buzz, and the thought of him on the field in 2014 lined up with several other top offensive targets for 2014 like Leonard Fournette, Trey Quinn and Speedy Noil (all of whom I feel confident of LSU signing), is enough to get Tiger Fans looking ahead to 2014.
With that said, there’s no reason to look beyond 2013 to get excited about LSU’s potential for a revitalized offense. With Cam Cameron as offensive coordinator, Mettenberger in his senior season with a year of SEC experience under his belt, and an improved receiving corps with a healthy Travin Dural and incoming JUCO sensation Quantavious Leslie, there’s plenty of reason for optimism. I'm also looking forward to a big senior year from Alfred Blue, and we never know how this Jeremy Hill deal will work out. More on all these points as we approach the season which is now 110 days away.
That reminds me, when we reach the 100-day mark I will begin our annual jersey countdown. If you have suggestions for the countdown, please start sending them my way
In softball news, the LSU Lady Tigers learned last night that they are the No. 9 national seed and will host the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament at Tiger Park, starting Friday, May 16. LSU will face Central Connecticut at 6 p.m. CT, following a matchup between Northwestern State and Louisiana-Lafayette at 3 p.m.
Lastly, I'd like to congratulate the Catholic High Bears for winning the Class 5A state baseball championship over Zachary. Also, yesterday when I mentioned the champions in the other classifications I forgot to mention the smaller schools in Class B and C. Forest won class B for the third time in four years, and Family Christian won class C for the second year in a row.
Reader comments: Scott, (former Tiger) Mikie Mahtook made an amazing catch this weekend. Here's the YouTube video.
Reader comments: Mingo will prove he was worthy of a first round pick!
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Edward Aschoff talks with Alabama coach Nick Saban about the Crimson Tide after spring practice.
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RandyRosetta #LSU stays No. 3 in the new PerfectGame.org rankings. Ole Miss checks in at No. 20: perfectgame.org/Articles/View.
As promised, today I’m posting a new Q&A interview I conducted with NFL draft guru and Louisiana football expert Mike Detillier about some of the recent going-ons in LSU football. In it, I ask Mike about Tigers drafted in the NFL, the LSU spring game, the Jeremy Hill mess, his prediction on the upcoming season, and much more.
Click here to read my full interview with Mike Detillier, and then contact me to chime in with your thoughts.
After having most of my interview with Mike ready to post, LSU picked up the huge commitment from D’haquille Williams Friday night, so I had to get back with Mike to get his opinion on the 6'3" game-changing receiver as well. Mike had some pretty strong words about Williams and I think you'll like what he had to say. One thing is for sure, Williams has generated a lot of buzz, and the thought of him on the field in 2014 lined up with several other top offensive targets for 2014 like Leonard Fournette, Trey Quinn and Speedy Noil (all of whom I feel confident of LSU signing), is enough to get Tiger Fans looking ahead to 2014.
With that said, there’s no reason to look beyond 2013 to get excited about LSU’s potential for a revitalized offense. With Cam Cameron as offensive coordinator, Mettenberger in his senior season with a year of SEC experience under his belt, and an improved receiving corps with a healthy Travin Dural and incoming JUCO sensation Quantavious Leslie, there’s plenty of reason for optimism. I'm also looking forward to a big senior year from Alfred Blue, and we never know how this Jeremy Hill deal will work out. More on all these points as we approach the season which is now 110 days away.
That reminds me, when we reach the 100-day mark I will begin our annual jersey countdown. If you have suggestions for the countdown, please start sending them my way
In softball news, the LSU Lady Tigers learned last night that they are the No. 9 national seed and will host the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament at Tiger Park, starting Friday, May 16. LSU will face Central Connecticut at 6 p.m. CT, following a matchup between Northwestern State and Louisiana-Lafayette at 3 p.m.
Lastly, I'd like to congratulate the Catholic High Bears for winning the Class 5A state baseball championship over Zachary. Also, yesterday when I mentioned the champions in the other classifications I forgot to mention the smaller schools in Class B and C. Forest won class B for the third time in four years, and Family Christian won class C for the second year in a row.
Reader comments: Scott, (former Tiger) Mikie Mahtook made an amazing catch this weekend. Here's the YouTube video.
Reader comments: Mingo will prove he was worthy of a first round pick!
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Were Mike Anderson, Bevan, Grezaffi, & Davis really that talented? (Posted on 5/12/13 at 11:25 am)
 I was just looking over the era of LSU football from 1951 to 1975, and I was struck by how low some famous LSU players went in the NFL Draft during that period: Some Notable LSU Players in the Draft (Selection #, Position, Year of NFL Draft, Name) 184, DB, 1968, Sammy Grezaffi 211, RB, 1975, Brad Davis 216, LB, 1971, Mike Anderson 421, DB, 1970, George Bevan Then I got to thinking about that old thread of mine from January 2011 about how the HBCUs started totally outclassed LSU in the NFL Drafts from about the spring of '66 to the spring of '74. (Collis Temple Sr. was chosen as a sort of throw-away pick in the late rounds of the spring of 1974, and Mike Williams was taken as the 22nd pick overall in 1975.) That's when all these guys played, but unlike the LSU star backs of the late 50's and early 60's (Taylor, Cannon, Robinson, Rabb, Stovall, Harris, Gros, Branch, etc.), they didn't seem to be highly regarded by NFL scouts. I'm just trying to figure out why that was. There were of course legit super-talented stars from that time at LSU (see Tommy Casanova, Bert Jones, and Andy Hamilton), but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to measure Anderson-Bevan-Grezaffi-Davis against former LSU players from the 1950s and early 1960s, like maybe a Dennis Gaubatz--or even a player from the 1970s, like a Bo Harris who was picked 77th in the 1975 NFL Draft. If anybody has input, comments, suggestions, just let it fly.  Sam Grezaffi, #30  Brad Davis, #48  George Bevan, #42  Mike Anderson, #45  Bo Harris's 1980 Topps card ------------------------------ |
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re: Were Mike Anderson, Bevan, Grezaffi, & Davis really that talented? (Posted on 5/12/13 at 11:40 am to Doc Fenton)
There are some LSU bowl games from the early-mid seventies on youtube, inclucing an Orange Bowl vs Nebraska and I think one against Penn State. Apart from the obvious guys like Casanova, most of the players aren't all that impressive physically. Small and just look unathletic. Same goes for the opponents, BTW. Two or three natural freakish athletes on each team and the rest fairly ordinary looking. |
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