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Norah O’Donnell Hammers Jay Carney On Attempted Assassination of Saudi Ambassador

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To the untrained eye it might seem that Norah O’Donnell of CBS should be buying a beer for White House Press Secretary Jay Carney right now to make up for her hardcore follow-up questioning at this afternoon’s press briefing on how the United States would be reacting to the attempted assassination of Adel A. Al-Jubeir, the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States. Mediaite’s own White House reporter Tommy Christopher assures me this kind of questioning is routine at White House briefings.

A clearly reluctant Carney tried his best to give answers to questions that O’Donnell had every right to ask, but her persistence in following up led to Carney just saying the word “pressure” a bunch of times, bringing up the rarely-heard combo of “unilateral, bilateral, and trilateral” in the same sentence, and trying to talk his way out of questions he either didn’t have — or couldn’t give –the answers to.

O’Donnell wanted to know how the White House was going to rally the world against Iran. Carney said, essentially, that isolation and pressure would continue, and possibly be ratcheted up. He also intimated that the U.S. might not have to do too much, as many countries have many ambassadors who could have been the target of Iran’s plan.

“I think the fact that it was an attempted assassination of a protected diplomat will be, and is, a matter of great concern for nations around the world,” Carney said. “This is a flagrant violation of international law. And we don’t believe that we’re going to have any difficulty in persuading other nations to agree with us that this is quite a serious, serious matter.”

O’Donnell’s inquiries were obvious follow-ups to questions that Carney wasn’t answering, but there may be more bubbling beneath the surface as far as how the U.S. might deal with Iran. Carney, for instance, is walking a very precarious line — it was a Saudi Ambassador on U.S. soil. Having the Saudis take the lead here might be the best way of dealing with this particular incident. After all, George W. Bush coined the “axis of evil” term almost 10 years ago, grouping Iraq, Iran, and North Korea together in the designation. For a decade, at least, the United States has put it out there that Iran is a country to be watched. The U.S. doesn’t need to really ramp up the rhetoric on this one: it’s been said that Iran is evil, their government was just exposed as having a role in an assassination attempt, and now the world is seeing it play out.

It’s like if you were playing a basketball game in your driveway, and some guy from the next town over — who you’ve told your friends you don’t like for a while — drove up, got out of his car, and tried to punch one of the guys you were playing with. Yes, it’s your driveway, but the guy who almost got punched should probably take the lead on this one. You can just stand behind him, point, and tell everyone, “I told you that guy was a dick.”

Of course, this is all guesswork, based on the few answers Carney actually gave. If one thing is certain, it’s that opinions on this incident, and how America should react, will be wide-ranging and coming from every corner. Kudos to O’Donnell for trying to get what she could out of Carney, but when it’s actually revealed what the administration has planned with Iran, she’ll likely learn it at the same time everyone else does.

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  • Ralph-NY

    “White House reporter Tommy Christopher” Really I thought he was the liberal columnist on this site. Wow thats looks just awful.

  • Norbit

    Mediaite’s own White House reporter Tommy Christopher assures me this kind of questioning is routine at White House briefings.
    ———————————
    LMAO!

    Yea, the Obama Media – particularly the Washington Press Corps - is well-known for their ruthless questioning of the White House!

    What’s next, Matthews “grilling” the President on GHardball?

    Lol!

  • Anonymous

    Good work by Norah . Carney had no answer .

    Iran has no fear of the US anymore . 

    We don’t have to tell them military action is off the table . Once an American was safe anywhere in the world .

    Now, they’re targets .

  • http://twitter.com/MarkPritchard Mark Pritchard

    “Attempted assassination attempt”?

  • TruDat

    He doesn’t have an answer because the whole thing was created by the Obama administration to 1) provide cover for Holder’s complicity in the murder of a Border Agent and 2) attempt to help Obama get reelected.

  • Anonymous

    Obama should order the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to do an About Face and begin marching.

  • JT

    You are so astute its scary..Just a regular Nostradamus.. Let the nut cases start their crazy conspiracy theories..Starting with you!

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    And Holder makes the announcement the same day he is subpoenaed….koinkidink? 

    http://video.foxnews.com/v/1214715553001/subpoena-sent-to-doj-on-gunrunning-operation/?playlist_id=86909

    perhaps that’s why Jay didn’t quite have all the answers….

  • NDanielson

    After all, George W. Bush coined the “axis of evil” term almost 10 years ago,
    grouping Iraq, Iran, and North Korea together in the designation. For a
    decade, at least, the United States has put it out there that Iran is a
    country to be watched. The U.S. doesn’t need to really ramp up the rhetoric on this one: it’s
    been said that Iran is evil, their government was just exposed as having
    a role in an assassination attempt, and now the world is seeing it play
    out.

    Wow, is this some kind of Joke??? What a joke. Bush may have said those things (he did) but every liberal in this country called him a “Cowboy”, a dunce, unelected, a war criminal, Hitler.

    Yes, our unity against Iran must have made the “Axis of Evil” quiver with fear, Di Fino. After all, they know full well that liberals have their backs. Right?

  • Mencius

    I keep seeing comments suggesting the same thing on other sites. Here’s where you’re wrong, though. The Justice Department can’t simply make up a case that involves an arrest and an actual trial. If you read the indictment, DOJ provides transcripts of recorded conversations between suspects and undercover officials, which are now evidence that will have to be submitted and played in court. Do you think that career DOJ officials hired actors to play the roles? 

    This is something not many people seem to understand about DOJ either. Like most branches of government, it has politically appointed leaders, but the vast majority of people in it are there because it’s their career no matter who the president is. Many of the people stay for 20 years, and nearly all of them–investigator and prosecutor alike–were there when GWB was president and will be there when Obama is not. So to say that their investigations or (over-hyped) scandals have much to do with the president is b.s. That logic is a little like saying that the armed forces are a bunch of lying yahoos just because you don’t agree with whomever the commander in chief is at the moment. 

    Here’s something else that seems to be forgotten. Holder was in DOJ under Bush. The “fast and furious” operation started under Bush. If something like the supposed “voter fraud” involving the “New Black Panthers”–a group of about 20 idiots–was covered up for political reasons, there is zero chance that career DOJ investigators and prosecutors wouldn’t be leaking details to the press. Why the silence? Because the GOP is trying its hardest to stir up controversy over absolutely nothing just to get people like you to believe they’re the party to vote for. 

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    “After all,George W. Bush coined the “axis of evil” term almost 10 years ago, grouping Iraq, Iran, and North Korea together in the designation. For a decade, at least, the United States has put it out there that Iran is a country to be watched. The U.S. doesn’t need to really ramp up the rhetoric on this one: it’s been said that Iran is evil,”

    I couldn’t remember if Iran didn’t pose a threat or if they were a grave threat…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaG6s05MKeM&feature=related

  • NDanielson

    For adecade, at least, the United States has put it out there that Iran is acountry to be watched. The U.S. doesn’t need to really ramp up the rhetoric on this one: it’s been said that Iran is evil, their government was just exposed as havinga role in an assassination attempt, and now the world is seeing it play
    out.

    Wow, that would be the near decade of Bush? And now the very people who attacked the man with every thing they could possibly attack the man over ARE IN CHARGE!?

    “The United States has put it out there”…Bush, Bush put it out there.

    Yes, feel safer yet?

    Blame Bush for everything. Including the sternest warning these animals have ever received from America.I guess that is progress.

  • TruDat

    Thank you honey.

  • Anonymous

    The world has seen the weakness on Obama since 2009 . He wanted to go to Japan to apologize for Hiroshima and Nagsaki . Japan turned him down .

    “Leadership: Leaked cables show Japan nixed a presidential apology to Hiroshima and Nagasaki for using nukes to end the overseas contingency operation known as World War II. Will the next president apologize for the current one?
    The obsessive need of this president to apologize for American exceptionalism and our defense of freedom continued recently when Barack Obama’s State Department (run by Hillary Clinton) contacted the family of al-Qaida propagandist and recruiter Samir Khan to “express its condolences” to his family.”

    http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/587698/201110111829/Apologies-Not-Accepted.htm

  • SammyC

    Damn! She is sexy!

  • Anonymous

    Some tough questions there from a normally weak journalist.  Weak answers from a normally weak press secretary.  Conclusion?  Expect a weak response from this President.  Will they be punished for operating, as terrorists, openly in this country?  According to Joe “retard” Biden, no, not at all.

  • Anonymous

    You are a rude guest in Tommy’s house!

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the reminder.  

    Sort of feel sorry for Jay.  You can just see his poor head spinning like “why do I have to answer, I don’t know squat”? lol

  • Anonymous

    Republicans should just leave Holder alone. They are distracting him from keeping the country safe! ;)

  • TruDat

    If you’ve spent considerable time in prison.

  • TruDat

    Yeah, far be it for the DOJ under Holder to be involved in any type of cover-up.

  • TruDat

    You don’t read much news, do you?

  • NDanielson

    In 1997, after the retirement of Jamie Gorelick, Clinton nominated Holder to be the Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno. Holder was confirmed several months later in the Senate by a unanimous vote.

    He became an interim AG until the confirmation of Gonzalez. Nice try. Never “appointed” by Bush. Fast and furious was conceived and implemented by the current administration to undermine the 2nd Amendment. Holder recieved his much deserved subpoenas today. Oddly enough, Bush has not. Weird, huh? i guess the lying yahoos cannot lie well enough?

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    The difference I think was that they knew what happened to the guns – they were tracking them.  This time completely lost.  

    I heard a guy today who was supporting Holder until he too said – a brilliant lawyer but not a brilliant politician.  I think he had it bass ackwards.  They then played a montage of sound bites of “brilliant lawyer” not knowing, not reading, clueless”.  I don’t quite understand if in fact Holder is stupid, covering for something else or….it is odd – because I know lawyers and his answers to legal issues in the past indicated he didn’t read much of what crossed his desk (like Arizona immigration law) – seriously, there is either something else that is distracting him from these issues or….

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Carney’s answer doesn’t fulfill your neo-con fantasy of invading Iran with an extended ground war, resulting in the deaths of  thousands of US troops and tens of thousands of Iranians?

    –Cobra

  • TruDat

    As though I’d follow a link provided by a left-wing hack.  Come on dude, get real.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    What is YOUR prescription for dealing with Iran, a country the United States has a dubious history with?

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    You’d prefer what answers?  “We’ll start bombing in ten minutes?”

    –Cobra

  • Mencius

    Weird. Absolutely weird. Unless you consider the fact that I said Holder was in DOJ, not the AG. I guess I should’ve made that clear but I assumed it was sort of a “no shit” observation since it’s pretty obvious who the AG is on any given year and since the AG is a political appointee, which is actually not at all what I was talking about. The point is Holder was a ranking DOJ official under Clinton, Bush and Obama. Do you think he was just some corrupt official under Bush secretly waiting for his moment when Evil Jihadist Obama would appear out of nowhere to appoint him? 

    You’re technically right about Fast and Furious, though Operation Gunrunner started under Bush. That was my error. But the truth is, these tactics are very common and have been for years. I know this won’t change the mind of a right-wing fanatic, but here’s an AP story on testimony heard this month about fast and furious that shows how your judgement here is skewed: 

    AP sources: Bush-era probe involved guns ‘walking’By PETE YOST, Associated Press–Oct 4, 2011 WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government under the Bush administration ran an operation that allowed hundreds of guns to be transferred to suspected arms traffickers — the same tactic that congressional Republicans have criticized President Barack Obama’s administration for using, two federal law enforcement officials said Tuesday.Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and other Republicans have been hammering the Obama Justice Department over the practice known as “letting guns walk.” The congressional target has been Operation Fast and Furious, which was designed to track small-time gun buyers at several Phoenix-area gun shops up the chain to make cases against major weapons traffickers. In the process, federal agents lost track of many of the more than 2,000 guns linked to the operation.When Bush, a Republican, was president, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Tucson, Ariz., used a similar enforcement tactic in a program it called Operation Wide Receiver. The fact that there were two such ATF investigations years apart in separate administrations raises the possibility that agents in still other cases may have allowed guns to “walk.”

  • Norbit

    The answer was a deafening SILENCE from this White House in 2009, when we actually had a chance to support an Iranian Spring!

    I guess there were some mixed sympathies at the White House.

  • Mencius

    Could it be that, because you hate Obama, you see conspiracies wherever the Republicans tell you they are? Why was Holder, as a fairly unknown DOJ official under Bush, okay with the right but, under Obama, seen as a liar? Do you think Holder was always corrupt and just waiting for Obama to come along and give him power? Or is it possible the Republicans are pulling your strings? 

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think that is the answer – although you might.  Personally I don’t know what the answer is – perhaps an accidental bombing of their nuclear facilities by Israel?  Just a thought….

  • Anonymous

    What Norbit said.  Additionally, Joe Biden already said Iran will pay by us doing exactly what we’ve been doing before, which obviously was no deterrent.  If they’re interested in doing something to Iran, they can move again Bank Markazi, the Iranian Central bank, by banning all transactions with them as Mark Kirk is now pursuing.  If they did that, it’d break their currency.

  • Anonymous

    You never tell your enemy what you won’t do.

    –Gloves

  • Mencius

    You don’t question what Fox tells you much, do you? 

  • SammyC

    It’s a picture of Norah you fool. The only reason any guy wouldn’t tap that fine ass is because she doesn’t have a penis.

  • Anonymous

    same question for you, were you always a cheater, or did you just start being one doing other peoples homework for money?

  • NDanielson

    It’s like if you were playing a basketball game in your driveway, and
    some guy from the next town over — who you’ve told your friends you
    don’t like for a while — drove up, got out of his car, and tried to
    punch one of the guys you were playing with. Yes, it’s your driveway,
    but the guy who almost got punched should probably take the lead on this
    one. You can just stand behind him, point, and tell everyone, “I told
    you that guy was a dick.”

    Well of course, because then you’d be accused of calling everyone from the town of dicks a dick, too. Then the dick appeasers would show up and call you a cowboy, who hates even peaceful dicks, and wanting to scare everyone for re-election. If you looked suspiciously at ANY dick, you’d be a bigot, your suspision of any dicks at all would have you labeled a dickphobe even though no one is saying that ALL dicks are dicks, but a dick is still the only one who was being a dick!

    Wow, you get paid to write? So far you admit that Bush is the only one who recognized that a dick was going to be a dick. So far he was 100% right. Maybe America should quit appeasing dicks?

  • NDanielson

    Dick.

  • NDanielson

    Likes dicks.

  • Mencius

    That’s a ridiculous attack because, first, I never said I did other people’s homework (I said rich kids asked me to because they were too lazy) and, second, I never took them up on the offers. Not once. 

    So here’s a question for you, pal. Do you know how to f*** off or do you need other people to show you?

  • Mencius

    Of course, you shouldn’t be too proud of yourself when you’ve got nothing to respond with except empty personal attacks based entirely on widely inaccurate conjectures. But I guess that’s all you’ve got since you don’t seem to understand the facts well enough to discuss the issue. 

  • Rio

    Career proscecutors have been silenced and transferred by the Holder JD, they specificly did that in the NBP case. 

    Fast and Furious has seen the JD stall and withhold documents relating to the investigation for months.   Career employees are involved in that, they can’t go farther than the boss(Holder) unless they become a whistleblower, ala the one that had to resign, another was moved to another district, all were told to keep quiet.  Aside from the whistleblower, care to tell us what had been leaked in any of the cases?  Black Panther, Fast and Furious or this? 

    Career attorneys, aides, etc. can be influenced by the appointed, that there indeed would be a chance of no leaks due to Holder’s prior treatment of the career employs during the NBP episode.  There are no leaks, but they, Justice,  does launch trial balloons as in the Gitmo trials.

    I do believe all this happened, but the release timing is suspect, this happened months ago, shortly before the debt ceiling crisis,   Given time and space for the Osama and al awlaki hits to play out and not doing much to rescue his hap-hazard administration, it now appears they are  attempting to use their  ace in the hole and finally get this out.  Isn’t going to help them either.

    Eric Holder served the Bush administration through the Ashcroft confirmation process, he immediately went to Covington & Burling following Ashcroft’s confirmation and later was Obama’s campaign attorney when he ran for president/

  • Anonymous

    you didnt not say you didnt take them up on it, nice re-write….and second if you are going to preach with a self-rightous tone watch what you write

  • NDanielson

    Weird, absolutely weird. Alluding that Bush is responsible for Holder and F&F. Bush was not responsible for Holder being anywhere near the DOJ. And last I’ve heard Bush hasn’t lied to congress about any gun walking operation. F&F or otherwise.

  • NDanielson

    Hey, dick, not everyone who knows about the corrupt 0bama administration watches Fox. Did you know that there is an entire internet to look up all kinds of info on Barry and company??? Fox isn’t the only outlet for the fraud that Barry is. Are you that stupid, dick?

  • Mencius

    I also didn’t say I took them up on it, so who started making assumptions? 

    You never answered my questions about f***ing off. 

  • Anonymous

    You took the words right out of my mouth,how can they be using an obviously biased leftwing liberal in a position that should be completely unbiased?Tells me a lot about how seriously to take this site.

  • JT

    Clearly not the same crap you seem to read..How you justify turning an assassination attempt into an Obama administration coverup is beyond me.. If that is what you consider reading the news, then I want no part of it..
    I am not a strict Republican or Democrat. I do like to watch for complete hypocrisy and your statements fall clearly under that label.
    Did you have the same outcry when the Border Agents were sent to prison for shooting a Mexican drug dealer when Bush was in office? Bush and the DOJ did nothing to help them until members of Congress had a huge outpouring. The Bush DOJ was willing to let them rot in jail for 10+ years.
    If you called them on it as well-then I commend you. If not, you are being partisan, unfair, and close minded.

  • NDanielson

    Dick.

  • NDanielson

    Quit sucking up to dicks. Dick.

  • Anonymous

    Joe Biden said nothing is off the table. That means Barry might send Iran a strongly worded letter!

  • NDanielson

    Dick.

  • Anonymous

    To the dumb libs who do not understudy how serious this is; They wanted to assassinate a foreign dignitary and blow up two embassies on US soil with one of the embassies  being that of Israel which, if it found out it was done by Iran, would start an all out war on Iran.

    That’s how serious this is and shows just how unafraid Iran is of Barry.

  • Mencius

    I notice you keep posting a lot about dicks. I’m sure there’s a reason for that. 

  • Anonymous

    lucky YOU

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure Barry will find a reason to make this America’s fault. Barry would say : “The apologies start in 10 minutes.”

  • NDanielson

    Might call them dicks?

  • Mencius

    There you go with another comment about dicks. You’ve got dick your mind, I guess. 

  • Mencius

    NDanielson loves to post about dicks. 

  • Anonymous

    I bet Cobra drives a “Chevrolet.” BTW Cobra, why is this a concern of yours- no one black has yet been connected with this story.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s neo-con fantasy for you… We tell Iran we will be leveling every building and structure in their country. Not with nukes mind you but with a lot big bombs. We tell the Iranian leadership to tell their people to pitch their tents in the desert if you want to live because the U.S. of  A is about to make Iran a stone age country. We even drop paper fliers just in case the leadership doesn’t inform their people of their coming demise. If we feel generous we’ll drop lots of guns all over Iran and give the people a week or two to over throw their government before we do. Ok, may be just level Tehran first and see what happens.

    Hey, don’t worry, it just a fantasy.

    But keep this in mind Iran’s leadership is evil. Deal with them now or deal with them later but at some point we will have to deal with them.

  • Mencius

    Great that you can admit that. Don’t worry. Your kids will understand in time. And the GOP?… well, you’re just joining the club. 

  • Mencius

    NDanielson is another GOPer who knows what he wants. 

  • Anonymous

    Mediaite’s own White House reporter Tommy Christopher assures me this kind of questioning is routine at White House briefings”

    Ahhh, when its a Repub administration, yes, with a Dem administration, no!

  • NDanielson

    His law firm is in the habit of offering legal council to terrorists.

    The firm represents 17 Yemeni nationals and one Pakistani
    citizen held at Guantánamo Bay. The Supreme Court will soon review the
    D.C. Circuit’s ruling that ordered the dismissal of a number of habeas
    petitions filed by Guantánamo detainees; some of our clients are
    petitioners in the Supreme Court case. We expect to play a substantial
    role in the briefing. We also plan to petition the Supreme Court to
    hear our Pakistani client’s appeal from the D.C. Circuit’s order
    dismissing his case. Further, we are pursuing relief in the D.C.
    Circuit under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 for all of our clients.
    On a separate front, we filed amicus briefs and coordinated the amicus
    effort in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in which the Supreme Court in the summer
    of 2006 invalidated President Bush’s military commissions and in which
    we have obtained favorable rulings that our clients have rights under
    the Fifth Amendment and the Geneva Conventions.

    Covington & Burling’s Gitmo bar roster has included some of the
    most radical detainee advocates; see David Remes, who peeled down to his
    underwear at a press conference in Yemen to draw attention to his
    clients’ plight and Marc Falkoff, who published a book of detainee
    poetry and who, in the book’s intro, compared their heroic struggle to
    the Jews held in concentration camps and Japanese Americans held in
    internment camps during WWII. [One of Falkoff's "gentle, thoughtful"
    young poets--a Kuwaiti "cleared for release" and repatriated in
    2005--blew himself up in a truck bomb in Mosul last March, killing 13
    Iraqi army soldiers and wounding 42 others.]

    The fact that Mr. Holder, while Deputy Attorney General,
    pushed for the release of 16 violent FALN terrorists against the advice
    of the FBI, the US Attorneys who prosecuted them and the NYPD officers
    who were maimed by them, suggests that he was perfectly willing to put
    politics before the national security interests of the country. He is
    not suited for the job of attorney general, which is central to the
    issues surrounding the disposition of war on terror detainees.

    H/T Michelle Malkin

    Which she sourced, in part,  through their own website:

    We currently represent fourteen men detained at the United States
    Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.  Most of the men have been
    detained for approximately eight years and none have been charged with
    any crimes.  Following the decision by the Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush, 128 S. Ct. 2229 (2008), holding that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus extends to detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, we are challenging the legality of our clients’ detentions in habeas
    proceedings in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. 
    Of the seven cases that have gone to merits hearings thus far, Covington
    has won four, lost two, and is awaiting a decision in one other.  Two
    prior clients were released without a hearing.
    The firm has been involved in the Guantánamo related litigation for the last six years.  In addition to the on-going habeas corpus
    proceedings, our efforts have included: bringing cases for review of
    enemy combatant classification decisions in the D.C. Circuit under the
    Detainee Treatment Act of 2005; challenging the destruction of CIA
    torture tapes in federal court; filing amicus briefs and coordinating the amicus effort in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006); filing amicus briefs in support of Supreme Court review in Moussaoui v. United States, 382 F.3d 483 (4th Cir.), cert denied, 544 U.S. 931 (2005); challenging the government’s practice of redacting information from documents given to security-cleared habeas counsel; and challenging the abusive medical and living conditions that the detainees experience at Guantánamo.

  • Anonymous

    And asking everyone today

  • Rio

    Holder only served until Ashcroft’s confirmation process was completed and immediately left for Covington and Burling.  He worked for the Bush Justice Department from January 20, 2001 until February 2, 2001 a total of 12 days, not a lot of time for anything, he was a fill in asked to keep the seat warm when Reno left on January 20.

    He was instrumental in Clinton’s pardoning of Marc Rich and the FALN terrorists.

  • NDanielson

    You’d be a dick with a dollar. Don’t spend it all at once.

  • Tucsonense

    Still are safe. Get out there and check it out.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Hardcore questioning at the White House Press briefing, for real ?  Change the topic and ask something simple next time. Maybe ask how in just one day or less the Justice Dept knows the assassination bomb plot goes right to the top of Iranian power and no one in our government knew about Fast and Furious while it was in operation.

  • Anonymous

    Mencius 52 minutes ago in reply to NDanielson
    I notice you keep posting a lot about dicks. I’m sure there’s a reason for that.Like a baby crying for his bottle

  • Anonymous

    JFK is rolling over in his democratic grave today. More amateur hours at the White House.

    And buy him a beer? For what? Asking the questions they SHOULD be asking. Thank you, Norah. 

  • TomT

    Go back to sleep stone-dork.

  • Rio

    The Obama appointed nine of his cohorts to the JD and they sure didn’t want to give out any information on them.

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/in_justice_furor_over_gitmo_appointees_2Yr7Gp8Qh41E4EVWIeAXRP

  • Anonymous

    smdh

  • RickP

    Not after teabags? LOL

  • Anonymous

    If Iran isn’t careful Obama will drop them off his Happy Holidays recycled card mailing list.

  • Anonymous

    Or, you know, assassinate their leaders.

  • Norbit

    I guess Obama can’t rely on the information received from Bush’s interrogation policies – which Obama opposed – to pull his behind out of this one!

    Say, are those Wall Street and Hollywood Jewish contributors still supporting the Democratic Party? – or are they waiting until the first mushroom cloud rises from Tel Aviv before they pull their funding?

    How much blood will be on those Jewish hands knowing that they supported an Administration who will have led Israel to the slaughter?

  • PaulG85

    Norah’s really pretty, so I wouldn’t mind being hammered by her.

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  • Anonymous

    Obama and his ‘crack WH team’ have known about this plot for some time (it has been reported). Why doesn’t he at least have a response for the American people not to mention a plan of action to deal with this crime?

  • Anonymous

    We discovered plot, interviewed guy over 12 days, arrested him yesterday and today we have to have a plan. This is just insane, administration has proved they are not afraid to kill the leaders in terrorism so lets cut them some slack

  • Anonymous

    They knew about this plot in June.  Why wait until Holder-subpeona-day to make the arrest/announcement?  EVERYTHING is political with this administration.  EVERYTHING is a calculation.  The execution is typically, and comically, an epic fail… but it’s still calculated

  • Pablo

    DARREN SEES INSIDE YOUR MIND!

    Be very afraid.

  • Pablo

    You certainly don’t want to take the heartfelt apology option off the table.

  • Pablo

    That was an absolute travesty.

  • Pablo

    There you go. The plot is not a coverup, but the announcement was timed to distract. It may work with some of the media (though much of the love seems to be gone) but it isn’t going to work with Issa and Grassley.

  • Pablo

    Maybe we should handle it like we handled Libya. Me, i would have thrown our full support to the Green movement when they had a head of steam, the eyes of the world on them and they were begging for it.

  • Pablo
  • Anonymous

    How can you tell that Nando’s claim to fame was fantasy football.  A worse analogy would be hard to write, one thinks (unless you’re a sports geek and know nothing about foreign affairs).

  • Anonymous

    I don’t have one and don’t envy the trouble you all get into with yours.  

  • Anonymous

    Obama is desperate to win.  Obama and Holder are both in deep water over Fast and Furious.  Both have LIED numerous times to We, the People.  Why is it not possible that this administration made this whole thing up to make themselves look better hoping to win in 2012?  When your government LIES and is as Crooked as Obama, and Lies as much as everyone in this administration, then it is hard to believe them on anything!  Lets correct that in 2012 and vote in someone HONEST this time!

  • shonangreg

    Not that I’m advocating this choice, but we would not even have to ask Israel. We could just say, “I no longer oppose you striking their nuclear facilities.” If they’re on-their-game, the Israeli’s are just waiting for such word. The plans are already in place.

  • Anonymous

    Good, let’s get Iran out of the way as a political issue and let’s let Obama bomb them now so he doesn’t have anything ‘good’ (if you’re into that kind of thing) fresh in voters mind by elections time

    And by the way, if you have any other agenda items, move now and let’s get them on the president’s desk. The time is nigh. He’s most vulnerable and willing to do anything to please

  • TruDat

    I think it’s possible I know the facts, whereas you are clueless.

  • TruDat

    Funny how all you MSNBC lapdogs accuse anyone who disagrees with them as being Fox News fans.  Totallly clueless you are, and it’s evident with each and every one of your posts.

  • TruDat

    I guess you have a different definition of “fine” than I do.  But since you’re a liberal loon, your choices are limited, so I understand your grief.

  • TruDat

    Get back on your corner and get you a dollar.

  • Ruth1940

    The US history with Iran is a reason for the problem.  When they’d elected a democratic government, we replaced it with the Shah.  They don’t forget rapidly.

    Remember that sanctions hurt most the people who tried to get rid of their current government not long ago.

    The current conspiracy accusation is fishy – a reason not a lot is released yet.  They are still trying to figure it out.  Don’t rule out foul play by those who have got away with hurting us before.  (Call your representatives in Congress and demand an investigation:  http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/ussliberty.html

    Too many Americans don’t know the real history: 
    http://original.antiwar.com/alison-weir/2011/10/10/the-real-story-of-how-israel-was-created/

    http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/calling-out-the-tribalists-by-kathleen-christison.html

    The Arabs know what really happened.  Most Europeans do too.  Look for news sources outside the U.S.

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