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I see the Republican's are weighing their options, and, was it a surprise that Mitt Romney came out on top? Good Ol'Mittens, he serves a purpose. Poster child for hairsprays, everywhere, and the Fundies love him.

wordpress.com 2009

But, Newt has been laying very low except for those interviews on friendly media, and has been in handling for a long time. The Family had two choices, Clinton, or Gingrich. Both attended the same meetings, several times.

Shrubco, LLC. Pulled one of the greatest robberies on the United States of American, ever. They all pulled out of the markets and into commodities. Then... second wave, the markets who don't play with their own money, they play with yours, lose your money. Tsk

Second biggest robbery of United States history. Gingrich would be the final blow.
Civil war
Then we accept the North American Union, gratefully.
What a sad vision...

Prolonged Financial Recession

I'm calling Newt Gingrich as the Republican Presidential candidate for 2012, just like I called the Belmont a while back.
The Teabagged, and the Militants will run distraction, while the clueless scream, "Obama Nation, stop it before it spreads!" I can see it now.

Any takers?

Fernando?

"Corporate Governance"

Gingrich/Clinton Government Shutdown of 1995.

April 8, 2010-Gingrich Shutdown.

hahahah
The first thing that went thru my mind was, Hot Dogs must be a turn on to Tea Baggers.

Triangle-shaped hot dogs?

Triangle-shaped hot dogs?
Feb 22, 2010 12:10 PM — Scott Jagow

There’s quite a bit of discussion today about a warning from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Because choking on food is a considerable danger for young children, the Academy wants mandatory labeling about choking hazards. And it suggests some foods like hot dogs should be “redesigned.”

More from the statement’s lead author:

“We know what shape, sizes and consistencies pose the greatest risk for choking in children and whenever possible food manufacturers should design foods to avoid those characteristics, or redesign existing foods when possible, to change those characteristics to reduce the choking risk…

“Any food that has a cylindrical or round shape poses a risk,” he pointed out. Smith said that hot dogs were high on the list of foods that could be redesigned — perhaps the shape, although he said it would be up to the manufacturers to figure out the specifics.

The hot dog industry’s response:

In response to the call for warning labels and hot dog re-engineering, Janet Riley, president of the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council, pointed out that most hot dog packages in the U.S. already advise parents to chop up hot dogs into more easily swallowed pieces.

“As a mother who has fed toddlers cylindrical foods like grapes, bananas, hot dogs and carrots, I ‘redesigned’ them in my kitchen by cutting them with a paring knife until my children were old enough to manage on their own,” she said.

Even when they’re old enough, kids can still choke on food. ....

Triangle-shaped hot dogs?

People,
You can not legislate Common Sense, no matter how hard you try. Outlawing the sausage, is a bit too far.

"Stand back from the Bratwurst..."

In light of current events, this demands a repost.

GM's EV-1, this Electric car was loved
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 10:21am.

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/223/index.html
Week of 6.9.06 PBS NOW Special
Who Killed the Electric Car?
In a film that has all the elements of a murder mystery, Paine points the finger at car companies, the oil industry, bad ad campaigns, consumer wariness, and a lack of commitment from the U.S. government.

"[The film] is about why the only kind of cars that we can drive run on oil. And for a while there was a terrific alternative, a pure electric car," Paine said.
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http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/

GM could have been HUGE.
But cowered in the face of big oil, Andy Card, and corporate profits.

No future here

http://www.idahostatesman.com/235/story/368472.html

Radioactive sand coming to Idaho from Kuwait

American Ecology gets the contract to dispose of material tainted in a fire at a U.S. military base.

Nearly 80 rail cars loaded with contaminated sand from Kuwait are headed toward a dump in southwestern Idaho.

American Ecology Corp. is shipping about 6,700 tons of sand containing traces of depleted uranium and lead to a hazardous waste disposal site 70 miles southeast of Boise.
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The company has previously disposed of low-level radioactive waste and hazardous materials from U.S. military bases overseas at facilities in Idaho, Nevada and Texas, said American Ecology spokesman Chad Hyslop, who is based in Boise.
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All the sand from Kuwait should be in Idaho within 40 days, Hyslop said. Radiation from the uranium in the sand has been measured at about 10 picocuries per gram. The Idaho facility is permitted to accept material with more than 16 times that level, or 169 picocuries per gram.

In a letter to Army officials on Sept. 13, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission deemed the radiation levels "unimportant quantities" and approved the plan to dispose the sand in Idaho.

Contaminated Sand From Kuwait

From toniD
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3425#comment-229618

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But beyond the ignored mandatory actions the willful dispersal of tons of solid radioactive and chemically toxic waste in the form of uranium munitions is illegal (http://www.traprockpeace.org/karen_parker_du_illegality.pdf) and just does not even pass the common sense test and according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, DHS, is a dirty bomb. DHS issued "dirty bomb" response guidelines, http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html, on January 3, 2006 for incidents within the United States but ignore DOD use of uranium weapons and existing DOD regulations.
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Thus the use of uranium munitions is "an act or terror" as defined by DHS. Finally continued compliance with the infamous March 1991 Los Alamos Memorandum that was issued to ensure continued use of uranium munitions can not be justified.
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http://www.traprockpeace.org/twomemos.html

http://www.traprockpeace.org/rokke_du_3_ques.html

http://www.traprockpeace.org/du_dtic_wakayama_Aug2002.html

http://www.traprockpeace.org/karen_parker_du_illegality.pdf

http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html

http://cryptome.org/dhs010306.txt
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/05/15/razing_urged_for_wa...

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/04/29/area_news/doc4816651072f727675597...
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Oh, they know all about the contamination and the dangers. We people are the Estimated Collateral Damage, and seen as a renewable energy source.

Have more babies, damnit. Renew that resource!

Get busy...

Twist on the child rape ruling?

Criminal "Law" of Elite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJs38SNlZO0
David McGowan, August 2001

"Little girls have to learn that their fathers are off limits when it comes to gratification of sexual feelings"

Dr. Richard Gardner, another vocal member of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, explaining how children are to blame for their own molestation (The Toronto Star, February 4, 1996)

Just a few years after the conviction of Frank Fuster, another child exploitation case surfaced briefly in the state of Florida. On February 7, 1987, not long before the Larry King and Craig Spence operations were exposed, the Washington Post ran an interesting story that, at the time, did not seem to have any particular national significance.
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One of the unresolved questions involves allegations that the Finders are somehow linked to the Central Intelligence Agency. Customs Service documents reveal that in 1987, when Customs agents sought to examine the evidence gathered by Washington, D.C. police, they were told that the Finders investigation 'had become an internal matter.'

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Conspiracy Of Silence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggxiBWv4xYE

This documentary exposed a network of religious leaders and Washington politicians who flew children to Washington D.C. for sex orgies.
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There's Something About Henry

by David McGowan
http://www.whale.to/b/henry.html
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On June 18, just twelve days before Henry's scheduled demise, Governor Bush asked the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, whose members are appointed by Bush himself, to review Henry's case. Strangely enough, eight days later the Board uncharacteristically recommended that Henry's execution not take place.

The very next day, just three days short of Henry's scheduled exit from this world, Lucas became the first - and to date only - recipient of Governor Bush's compassionate conservatism.
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Henry has said that this cult operated out of Texas and from a ranch in northern Mexico, trafficking in children and drugs, among other nefarious pursuits. In essence, Henry claimed that what appeared to be the random work of a serial killer was in fact a planned series of crimes often committed for specific purposes.

Some of the murders were political hits, according to Henry, including the occasional assassination of foreign dignitaries. This was not true for all of Henry's crimes. Some he did just because that's what he liked to do.
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Could Henry have been telling the truth about being a contract killer? And if so, did the contracts he was receiving have some kind of government connection? Though Henry never broaches the subject in his book, the training camp as he describes it clearly had military connections. And Henry has explicitly stated that the cult included among its members various prominent persons, including high level politicians. Could this be the reason for the actions taken by Governor Bush in June of 1998?

"They think I'm stupid, but before this is all over everyone will know who's really stupid. And we'll see who the real criminals are."
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Remember Gonzo stayed in office despite calls for his resignation. His reason, "For the children".

NSA Started Program 7 Months Before 9/11
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 11:41pm.

Long, but important to understand.

Qwest CEO Not Alone in Alleging NSA Started Domestic Phone Record Program 7 Months Before 9/11
By Ryan Singel October 12, 2007
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/qwest-ceo-not-a.html
Startling statements from former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio's defense documents alleging the National Security Agency began building a massive call records database seven months before 9/11 aren't the only accusations that the controversial program predated the attacks of 9/11.

According to court documents unveiled this week, former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio clearly wanted to argue in court that the NSA retaliated against his company after he turned down a NSA request on February 27, 2001 that he thought was illegal. Nacchio's attorney issued a carefully worded statement in 2006, saying that Nacchio had turned down the NSA's repeated requests for customer call records. The statement says that Nacchio was asked for the records in the fall of 2001, but doesn't say he was "first asked" then.

And in May 2006, a lawsuit filed against Verizon for allegedly turning over call records to the NSA alleged that AT&T began building a spying facility for the NSA just days after President Bush was inaugurated. That lawsuit is one of 50 that were consolidated and moved to a San Francisco federal district court, where the suits sit in limbo waiting for the 9th Circuit Appeals court to decide whether the suits can proceed without endangering national security.

According the allegations in the suit (.pdf):
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/groundbreakerlawsuit.pdf

The project was described in the ATT sales division documents as calling for the construction of a facility to store and retain data gathered by the NSA from its domestic and foreign intelligence operations but was to be in actuality a duplicate ATT Network Operations Center for the use and possession of the NSA that would give the NSA direct, unlimited, unrestricted and unfettered access to all call information and internet and digital traffic on ATTÌs long distance network. [...]

The NSA program was initially conceived at least one year prior to 2001 but had been called off; it was reinstated within 11 days of the entry into office of defendant George W. Bush.

An ATT Solutions logbook reviewed by counsel confirms the Pioneer-Groundbreaker project start date of February 1, 2001.

The allegations in that case come from unnamed AT&T insiders, who have never stepped forward or provided any documentation to the courts. But Carl Mayer, one of the attorneys in the case, stands by the allegations in the lawsuit.

"All we can say is, we told you so," Mayer told THREAT LEVEL.
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Immunity isn't what Mayer wants.

"The real obligation is upon the Democrats to demand turnover of these documents," Mayer said.

But Mayer and Nacchio may not even be the only two arguing that the NSA started a program of collecting Americans' phone records before 9/11.

In a January 2006 Slate article that came out before the USA Today totally blew open the call records story in May 2006, Tim Naftali and THREAT LEVEL pal Shane Harris reported:

A former telecom executive told us that efforts to obtain call details go back to early 2001, predating the 9/11 attacks and the president's now celebrated secret executive order. The source, who asked not to be identified so as not to out his former company, reports that the NSA approached U.S. carriers and asked for their cooperation in a "data-mining" operation, which might eventually cull "millions" of individual calls and emails.

So, the question is was Nacchio the one talking to Harris and Natfali? Or was it an executive from another company?

The evidence remains inconclusive, but one would think that before telecoms get immunity for allegedly helping the government after 9/11 out of patriotism, Congress should see if the companies began helping out prior to 9/11 with their eyes not on the flag, but on the secret dollars that the NSA could add to their bottom lines.
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/14/13220/6198
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When the Washington Post started their Abramoff coverage in early 2004, a window on this massive criminal conspiracy was opened. It had to be managed. It had to be contained.

Fortunately, George W. Bush could count on John McCain.

As news of the Abramoff scandal broke, it was McCain who led the Senate’s Indian Affairs Committee’s investigation of Jack Abramoff.

Did I say investigation, sorry my bad, I meant cover-up.

From the start, McCain worked overtime to keep a lid on the most damaging aspects of the Abramoff scandal and slow-walk the investigation.

He shaped the narrative. Abramoff became a rogue lobbyist who took advantage of his GOP pals to rip off some casinos.

McCain converted the scandal into Hollywood "heist/caper" film, knowing that American prejudices against Native Americans and tribal casinos would help hide the damning details of the Abramoff scandal:

* Jack’s role as a 25-year bagman for the GOP: hidden.
* Jack’s close working relationship with the Bush White House: hidden.
* Jack’s close working relationship with the Republican Congressional Leadership: hidden.
* Jack’s role in dirty tricks and off-the-books money for the GOP: hidden.
* Jack’s role in Medicare reform: hidden.
* Jack’s role energy policy: hidden.

McCain actively controlled the story and he put the investigation into slow motion. He ensured that it was a not a factor in the 2004 election. Then he ensured that voters would not know about how closely Abramoff, Rove and Bush worked together. The work of McCain limited the damage the Abramoff scandal had on the GOP in the 2006 election.

He also has suppressed a literal mountain of evidence—over 750,000 pages of documents related to Jack Abramoff, his work and his connections in and out of government.

Only about 8,000 pages of these documents have been released.

The Bush/McCain cover-up was leaking.

They needed team players in the Justice Department to slow down the wheels of justice. They needed loyal Bushies to stand in the gap and protect the Party.

They found them.

That is what is at the heart of the firings the US Attorneys—an effort to obstruct justice.

Some players are already known like Monica Goodling and some like Robert E. Coughlin are just starting to be exposed for their crimes.

It is not a coincidence that moves by Alberto Gonzales and the Bush White House have had the effect of slow-walking dozens of investigations—after all they have thousands of crimes to cover-up. If they can run out the clock, the crimes will become like the crimes they committed in the 1990s and in the 2000 election. They will move pass legal jeopardy. If they can keep the lid on it, the cover-up just might work.

Not this time. We need to blow the lid off this scandal.

We need to expose this Culture of Corruption and demand change.

We need to extract a political price for the crimes past the Statute of Limitations.

We need to speed things up.

2007 is a year for gathering facts and holding their feet to the fire. 2008 is a year to defeat these scoundrels at the ballot box and put a Democrat in the White House. That will give us a Department of Justice that believes in the law again.

Get involved.

* Write letters, contact the press, call talk shows, post comments, and otherwise promote this effort. Demand the release of these 750,000 pages of documents. Make it clear that you are concerned about the widespread evidence of criminal activity in the Republican Party and the cover-ups of these crimes.
* Research. Follow the money. Find the quid pro quos. Dig into the ties of the GOP to CNMI and Guam, or to Cunningham, or to ripping off Native Americans, or to any of the entry points into the web of scandal. Grab a mask and a shovel and start digging into the many aspects of this cesspool of corruption.
* Get out the truth and hold the GOP accountable in 2007 and 2008. Perhaps Republican candidates will want to explain to voters why they wanted to kill the Abramoff and other corruption investigation. We should force the question.

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/15/114515/619

UPDATE. Smoking gun: the Senate has the documents...
by dengre
Sun Apr 15, 2007 at 08:57:55 AM PDT

The use of multiple e-mail accounts to bypass the spirit and letter of the law governing White House documents and communications is a major development in the growing Prosecutor Purge Scandal:

In other words, it was an open secret at the White House that the parallel system was to be used for everything you didn't want coming out later—an understanding that was most likely never made explicit, but a situation that was carefully preserved by not providing apparently any parameters for what sort of communication should be done via the White House system.

And naturally, now that folks are asking questions the emails have been lost—perhaps up to 5 million of them.

So, we fight with the WH to find and release these emails and other documents.

Meanwhile the US Senate is sitting on over 750,000 pages that would blow this scandal wide open.

To the jump...

* dengre's diary :: ::

Submitted by pbtrue1 on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 7:53pm.

have been repressing knowledge and truth since the beginning of time. If they can't find a way to see big profits, it's shit canned for the next opportunity.

Look at what J.P.Morgan, and Westinghouse did to Tesla. All that wonderful technology, suppressed for a century, because JP couldn't figure out how to meter and charge for wireless power.

Henry Ford had an entire automobile manufactured from hemp, that ran on hemp products. Suppressed, and labeled illegal.

Corporate deregulation is killing us and this planet. It's hard for me to wrap my mind around the concept that is actually a well planned purposeful effort, but the facts are there, if you care to look.

Check out the Invention Secrecy Act

FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2003, Issue No. 87
October 9, 2003

http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/invention/stats.html

The Invention Secrecy Act and the Atomic Energy Act are the only statutes that assert a government right to prevent the publication of privately-generated information, a provision that appears to be at odds with the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Secrecy orders imposed on such private inventors are termed "John Doe" orders. Last year, an unusually large 75 of the 133 new secrecy orders were John Doe orders. The nature of these secret inventions could not, of course, be ascertained.

Further information on the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, including the declassified 1971 edition of the "patent security category review list" which defines the technology areas subject to patent secrecy, may be found here:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/invention/index.html

PROTECTING THE PRIVATE INVENTOR UNDER THE PEACETIME
PROVISIONS OF THE INVENTION SECRECY ACT
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/vol12/Lee/html/text.h...

http://www.altenergy.org/transition/obstacles.html
Obstacles to use: Sustainable Energy
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Inventors of new energy technologies in particular have a difficult time obtaining a patent. The USPTO is apparently fundamentally opposed to approving patents for any type of new energy technology that defies the laws of thermodynamics and thereby appears to "endanger (the) oil, coal, and gas industry." Under Section 181 in U.S. Patent Law, once a patent application is submitted, the Commissioner of the USPTO, "the Atomic Energy Commission, the Secretary of Defense, and the chief officer of any other department or agency of the Government designated by the President as a defense agency of the United States" has the power to "withhold the grant of a patent." It seems only one invention has been granted a patent that included claims of producing greater energy output than the apparent energy input. This particular U.S. patent was granted for a cold fusion process that is owned by the CETI Corporation in Texas.
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10649.html

Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House
By MIKE ALLEN
Politico

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In a small sign of how thoroughly McClellan has adopted the outsider’s role, he refers at times to his former boss as “Bush,” when he is universally referred to by insiders as “the president.”

McClellan lost some of his friends in the administration last November when his publisher released an excerpt from the book that appeared to accuse Bush of participating in the cover-up of the Plame leak. The book, however, makes clear that McClellan believes Bush was also a victim of misinformation.

The book begins with McClellan’s statement to the press that he had talked with Rove and Libby and that they had assured him they “were not involved in … the leaking of classified information.”

At Libby’s trial, testimony showed the two had talked with reporters about the officer, however elliptically.

“I had allowed myself to be deceived into unknowingly passing along a falsehood,” McClellan writes. “It would ultimately prove fatal to my ability to serve the president effectively. I didn’t learn that what I’d said was untrue until the media began to figure it out almost two years later.

“Neither, I believe, did President Bush. He, too, had been deceived and therefore became unwittingly involved in deceiving me. But the top White House officials who knew the truth — including Rove, Libby and possibly Vice President Cheney — allowed me, even encouraged me, to repeat a lie.”

McClellan also suggests that Libby and Rove secretly colluded to get their stories straight at a time when federal investigators were hot on the Plame case.
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Scotty's throwing the next layer of necessary Collateral Damage under the bus to save King George?

I hope he has a good lawyer.

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Cheney's Handwritten Notes Implicate Bush in Plame Affair
By Jason Leopold
January 31, 2007

Copies of handwritten notes by Vice President Dick Cheney, introduced at a trial by attorneys prosecuting former White House staffer I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, would appear to implicate George W. Bush in the Plame CIA Leak case.

Bush has long maintained that he was unaware of attacks by any member of his administration against [former ambassador Joseph] Wilson. The ex-envoy's stinging rebukes of the administration's use of pre-war Iraq intelligence led Libby and other White House officials to leak Wilson's wife's covert CIA status to reporters in July 2003 in an act of retaliation.

But Cheney's notes, which were introduced into evidence Tuesday during Libby's perjury and obstruction-of-justice trial, call into question the truthfulness of President Bush's vehement denials about his prior knowledge of the attacks against Wilson. The revelation that Bush may have known all along that there was an effort by members of his office to discredit the former ambassador raises the question: Was the president also aware that senior members of his administration compromised Valerie Plame's undercover role with the CIA?

Further, the highly explicit nature of Cheney's comments not only hints at a rift between Cheney and Bush over what Cheney felt was the scapegoating of Libby, but also raises serious questions about potentially criminal actions by Bush. If Bush did indeed play an active role in encouraging Libby to take the fall to protect Karl Rove, as Libby's lawyers articulated in their opening statements, then that could be viewed as criminal involvement by Bush.
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pubrecord.org/cheneys-handwritten-notes-implicate-bush-in-plame-affairItemid=8
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5ux6l6

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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/mcclellan_communicates...

May 30, 2008
McClellan Communicates!
By Jonah Goldberg

Not since America's most revered feckless crapweasel, former Vermont Sen. James Jeffords, switched parties have Beltway Republicans been more eager to sew a half-starved ferret into someone's body cavity. In this case, the desired victim is former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan....
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But in interviews, McClellan's argument boils down to the fact that the White House employed a high-pitched media campaign to persuade the American people and push the press to more favorable coverage.

Apparently this is something new in McClellan's eyes. Perhaps such visitor-from-Mars cluelessness will prompt him to report in his next tell-all that when you pull a hidden lever behind a white bowl in the Oval Office bathroom, a sudden burst of water appears and then swirls down the bottom. Some of a suspicious bent might guess that such a system was invented for Bush to quickly jettison damning documents.

Or maybe the "propaganda machine" in the White House is something newer and more surprising than flush toilets. But I doubt it. Propaganda is a scary word -- and can be a scary thing -- but it's worth keeping in mind that even a White House press release is technically propaganda, as are those guests of the president at State of the Union addresses. The Clinton administration fine-tuned its propaganda effort by releasing pretend TV news stories -- "video news releases" -- that the press sometimes utilized in lieu of real reporting. The Bush administration continued this practice, but only then did critics shout "propaganda!"

Longstanding Bush critics like McClellan's use of the "P" word because they think it proves they were right all along: that "Bush lied and people died," as that shopworn refrain goes.

The problem is that's not quite what McClellan seems to be saying. "I still like and admire George W. Bush," McClellan writes in his memoirs. "I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people. But he and his advisers confused the propaganda campaign with the high level of candor and honesty so fundamentally needed to build and then sustain public support during a time of war."

McClellan's only legitimate beef seems to be his unjust treatment during the Valerie Plame investigation. But that complaint doesn't sell books or get the sluices of journalistic saliva raging. Use of the word "propaganda" and charges of dishonesty about the war do, which is why he uses them. But McClellan concedes in interviews that even when he was an important cog in the "propaganda machine," he never witnessed anything that seemed at the time to be deceitful or untrue.
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Things that make you go, Hmmmm.