frank rich

* frank rich: " In last week's oration at a right-wing think tank, (Cheney) defended warrant-free wiretapping by saying it could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. Really? Not with this administration in charge. On 9/10 the N.S.A. (lawfully) intercepted messages in Arabic saying, "The match is about to begin," and, "Tomorrow is zero hour." You know the rest."
i've never actually followed this story - is it true that they heard these things, and that they were related to 911?

* Rich again: "Given that the reporters on the Times story, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau,
wrote that nearly a dozen current and former officials had served as their sources, there may be more leaks to come, and not just to The Times. Sooner or later we'll find out what the White House is really so defensive about."
is this true? the nyt sat on the story for a year and these dozen didnt seem to go anywhere else.

* btw - i still wanna know if Preznit Blinky put pressure on the publisher of Risen's book, asking them not to print it and whatnot.

* more Rich: "That the White House's over-the-top outrage about the Times scoop is a
smokescreen contrived to cover up something else is only confirmed by Dick
Cheney's disingenuousness... Whenever the White House most vociferously attacks the press, you can be sure its No. 1 motive is to deflect attention from embarrassing revelations about its incompetence and failures."