tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194776.post116110028647089536..comments2023-11-05T23:25:31.498+11:00Comments on Wot Is It Good 4: A lot there to think about.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194776.post-1161165935879333422006-10-18T20:05:00.000+10:002006-10-18T20:05:00.000+10:00thnx starroute. i have an unhealthy obsession with...thnx starroute. i have an unhealthy obsession with charlie black!<BR/><BR/>fp'dlukeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13280906371216516750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194776.post-1161145501099563012006-10-18T14:25:00.000+10:002006-10-18T14:25:00.000+10:00And toss this into the pot, from today's TPMuckrak...And toss this into the pot, from <A HREF="http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001817.php" REL="nofollow">today's TPMuckraker</A> -- a quote from the summary of the Intelligence Committee's probe into Duke Cunningham:<BR/><BR/><I>"[W]e are aware of dealings that Cunningham had with certain foreign nationals, which we expect will be given careful scrutiny by appropriate law enforcement and national security agencies" for possible breaches of national security.</I><BR/><BR/>Cannonfire is speculating that the foreign nationals might be Israelis, but I'm far less sure, expecially in the context of all of the above.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194776.post-1161111373335613332006-10-18T04:56:00.000+10:002006-10-18T04:56:00.000+10:00My jaw dropped guys, and may have come unhinged.My jaw dropped guys, and may have come unhinged.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194776.post-1161105975989423682006-10-18T03:26:00.000+10:002006-10-18T03:26:00.000+10:00Charlie Black is of BKSH is the same as this Charl...Charlie Black is of BKSH is the same as <A HREF="http://www.famoustexans.com/karlrove.htm" REL="nofollow">this Charlie Black</A>:<BR/><BR/><I>In the years of the Watergage scandal, Rove's career as a big-time political handler began with a motley crew of friends and associates. He was chairman of the College Republicans when George Herbert Walker Bush was chairman of the state Republican Party in 1973. He won the presidency of the College Republicans in a race against Terry Dolan. The late Lee Atwater, who later became famous as the political attack dog for the Reagan-Bush team, managed Rove's campaign. Dolan went on to become a Soft Money pioneer by helping form the National Conservative Political Action Committee, then died of AIDS in 1986 at age 36. Dolan's advisers in his loss to Rove were Charlie Black, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. Those three were later instrumental in the success of Ronald Reagan's 1984 campaign.<BR/><BR/>Atwater joined the consulting firm of Black, Manafort and Stone after the '84 election. The firm later worked for the 1988 Bush-Quayle campaign. Two of Nixon's dirty tricksters also worked for Bush-Quayle: Frederick Malek, Bush's Republican National Committee rep, who had compiled lists of Jews in the Bureau of Labor Statistics as part of Nixon's investigation of a "Jewish Cabal;" and Dwight Chapin, who was jailed for lying to a grand jury about hiring Donald Sigretti to disrupt the 1972 Democratic primary campaign of Senator Edward Muskie. Chapin worked under Manafort in 1988. The firm's other clients included drug-connected Bahamian Prime Minister Oscar Pindling, Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, and UNITA, the South African-supported Angolan rebel group led by CIA asset Jonas Savimbi. Lee Atwater lobbied for UNITA. All of which began when Atwater was introduced to George Bush in 1973, by his good friend Karl Rove.</I><BR/><BR/>So what's not to love?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com