Campaign Video of the Day -- January 10, 2007

One of the great things about modern technology is that we don't have to settle for second hand accounts. We can simply replay the video of a controversial event and make up our own minds. Yesterday Jesse Jackson Jr., Barack Obama's National Co-Chair, made a comment that has been widely criticized. I even read one person who was so incensed by the comment that she would never again consider voting for Obama. I thought we all would be well advised to watch what Jackson actually said before going to the mattresses. I am not endorsing anything the Congressman says, but I believe it is our duty to make up our own minds free of spin.

Today's video is called Obama Co-Chair Jesse Jackson, Jr. Questions Hillary's Tears. It was posted to Youtube by TPM.




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Rumsfeld To Testify In Tillman Fratricide

The following announcement is reprinted from the House Oversight Committee website, Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Chairman.

Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Defense and Security, The Tillman Fratricide
The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew

On Wednesday, August 1, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing to examine what senior Defense Department officials knew about U.S. Army Corporal Patrick Tillman’s death by fratricide.

In April, the Committee held a hearing investigating the death of Cpl. Tillman.

The following witnesses will testify:

* The Honorable Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense
* Gen. John P. Abizaid (Retired), Former Commander, U.S. Central Command
* Gen. Richard B. Myers (Retired), Former Chair, Joint Chiefs of Staff
* Gen. Bryan Douglas Brown (Retired), Former Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command
* Lt. Gen. Philip R. Kensinger, Jr. (Retired), Former Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command.

It looks like this time the Committee is going into a hearing with the witnesses they want instead of just the witnesses the Administration says they get.

Any guesses as to how many times Donald Rumsfeld says "golly, I cannot recall?"

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Another Loyal Bushie Lawyer Is Ethically Challenged

Based on all that we have learned in the past months the list of ethically challenged lawyers serving in the Bush Administration is long and distinguished.

It just got longer. Brad Miller Chairman and F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight have just written Alberto Gonzales asking for a criminal investigation to determine whether NASA general counsel Michael Wholley obstructed justice when he destroyed dvd recordings of an April 10 meeting between between NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and staff members in NASA's inspector general office. According to OCALA.COM

Griffin had called for the meeting after a scathing report said NASA Inspector General Robert Cobb appeared to be too friendly with the space agency bosses and created an abusive work environment for his employees.

In late May Wholley admitted destroying the dvds of the meeting.

It's mean of the Congressmen to refer NASA's poor General Counsel to the Department of Justice just because he destroyed evidence he knew the Congressmen wanted to see. After all in his appearance before Congress he said he was sorry. Isn't that good enough?

I am getting more than a little tired of loyal Bushie lawyers ignoring their sworn ethical responsibilities just to advance some political agenda. This time the conduct is so outrageous that even Republican members of the relevant committee are pissed.

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