no khan do, Chuckie ;-)
no khan do, Chuckie ;-)
Next up: "The timing on this name release is suspicious"
Trust the the Democrats to stick to their TALKING points!
Chuck Schumer...... in a body full of bilious bloviating blowhards (i.e the US Senate), he is first among equals!
Can you please explain why you keep giving aid and comfort to the enemy during a time of war?
It was the NYT who LEAKED THE NAME .. not the Bush admin.
Which proves once again that the dems/libs CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH NATIONAL SECURITY.
I suspect Congress will investigate as soon as they finish looking into how the enforcement of rules governing the operation of the Staten Island ferry became so lax under Iris Weinshall, NYC Transportation Commissioner and Schumer's wife, that the ferry accident of October 17, 2003, could happen. /sarcasm
The 310-foot ferry slammed into a concrete pier as it approached the Staten Island shore in choppy, wind-swept waters Wednesday afternoon, ripping a giant hole along its right side and severing the limbs of three passengers. Some passengers leaped into the water. The crash left more than 60 people hospitalized, eight in critical condition. The dead, one woman and nine men, ranged in age from 25 to 52.
"Traditionally when a boat is approaching one of the terminals, the captain and the assistant captain are in the pilot house together," said Iris Weinshall "with" the NYC Dept. of Transportation -- yeah, as its chief commissioner.
You see, it's all a matter of keeping "tradition".
Osserritte Robinson lost her husband of eight months, Louis. (Photo: CBS)
Iris Weinshall, the commissioner of the DOT, has deflected blame away from the DOTan agency that has a long history of having little regard for human lifeand has placed it exclusively on the individuals running the boat.
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Commissioner Weinshall would be doing far greater service to this city if she would concentrate her efforts on taking a good long hard look within the DOT rather than lashing out at employees who, despite DOT oversight, have an otherwise exemplary safety record.
NYC DOT is responsible for: Installing and maintaining street signs, traffic signals, and streetlights, resurfacing streets, repairing potholes, installing and maintaining parking meters, managing municipal parking facilities, maintaining hundreds of bridges including the East River bridges, and operating the Staten Island Ferry. It is a mammoth city agency stretched thin to the point of complete incompetence.
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Exacerbating the situation is that commissioner Weinshall is neither a trained engineer, an urban planner, an architect, a transportation maven, nor a visionary. Her main qualification seems to be her ability to thrive in a hydra-headed bureaucracy. She is new enough in her position where she isn’t held accountable for all of the agencies failures. However, she has been at her job long enough to demonstrate a decided inability to lead this city with ideas, innovation and vision. Like many commissioners before her, she has a windshield perspective, which means she sees the problems of her agency through the interior of an automobile. This is not exactly the intelligent (or democratically responsible) way to see things when 90% of Manhattan residents don’t own cars. Her marriage to career politician, Senator Chuck Schumer, has the distinct foul aroma of political nepotism. As the head of the D.O.T. it is commissioner Weinshall who should take responsibility for what happened and be held accountable.
The fact that there was no oversight of the pilothouse after ferries have been identified as potential terrorist targets is a clear signal that the public cannot trust this dangerously run, insular, out-of-touch agency. The cold hard reality is there are post 9/11 security reasons why allocating space for the efficient movement of emergency vehicles in our city has a more pressing need than ever before. And, it is crystal clear to everyone living in New York during 9/11 and more recently with the Northeast blackout on August 13th, 2003, that there is a need for an infrastructure that can support the pedestrian evacuation of Manhattan. The DOT has not even publicly identified these needs, let alone begun to address them in a meaningful way. What, exactly are they waiting for?
-- Harris Silver, source: www.citystreets.org/oped102303-2.html
"We did not, of course, publicly disclose his name," Rice said, adding that it had been given "on background." She did not say when or by whom the name was first revealed.
So the Administration gave his name on "background"? What the hell does that mean, "background"???
Loose lips sink ships.