Posted on 06/27/2006 6:24:22 AM PDT by Republican Red
TREASURY TO KELLER: "IRRESPONSIBLE;" MURTHA, KEAN, HAMILTON INTERVENED By Michelle Malkin · June 26, 2006 07:24 PM ***update: video of Keller revelations about Murtha here***
Keller CNN interview video
Keller: Not all of them urged us not to publish.posted at 12:06 am on June 27, 2006 by Bryan
Hm. The Bush administration asked three prominent people outside the administration to contact the NYT and urge them not to publish the SWIFT story. Two of the three did urge the Times not to publish, but according to Times editor Bill Keller, not all of them urged us not to publish. A bit later in the CNN interview with Keller, we find out who the three Democrats are: Lee Hamilton (who was a conservative Democrat when he held office and a co-chair of the 9-11 Omission), Gov. Tom Kean (also from the 9-11 Omission) and Rep. Jack Murtha.
Not all of them urged us not to publish, says Keller. Which means one of them green-lighted the story, or at least didnt go to bat for the administration. The boss has the definitive answer as to which two of the three did urge the Times not to publish: Hamilton and Kean, who were the co-chairs of the Omission. Theyre identified by Treasure Secretary John Snow as having weighed in with the Times against publication.
Which leaves Murtha as the one who did not urge the Times not to publish the story. Murtha greenlighted it. Thats the same Jack Murtha who has been prejudging the Marines guilty of a massacre in Haditha and trying to get us out of Iraq quick enough so we can all watch the fledgling Iraqi government collapse rather than waiting until it can defend itself.
And its the same Jack Murtha who was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1980 Abscam bust. Question for the White House: Whose idiotic idea was it to make Murtha your go-to guy with the Times? Who thought you could trust that senile buffoon?
This is what I would like to know.
Murtha is a weanie.
I don't believe anything that comes out of Bill Keller or Jack Murtha's mouths.
Time for Murtha to answer some hard questions. But who will ask them? Certainly not Russert or the rest of the MSM.
With Murtha .. hard questions don't need to be asked
That man does enough damage to himself with his rambling
Just get him on air and let him talk
LOL. You're right.
He has no problem revealing classified information that will hurt the country but then turns ethical about private conversations. Upside down leftist world.
The president sets the tone. He's become tone deaf.
[If this is true that Murtha is the one who didn't press the NYT, we need to get this to his opponent's campaign.]
Exactly correct, and everyone get their support to Diana Irey's campaign as well. :-)
http://www.irey.com/
Trouble is, Murtha probably has no idea what he said. The man is senile.
the three Democrats are: Lee Hamilton (who was a conservative Democrat when he held office and a co-chair of the 9-11 Omission), Gov. Tom Kean (also from the 9-11 Omission) and Rep. Jack Murtha.
Ummm, Michele - Kean is not a Democrat.
Hes a RINO, but hes not a Democrat.
You go, Obadiah!
And its the same Jack Murtha who was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1980 Abscam bust. Question for the White House: Whose idiotic idea was it to make Murtha your go-to guy with the Times? Who thought you could trust that senile buffoon?
AND, he is the same Jack Murtha who was attached to a Mass. unit during his brief stay in Vietnam:
http://asp.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/CandidateProfile.aspx?ci=462&oi=H
He returned to the states to run as the 'first Vietnam vet in the House". Once elected he was taken under the smelly wing of Tip O'Niell. As such, he was part of the contingent of "statesmen" who went over to Vietnam to "evaluate the situation". He then came home to join with the other traitors in pulling the funding out from under our boys. He made sure that those 50,000 boys lives had been given for NOTHING and has lived with a Chesire cat smirk on his face and a 1/2 empty gin bottle in his hand ever since. Observe:
"On Feb 27 1975, he arrived in Vietnam with a bi-partisan House delegation, to determine if the $522 million requested by President Ford to fund the war was "appropriate". This is according to a document called "Vietnam: Cease Fire to Capitulation". A chilling reminder of what can happen when the cowardly politians take over. It can be found here:
http:libraryautomation.com/nymas/Vietnamfulltext3.html.
He is a national disgrace
I think the President is smarter than to walk into a trap like that.
In my opinion, it's best to think this stuff through a little and not just automatically blame the President.
Bears repeating. EXCELLENT POINT. Most importantly: KELLER KNOWS THIS.
ENOUGH. This is about the NYT, not the President.
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