This picture of Andrea Mitchell was taken as
sHE walked away from a press conference in
Sudan.
Posted on 07/21/2005 6:02:29 PM PDT by paulat
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So by the time we finally did get in, there were Sudanese officials saying, "Don't ask any questions," and American officials saying, "No agreements. No deals." And we went in, and I asked President el-Bashir why, in essence, anyone should believe his promises when his government has said repeatedly that it will stop the violence and then it continues to support the militias that are doing the killing. At which point two guys came up behind me, two of his armed security guards, and grabbed me from behind and started pulling me out the door. I tried to keep my balance so that I didn't go down. And they shoved me out the door. Rice was furious and came back as soon as we got to the airport to leave for the refugee camp.
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(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Just touching her would be instant death.
And tomorrow..."it's Bush's fault"
ROFL!!!!!!!!!! ....offered 10 goats for Andrea....LOL!!!!!
I guess the point I was trying to make was that she deserved to be addressed by something other than Rice.
That is the sickest picture that I've seen in a while.
Wow, I always thought of DG as monkey-boy, but the resemblance to the rat boy in your picture is quite striking. And more fitting, somehow.
Yep. Me too. Wouldn't you love to see Little Ron Reagan hustled out of somewhere and thrown down on his skinny little a*s.
Andrea will probably be shunned by her collegues now that she's had her eyes opened.
You have got to be kidding me
David Gregory's wife?
Gee .. did she help Jamie Gorelick write that memo to block intel agencies from sharing information?
Yooooo .... check out post #60
Fair enough. I for one wouldn't mind her being called "Mrs. President" one day :)
Wilkinson worked on McVeigh's prosecution? Then she actively worked to deceive the American people and misdirect the investigation and repress the facts of the case on behalf of Clinton's administation and in defiance of truth and justice.
""It is our job to ask," she said later. "They can always say `no comment' ... but to drag a reporter out just for asking is inexcusable behavior.""
She is lucky Dr/Sec Rice was there. They could have of taken her around the back of the build and shot her. I remember Saddamn doing this to a room full of politicians. He called them out and their fate was a gun to the head.
The media protects dictators while they attack America. It's nice that this leftwing elitist got a little taste of what she defends when she is safe at home. They should have roughed her up a little, but then again she their best friend when she’s at home…
Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com
Dubya is trying everything to stop this crap, and the pressters keep throwing marbles under his feet.
Yeah, but Castro knows the score (at least he did before his senility) - you don't do yourself anything great by shoving a US network TV reporter around. That east african fig pucker probably has no clue as to what television IS.
Is mitchell familiar with some of the customs of 'the dark continent'? Such as the "full-auto 21-round salute' (or however many rounds FIT in a clip), and the ever popular 'head-on-a-pole'? After all, they SAID "no questions" and she wouldn't shut UP (I saw the clip).
BETH WILKINSON (former Justice Dept. attorney during Clinton administration), David Gregory's wife.
Beth Wilkinson, a partner in the Washington, D.C. office, is the Co-Chair of the firm’s White Collar Crime Practice Group, specializing in white collar criminal defense, internal investigations and complex civil litigation. She joined the firm in 1998 after playing a leading role in the nationally prominent prosecution and conviction of Oklahoma City bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.
Formerly an assistant United States Attorney and captain in the Army General Counsel’s office, Ms. Wilkinson has a broad range of trial experience. Since joining the firm, she has represented numerous Fortune 500 companies and non-profit corporations in high-profile civil and criminal litigation. Most recently she was lead trial counsel representing Philip Morris USA in two Los Angeles Superior Court cases against a plaintiff attorney who had obtained two record-breaking jury verdicts of $28 billion and $3 billion in other recent cases in Los Angeles against Philip Morris. In both trials the jury returned defense verdicts. Ms. Wilkinson was cited by journalists and Wall Street analysts for her extraordinary performance. David Adelman, Morgan Stanley’s tobacco analyst, summed it up best to Dow Jones, “Philip Morris lawyers went right into the lion’s den against the plaintiff attorney with by far the highest verdict against the tobacco industry, and won. This is a very important development. It is going to go a long way to discouraging legal attacks on the West Coast.” More recently, she was featured in The Wall Street Journal, as playing a leading role in Philip Morris’ successful litigation strategy stemming the tide of billion dollar verdicts against the company. Her client, Bill Ohlemeyer, described her as “somebody who understood what it was you needed to do to effectively present our defense to a skeptical and even hostile jury.”
During her tenure at the firm, Ms. Wilkinson has counseled the Salt Lake Organizing Committee with respect to the government's investigation of its bid selection process for the 2002 Winter Olympics and was lead trial counsel for General Electric in a series of consumer actions and has represented the Board of Directors of the Ford Motor Company in the Ford/Firestone investigation. She has also represented HCA, the largest healthcare company in the United States, in some of its most prominent, high stakes litigation. She successfully defended HCA in a trial in Florida in which plaintiffs were claiming over $1 billion in damages and has handled a range of cases for HCA including antitrust, commercial and criminal matters.
In addition to her trial work, Ms. Wilkinson represents companies and individuals in grand jury investigations throughout the country. In 2002, she authored an article in the American Criminal Law Review entitled “When Talk is Not Cheap: Communications with the Media, the Government and other Parties in High Profile White Collar Criminal Cases.”
Ms. Wilkinson’s work has earned her national attention. One juror characterized her as a “fearless combatant” and, in a news profile, a law professor said "I’ve never seen a lawyer handle complex scientific evidence the way she does. She has a real gift.” Sought after for numerous television appearances, Ms. Wilkinson has been featured on news programs such as the NBC “Today” show, Nightline, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Face the Nation and Good Morning America. She has been repeatedly cited in various well-known publications as one of the top white collar lawyers in D.C. Recently, she was featured in Washingtonian magazine’s “Top Lawyers” issue. They have also described Ms. Wilkinson as “one of the most talented prosecutors to come out of the Justice Department in decades.” She has also been featured in the National Law Journal, the American Lawyer and the Legal Times for her work in private practice.
For her work on the Oklahoma City bombing trials, Ms. Wilkinson received the Attorney General’s highest commendation - the Exceptional Service Award. In 1995, she received the same award for her participation in a criminal trial in the Eastern District of New York. She is the only two-time recipient in the history of the Justice Department.
A trustee for the National Youth Leadership forum, Ms. Wilkinson participates in a variety of pro bono and community activities. She has been particularly active in the death penalty reform movement serving as the co-chairman of the Constitution Project’s Death Penalty Initiative. She has testified in front of both the United States House and Senate on death penalty issues and speaks frequently to groups around the country about her work on the McVeigh trial and issues surrounding the imposition of the death penalty.
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FEDERAL OFFICIALS, LAW ENFORCEMENT FOREWARNED OF OKC BOMBING
Patrick Briley
April 14, 2005
NewsWithViews.com
US Prosecutor Beth Wilkinson told Stephen Jones and Federal Judge Matsch during a pretrial hearing in Denver in November 1996, that the entire federal family had been warning of a possible attack on the OKC federal building complex (Murrah and court house across the street) around the time of the OKC bombing. Wilkinson told the court in the pretrial hearing that she believed the FBI had not written an FBI 302 report on the warning.
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Wilkinson stated in the pretrial hearing that local law enforcement (FBI, US Marshals) and federal judges got the threat warnings relevant to the Murrah Federal building bombing in OKC on April 19, 1995.
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Court Transcript
November 14, 1997 Hearing Re: McVeigh's Motion to Compel Production of Exculpatory Evidence
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO
Criminal Action No. 96-CR-68
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, vs.
TIMOTHY JAMES McVEIGH and TERRY LYNN NICHOLS, Defendants.
MR. JONES: No. 131, production of the memorandum warning identified in the New Jersey Star Ledger. The Government's response was it will submit in camera, and I don't know whether they have done that or not. That is one that is still to be resolved.
MS. WILKINSON: Your Honor, we need to discuss that, I believe. I, I think, disclosed the basic material that's in that threat; that it was specific to the conviction of the sheik in New York and the other his co-conspirators and that any information tending to indicate there was any threat said Washington, D.C., could be the – would be the target.
THE COURT: Well, is this a marshal service communication that was sent to like chief judges? Or, is this something different?
MS. WILKINSON: It's addressed -- can I get my copy?
THE COURT: You may. I don't think you've submitted it in camera.
MS. WILKINSON: No, I haven't.
THE COURT: Maybe we won't have to.
MS. WILKINSON: It is addressed to all the marshals across the country, your Honor, and it says at the bottom, This information should not be disclosed outside the marshal service and the court family. I believe that's their normal warning where it goes down through the marshal's service to the chief judge. Obviously, you're in a better position to know whether that's the procedure than I am, but --
THE COURT: Sometimes chief judges are in the court family. I
MS. WILKINSON: It's my understanding that's how it works and that, often, it is also disseminated to local law enforcement, as I said yesterday.
MR. JONES: Well, your Honor, we asked for production of that under protective order to the defense. That memorandum was sent out within 30 days before the Oklahoma City bombing. It describes a threat to federal property. Talks about --
THE COURT: Well, why don't you go ahead with your plan to submit it to me and I'll decide it.
MS. WILKINSON: Sure.
MR. JONES: That's fair.
MR. JONES: 139, evidence of prior warning referenced in the Oregonian - - that's been resolved by the Government's announcement of the submission for 131 and the two letters concerning threats which previously have been furnished. The Government represents that's all it has.
MS. WILKINSON: Excuse me, your Honor, just to correct that. To be clear, we have made those two disclosures of threats, but we continue to review our files and obviously, if we discover other threats or new information comes, we'll continue to disclose that. I just wanted to make that clear that we're continuing with our obligations.
THE COURT: All right.
MR. JONES: One thing we do not have is a 302 of any interview with Judge Alley so I assume there wasn't one.
THE COURT: You don't have a 302?
MR. JONES: Correct.
THE COURT: Was --
MR. JONES: I don't know that he was interviewed.
THE COURT: Was the judge interviewed by an FBI agent and a 302 produced?
MS. WILKINSON: I don't know, your Honor. I have to go back to the index. I assume Mr. Jones has looked at the index, and if he says he didn't receive the --
THE COURT: This is all about something that appeared in a newspaper?
MS. WILKINSON: Yes, Judge. What it is, it's the same story, I believe, as I told you this threat was -- the threat warning from the marshal service on March 15 was given to the -- the court family; and I believe after the bombing, Judge Alley made mention of the fact that he had received a general warning, you know, prior to the bombing.
MR. JONES: Well, I don't know that they are the same.
THE COURT: I see. But I mean, this is generated by the fact that there was some -- something in this newspaper in Oregon?
MR. JONES: He was interviewed by the Oregonian on the day of the bombing. He grew up in Oregon, and they called him because of the connection.
THE COURT: I see.
MS. WILKINSON: Your Honor, could I ask if Mr. Jones has interviewed Judge Alley?
THE COURT: Do you want to answer that, Mr. Jones?
MR. JONES: Well, if you'll consult your index of people I've interviewed, no, I haven't interviewed Judge Alley. He's interviewed me on a few occasions. 173 and 174 --
THE COURT: Well, have we left that open here? I'm not sure what the resolution of this has been. You don't have an interview report of anybody interviewing Judge Alley about this public statement? Is that the response?
MS. WILKINSON: I don't believe we do, your Honor, but I'd have to go back and check our index. As I said, we're working from the same index that we provided to Mr. Jones.
THE COURT: Yeah. Yeah. And I'm sure Judge Alley is equally available to the defense counsel as he is to the Government's counsel.
MS. WILKINSON: That was my point.
THE COURT: Yes. Well, I'll make it explicitly for you.
MS. WILKINSON: Thank you.
Ping...
Mike Lynch, chief of staff for Rep. Gary Condit, (D) California - Chandra Levy missing person's case.
Mike Lynch has retained attorney, Beth Wilkinson
Wilkinson, after leaving the army, joined the Clinton /Reno Justice Department,
first as Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General for criminal law matters and
later as Principal Deputy Chief of the Terrorism and Violent Crime Section of
the Criminal Division.
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