Posted on 06/24/2002 3:08:22 AM PDT by Elkiejg
SLIPPED DISK
No one is buying Terry McAuliffe's story that some innocent Democratic staffer happened upon a computer disk on a street corner that revealed the White House and the Republican Party's assessment of the 2002 elections.
You'll recall, the DNC earlier this month announced that it had obtained through Republican bumbling a computer disk that contained a PowerPoint presentation prepared by Karl Rove, the White House and the RNC, and outlining their evaluation of the fall campaign. It was mildly embarrassing, if only because the presentation took a more cautious approach to certain elections: it didn't predict a sweep of open Senate seats for Republicans, it portrayed negatively GOP hopes to win gubernatorial elections around the country, and it was cautious about House elections.
McAuliffe claimed a Senate Democratic staffer came upon a computer disk somewhere between the White House and the Hay-Adams Hotel. Once the staffer realized what it was, he handed it over to the DNC, which released it to the media with much fanfare.
But, in fact, Republicans now believe there was no disk. They believe after a White House political staffer made the presentation at the Hay-Adams to a group of California Republicans, a Democratic Party sympathizer at the hotel copied the presentation off of the temporary file that was created in the hotel's overhead projection system.
"The presentation was made using a White House laptop and the Hay-Adams projection system. There was no disk, because you can't easily store a full PowerPoint presentation on a disk like that. It's easier just to store it on a hard drive and use the computer," says a White House source. "We know the computer wasn't stolen, so it had to come from somewhere else."
Some in the White House even checked into whether the presentation could have been videotaped by a DNC operative, then re-created by Democrats. "Anyone could redo the PowerPoint presentation, there was nothing special about it," says the source. "The DNC has the same capabilities we do. It would take them a day to do it."
Either option portrays McAuliffe and his DNC elves as more devious and industrious than Republicans might prefer. "But we know we didn't bumble this," says an RNC senior adviser. "The Democrats didn't get this because we were careless. If McAuliffe is so concerned about his party's standing that he felt he had to sneak into one of our meetings for a campaign update, then he can crow about it all he wants. It just makes them look desperate."
HOMELAND LEAKOLOGY
According to White House sources, no one was impressed with Tom Ridge's performance on Capitol Hill last Thursday. "It certainly confirmed in our minds the reasons why we didn't let him testify before. It wasn't good," says a White House policy staffer.
That said, the testimony hasn't dimmed the president's opinion of Ridge or his abilities to master the Homeland Security bureaucracy. While insiders insist that Ridge has not told the president he doesn't want the job, the president isn't considering other names. "If he is, he isn't telling anyone. No big surprise there," says another White House political staffer. "They launched this Homeland plan with a working group of five and it never got leaked. What makes anyone think names of possible Ridge replacements would be leaked?"
So where did the rumor about chief of staff Andrew Card becoming Secretary of Homeland Security come from? White House staffers believe it came from backers of Card who see him as the only counter-balance they have to Karl Rove's influence with the president. "There are some people working here, who do some good work, but who work for the vice president and some others here, who don't see eye to eye with Mr. Rove and others," says the White House policy staffer. >b>"Now that it appears Karen Hughes is losing influence, you see them leaking again, the way it was back under Bush I. But we aren't going to let things get out of hand. It's pretty easy to close up the leaks once you figure out where they are coming from."
Actually, some projectors do store files on them. But the only way I've seen to get the files there is to....insert a floppy disk. But they just said it wouldn't have fit on a floppy disk. Hmmmmmm
That's my theory too!
BTW, I like this Sabertooth better!
Exactly. It was probably a very basic PP presentation that fit on a floppy. The operation start-to-finish would take around thirty seconds.
MM
Of course he will...
"That will then be covered as a satisfactory explanation by the three stooges (NBC,ABC, CBS)..."
Of course they will...
"...and that will be the end of it."
Not soooo fast, mi amigo. Don't forget, we've got sources of our own to see that this story gets the legs it deserves!! Limbaugh can make it an issue to his 20 Million+, FoxNewsChannel can pick it up, and CNN's already made itself part of the story, so they may even shed some light on the subject. The Vast, LeftWing Medyuh Whore'd would love to pretend the RATS walk on water, but we've got the horses to make 'em drowned in their own lies!!
FReegards...MUD
"Karen Hughes is going home to be with her family."
"Saudi Arabia is either with us or against us."
The poop in the streets is getting deeper and deeper.
The presentation can be viewed HERE.
This link is from a previous thread when the story broke.
I think you mean smart media, such as a flashcard, the largest smartcard chips have nowhere near enough memory for a powerpoint presentation of any size.
Contrary to what the Clinton's would have had us believe, the resources of the federal government do not automatically become the resources of the president's political party.
The DNC readily admits they will pick up disks off the sidewalk and try them out...
Lemonade Opportunity.
That would be an illegal use of govt. property of which the democrats under clinton were guilty 24-7-365.
For example, you can't make long distance campaign/fund raising phone calls from the vice president's office and charge it to the taxpayers no matter how much ice tea you drink. You are not supposed to rent out the lincoln bedroom for campaign contributions. You are not supposed to keep political lists on the white house computer like Hillary did. You are not supposed to keep home cooking recipes on a texas state govt. computer (republican senator Kay bailey hutchinsen did this and was prosecuted for it by a democrat attorney general. The case was eventually dismissed.)
That's sure the truth which is why I waited to see what he had to say. Someone was leaking the President's schedule to RATs.com which put it out with the exact time he would be at specific intersections in the eary months of this Administration. I always wondered if a member of the press leaked the information and then I always thought of John King.
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