Kellyanne Conway provides Donald Trump with alibi after he inadvertently tweets that he knew Mike Flynn lied to the FBI.

Kellyanne Conjob.

Courtesy of Newsweek:  

Senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway has confirmed the president’s alibi for a potentially incriminating tweet posted on his Twitter account Saturday. 

The tweet indicates President Donald Trump knew that his national security adviser Michael Flynn lied to the FBI when Trump reportedly pressured the then–FBI Director James Comey to abandon an investigation into Flynn. 

On Monday, Conway told CNN that she was with the president “all day” Saturday and that his lawyer John Dowd crafted the tweet and sent it to White House director of social media Daniel Scavino Jr. to publish.

This is the tweet in question.

I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 2, 2017

First off we KNOW that nobody tells Trump what to tweet, and secondly legal experts are simply not buying the excuse that his lawyer ate his homework.

Legal experts were incredulous when Dowd—an experienced defense lawyer who used to work for the Justice Department—claimed Sunday that he wrote the tweet. They were surprised by the incorrect use of legal language—using the phrase "pled" instead of "pleaded," and seeming admission the president had advanced knowledge Flynn lied to the FBI. 

So not only has Trump somehow convinced his lawyer to lie in order to cover up for his stupidity, but now he has Kellyanne Conway lying to cover for that lie.

But how can anybody seriously think this will help?

Do they not realize that Mueller will now question both Dowd and Conway under oath and then charge them for perjury if they try to stick to this story?

The lesson of Watergate was, "It's not the crime, it's the coverup." But of Richard Nixon had been even remotely this sloppy he would not have simply had to resign, he would have been sent to the chair.

Carl Bernstein states that the FBI believes the Trump Administration is attempting an "active coverup" to interfere with investigation into collusion with Russia.

Courtesy of Mediaite:

If Carl Bernstein knows anything, he knows how anonymous sources can reveal how a high-level criminal cover-up can take an administration down. So when he stated that the FBI had a “serious belief” that there was an “active coverup” in the alleged coordination/collusion between the Trump campaign and a Russian effort to reveal the election last night on AC360, we take notice. 

In a remarkably entertaining segment pegged to a CNN’s recent report, Bernstein dropped some knowledge about FBI suspicions. According the the Watergate legend, intelligence suggests that Russia tried to use advisers of Donald Trump to penetrate the presidential campaign. 

Can you believe that Jason Miller douchnozzle actually brought up Susan Rice's name?

You might remember Miller as the former Trump transition spokesman who was forced to quit his job after his affair with another Trump spokesperson came to light.

A.J. Delgado and Jason Miller, naughty, naughty, naughty.

Going back to what Carl Bernstein said that is a fairly explosive revelation and fits in well with another recent report that Trump associates had changed their behaviors when they found out about the FBI investigation.

If the FBI has evidence that they are actively involved in a coverup that could be perhaps even more damaging than the evidence of communicating with the Russians during the campaign.

Which reminds me of another lesson learned during Watergate, "It's not the crime, it's the coverup."

Donald Trump's national security adviser, Mike Flynn, resigns. Update!

Courtesy of CNN: 

Embattled White House national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned Monday night, an abrupt end to a brief tenure. 

His departure came just after reports surfaced the Justice Department warned the Trump administration last month that Flynn misled administration officials regarding his communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States and was potentially vulnerable to blackmail by the Russians. 

"I inadvertently briefed the Vice President-elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian ambassador. I have sincerely apologized to the President and the Vice President, and they have accepted my apology," Flynn wrote, according to a copy of his resignation letter obtained by CNN.

"I am tendering my resignation, honored to have served our nation and the American people in such a distinguished way," he wrote. "I know with the strong leadership of President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence and the superb team they are assembling, this team will go down in history as one of the greatest presidencies in US history." 

The move comes less than a month into the job, making him one of the shortest-serving senior presidential advisers in modern history. 

This changes NOTHING.

As was pointed out on a variety of cable news shows it is HIGHLY unlikely that Flynn reached out to Russia to discuss sanctions without the knowledge and direction of Donald Trump.

For one thing Flynn simply could NOT make any assurances unless he had Trump's blessing to make the calls.

By having Flynn take the bullet here the Trump administration is hoping that all of this Russian talk will blow over and that Trump can start receiving intelligence briefings again like nothing ever happened.

But fuck that.

Trump is the guy the Russians worked to get into the White House, not Mike Flynn, so clearly he is the one that they are counting on to do their bidding.

The media needs to keep the heat on and the Democrats need to continue to push for those investigations into Trump's ties with Putin and to get his tax returns released.

Mike Flynn is a good start, but our country will not truly be safe until the entire Trump administration is fired, impeached, or thrown in jail.

Update: By the way the man who feels that continuing to go after Hillary Clinton is still reasonable, sees no reason to investigate Flynn.

Chaffetz says investigation of Flynn is "taking care of itself." Says further investigation is purview of intel committee not oversight.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 14, 2017

I think Chaffetz needs a few more rousing choruses of "Do your job!"

Useless POS!

Russian government arresting FSB operatives with possible ties to hacking of American presidential election. Update!

Courtesy of Radio Free Europe: 

Russian media have reported that another Federal Security Service (FSB) officer has been arrested on treason charges in a case that may be linked to cyberattacks targeting the U.S. presidential election campaign. 

The reports by Rambler News Service on January 26 come a day after the Kommersant newspaper reported that a senior officer of the cyberintelligence department of the FSB -- Russia’s lead security agency -- had been arrested. 

Kommersant said Sergei Mikhailov, deputy chief of the FSB's Center for Information Security, had been arrested in December on treason charges. 

Another Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, on January 26 corroborated the Kommersant report. 

Novaya Gazeta quoted unidentified sources as saying Mikhailov was arrested during a meeting with other FSB officers in Moscow, and was taken from the room with a sack over his head. 

Also arrested in December was a manager of the renowned Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab.

I read about the Mikhailov two days ago on the New York Times who suggested that "the detention of an official who would have been in a position to engage in the election hacking in America could indicate a good-will gesture to the United States, which has penalized Russia for the electoral meddling."

Yeah somehow I doubt that, but RFE suggests another, more sinister, possibility:  

The newspaper quoted unidentified sources as saying that Mikhailov is suspected of providing U.S. intelligence with information about King Servers, a hosting service owned by Russian citizen Vladimir Fomenko. 

King Servers was used as a platform by hackers who targeted state-election computer systems in Arizona and Illinois last year. Fomenko, who rents space on his servers, has denied any links to the perpetrators of the cyberattacks. 

Currently American intelligence agencies are attempting to investigate the Russian hacking and its effect on our last election.

So if it is true that Mikhailov was helping those intelligence agencies, and he has now been arrested by the Russian government and charged with treason, what is the likelihood that he will still be accessible to the FBI and CIA?

If anything it appears that the Russian government is doing a clean sweep to remove the possibility that the American intelligence agencies will be able to find any definitive links between the hacks and the Russian officials.

Update: And the plot thickens.

Courtesy of the Telegraph:  

An ex-KGB chief suspected of helping the former MI6 spy Christopher Steele to compile his dossier on Donald Trump may have been murdered by the Kremlin and his death covered up. it has been claimed. 

Oleg Erovinkin, a former general in the KGB and its successor the FSB, was found dead in the back of his car in Moscow on Boxing Day in mysterious circumstances. 

Erovinkin was a key aide to Igor Sechin, a former deputy prime minister and now head of Rosneft, the state-owned oil company, who is repeatedly named in the dossier.

In Russia there are no coincidences. This is what happens when Vladimir Putin wants you silenced.

In my humble opinion this is confirmation that the Russian did indeed hack our election to help get Donald Trump elected, and that they are now desperately working to cover their tracks before our intelligence agencies can put all of the puzzle pieces together. 

Melania Trump blames the "grab them by the pu**y" tape on Billy Bush who she blames for "egg on" her husband.

Courtesy of CNN:

Melania Trump defended Donald Trump in her first interview since the Republican nominee faced allegations of sexual misconduct, calling those accusations "lies" and saying Trump was "egged on" into "boy talk" during a 2005 tape in which he made lewd comments about women. "I believe my husband. 

I believe my husband," she said in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Monday. 

"This was all organized from the opposition. And with the details ... did they ever check the background of these women? They don't have any facts." 

She also said she hadn't heard her husband use that kind of language before. 

"No. No, that's why I was surprised, because I said like I don't know that person that would talk that way, and that he would say that kind of stuff in private," Melania Trump said. 

"I heard many different stuff -- boys talk," she said. "The boys, the way they talk when they grow up and they want to sometimes show each other, 'Oh, this and that' and talking about the girls. But yes, I was surprised, of course."

So if Donald Trump can be "egg on" into saying terrible things like this about women, what could Vladimir Putin egg him on to do?

At one point Melania also suggested that Trump did not realize that the mic was on, as if that was not kind of the point of the entire leaked tape.

Of course he did not know it was on, he thought he was talking privately, which indicates that this is how he talks when he thinks nobody will ever know about it.

Oh, and by the way, this was not "boys talk."

This is how rapists talk. Not boys.

Perhaps Melania simply never had the opportunity to learn the difference.

"Truth." I have every intention of watching this movie, and I think perhaps you should as well.

Courtesy of the 5 Minute Movie Guide:

When Mary Mapes a senior Producer at CBS who was responsible for the prestigious 60 Minutes TV Program led by veteran newsman Dan Rather, got wind of a potential story about Bush managing to avoid even his easy stint with the Guard, she started a whole investigation. With the approval of the Network's bosses, and encouraged by Rather, she got together a small very experienced team to check out documents purportedly from the files of Bush's commanding officer, the late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B Killian that confirmed that Bush had been been AWOL for most of his alleged military service. Mapes had learned that the then-Texas Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes had admitted making phone calls to get Bush into the Guard, as he claimed to have done for the children of several other influential Texans. The story was that Bush had received preferential treatment in passing over hundreds of applicants to enlist in the Texas Air National Guard in order to avoid being drafted and sent to fight in Vietnam after he had graduated from Yale in 1968. 

When the 60 Minute team had gathered substantial evidence supporting the claims their aired their findings in a special edition of their show, but before Rather and Mapes could even celebrate their major news coup, they were immediately subject to some to some very virulent criticism. It all focused on the actual authenticity of the documents that they had received from Bill Burkett, who was a retired Lt. Colonel with the Guard. Suddenly there was a very aggressive and effective campaign mounted to discredit the entire 60 Minute Team by some very influential and important political figures simply by rubbishing the validity of the evidence. It eventually resulted in Rather prematurely ending his distinguished career in disgrace and ignominy, and Mapes and her entire team being fired.

One of the things that I find fascinating about this whole episode was the revelation that Mary Maples had been in possession of this story back in 2000, BEFORE George W. was ever elected President, and did not pursue it due to the death of her mother.

Just imagine how different the world might have been if this story had come out before Bush was President, and had so many tools to suppress damaging stories at his disposal.

If you are looking for deep background on the allegations made about W's National Guard service, and the aggressive attacks that were launched to discredit Dan Rather and his team, you can visit Who, What, Why and read more about it here and here.

For the record I watched this whole thing unfold and have ALWAYS believed that Dan Rather was completely right in his reporting, and that what happened to him was one of the most shameful things to happen in American journalism.

Former Guantanamo Bay guard claims that CIA murdered three detainees and made it look like suicide.

Courtesy of News.com.au:  

A Former Guantanamo Bay guard has spoken for the first time about what he claims was a CIA murder of detainees, covered up as a triple suicide. 

Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman was on guard at the Cuban prison camp on the night they died, and calls the official version of events “impossible”. 

“They would have had to all three tie their hands and feet together, shove rags down their throats, put a mask over their face, made a noose, hung it from the ceiling on the side of the cellblock, jumped into the noose and hung themselves simultaneously,” the ex-Marine told Vice News in an explosive video interview. 

“In a cellblock where guards are ordered to check on detainees every four minutes.” 

There had also been an inspection of the cellblock only a few hours earlier, Hickman said, and guards had found nothing detainees might use to make the nooses and rags. 

Hickman tried for years to put the nightmare of his time at Guantanamo behind him, but eventually he was forced to confront his past. 

He has now written a book, Murder at Camp Delta, which he hopes will be a step towards finding out the truth.

And just when I thought I could not be any more disturbed by what the CIA did with terrorism suspects. 

If this is not disturbing enough for you trust me it gets worse.  

The three men were Salah Ahmed Al-Salami, 37, from Yemen, Mani Shaman Al-Utaybi, 30, from Saudi Arabia, and Yasser Talal Al-Zahrani, 22, also from Saudi Arabia. 

Al-Zahrani had been imprisoned at Guantanamo since he was captured at 17. None of the men had been charged with a crime.

Now you may be asking yourself WHY the CIA would do such a thing, the answer is both simple and horrifying.

But why would the authorities want to kill these men and make their deaths look like suicide? 

Hickman says it’s because the three were regular hunger strikers, who incited others to do the same. 

“They had a policy that if a detainee is hunger-striking, he cannot be interrogated,” said Hickman. “In 2006, they were doing roughly 200 interrogations a week, so any massive hunger-strike would, what they consider, cripple the intelligence value. 

“I believe the number-one mission in JTF-GTMO (Joint Task Force Guantanamo) at the time was, stop the hunger strikes at all costs. 

“I think you get rid of the people that provoked the hunger strikes and you get rid of the problem. 

“After the deaths there were no hunger strikes for a long period of time.”

You know as much as I don't want to think that our government agencies are capable of this kind of thing, from what we have learned this last decade  they are capable of not only this but much, much more.

Let's take a moment to talk Babygate.

March 14, 2008

I thought it might be a good idea to give all of you an update as to where I am on chasing my own personal white whale.

Toward that end I am pleased to report that I have three entirely separate angles that I am working right now with three entirely different sources. For at least two of these sources there is a timing component which is completely out of my hands, so all I can do is sit patiently and trust that when the time comes they will deliver as promised. 

I am of course being my usual cautious self so that I do not push too hard and frighten anybody away.

And trust me that ain't easy. But the stakes are high.

In my opinion at least two of these sources could blow the babygate thing wide open. And I mean wide open. (Oh I should mention that there is a fourth source that I am trying to locate which has information that is equally explosive, but I am not holding out much hope of locating them for right now.)

So I thought this might be good time to revisit what I do and do not know about Trig's mysterious birth.

Well one thing I know for certain is that the lady on the left did not give birth to him on April 18, 2008.

March 26, 2008.

Not really any question about that if you simply use your eyes.

I am also almost certain that Bristol did not give birth to Trig either. Not in April, nor before.

Now I am not saying that she did not have a baby before Tripp, but if she did it was almost definitely not Trig.

I base that on the observations of a number of people, most of who would love to tell me if she was the mother.

At this point my working theories are that Trig is either entirely unrelated to the family, or, as my source postulated, Todd's kid with another woman.

I have actually come to terms with the fact that we may NEVER know who Trig's real birth mother is, and have instead decided that the important thing to focus on is the false pregnancy and birth story. And that is a goal that I am getting closer to all of the time.

April 13, 2008.

Another thing we may not every know for certain is exactly why Palin did this.

I have entertained a variety of theories, from cementing her pro-life credentials, to protecting a family member, to simply trying to put gossip to rest before being tapped by John McCain. But as for definitive proof, currently there is little.

I sometimes wonder just how much proof it will take to convince the public at large that this hoax actually took place, and how much it will take to convince the MSM that it is not only news worthy, but explosively so.

I have to admit that I really thought we had just about done that back in 2011, with those Juneau pictures.  But after a couple of weeks of excitement on the blogs, it just kind of faded away.

Ultimately it is not enough that I offer the evidence here on IM, it has to go national. And it has to have real evidence that cannot be simply ignored, or dismissed as a conspiracy theory.

Hopefully, if every thing goes right, that is what I am about to come up with.

So when I do I am counting on all of you to help me get it out to the news agencies and websites that will help it to get national attention.

Boy won't that be a great day?

Alaska Dispatch sues Governor Parnell to force release of records concerning National Guard scandal.

Courtesy of Alaska Dispatch:  

Alaska Dispatch News sued Gov. Sean Parnell on Wednesday, asking a judge to force the governor’s office to release public records related to the ongoing scandal within the Alaska National Guard. 

The news organization, along with its co-plaintiff Alaska Public Media, claims the governor’s office has been wrongly denying public records requests that could help voters verify whether Parnell acted swiftly in dealing with numerous allegations about mishandled sexual assaults, harassment, fraud, favoritism and other misconduct, including abuse of power, within the guard over the past several years. 

The two media outlets made the decision to sue after public records requests by their reporters were met with long delays and ultimately rejected by Randal Ruaro, the policy director and special counsel in the governor’s office, in broad-sweeping denial letters. 

ADN and Alaska Public Media are asking a judge for an expedited hearing on the matter, given the Nov. 4 election is less than a month away.

Well good for them!

I am glad that some Alaska news agencies are finally standing up to politicians and doing their jobs.

I think we all have a feeling that Parnell is covering something up and if the Dispatch is successful here it may have a significant impact on not only the Governor's race this November, but other elections in the state as well.

The Alaska Dispatch is not alone in wanting to know more about the National Guard scandal. In fact the Anchorage Press, which has a much smaller operating budget was able to dig up some interesting dirt on the Deputy Chief of Staff, pornographic websites, and ties to the Iron Dog.  (Did I just hear Todd Palin shift uncomfortably in his chair?)

Now see this is why bloggers sometimes get frustrated. We simply do not have the resources to sue administrations and powerful organizations for documentation, or spend hours a day following leads, and therefore can only rely on our networking abilities and reputations to help persuade sources to disclose important information to us.

But damn, if I had deep pockets and an attorney on retainer? Whoa Nelly!

Before everybody goes too gaga over the new Pope, keep this in mind.

Courtesy of the Catholic Herald from September of 2013:  

An Australian priest who supports the ordination of women has been excommunicated by Pope Francis. 

In the first such excommunication since the new pontiff took office Fr Greg Reynolds was dismissed in a letter from the Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart, which stated that “the decision by Pope Francis to dismiss Fr Reynolds from the clerical state and to declare his automatic excommunication has been made because of his public teaching on the ordination of women contrary to the teaching of the Church and his public celebration of the Eucharist when he did not hold faculties to act publicly as a priest.” 

Archbishop Hart also told other priests in the archdiocese by letter that Fr Reynolds’s excommunication was “because of his public teaching on the ordination of women”, which are grounds for automatic excommunication. 

Fr Reynolds is also a supporter of same-sex marriage and has attended rallies in favour of changing the definition of marriage. He has even reportedly presided at same-sex ceremonies. 

He told National Catholic Reporter: “I am very surprised that this order has come under his watch; it seems so inconsistent with everything else he has said and done.”

The Pope says all the right things it seems, and has breathed new life into the Catholic church, but don't forget that when it comes to women he is no less misogynistic than his predecessors, and has done NOTHING to positively impact existing church doctrine.

And the church in the US is still operating just the way it did before Pope Francis put on the pointy Pope hat and played with the golden Pope scepter.

This from the BBC:  

Roman Catholic Church official William Lynn has had his conviction for child endangerment reversed by a court in the US city of Philadelphia. 

Monsignor Lynn was the first US Church official to be convicted in a criminal court for covering up sex abuse claims. 

He was sentenced in 2012 to three to six years in prison but could now be released as early as Thursday. 

The court said it had not been proven Mr Lynn had acted with the "intent of promoting or facilitating the crime".

Yep Popes may come, Popes may go, but the Catholic Church will always be the Catholic Church, and with their monetary resources and access to power ultimately nothing changes. 

CNN takes over for Fox: "Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi!"

So yesterday CNN's Jake Tapper posts this story, which essentially claims that he has sources within the CIA who sear that there were up to 35 people on the ground and that agents are being threatened into silence for fear they will give up sensitive information to Congress.

Here is a little of what he reports:

Since January, some CIA operatives involved in the agency's missions in Libya, have been subjected to frequent, even monthly polygraph examinations, according to a source with deep inside knowledge of the agency's workings. 

The goal of the questioning, according to sources, is to find out if anyone is talking to the media or Congress. 

It is being described as pure intimidation, with the threat that any unauthorized CIA employee who leaks information could face the end of his or her career. 

In exclusive communications obtained by CNN, one insider writes, "You don't jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well." 

Another says, "You have no idea the amount of pressure being brought to bear on anyone with knowledge of this operation."

Here is how the CIA responded to these allegations:  

CIA spokesman Dean Boyd asserted in a statement that the agency has been open with Congress. 

"The CIA has worked closely with its oversight committees to provide them with an extraordinary amount of information related to the attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi," the statement said. "CIA employees are always free to speak to Congress if they want," the statement continued. 

"The CIA enabled all officers involved in Benghazi the opportunity to meet with Congress. We are not aware of any CIA employee who has experienced retaliation, including any non-routine security procedures, or who has been prevented from sharing a concern with Congress about the Benghazi incident."

Okay well clearly SOMEBODY is not telling the truth here.

Now I have ALWAYS believed that whatever Ambassador Stevens was doing in that Benghazi outpost that night was NOT something that the CIA wanted the American people to know about. But then again I realize that there are a LOT of operations that the CIA does not want the American people to know about. But that is a separate issue.

As for the validity of this reporting, well I am taking it with a grain of salt right now.

For one thing it seems that Tapper may only have one or two sources providing him with this information, and there is no telling WHO they are, or what agenda that they may have for doing so.

The other thing is that I am a little confused as to HOW Tapper got a hold of these sources when Fox News and Darrell Issa have been offering everything shy of Hawaiian vacation packages and hot and cold running blowjobs for anybody that would talk to them.

I am also a little interested that this story suddenly takes place right after the President made reference to "phony scandals," which has pissed off the Republicans to no end.

So, and I am going to get a little conspiratorial here, it would seem a smart move for the NEXT "revelation" about Benghazi to come, not from Fox news, but from a more respected news source.

Of course we have been referring to CNN as Fox-lite for months now, so I am not sure that it helps all that much.

Now right now the Right Wing is jumping around like house cat on a three day catnip bender, but other news agencies are taking a wait and see attitude. And this is driving the Right Wing even more batshit crazy.

However it should be noted that not all so called "Lamestream media" types are ignoring this CNN report.

I don't know, there could be some "there there" but right now I am waiting to see how other, more respected, news outlets handle the story.

But while I am waiting I will continue to keep this in mind.

There's something different, certainly refreshing, about Jake Tapper. I call it integrity and professionalism.... http://t.co/tgHuDQs3vO
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) May 21, 2013

Who was it who said "I don't believe in coincidences?"

John McCain loses his cool on Meet the Press when pressed about what exactly he thinks the President is covering up concerning the attack in Benghazi.

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JOHN MCCAIN: So there are many, many questions. And we have had– a massive cover-up on the part of– 

DAVID GREGORY:But a massive cover-up of what? 

(OVERTALK) 

DAVID GREGORY:–I mean, Susan Ri– wait a minute– 

(OVERTALK) 

DAVID GREGORY:Susan Rice said there was a lot of– 

JOHN MCCAIN: Do you care– 

DAVID GREGORY:–confusion. 

JOHN MCCAIN: Do you care– 

(OVERTALK) 

DAVID GREGORY: I’m asking you– 

JOHN MCCAIN: Do you care to– 

DAVID GREGORY:–what is the Republican way– 

JOHN MCCAIN: I’m asking you, do you care– I– I’m– I’m asking you, do you care whether four Americans died? Or do you– the reasons for that? And– and shouldn’t pe– people be held accountable for the fact that four Americans died– 

DAVID GREGORY: Well, what you said was the cover-up– 

(OVERTALK) 

DAVID GREGORY: A cover-up of what? 

JOHN MCCAIN: Of the information– concerning the deaths of four brave Americans. The information has not been forthcoming. You can obviously believe that it has. I know that it hasn’t. And I’ll be glad to send you a list of the questions that have not been answered, including what did the president do and who did he talk to the night of the attack on Benghazi? And why was it? Why was it that we– that the f– the people who were evacuated from the– from the consulate the next day were not interviewed the next day. And then they would’ve known that it was not a spontaneous demonstration. Why did the president for two weeks, for two weeks during the heat of the campaign continue to say he didn’t know whether it was a terrorist attack or not?

Am I losing my mind or was that David Gregory ACTUALLY doing his job, and refusing to let a politician off the hook?  I have to say THAT was a thing of beauty.

And I also have to hand it to Gregory for not losing his shit when McCain asked him "do you care whether four Americans died?" That would have been it for me and I would have ripped McCain a new asshole.

When I watched this in the morning I actually cheered out loud at this portion of the show. The only thing that would have made it better is if Gregory had said, "Are you seriously suggesting there was a coverup, Senator? Well then I have one word for you sir, 'yellowcake uranium.'"

But what he did was far better than many other journalists have been willing to do. So good for David Gregory.

Oh, and fuck John McCain!