So Condi's going to talk on 60 minutes this week-end

[Kadie]

from CBS News: Condoleezza Rice has agreed to be interviewed by Ed Bradley this weekend for broadcast on CBS News' 60 Minutes on Sunday, 7 p.m. ET. And Secretary of State Colin Powell will speak on Face The Nation, Sunday, 10 a.m. ET

What can she say on 60 Minutes that she can't say in front of the commission? Do you think people will believe her at this point unless she is under oath? Should Ed Bradley make sure she isn't crossing her fingers and have her swear that she is telling the truth?

It's going to be interesting.

[revcarol]

1. Anyone have contact information?

We need to send in the QUESTIONS we want him to ask, and the follow-up questions. Bradley is not exactly the most aggressive questioner,<sarcasm>

wonder if all questions had to be pre-approved, submitted in advance, or will she just be allowed to meander on, continuing the lying?

[Kadie]

6. At the bottom of there web site

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml

there is contact info to send an email directly to 60 minutes.

[Star]

24. Here's her lies and the truth

I just sent CBS a copy of this:

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=40520

CLAIM: "I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile." – National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 5/16/02

FACT: On August 6, 2001, the President personally "received a one-and-a-half page briefing advising him that Osama bin Laden was capable of a major strike against the US, and that the plot could include the hijacking of an American airplane." In July 2001, the Administration was also told that terrorists had explored using airplanes as missiles.

CLAIM: In May 2002, Rice held a press conference to defend the Administration from new revelations that the President had been explicitly warned about an al Qaeda threat to airlines in August 2001. She "suggested that Bush had requested the briefing because of his keen concern about elevated terrorist threat levels that summer."

FACT: According to the CIA, the briefing "was not requested by President Bush." As commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste disclosed, "the CIA informed the panel that the author of the briefing does not recall such a request from Bush and that the idea to compile the briefing came from within the CIA."

CLAIM: "In June and July when the threat spikes were so high…we were at battle stations." – National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 3/22/04

FACT: "Documents indicate that before Sept. 11, Ashcroft did not give terrorism top billing in his strategic plans for the Justice Department, which includes the FBI. A draft of Ashcroft's 'Strategic Plan' from Aug. 9, 2001, does not put fighting terrorism as one of the department's seven goals, ranking it as a sub-goal beneath gun violence and drugs. By contrast, in April 2000, Ashcroft's predecessor, Janet Reno, called terrorism 'the most challenging threat in the criminal justice area.'" Meanwhile, the Bush Administration decided to terminate "a highly classified program to monitor Al Qaeda suspects in the United States."


Much more at the CAP website.

[Kadie]

27. Good Job.

and according to another thread going here on the DU, she says she misspoke about the airplanes being used as a missile. How come it took her so long to come out and say she misspoke? How come Condi?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1294693&mesg_id=1294693

[goclark]

31. Help me again

I went to the link and scrolled down the 60 minutes page.
At the very bottom there is a Contact Us,,,when I clicked in it would not open.
I want to be sure that Ed Bradley sees my email today.

[Kadie]

32. It just worked for me.

When I clicked on Contact Us is opened another window to fill out for sending an email.

Maybe they are getting hit hard with tons of email regarding this interview. Maybe you can try again in a couple of minutes.

Another thought. I once had a pop-up blocker that wouldn't let me open window like that. If you have one maybe you need to bypass it to get to their email window.

[ezee]

17. Condi

is going to be taped on Sunday morning for the 60min show. This way the WH will have a chance to "edit" the show for the public...Just another chance for them to tell us a bunch more LIES

[gristy]

33. It is possible that CBS will not allow the WH to edit it.

In fact, I think that is likely. CBS has been rockin', you know.

[TeeYiYi]

2. The fact that that woman will talk . . .

. . . to anyone and his mother, and has done is very telling. Until she is willing to do it under oath, I won't believe a word she says.

She's making a fool of herself (as always).

TYY

[glarius]

20. I'll bet most of the American public thinks she has spoken under oath to

the Commission...The Bush spokespeople keep saying on TV that she has nothing new to say, since she said it all in closed session to the Commission...They leave the impression it was the same as the open sessions, only not televised....No mention of the fact that in closed sessions she was not under oath which she would have to be in the open sessions....Another sly trick they are trying to pull on the public.
P.S....Actually from what I was hearing, I thought she had been under oath also, until I heard differently yesterday....

[Kadie]

21. I hope that is brought up in the interview.

Hopefully Bradley will come right out and ask her why she will talk just not under oath. I would really like to hear her answer to that one, and it will be even better with a good reporter that keeps pressing the issue.

[JohnyCanuck]

3. How long is MTP?

I heard Clarke was to get a full hour on MTP. Are they cutting into his time to allow houseboy Colin to throw in the WH counterspin?

[indie_voter]

8. Powell will be on FTN, Clarke on MTP. Monday Clarke on the Daily Show!

[Occulus]

12. I thought Jon said he was kidding about that

[indie_voter]

15. Clarke's name is on the dailyshow website as an upcoming guest

I think Stewart joked around in response to the gasps from the audience when he said Clarke was going to be on.

[jbfam4]

13. Clarke will also be

on Hardball on Monday.

[markus]

4. 1ST Q: Why are you here, but unwilling to testify in public, under oath?

eom

[radfringe]

5. does she have her "script" memorized

if she can shoot her mouth off on the tube - why can't she do the same at the hearings...and under oath???

[lpbk2713]

7. Will CONdi be live on 60 Minutes?

It will be no good unless it is live and uninterrupted. And BTW I like Ed Bradley's style, he can get to the heart of the matter.

[Kadie]

11. I hope Bradley asks some tough questions.

60 minutes has a great following, and a lot of people tend to believe what they see because the show is so respected. Hopefully he will ask tough questions and not let her dance her way around and turn it into a puff piece.

[CHestonsucks]

9. Another thing that's interesting

is the way the BUllSHit administration selectively leaks CLASSIFIED information for partisan political gain. Two recent examples:

leaking the name of Joseph Wilson's wife, a CIA employee, to the press. This is considered the crime of treason under current statute.

leaking classified statements made by Richard Clarke in 2002 in attempt to undermine his testimony before the 9/11 Committee. This is also considered a crime under current statute.

We haven't seen this pattern of felonious behavior since the Nixon administration.

Fact is, Rice will lie through her teeth to Ed Bradley. Clearly she is not concerned about her credibility at this point because she has none left. Whoever heard of a "national security advisor" that allows the worst terrorist attack on American soil to unfold without even LOOKING into the matter when information that clearly suggested an attack was imminent was AVAILABLE TO HER???

This woman is an abomination.

[TeeYiYi]

28. She is also becoming a . . .

. . . LIABILITY. Besides being an abomination, she's fast losing all credibility and thus losing her value as an asset to the BFEE. If I were here, I'd stay the hell away from small planes.

TYY

[Media_Lies_Daily]

37. For every leak by the NeoCons, they have gotten absolutely...

...hammered with each counter-punch, especially those thrown by the CIA, Foster (Medicare), and Richard Clarke.

[grannylib]

10. Yeah and she talked to boatloads of people last week too, she just

won't talk to the commission, in public, under oath.
Could it be more glaringly obvious that these filth have much to hide??
No.

[Junkdrawer]

14. They're getting beat to death on the "Condi won't testify" issue...

So... What better way to see how she'd do than a dry run on 60 minutes? If she does well, Bush sends her up to the commission.

[peekaloo]

22. I hope he asks her to explain her attempts to revise

her "secret" testimony.

I figure she will use the 60 Minutes piece as her way of speaking "directly to the American people". Not to let some silly thing such as being under oath get in the way of her version of the truth.

[ezee]

16. Bradley

should have a LARGE bible sitting on the table, as though he is ready to swear her in...I think it would be quite intimidating to her!

[Kadie]

18. Or ask her to

swear on a stack of bibles, as my grandmother used to say.

Welcome to DU. :hi:

[ezee]

19. thanks

[Kurt Remarque]

26. maybe ed can get f. lee bailey and his polygraph expert ...

from bailey's old tv show

[goclark]

34. Great Idea

They should have experts that can review her lips for the truth when she is on Ed Bradley. Polygraph her! As far as I know that can be done from tapes of the voice.

I'll know she is lying when she folds her arms, looks mean and talks in a crisp"screw you" attitude. Her eyes flutter and she does not speak in a relaxed way.

What made Clarke so believable was his ability to be open and honest in his answers.

She doesn't know how to say she is sorry or that she has made a mistake. She thinks that mistakes are beneath her. After all, she speaks Russian and went to Stanford etc. She even thinks that she is "privileged" to be the closest person to the President. That is pretty high powered stuff for an African American woman.

Sally Hemmings was the closest person to President Jefferson and she didn't speak Russian. Sally Hemmings had a lot of class and was far smarter than this lier.

Sally Hemmings, you were one smart lady :loveya:

[DrBB]

23. My advice to 60 Minutes: focus on the cover-up

She's going to do what these guys always do and have been doing with particular intensity the last week or so:

Lie.

I expect much along the lines of "we had lots of meetings about this. All classified of course; sorry I can't show you any proof. And Clarke spent all his time talking about how great Dear Leader is, and how much he loved Dear Leader, and how Dear Leader's plan for dealing with al Quaida was much better than his plan. No proof, sorry, national security. Also, Clarke never showed up for the Important Meetings. He was off twiddling his thumbs while we were having the Real Meetings--can't show you any of those of course. National Security. And now he's just playing politics and trying to enrich himself. He's friends with Rand Beers, did you know that? Plus I think he's about to be accused of child molestation."

Will 60 Minutes have cojones to take the only approach that can beat down the wall of blather she can put up? It shouldn't be that hard, if they have the guts.

We've watched our cop shows, right? It goes like this: focus on the weakest link. Condi is it. She doesn't lie well, and she gets angry and disconcerted, and lies even worse. What you don't want to do at this point is go over the crime scene again--whatever facts in Clarke's book she thinks she has a great answer for. What you want to do is focus on the cover-up, the many little idiot contradictions the perp has stumbled into in the attempt to obscure the crime. Because that's a tacit admission. The cover-up is worse than the crime because it's the bit that says--that screams--"I know I did wrong." And by denying everything, instead of simply admitting they could have done better, made a few mistakes etc, they've put themselves in a position where that is a damning admission.

Here's what I'd do: I would not spend much time going over meeting dates and factoids from Clarke's book. I would focus ruthlessly on their smear campaign, and specifically on the embarrassing and multitudinous self-contradictions they have stumbled into over the last two weeks. I would confront her again and again with her own and the administration's self-contradictions. Dick sez "Clarke not in loop"; Condi sez "He attended every meeting." Oops. Etc. Whole list of 'em in Pincus's excellent WaPo article. I'd also include Frist accusing Clarke of perjury, then cravenly backing off. Just keep confronting her with that--the recent, quite undeniable evidence that they don't have their story straight, that they are trying to keep the lid on something and doing a painfully inadequate job of it. Keep her off-balance till she cracks.

Well, she won't crack, obviously, but that's the idea. This is the line of questioning that would do the most to break through the wall of slime and spin they've put up. Don't go at the historical record; she controls that. Go at the recent public mess they've made in trying to cover it up.

The worst thing for them is the evidence (which they are reeking of right now) that THEY know they've done wrong, are caught out, and are scrabbling away to hide it. Those contradictions are the evidence of an inept cover-up, and nothing is more disconcerting to them than to confront them with it and force themselves to dig even deeper in by trying to explain it all away. There is only one direction to that conversation and it is DOWN.

[goclark]

25. Hummm Why Ed Bradley

Ed Bradley is African American. I have noticed that when she knows she is in bigtime trouble, she "comes back home" to our people.

When she was catching hell last year, she spoke to a conference of Black Journalists and spoke of Gwen Ifill as her friend.I believe it was Ifill that mentioned that Condi had been to her house for dinner,

Now, she is allowing Ed Bradley to interview her. I like Ed Bradley a lot. I'm sure she believes that he will connect with her as a "true sister" and be kind and forgiving to her.

She sure knows how to use us when she needs us. Where was she on Affirmative Action or any other issue that is of utmost importance to our people?

BUT,Condi, we are a forgiving people.You could spill the beans to Bradley. That would be fantastic! That way the brother would get credit for interviewing you when you FINALLY told the TRUTH.

You can do it Girlfriend!

Tell the world that the Bushies have held you hostage all these years. Tell the world that you are finally coming clean because you know that your ancestors endured slavery and it finally dawned on you that they were treating you like a slave too. That is unthinkable in 2004!

Wake up Condi! Wake Up!
Even if they have to lead you away in handcuffs after you tell all the terrible things these thugs caused you to do, the TRUTH shall set you free!


:silly:

[justsam]

29. Ed seems to interview all

the black guests, yet in America no one notices what color you are. I hope Ed wears his best ear ring..

[TeeYiYi]

30. Actually, I think you're on to something . . .

. . . she ought to ask Ed Bradley to arrange for protective custody for her. Her cred is shot and her value as a LIVE asset is fast diminishing. She has become a liability to the BFEE and she knows it. Watch her face contort with lies and fear on Sunday. The sweat beads will be falling in streams. I almost feel sorry for her. She has built a web of lies and deceit so deep that there is little chance she can tear through it gracefully. If I were her, I'd rather surrender on 60 Minutes than head for the airport after the show, and my small airplane ride back to DC . . . :scared:

TYY

[goclark]

36. Don't Feel Sorry For Her

She will cover her butt and the average American is probably going to believe her.

If the Repubs do what I think they are going to do, they will make her take the heat,they will deside that she needs to let Wolfie work in her place and go on with the show.

That would make the neocons oh so happy. Georgie will then be left without his own personal "think" tank. The only person who could explain things to him and read his papers for him.

Then the neocons will truly run the government. Maybe Carl Rove will move into the oval office and be National Security Advisor. That is what he was doing anyway.

[jackstraw45]

35. Lies Lies and more lies

Shame on 60 Minutes if they don't play back her lies and challenge her on them.

The administration must have called Viacom to set up this lie-fest to come on Sunday.

[Raster]

38. question: how can you tell condi is lying???

answer: Because her lips are moving!!!

Trust nothing out of Condoleeza "Mired-in-the-Cold-War-and-did-you- know-I-have-an-oil-tanker-named-after-me?" Rice's mouth.

[indigobusiness]

39. Condi, Condi, Condi

Condi Denied Cell Next To Martha


Get your honest news here:
http://sludgereport.blogspot.com

[0rion]

40. Which goes to show, she'd rather lie to the American People.....

instead of the 9/11 commission and families of the victims.

[High Sierra Buck]

41. These bozos, Condi, Bush, Rummie, chainbag and Wolfie

They keep fanning themselves that they are winning the war on terror.
They keep trying their best to blame Clinton on their mess. What is the natter with thise folks? I guess the term best to decribe them is the buck stops over there.

The conservatives are to blame for 911 and ALL the deaths that occurred as a result of their national security failure. Just look what the wingnuts are responsible for, the republican party is 100 percent responsible for the death of 2900+ people who gave their lives in NYC because they were more concerned over which way he hung and where the stains went and what type of cigars he used than the security of this great nation.

The terrorists must've been laughing their heads off. They knew all to well that nobody but Clinton's people were paying attention to them and every time he did something, the Repubs screamed Wag the Dog and accused him of just trying to distract from their ceaseless investigations and nightly RW talk shows, talking about his sex life.

They have to be smarter than that (our godly selected administration that is), or are they? Do they really think the American people are that fricking stupid? (sometimes I really wonder knowing all too well that some folks are watching FOX news and gurgling and burping then regurgitating the right wing mantra that is so common from the likes of Ann Coulter and her RW friends and talking heads). The enemy we face today is not the enemy that attacked us on 9-11. The threat is more broadly dispersed and more internationally embedded.

Al-Qaeda has historically taken its time planning the spectacular simultaneous attacks that have become its calling card, spending five years planning the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa and close to three years preparing for 911. Another attack on U.S. soil may already be in the works. These people have a huge amount of patience and time is on their side.

Now, with the present administration jumping up and down and refusing to take responsibility, they are in essnce opening this nation up for yet another attack that may dwarf the attack of 911 that they are soley reponsible for.

Its time to put the real adults in charge.............now is the time to bring back honesty and real integrity to the presidency and this great nation.