Let's get some more truth on the latest "career moves" in the Decider's administration

[bobthedrummer]

I'll start this, I hope to see it grow into another data-dump about the changes among the people deemed loyal and trustworthy enough to be named to various positions in the BFEE's 2007 line-up.

Harriet Miers is no longer WH chief counsel, she's leaving. Anyone want to detail that, please do.

Zalmay Khalilzad named to replace John Bolton at UN-somebody want to expand on that, please do.

John Negroponte moving out as Intelligence Director overseer to become Condoleezza Rice's #2-woe, any coincidences so far???

Negroponte's "rumored" (leaked) replacement from out or "retirement" a former Vice Admiral and 13th Director of the NSA-one of Poppy's Gulf War propagandists ("information warfare") and a friend of Poppy's SecState James Baker III--John Michael McConnell.

Here are two differing views on Vice Admiral McConnell, praise from Sen. Arlen Specter (JFK assassination magic bullet theorist, Ira Einhorn's defense atty that allowed him to escape justice for decades, etc) read into The Congressional Record February 29th 1996
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1996_cr/s960229a.htm

There's a much more informative article for those of us that know and understand a bit about corruption and real criminal conspiracies.
The Neocon Powergrab at NSA and an Attempt to Stifle the Press by Wayne Madsen
http://cryptome.org/nsa-stifle.htm

Well, I've done my part on these latest reconstructions of this criminal administration by starting this thread-do your part, add to this thread-it's really a data-dump.

See ya tommorrow, gang.

[Botany]

1. just moving the deck chairs

[bobthedrummer]

2. "Official announcements" have now been made about these "rumors"

and aside from Botany's wonderful metaphorical pic there have been no comments on these changes.

It's Friday, the "rumors" are true, let's get a data-dump on the implications of these changes.

[bobthedrummer]

3. one kick for today

[Octafish]

4. Miers wasn't up to ''Lawyering Up.''

From the WaPo:

White House Gears Up For Legal Battles With New Congress

EXCERPT...

At the Justice Department, lawyers in the Office of Legal Counsel have been meeting with counterparts from other agencies to discuss potential points of conflict with Congress and to map out legal strategies for responding to demands for documents and testimony, according to several officials. The department has also held internal meetings on this topic in recent weeks with representatives from the FBI and from Justice's other major components, one official said.

"They face the question of, to what extent you cooperate or protect presidential prerogatives and withhold documents," said H. Christopher Bartolomucci, a former Bush White House lawyer. "Potentially, it could be a period of conflict with the Hill. ... It's not necessarily going to be a bloodbath, but it's certainly possible."

Republican advisers have been telling the White House to be ready for war, and many cited Miers as the wrong general. "The White House knew they needed to get a tough street fighter - that's what this is about," said one such adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preserve access to the White House.

The advice, according to this person, could be summed up this way: "You guys better lawyer up, and lawyer up in the right way. You better understand the need and the peril and the urgency. ... You need somebody as tough as Harold Ickes or Bruce Lindsey. Because they're coming for you."

Miers, Bush's personal lawyer in Texas, is popular in the West Wing and is admired for her hard work, loyalty and character. But since taking over last spring, White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten had privately expressed doubt that Miers, 61, was right for the job, current and former officials said.

When news reports at the time suggested that she might leave as part of Bolten's initial shakeup, Miers talked to Bush and kept her job, the sources said. After Democrats captured Congress in November, the issue was revisited and some Republicans were told before Thanksgiving that someone else would be brought in.

Miers had told colleagues that she planned to stay until the end of the administration, but after several conversations with Bolten in the past week, she agreed it was time to move on. "We're entering a new era here in the White House, and they both came to that conclusion," a senior administration official said.

CONTINUED...

http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=9930

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. That article was far more telling

why she was so disgusting to the right... they are removing her before another Saturday Night Massacre, she seems to have a conscience

That is the last thing you ever want with the gang that could not shoot straight, especially now

[Octafish]

6. Perhaps Harriet M will be willing to testify against Smirko.

Didn't the Repubs, in the war against terror, make it legal to open up attorney-client conversations to judicial review?

And were she to turn State's witness, Ms. Miers would show she really was Supreme Court material.

[G_j]

7. too late to recommend..

but too late to KICK!

thanks

[bobthedrummer]

8. More "reshuffles"-let's see the guy in charge of nuclear weapons

programs Linton F. Brooks, was fired (called "resigned") for security leaks at Los Alamos while the Decider has decided to build hybrid nuclear weapons to replace nuclear weapons.

Gee, Linton F. Brooks was the chief negotiator for the START treaty-which is merely another "piece of paper". Linton F. Brooks was also for nuclear weapons. :crazy:
Boston Herald article on Brooks "resignation"
http://news.bostonherald.com/politics/view.bg?articleid=175548
Linton F. Brooks profiles
from SourceWatch
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Linton_F._Brooks
from RightWeb
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1056

There's no money for anything except HOMELAND (tm).

The University of California and Bechtel jointly run the nuke labs at Los Alamos.

Then there are more military changes than you can shake a stick at as well as more Special Access Programs going on.

Thanks to all that have added to this thread so far-let's keep it going.

[bobthedrummer]

9. When the Taliban was in Sugarland, Texas in 1997 Zalmay was with

them making plans for that Afghanistan oil pipeline, even though Argentina had different plans than UNOCAL at that time.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/west_asia/37021.stm

Then Zalmay signed on the PNAC letter to President Clinton in 1998 and eventually was BFEE's Iraq Ambassador.

Meanwhile opium production in Afghanistan is up, up and away and some of the druglords of the old Northern Alliance (remember them, the Iran/Contra Republican sponsored "freedom fighters" and their "heroin heroics" during ANACONDA or their side deals with Pakistan's military intelligence etc.) are helping their brothers, the Taliban.

And now the Decider wants this murderous, ideological lunatic, mercenary criminal Zalmay Khalilzad to represent the Decider's administration that bears (in name only imo) the seat of The United States of America in the UN, also a permanent seat on the Security Council-Zalmay Khalilzad...
Source Watch profile
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Zalmay_Khalilzad

Good night for now.

[bobthedrummer]

10. kick

[bobthedrummer]

11. Fred F. Fielding as the Decider's chief counsel???...

add him to the revised White House Staff. His background includes NSA, Nixon, Reagan, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and lobbying for Daddy War Bucks corporate fascists while hanging out with other lobbyists including Jack Abramoff-check it out for yourselves or post something about any of these changes in the Decider's choices of people influential to his administration.
:nuke:

Fwiw, here's an old WH Staff Salaries list from July 2006 (the real staff, cabinet, etc. are changing rapidly
that's what this thread is about) by Alexis Simendinger for NationalJournal.com
http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0711nj1.htm