What bombshell was dropped this morning on Meet The Press?

[Samantha]

I didn't catch it today for personal reasons.  I came in just
in time to see a replay of Senator Warner being questioned by
reporters following his exiting the show.  One reporter
remarked, some people would consider this announcement quite a
bombshell.  What announcement?  I could not discern the topic
from Warner's answer.  

[Dudley_DUright]

1. Check it out for yourself

Here is the complete MTP transcript for today:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/935411.asp

[diplomats]

2. I'm guessing that's a reference to Joseph Wilson's

assertion that the administration manipulated intelligence (no sh**!). He's the envoy who investigated the Niger uranium issue. This is a lead story on yahoo news.

[G_j]

3. Reported on

NPR, Story carried by Reuters and AP

[diplomats]

5. Here's the story on yahoo

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030706/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_intelligence_3

[Aaron]

8. If people have a chance to rate the story that might it spread

If the story is rated high then more people will be likely to see it. Rating options are at the bottom of the yahoo link to the story.

[IndianaGreen]

17. Here is the CNN version:

Bottom line: Bush lied, people died!

John Warner will lie to protect the Moron-in-Chief. A real patriot would be calling for impeachment hearings!

Diplomat: U.S. knew uranium report was false
Sunday, July 6, 2003 Posted: 1837 GMT ( 2:37 AM HKT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A former U.S. diplomat said Sunday he told the Bush administration that Iraq had not tried to buy uranium from Niger in the late 1990s to develop nuclear weapons.

Former Ambassador to Gabon Joseph Wilson told NBC's "Meet the Press" he informed the CIA and the State Department that such information was false months before U.S. and British officials used it during the debate that led to war.

During his State of the Union address in January, two months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, President Bush accused Iraq of trying to buy "significant quantities of uranium" from an unnamed African country. He cited British intelligence, which had published a similar report in September 2002.

"If they were referring to Niger when they were referring to uranium sales from Africa to Iraq, ... that information was erroneous and ... they knew about it well ahead of both the publication of the British white paper and the president's State of the Union address," Wilson said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/06/sprj.irq.uranium/index.html

[tjdee]

4. A bombshell? From Warner?

Who dropped it? Just the news, or Warner on MTP?

What difference does it make, that's what I'd like to know.
However will the Bushies spin this so that Americans lap it up?

[Pepperbelly]

7. Wilson was on MTP

with Andrea Mitchell. Timmy wasn't there today or you know he would've shut Wilson up.

[displacedtexan]

6. pundit pap has the juicy details

http://www.americanpolitics.com/20030706punditpap.html

[tjdee]

9. OUCH!

Whoa, I'm so catching the rerun on CNBC.


Buh bye Cheney, hello VP Giuliani or Ridge???

[spanone]

10. Hey, this hasn't happened yet....

your post says Sunday 10:50 pm. Call every news organization in the world and tell 'em this is gonna happen. Hell, they wouldn't care.

[KG]

11. he's getting back together with liz?

:)

[tjdee]

12. Just so YOU know, I rated this post a 5!

But, umm...I don't see my rating....

[Samantha]

13. Thanks for your replies and links

Now I know the scoop.

None of this information is a bombshell. We've discussed most of the information here, hoping one day the truth would surface. Looks like it's starting to bubble to the top -- the question is, once again, will the Republicans be able to beat this one back too. I don't think so.

I think Bush has planned all along to replace Cheney, and this would give him the perfect excuse to pick up someone like Frist.

The truth you will set you free, Dick Cheney, and it is our passionate hope it sets Bush* even freer. Free from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to go back to the ranch ....

[G_j]

14. I have a hard time imagining

Cheney letting himself take the rap/fall.

but who knows?

[aquart]

27. July 4th, CNN was running a Cheney bio that made my jaw drop.

It gave him full credit for our "pre-emptive" war strategy. Then it mentioned how there was some little furor over his old company Halliburton making all that money on Iraq contracts.

I thought, "they're setting him up."

Now I read Pundit Pap wondering if Cheney's being set up.

Did his health take a turn for the worse?

[cosmicdot]

29. Did his health take a turn for the worse?

...if not, it sounds like it might...

I'm having a flashback: Iran-Contra, CIA chief William Casey ...

[clarkbarr]

30. Cheney's Health Problems...

Chandra's heart is rejecting him!

[spanone]

15. It may not be a bombshell but it's bigger than Oral Sex.

.

[KFC]

18. As a huge fan of Oral Sex

I feel I must take you to task.

[imax2268]

16. Man...

I wish I could have seen that...thanks for posting the transcripts...

looks like the truth is coming out...

the Fit is going to hit the Shan...

[snippy]

19. More people will begin to pay attention to the truth

as the casualties continue to mount in Iraq. And as people get fed up with "Bring 'em on Bush" they will admit that they were decieved by the lying sack of shit.

[ColumbusGirl]

20. I felt disappointed watching Meet the Press

If only because all of the commentary seemed to be geared toward trying to downlplay the significance of these discoveries.

I was shocked at the beginning to hear some of the topics being raised, but after hearing them knocked down time and time again without challenge, I ended the show crestfallen.

I suppose the fact the questions were raised at all in the mainstream press should be enough to make me happy...but still.

[barbaraann]

21. Actually, I thought Andrea Mitchell did a great job today.

She was a million times better than Tim Russert.

[GiovanniC]

23. I Agree

I was pleasantly surprised. Usually when I see Andrea Mitchell on one of the political pundit shows I want to puke.

[GiovanniC]

22. Today's MTP in summary

Wilson says the Bush administration was told that a major allegation against Iraq in the run-up to war was falsified, and they were told at least as early as September of 02. People very high up in the administration (at least as high as Cheney) were provided with proof of this (not just people in the "bowels of the ", as Rice claimed), yet months later they continued to use this information to justify war, even including it in the State of the Union.

Then, we get the ranking Dem on the Armed Services Committee and the chairman of same committee. Chairman says, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain... move along, nothing to see here." Carl Levin (D - one of my Senators!) says Bush "Bring It On" comment is "cocky rhetoric". Warner (R) says Bush is just telling the military they are awesome ("I double-dog-dare you Iraqis to attack my awesome army men", Warner claims Bush is saying). Levin is allowed to say a couple of things against the administration. Warner then rebukes everything Levin is saying in a very condescending way, as though Levin is just a naive child.

Next up comes the round table discussion, where it is agreed by pretty much everyone that Bush is doing a splendid job, that the things Wilson had talked about a little earlier were completely irrelevant, that Bush's "Bring It On" comment was just "blown out of proportion", and Democrats don't really stand a chance of winning in 04.

There, I just saved everyone 56 minutes minus commercials.

[Kolesar]

25. That sounds like the "Hate Cokie Roberts" thread I will start tomorrow

I already have a thread title: "Cokie, The Whore of the Beltway". It is hard not to be venal, very hard.

[Robin Hood]

24. They just showed Condoleeza Rice lying

on meet the press.

This is huge.

[Samantha]

26. This is what we need to see -- or the public at large needs to observe

Visual aids -- lying up front and in the face of the American people, by the players in the Bush* misadministration. It's a topic we have discussed here many times over the months, but one which has eluded the American people at large. It's such a moral, Christian administration, obviously its players must be truth-tellers. What a rude awakening lies (no pun intended) ahead for many American people.

[Robin Hood]

28. Did you see her squirm?

And how her speech was shaky when answering that lie.

"It must have been in the bowels of the CIA"