Any link between Karen H and the immunity for *'s private army in Iraq.

[CK_John]

IMO, taking off to spend more time with the family is bs.

[Eric J in MN]

1. I don't understand what you're implying. NT

NT

[Kagemusha]

2. I do, it just makes no sense.

There's a little thing called chain of command. And Hughes was such a disaster at the job she just left that it's like a long-overdue mercy killing. (Edit) So there's no remote reason why it needs to be related to the Blackwater shooting.

[CK_John]

3. Hughes was *'s eyes and ears in Condi's bailiwick, a strange triangle, I 'll be surprised if she

doesn't have a hand in the immunity deal.

[Kagemusha]

4. You can't be eyes and ears in Iraq without being in Iraq.

I haven't heard a single word about Hughes ever getting anywhere near such a dangerous place. Her original reason for retiring from Bush's side was to spend more time with her family, so we know she has one. (Edit: All this means is I doubt Hughes personally was fulfilling this role. Someone else surely was.)

[CK_John]

5. I thought she worked out of the green zone. n/t

[Kagemusha]

6. Google says she visited Bagdhad on Feb 17.

Visited. She's not working out of there and by all appearances, never, ever has. I think you're just misinformed on this point.

There's plenty of minions to do such work for Hughes and others.

[CK_John]

7. You mean a * appointee would pretend to be in Iraq. I'm shock, I tell you shocked. n/t