From "Found at Starbucks: The Pentagon's Papers" at the Center for American Progress, via Wonkette:
As most of America slept early last Sunday morning, the Bush administration hustled and bustled to prepare for the Sunday morning talk shows – among others Colin Powell was appearing on "Face the Nation" and Donald Rumsfeld was booked on "Fox News Sunday." Condoleezza Rice was not scheduled to appear until prime time, when she would make a star appearance on CBS' "60 Minutes" – the last in a long line of media appearances that caused 9/11 Commissioner Richard Ben Veniste to quip that "Condi Rice has appeared everywhere but at my local Starbucks."Well, others in the Bush administration did, apparently, make an appearance at the local Starbucks. And as the Washington Post reports today, one of them – obviously readying himself to prep Defense Secretary Rumsfeld – left his notes on the table. Talking points, hand-written notes on spin tactics that reveal the White House was worried about former Bush adviser Richard Clarke's charges, and a hand-drawn map to the Secretary's house were found by a resident of DuPont Circle, who made them available to the Center for American Progress. The name of said resident is being withheld at his request, as he fears that he may be accused on national television of being "disgruntled."
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Note that John Podesta's Center for American Progress supplies its own answers to the hypothetical questions for Rumsfeld. Nice touch.
And this isn't the only time something like this has happened. Remember the intern in Lafayette Park?
Yes, ladies and gentlemen: these are the very people we're supposed to trust with our national secrets. Next up: Cheney's memo outlining his reselection of himself as Vice President turns up in the dressing room of The Gap in Georgetown. Keep your eyes out, people.
Here's an idea for tomorrow:
Only slightly less disgusting that the atrocities in Falluja yesterday was President Bush's decision to attend a 1.5 million dollar fundraiser last night. Six American soldiers were killed and four American civilians were slaughtered - and posthumously butchered - and the President of the United States went hat-in-hand to a swanky DC fundraiser before all their bodies had been recovered.
You have to wonder what the man was thinking...
Posted by: Steve on April 1, 2004 10:22 AMHis policies have left a lot of people wondering if he thinks at all.
Posted by: Zog on April 1, 2004 11:19 AM










