Does Condi Email? CREW Wants To Know.
CREW:
Earlier this year, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discussed technology and e-mails with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo. Rice indicated that the State Department has changed its policy regarding e-mail and blackberrys:
QUESTION: So do you not take your blackberry when you go to China?
SECRETARY RICE: The truth of the matter is I don't have one. But I used to, but I don't now.
QUESTION: Is that because of security reasons?
SECRETARY RICE: Well, they don't let me play with almost anything technological now, Maria. Funny, but it seems they all want to do it for me. And it's too bad because, you know, I love the internet, I love e-mail and --
Who are "they"? What is the policy? And, why and when did the policy change? Given the major scandals surrounding the Bush administration involving e-mails, CREW wants to know. Last week, CREW filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request "seeking documents stating the Department of State's policies governing the Secretary of State's methods of communicating via e-mail with audiences both internal and external to the U.S. government."
first?
She's too busy buying new shoes to worry about a blackberry.....or America.
Who are “they”?
Dick Cheney is the first name that pops in my mind.
I guess when you are involved in illegal activity then the less open communication the better?
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She does make it sound like she isn't even allowed to email it herself, and that she misses email itself. Its as if she is implying there a private third party who messages on her behalf?
She doesn't have time for e-mail or internet. Her lackeys handle all that for her. Most of them don't even watch TeeVee. They don't have time they are to busy trying to conquer everything.
We also want to know the real reason why Bush chose Condoleeza Rice to be his National Security Advisor.
Maybe because Ms. Rice led Chevron's public policy committee overseeing "political issues"?.
Ms. Rice resigned from Chevron’s board on Jan. 16, 2001
--> During Rice's tenure, Chevron was paying out kickbacks for the millions profiteered through the Iraq Oil For Food program coming clean today to settle the probe.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10741.html
Now isnt that something.
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Please stop making "our side" look like a bunch of idiot middle schoolers.
Kudos to Melanie Sloan and everyone at CREW. If you have a few bucks please donate to them
L.A. Confidential @ 8:
Not to forget the massive transfer of wealth to the top 1% and control of resources and economics to these top 1%. Which has always been the agenda of this administration.
Our blackberry's aren't going to save us. Unless they start making models with a fazer for self protection.
Hey cut the crap folks. Condi is evil yes, but lay off the underhanded racism. We are supposed to be about diversity and equality, your comments sound like rightwing nutjobs trying to make theleft look bad, or at least as bad as they are!
Attack the actions, attack the policies, but don't stoop to personal attacks at a person's race, sex or preference. It demeans your point, and just shows your ignorance. Case in point: pantsuits, haircut, but is he black enough?. Bet you can name all three that the right attacked with these smears.
As to the email issue, I would bet the whitehouse is afraid of a papertrail now that they are finding out that they can't easily rewrite history as it is being written.
So how does she communicate? Doesn't she know all our phone calls are tapped?
pissed off patricia @ 14:
"Secure Communications" . . . the kind not available to the general public.
Left&Left @ 7:
Well, strictly speaking, the Supreme Court isn't actually part of the administration. Barring something unforeseen, we'll still have "Coke Can Clarence" to deal with after the Bushies are a memory of a nightmare.
Also, Colin Powell is no longer part of this administration and he has at least one foot off the reservation. I don't think he's too happy about what the Bushies made him do as Secretary of State.
Condi is the next ZeroCool! Keep her away from the computer!
GuessLotto.com
I understand kindanasty a regular at the flog blog Gay Boys in Bondage.
As Condoleezza Rice prepares to host the Middle East summit in Annapolis this week, her State Department has issued an updated historical timeline of American efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The timeline is a fascinating document both for what it reveals and what it leaves out. The rise of Hamas and its election victories are mentioned nowhere. That might just be because President Bush's hands-off policy of malign neglect is in part responsible for it.
For the details, see:
"On Eve of Summit, State Dept Rewrites Middle East History."
pissed off patricia @ 14:
Maybe she's a tap dancer.
Bob, I would be very surprised if these "underhanded racists" weren't just trolls out to make the liberal blogs look as bad as their conservative counterparts.
As to the issue of "no electronics," I wonder whether this relates to this administration's congenital fear of transparency - that subconsciously or not, they realize that much of what they've done is so unethical, so immoral that it could land them all in very, very hot water.
Funny, how those so focused on destroying our privacy are so obsessed with their own.
ProDem @ 5:
That's what the wide gap in her teeth is for.
pissed off patricia @ 14:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSsV5bACexQ
Anonymouse @ 21:
More or less what I was thinking. That's why I put quotes around "our side" in my earlier post. I don't think all the posters here are necessarily on the same side.
Is this kindanasty's favorite song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOoixnNEFQE
Anonymouse @ 21:
Oh without a doubt. There are actually companies that offer this service for a fee now. "Hire a troll".
Then there is just the plain old troll who wants people to think the center and then left are racists and anti social people by spamming left blogs and stuff.
It's truly a sick game. Like Gates said back in the early 90's. "Anyone can publish" with Strat Me Up playing in the background on the big TeeVee promotional blitz for Win 95.
Weaseldog @ 23:
:lol: Perfect!
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Oh tee hee I'm just a girl I don't get all this tenka ... tenaca ... electricky stuff! (curtsey, dimple!)
I think this is gonna be big news once Waxman takes a whack at it.
The truth is even science and technology won't solve our problems. It was human genius that created these tools.
If it wasn't for human will and work throughout time. We'd still be sitting around fires roasting animals and fighting off intruders with rocks and sticks.
L.A. Confidential @ 31:
That last line of your comment sounds like any given weekend we cook out on the grill ;)
I know. I'm always talking about WORK and walking the talk. And it isn't very appealing since talk without the walk is a hell of a lot easier.
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Kudos to you, sir. The anonymity of the internet has a tendency to make people behave as if fundamental human decency and basic manners are no longer prerequisites to conducting a sane, civil discourse.
pissed off patricia @ 31:
LOL with a modern twist. Flintstones on the Deck! WILMA!!!!!!!! Funny. I still have a little sliver of a sense of humor left thankfully.
peaceful easy feeling @ 33:
Unfortunately this is what the internet has evolved too. It was fun, a novelty for a while back in the early days when the net went public until all the crud, lowlifes, criminals, con artists, and predators infiltrated the web.
L.A. Confidential @ 34:
Good for you and good for your humor for surviving through these last seven years.
Interesting that in the same week we have the story about how authorities can and do track people without a warrant by tracking their cell phones and Condi says she no longer carries her Blackberry. Maybe she's tired of being tracked, too. I guess if you don't want to be tracked, you have to leave your cell phone at home, disconnect Onstar, check your vehicle daily for tracking devices, and who knows what else?
Left&Left @ 28:
Being a black man doesn't really afford you an excuse for holding these people to a standard so profoundly narrow as to be based solely on the degree of their negritude. Thurgood Marshall, like me, was a Baltimorean. Am I to base my critique of him on that particular shared accident of birth?
Rice Thomas and Powell are far more than just "representatives of their race". So are you. So am I. We need to get past this stuff if we're to have any sort of future.
These people simply hate the truth and transparency. They tell us all the time that if we had nothing to hide, why be afraid of the search? Well, the shoe is on the other foot, isn't it? Why on earth should they hide and lie to their employers (Us)? maybe they do have something to hide, huh?
pissed off patricia @ 36:
It's been extremely difficult. One thing is certain I'm not going to sit around taking the kind of verbal artillery we've been taking this past 7 years from the right wing nut cases without getting right back in their face.
Why doesn't she have a Blackberry anymore? Why doesn't she do her own email? Two words: plausible deniability.
What's a black widow without a web?
gee...for a supposedly smart woman she sure is shackled by "they".....this woman can't ever be honest about anything.....hmmmmm sounds like presidential material to me......
Turk Meister @ 37:
And disconnect your televison cable before discussing Bush and the gang don't forget that.
"And disconnect your televison cable before discussing Bush and the gang don't forget that."
But they know when you do. Then they send the Thought Police 'round to investigate.
Who are "they"? Maybe its just stupidity. Here's W. on "the Google".
Remember, "Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation." -Robert Foster Bennett
They are in alot more then hot water, I know 10 people they have murdered.
Doesn't this stupid bitch have a job to do? Why doesn't she tell "THEY" to shove it up their ass!!!
Chip
She probably can't recall 'anyone' who would use a
Blackberry for email.............tongue in cheek.
Tom (not Tom) @ 41:
.... and
-They take your blackberry away when you're about to get fired.
-She was talking about her RNC blackberry. Rove screwed it up for everybody, darn him.
-She's not allowed to issue any communication unless Cheney vetted it first.
you mean the white house uses mafia tactics to conceal the nature and extent of their communications? shocking.
I do not believe one word that comes out of this woman's mouth any more than I believe what comes out of Bush's mouth.
That's the trouble with the Internet Information Highway, they allow anyone to drive.
ysaddaden @ 53:
No, that's the beauty of it. When writing stupid things on the internet becomes a crime...only criminals will write stupid things on the internet.
(Wow...That really sucked but you get the idea.)
Cheney - no paper or cyber trail either.
Obviously, her blackberry clashed with her shoes, silly reporters.
OleHippieChick @ 55:
Also just hospitalized with an irregular heartbeat. (I'm biting my tongue here)
OleHippieChick @ 55:
The only reason chainey's not leaving a paper trail is because his undisclosed hospital has him on IV and bedpan.
I'm just glad she's found her way off the "milk carton"! She must have realized that her days are numbered and she has to have something to show for all the time she has taken the tax payer's money, while doing next to nothing.
uppity kitty @ 56:
I didn't know alligators liked to eat blackberries.
We better watch that finger of hers.
We don't know where it's been.
I thought pull my finger jokes were a guy thing.
you can spell the word lying bitch on her teeth. or more to the point
condi opens mouth and the lies fall out.
They = Darth Cheney.
WE HAVE ALLOWED THIS, our apathy through the years has placed us here. WE have lived high on the hog since WWII. (It's a long slide down to the hogshit) (Rice, Powell, Obama, like YOU OR ME are one and all AMERICAN TAXPAYERS and once out of office will be in pigshit like the rest of us, 'cause being rich or priviledged AIN'T gonna help on this one)
!-202-225-0100 DEMAND IMPEACHMENT
dear mr. president,
you can pee now.
love 'n' kisses,
condi
p.s.- aren't these emails just the niftiest things? i wish we had them at the un instead of having to pass notes back and forth.
Hmmm. Some of the most important people in the world (whether you like them or not) using a hackable form of communication to discuss matters of National Security. SURVEY SAYS X!
Slick Willie already gave enough information to China, we don't need Al Qaeda seeing what the Bushbots are up to.
Nobody knows who the mysterious 'They' is.
Until you get to the top of the Dung Heap.
George W.Bush, he knows who 'They' is'
'They' are him, and his 'god', and all the other creatures and beings he hallucinates, hisownself nailed to a cross, hisownself rising from a tomb to 'heaven, hisownself as 'Leader of the World', cheered by multitudes, [deleted--over the top], hisownself living for eternity, sharing the 'heavenly' throne with 'god', with hisownself on the right, on a slightly thicker pillow.
The real reason they took away Leezzaa's blackberry and e-mail privileges is because no one could understand her messages.
She claimed she was dyslexic, but they found out she was illiterate.
sassafra @ 66:
How did georgie handle frat keggers before he met kindanasty?
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Even "THEY" don't trust her. Condi is such a tool.
It is so discouraging to know that "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" still has impermeable Teflon armor.
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