That's an insult to clowns. Clowns bring a lot of joy to children and others. Not Mukasey. He even makes the Devil cry.

taking a page out of rumsfelds book...shameful fakery. i wanted to puke when i saw rummy choke up at the anniversary ceremony he held at the pentagon a couple years ago. damn them.

Thanks again, Feinstein, Schumer and all of the other dim-bulbed spineless Dems who gave us this Bushie. Oh, and thanks to Bob Mulholland for name-calling those of us trying to censor Feinstein.

I dont know it looked like he burped.

Emptywheel (blogger from the Libby trial and so much more)and other brilliant commenters over at FDL get into the meat of these issues.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/03/28/listening-to-you-mukasey-plays-the-emotion-card/

Michael Mukasey’s Tears of a Clown

This clown?

http://anyeventuality.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/themanwholaughs.png

So now, we, the gullible and ignorant American public, are supposed to believe that somehow NOT having uncontrolled access to every phone call in this country led to the destruction of the Twin Towers?

Please give me a f*cking break!!!

This guy is shameless. This administration is a den of criminals. They all deserve to burn in hell, but I hope we can start the fire before they get there.

Damn them all!!

This pig is just one more piece in their disgusting puzzle. Pigs! Liars! Shameless deceivers!!

I'm sorry, you meant Tears of an Ass-Clown.

Shameless is the way to describe the scum of the bush administration well shameless and greedy, pedophiles, warmongers, idiots bastards fools. I could go on,

Kathleen @ 15:

Tears of a puppet. Thanks Senator's Schumer and Feinstein for bringing us a puppet!

And Clinton and Biden and Dodd and Obama. Thanks.

Oh...their votes wouldn't have made a difference? B.S.

Cowards.

Just read Glenn Greenwald's piece on this. What stuck out to me was:

"Bush administration knew about a Terrorist in an Afghan safe house making Terrorist-planning calls into the U.S., then they could have -- and should have -- eavesdropped on that call and didn't need a warrant to do so. So why didn't they?"

A lot of people need to have that question asked of them
under oath

Glenn Greenwald, one of the few good reasons for pinging Salon.com. God I hate Joan Walsh.. Maybe I really am a gay misogynist! I'm certain I could be accused. Anyhoo, Mucous here is more snot just like his predecessor.

With AG's like this it sure makes me glad 'we' did so well in the mid term elections!!

Off the table...Democracy and the rule of law.

"23 Jay Says: They all deserve to burn in hell, but I hope we can start the fire before they get there.

Wouldn't that be an illegal act of violence?
If you put them in an SUV first it would be Eco Terriorism, no?

THESE LIARS RUNNING OUR GOVERNMENT ARE FILTHY TRAITORS.

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What truly surprised me is the fact that audience knew the score. Who did he think he was fooling? Certainly not that crowd. And surely he couldn't believe this performance would register with Joe & Jill Sixpack. I leads me to conclude the administration has been reduced to appealing on its knees, like Jolson emoting "Mamee, How I Love Ya..I'm Coming Home, Mamee..". But what the hell. Tears and a quivering voice worked for Hillary in New Hampshire, as she herself concluded. And everyone knows attorney's are all heart.

"33 Otay Says: Bush is Ossama @ 29:

Help!!!
SOS SOS SOS

Can any nice foreign Nation PLEASE, PLEASE change this awful regime for US???

We have fallen down and can’t seem to get up.

No Judiciary - No Rule Of Law.
If it wasn’t so dam funny and so many wern’t suffering so much around the world it would be a joke.

We have been COUP’ED but good.
No solution in sight…

They would laugh at us and tell us that we have a good government, and that once these people are gone, all we have to do is elect good people, instead of douchebags.

In short, it’s our own damn fault. Perhaps we get what we deserve."

Dam, well then I guess that is true of the folks in Dufar and Iraq I guess...
If our goverment was 'good' how come we can't get the bad guys ON THE TABLE???

I think you are nieve and dangerous amego...

JW @ 34:

What truly surprised me is the fact that audience knew the score. Who did he think he was fooling? Certainly not that crowd. And surely he couldn't believe this performance would register with Joe & Jill Sixpack. I leads me to conclude the administration has been reduced to appealing on its knees, like Jolson emoting "Mamee, How I Love Ya..I'm Coming Home, Mamee..". But what the hell. Tears and a quivering voice worked for Hillary in New Hampshire, as she herself concluded. And everyone knows attorney's are all heart.

If there are going to get down on their knees, they could probably figure out something more effective to do than beg. Begging doesn't get crack whores anywhere either.

"If there are going to get down on their knees, they could probably figure out something more effective to do than beg. Begging doesn’t get crack whores anywhere".

I tell you, Paul, I think they've already gone the old tried-and-true $uckee $uckee route ("paging Mr. Rockefeller"), and, to their utter shock, it got them nowhere with the House. It's amazing how fast a spine can grow, given the knowledge that Barak Obama will be the next POTUS, coupled with a stone cold realization that online fundraising has become an very real force in national politics.

Obviously the mysterious phone call from Afghanistan is a complete fabrication. He must have been speaking rhetorically, then. Look for the tried and true “I misspoke” meme in the very near future. (They won’t be letting the dust settle on this new and improved meme.) However, they fail to realize that even Joe Six-Pack knows that when you misspeak you lie. Not counting, of course, the 19% blind faith crowd. There is no hope for them.

Have we not found the vice presidential canidate for Hillary Clinton. BO &^%$#@*& WHO.

Mucous-ey was the judge in the first WTC bombing in 93 that suppressed the evidence from the FBI informant that was recorded in secret, of the FBI handler ordering the bombing to go forward with LIVE bombs, versus having the informant use a dummy material...

the FBI was in on it, and knew of it.

They LIHOP.

Kathleen @ 15:

Tears of a puppet. Thanks Senator's Schumer and Feinstein for bringing us a puppet!

where are they hiding

41 Impeach cheney and bush Says: 3,000 died 9/11-so in response Bush has sent 4,000 GIs to their deaths, countless Iraqis deaths, 20,000 GIs with injuries, not counting all those GIs that died in Iraq but not on the battlefield (like being electrocuted in the shower by Halliburton), spied on Americans w/o court approval, used the constitution as a joke, destroyed the economy, and the list continues. Frankly, I think everyone in the Bush adm. should be brought up on charges of crimes against humanity. Only then will future idiots stop and think before a pre-emptive strike. Unfortunately, that will never happen. The best that I can hope for is that are all voted out of office, shamed by historians, and live a miserable life full of guilt for their share of blood-letting.

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Hell Yeah.

IMPEACH!

"This line of conversation was a major factor in John’s decision to bring in monitors in the first place. It has never been on topic at this site."

Doesn't that contradict itself?

Considering this 'diaper boy' wonder if it has any bearing on the more famous 'diaper boy'

Adults dressing up in diapers for sexual purposes does seem a bit strange.

Did Mukasey ever have a dog...named Checkers?

leslie @ 51:

If everyone who comments here would write to Feinstein and Schumer, and then
get three friends wo do the same, and so on, and so on, and so on, then we might make a dent in their continuing spinelessness.

I'm writing schumer and feinstein today. C'mon and join me.

I don't know about Schumer, but Feinstein is immune to the opinions of her constituency. Perhaps if her husband was offered more sweetheart deals...

I call BS on Mukasey. He knows that the FISA laws allow for surveillence legally inside the US for three days without a warrant. So that throws the argument that the government has to delay serveillance until they get a warrant. They can begin immediately and get a warrant later. The fact is that the Bush administration wants the power to surveille anyone and NEVER have any court see what they are doing, not even a secret court.

F-you Difi and Chuckles.

I would rather of had no A.G. for 15 month's, as opposed to installing this Bushco protecting, constitution ignoring ass-kisser.

enough @ 59:

Tell me again why we had to confirm this Bushbot. His son is a partner in Giuliani's law firm who is representing Verizon. Can you say Corporatocracy? When will Obama address the military industrial complex? We need real leadership to get us out of this hell. Nothing should be sent from congress to the DOJ. It is compromised. Don'task. Convict.

Truth B Told @ 46:

Mucous-ey was the judge in the first WTC bombing in 93 that suppressed the evidence from the FBI informant that was recorded in secret, of the FBI handler ordering the bombing to go forward with LIVE bombs, versus having the informant use a dummy material...

the FBI was in on it, and knew of it.

They LIHOP.

Otay @ 6:

Thanks again, Feinstein, Schumer and all of the other dim-bulbed spineless Dems who gave us this Bushie. Oh, and thanks to Bob Mulholland for name-calling those of us trying to censor Feinstein.

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Schumer is as bad, if not worse than Sweinstein, but gets a very easy ride, even here @ C&L. Bushbot maybe, but:

US Senators LIEberman-sFeinstein-Schumer: the Axis of AIPAC Zionists. It’s quite obvious that fascist AIPAC, in their Israel over America agenda are responsible for “persuading” these as fascist politicians/ traitors to vote against the US interests. We are rushing towards the Israeli police state model like a runaway train. Mukasey is a rabid supporter of Zionist Israel, an apologist for Israeli terror tactics in Occupied Palestine, and a racist against ALL non-Jews. LIEberman, Schumer and Mukasey are all Orthodox Jews.

The US is AIPAC's unlimited cash register without any bottom (WE, the PEOPLE, all the taxpayers) . Therefore, it comes as no surprise that they want someone who supports torture and is willing to rape the US Constitution while holding the office of the US Attorney General. To them, the US AG has to have no other loyalty but to Israel and it's 5th Column, the AIPAC (American Israel Political Action Committee). And so the cold shadow of the totalitarian state continues to spread across America.

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How the OCTOPUS works

Mukasey, a Reagan appointed federal district judge for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan for 18 years, was a Chief Judge from March 2000 through July 2006.

Schumer personally introduced Bush's choice to replace Gonzales, former federal judge Michael Mukasey. Schumer RECOMMENDED Mukasey for confirmation. Schumer, along with Sen. Feinstein, allowed the confirmation to move on to the full Senate (betrayed by Schumer & Feinstein, 11-8 vote of Senate Judiciary Committee).

"Schumer was and remains a supporter of the Iraq War Resolution, AIPAC member, and a strident Pro-Israel member of Congress." - wikipedia.

WHY would be publicity seeking media-whore Chuck so enamored w/ Mukasey ?

Chuck Schumer's wife, Iris Weinshall, was appointed Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation by then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani on September 8, 2000, and left the post on April 13, 2007 during Bloomberg administration. Bloomberg testified at some point, that Schumer's wife was one of only TWO Giuliani functionaries he (Bloomberg) was asked by Giuliani to retain on his payroll.

She was shuffled between various NYC posts in various NYC govt departments since she married Chuck in 1980. She screwed up in one, was moved to the next. With education in Public Administration she had no training/ expertise in ANYTHING professional: Environmental Protection, Buildings, Transportation - but these were the sectors she was put in charge of. We, the Taxpayers were paying her salary, NYC govt cars, protection, etc, etc. ALL HER LIFE !!

Her job as DOT Commissioner came into the spotlight following the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash that killed 11 passengers, with tens more seriously injured and maimed for life.. After the deadly crash, Iris Weinshall came under harsh criticism for allowing patronage relationships to compromise the safety of the ferry operations. The Staten Island Ferry system transports 65,000 passengers a day between Staten Island and Manhattan.

Mukasey, then a a Chief Judge for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, let her OFF the hook: declared she had no criminal responsibility for the FERRY crash, although she was the NYC DOT Commissioner in charge. However, when the private lawsuits started coming in, she was advised to move on, and PROMOTED: Iris Weinshall is a vice chancellor at the City University of New York since April 2007 (her salary is now ~ U$ 250,000, plus the cars, security, etc- TAXPAYERS paid !!!). She is -again- in charge of FACILITIES, a thing she knows NOTHING about, having education in public admin.

In the same year 2003, Sen. Chuck Schumer recommended Mukasey as a candidate for a Supreme Court appointment. Didn't work out for crafty AIPAC judge, the PAYOLA had to be postponed until 2007 AG games. The Kongre$$ proceedings were just the game for unsusspecting taxpayers, and TeeVee..

Here's Mukasey nomination Chuck Schumer's, own Giuliani connection. As associate attorney general in 1983, Giuliani rebuffed Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Ray Dearie, who had recommended Schumer's indictment based on allegations involving his initial election to Congress in 1980.

Schumer's wife, Iris Weinshall, before she took over the transportation job (causing the SI Ferry crash through total negligence and lack of mgmt/supervision), she was a Deputy Commissioner under Giuliani at another agency, NYC Department of Buildings, where she oversaw the construction of the bunker at 7 World Trade Center, owned by Larry Silverstein, another Orthodox Jew. She was the ONLY top NYC official who must have signed -off on the bunker construction and occupancy NYC permits. AGAINST ALL the NYC Building Codes.

Despite NYC: Ferry Crash Settlement

"The city has settled about two-thirds of 186 personal injury claims in connection with the crash, for a total of more than $34 million, the Law Department said. The largest payments were about $9 million each to a man and a woman who lost both legs. "

It got more interesting last week:

Court Finds City Was Negligent in S.I. Ferry Crash

" A federal appeals court on Thursday found that New York City was negligent for the deadly crash of a Staten Island ferry in 2003 and cannot have its liability limited. The ruling is a major victory for dozens of plaintiffs who have sued the city, including relatives of some of the 11 people killed in the crash of the ferry, the Andrew J. Barberi. "

Will Schumer's wife be EVER kept accountable for causing death and injuries to the TAXPAYERS paying her salaries, cars, security - ALL HER LIFE ?!!
Don't hold your breath ..

So, who really RULES our country:

AIPAC uber Alles !!!
Herr Schumer, Frau Sweinstein, fur Herr Mukasey/AG, und Frau Hillary/President !

Mukasey is heading the US Justice Department with recently (November 2007) indicted Giuliani’s former police commissioner and business partner, Bernard B. Kerik. Neither presidential spokespersons nor Mukasey would return reporters' inquiries into whether Mukasey would recuse himself from the Kerik case.

Mukasey did swear in the crossdessing mayor Rudy in both 1994 and 1998, he donated heavily to his presidential campaign. The thrice-married Giuliani was also married to Donna Hanover (his second marriage) by ... Mukasey !!!

Mukasey got all choked up thinking of Israel - that with ANY telecom lawsuit the following will be BACK on front pages: It is a FACT that 95% of US telephone billing/directories/calling record for both land-lines and cell phones is handled by ONE private company, AMDOCS, with HQ in Tel Aviv suburb (that explains the real purpose of telecoms ‘deregulation’: to give US $$ -and intelligence- to Israel in much bigger amounts, and ‘officially’). Which gives Israeli AMDOCS real-time access to nearly every telephone in the country, including records of phone calls.
The private info of US citizens regarding nearly EVERY single phone call is routed to Israel. Amdocs has been investigated on several occasions by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, for suspected ties to the Israeli mafia, as well as to espionage for Sharon/Netanyahu govts.

In 1999, the National Security Agency issued a TOP SECRET/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) report, warning that all American phone records were getting into the hands of foreign governments—particularly the Israeli government. How does that help our national security?

Where/ how is our privacy protected here ?? Tapping into ALL to provide more info to Israel ? Why there is NOTHING done about keeping ALL of this real-time most sensitive INTELLIGENCE info in the US ??

Ask the AIPAC 5th column in the Kongre$$: LIEberman, Sweinstein, Boxer, Schumer, Hillary, Rahm Emanuel, Hoyer, etc, etc, etc..

Thank God the Senate was in such a hurry to confirm this loser.

CONSPIRACY OR COINCIDENCE?
Is it a conspiracy or a coincidence? There is a long and tangled history between the Bush family and the elite of Saudi Arabia.

If this A-hole wants to protect America then wire tap the White house
the FBI and the CIA, And dont forget the CFR, It seem's that the only
way we would find out if we are going to be struck again is to listen
in on what these guys are saying or not saying.

15 of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia our "friends" fallow the time line.

1992
George H. W. Bush loses to Bill Clinton. Eventually the former president becomes an adviser to the Carlyle Group, a powerful Washington-based private investment firm with interests in the defense industry. Among his duties, Bush helps strengthen Carlyle's ties to the Saudi royal family. He will later visit Saudi Arabia and the bin Laden family compound. The bin Ladens eventually invest in the Carlyle Group. Carlyle buys a company called Vinnell Corp., which provides training to the Saudi palace guard. George W. Bush briefly sits on the board of directors of one of Carlyle's subsidiaries.

1993
The first attack on the World Trade Centre, which is connected to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, occurs.

1994
George W. Bush becomes governor of Texas.

1995
Five American soldiers are killed in a car bomb in Saudi Arabia. The Saudis quickly execute the suspects they arrest, ignoring wishes from the FBI to interrogate them beforehand.

The Taliban come to power in Afghanistan with the backing of Pakistan's notorious intelligence agency, the ISI.

1996
Osama bin Laden is forced to move from the Sudan to Afghanistan under pressure from the Clinton administration. Neither the US nor the Saudis make an effort to arrest him – despite the opportunity offered up to them by the Sudanese government.

June
A truck bomb blows up the al-Khobar barracks, housing US air force personnel in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 soldiers. A group called Saudi Hezbollah claims responsibility. Eventually, the Clinton administration drops the investigation because it does not want to upset relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran – the country that funds Hezbollah.

ummer
A meeting of prominent Saudis occurs in a Paris hotel. Among the attendees is the head of Saudi intelligence, Turki bin Faisal. They meet with a representative of al Qaeda and agree to extend the earlier arrangement made between the Saudi royal family and Osama bin Laden – whereby in return for cash, al Qaeda agrees not to attack inside Saudi Arabia.

The CIA produces an internal report that documents the numerous Saudi charities that are funding terrorists. Osama bin Laden's name is mentioned.

1998
Al Qaeda makes it most audacious attack to date by blowing up US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people.

2000
January
Ziad Jarrah, pilot of Flight 93, which would crash into a field in Pennsylvania on 9/11, is stopped and interrogated at an airport in United Arab Emirates (UAE). He is returning from al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and is carrying Islamic religious material on him. The US is informed of the interrogation but not the details.

January
A high-powered meeting of al Qaeda occurs in an apartment complex in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Attending the meeting is Khalid Shaykh Mohammed, the number three man in al Qaeda and mastermind behind the 1998 US embassy attacks, and architect of the USS Cole and 9/11 attacks to come. Also at the meeting is Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, two Saudi citizens who would end up as hijackers on Flight 77, the plane that crashes into the Pentagon on 9/11.

The CIA learns about the meeting beforehand and asks the Malaysian secret police to place it under surveillance. Video footage and photographs of the dozen men in attendance are taken, though no tape recording is possible. After the meeting breaks up, Al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar fly to the US on their own passports, landing in Los Angeles. There they are met by Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi national who works for the Saudi civil aviation authority. Just prior to picking up the two would-be hijackers, Al-Bayoumi meets with a member of the Saudi consulate in LA – a man connected to terrorist activity.

Al-Bayoumi takes al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi to San Diego, puts them up in an apartment, signs a lease, holds a party for them, enrolls them in flight school and gives them money. Later, the FBI concludes that al-Bayoumi is likely a Saudi intelligence agent. Al-Bayoumi also passes on thousands of dollars to the hijackers that originate from Princess Haifa, wife of Prince Bandar Saudi ambassador to the US.

May-June
Members of the Hamburg cell, including ringleader Mohammed Atta, enter the US. They are traveling on Saudi visas, all of which contain errors on them.

September
Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar move into the home of a local imam in San Diego, Abdussattar Shaikh. The imam is an FBI informant. In fact, Shaikh holds meetings with his FBI handler while al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar sit in a room next door. Shaikh contends he was never told what mission the hijackers were on. His FBI handler, meanwhile, was never informed by his superiors to look out for al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar.

October
The USS Cole, sitting in a harbour off the coast of Yemen, is attacked by a boat laden with explosives, killing 17 sailors.

November
George W. Bush is elected president of the US in a contested election. Support for his campaign from the oil industry is generous.

2001
In the months leading up to 9/11, the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency receive a burgeoning mountain of intelligence that a terrorist attack of some magnitude, and launched by Al Qaeda, is imminent. They assume the attack will happen overseas.

January
The CIA and FBI begin to piece together the importance of the individuals who met a year earlier in Malaysia. Despite the information they have, neither al-Hazmi nor al-Mihdhar are placed on the State Department and Customs watch list.

April
Al-Hazmi is stopped for speeding in Oklahoma. He is let go because his name does not appear in the police officer's data bank as a wanted man.

May
The CIA will later determine that Khalid Shaykh Mohammed, architect of 9/11 and al Qaeda's other attacks, was entering the US as late as this month, despite the fact he is a well-known figure in the terrorist netherworld, his name first becoming known to the CIA as early as 1995.

June
CIA and FBI meet to talk about al-Mihdhar. But the CIA does not hand over critical information to the FBI. Again, the men are not placed on any watch list and a search for them is not initiated.

July
A Phoenix, Az.-based FBI counter-terrorism agent writes a lengthy memo in which he says it has been noticed that a high number of Arabs, possibly with connections to al Qaeda, are taking flying lessons in local flight schools. His memo is ignored by FBI headquarters.

August
President Bush receives a detailed and lengthy presidential daily briefing from the CIA in which Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda's aim of launching an attack against the US is discussed. To this day, the Bush White House refuses to release the contents of this briefing to Congressional inquiries into 9/11.

The CIA finally puts al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar's name on the watch lists. By then it is too late. The FBI and CIA do a limited search for the men.

Sept. 11/2001
The attack occurs. The morning of the attack George Bush Sr. is meets with members of the Carlyle Group in Washington. Bin Laden's own brother is at the meeting. Members of the Bin Laden family are allowed to leave the U.S. without questioning two days later.

Come on who needs to be wire taped here.

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/conspiracytheories/saudi.html

THE LIES THAT LED TO WAR
Video

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/lies/video.html

Dennis, you forgot to mention how from January of 1998 throughout most of 2000, the MSM wasted the public's time and attention with nonstop coverage of a presidential affair (which had ended long before it had come to light) effectively keeping all relevent news off the front page.

Mr.Mukasey is bald-faced liar.It has already been proven that 2 months before 9/11, the Bush administration had intelligence that related to what the terrorists were up to as far as to what was about to happen on 9/11 and they chose to IGNORE it.So Mr. Makasey fuck you and your fake tears.Nobody in their right minds is buying into any of the bullshit that streams out of your mouth or for that matter the same garbage that spews from the chimp's hole!

Michael Mukasey’s Tears of a Clown

That's because you have to ease it in, not jam it.

Fuq all these guys and their lies.