Police are investigating a fistfight between a New Mexico mayor and the publisher of the city's newspaper.
Police say Gallup Mayor Harry Mendoza and Bob Zollinger of the Gallup Independent each claims the other started the fight. Both reported it to police.
Sgt. Erin Pablo says the district attorney's office will decide where anyone will be charged. Prosecutors did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
The incident happened Wednesday outside a Gallup bank. The bank's surveillance video shows the two men hitting and chasing each other. It was about five minutes before witnesses broke up the fight.
Police say the fight centered around stories published by the newspaper linking Mendoza to the gang rape of a teenage girl in 1948 when Mendoza was 16 years old.
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New Mexico, my favorite state. So far from heaven, so close to Texas!
Taking back the Louisiana Purchase? Maybe this will catch on in other states (where it's legal)
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A New Iberia man's drive to recall U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu is useless since there's no provision in state or federal laws or constitutions that allows it, says Secretary of State Jay Dardenne.
Ruben T. Leblanc, of 505 Wiltz St. Lot No. 4 in New Iberia, properly filed a recall petition with the Secretary of State's Office on Monday, but it was rejected Tuesday as being invalid because there's no legal way to recall a congressman or U.S. senator, Dardenne said.
The recall process stops there because Dardenne said he could not mail copies of an invalid petition to registrars of voters across the state to certify signatures. He discussed his decision with Leblanc this week and sent a letter citing his reasons and a copy of an attorney general's ruling on recalling federal officials.
Dardenne based his decision on a 2008 opinion issued by Attorney General James "Buddy" Caldwell when a Jefferson Parish man wanted to recall U.S. Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao.
Caldwell said research found that only the respective bodies of Congress can decide on the suitability of its members and remove them. The Louisiana Constitution provision on recalls applies only to state and local officials.
The blog Caught Him with a Corndog first broke the story and has a follow up to it:
Per citizen filer Ruben T. LeBlanc, there will be an open meeting at the Freedom Forum on Thursday January 7th in Lafayette to discuss the recall of Mary "Gimme dem dollars" Landrieu.
Some background on Ruben LeBlanc: He is a 51 year old construction and oil field worker with no political background who has decided "enough is enough". As of 14:21 December 29, 2009 Ruben LeBlanc filed a petition with the Secretary of the State of Lousiana, Jay Dardenne, to formally recall U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu.
The citizens of Louisiana are granted the authority to perform a recall election by Section 26 of Article 10 of the Louisiana Constitution.
"10. If the recall passes, the public officer is recalled and removed from office and the office is declared vacant when the election returns are certified to the Secretary of State. The vacancy is then filled as usual. The recalled official cannot be appointed to fill the vacancy."
LA law requires at least 33% of the voters who were registered to vote at the time of the office holders election.
What this translates to, in this attempt to remove Mary Landrieu, is the collection of 981,873 signatures of voters who were registered to vote on November 4th 2008. From moveonmary.org
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I favor a repeal of the 17th amendment, though I favor a Constitutional amendment to allow recall of Senators & Congressmen, and clawing back their pensions if successful.
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AH9418, that's about as likely as an amendment requiring term limits for Congress critters.
Since the first step in introducing an amendment is to get through Congress, neither will ever happen.
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I don't favor recall of federal office holders, and particularly Senators.
Our founders were wise men, many of them were well versed in government theory, Montesquieu in particular. By the time 1787 rolled around, they knew what they were doing, because they'd had ten years of practical experience.
Shortly after the start of the revolution, the colonies, having dissolved ties with Britain, adopted new constitutions. A couple of states had fairly radical provisions. Pennsylvania adopted yearly election of state legislators.
John Adams, quite radical himself, was skeptical of the arrangement because of his schooling. He was proved correct, and became well-acquainted with Pennsylvania's problems as the British moved into Philadelphia while congress fled to York. The turmoil in Pennsylvania that followed was not a boon to the patriot cause. The constant churning and the endless election year made it difficult for the legislature to proper administer proper discipline and control of the militia, and to support the Continental Army, which wintered at Valley Forge. The short election cycle made it impossible for the Pennsylvania legislature to enact unpopular but necessary policies.
Ten years later at the constitutional convention, the founders made the lower house closest to people, with direct elections. But bi-annual elections, because annual elections get nothing done. Constant recall elections would be indistinguishable from annual elections.
The founders also intended that the upper house be doubly insulated from the passions of the people, by having the Senate term last 3x that of the house, and by deciding against direct election. The 17th amendment has already cut a part of that, and recall would undermine it completely.
I do not live in a democracy, nor would I care to.
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I'm not so sure that provision doesn't apply to senators. IIRC, the election of congresscritters is controlled by state law with respect to filing deadlines, primaries, nominating petitions, and all that, so why wouldn't state law recall procedures also apply?
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John Adams did not foresee the capture of the national legislature by special interests, and the nearly-complete failure of the legislature to do its duty. We live neither in a republic or a democracy. Nobody's yet coined a word for the rule of anarcho-tyranny.
With campaign radio ads billing the five-term Republican senator as "Arizona's last line of defense,'' the GOP's nominee for president in 2008 is attempting to bolster his 2010 campaign for reelection to the Senate with a slam at the president.
"President Obama is leading an extreme left-wing crusade to bankrupt America,'' McCain says in one of the radio ads his campaign is airing.
"I stand in his way every day,'' McCain says. "If I get a bruise or two knocking some sense into heads in Washington, so be it.''
McCain got his own head-knocking in the 2008 presidential election, and now he could be facing a party primary contest from a former Republican congressman, J.D. Hayworth, who is an outspoken critic of immigration reform -- an issue which McCain has championed in the Senate, and an issue on which McCain, Obama and some of the Senate's leading Democrats happen to agree. They support a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants.
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Pity he didn't clue in earlier. Might have done him some good to bring this up during the 2008 campaign. Now instead of using it against The One himself, McCain uses it instead against a real conservative. Sadly, we have learned to expect nothing else from this man.
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oh, i am sure he will stand tall all right.... just not on the conservative side. last time this shamnesty BS was running, McStain had to be dragged kicking and screaming away from his lockstep with Ted Kennedy. he will be a 'mavrick' again and sell us out.
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It's a test of Camelot in a way, a question of whether the Kennedys -- who have held sway over Massachusetts politics and the national imagination since the rise of former President John F. Kennedy and his glamorous wife, First Lady Jackie Kennedy -- still have coattails.
Led by Vicki Kennedy, widow of the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the clan today gave its endorsement in the fight to replace the longtime lawmaker to Atty. Gen. Martha Coakley, whose race against Republican state Sen. Scott Brown has narrowed in the last few days. As the Ticket reported Tuesday, Coakley's single-digit lead in a heavily Democratic state is raising alarms in party circles.
So today Coakley looked on as former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II and other Democratic names embraced her candidacy to an audience of seniors who had been serenaded with a brass band's rendition of "Hello Dolly." Citing her late husband's lifelong fight for healthcare reform, Vicki Kennedy said, "We need Martha. We want Martha. ...We can't take this election for granted."
The election in less than two weeks will test whether voters agree -- and whether the Kennedys can still move public opinion.
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Coakley needs fewer endorsements from the Kennedys and more vote-hustling by ACORN ...
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The Kennedy royalty "bestowed their political blessing" on Martha Coakley as the Globe reported on this. I believe the Senate reconvenes the same day as the election on the 19th.
If any of you 'Burgers want to follow the race a little closer, here's a pretty good blog I stumbled upon with multiple updates daily. Link.
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Kennedys endorse Martha Coakley
Well that's taken care of, no need for an election now.
In a strikingly blunt State of the State address, Gov. David A. Paterson chastised the lawmakers seated before him on Wednesday, saying they had spent the state into near-ruin and stood by as a plague of political corruption destroyed New Yorkers' trust in their government.
Good for him. Despite his myriad faults, the gentleman found a good wall to put his back to.
Dispensing with the ritualized flattery that typically precedes the annual address, Mr. Paterson said that the Legislature's reluctance to make hard decisions and rein in its own excesses had plunged the state even deeper into crisis.
"You have left me and other governors no choice," Mr. Paterson, the former State Senate minority leader, said. "Whether it be by vetoes or delayed spending, I will not write bad checks, and we will not mortgage our children's future."
My nieces thank you, Governor.
The public scolding drew a cold response from lawmakers, who gave Mr. Paterson little applause and rose from their chairs only when he entered and exited the Assembly chamber. Some sat stony-faced during the speech, while others fidgeted with BlackBerrys.
The speech -- and its reception -- stood in stark contrast to Mr. Paterson's first speech in the chamber two years ago -- after taking office when Eliot Spitzer resigned -- when he earned thunderous praise from lawmakers, whom he charmed with self-effacement and nonstop jokes.
Now, after months of bruising battles with a Legislature resistant to the broad spending cuts that he believes are necessary to save the state, Mr. Paterson's relationship with his former colleagues could not be more strained.
The governor entered the packed chamber with nary a handshake for the hundreds of lawmakers and other officials who had assembled to hear him speak, and did not crack a single smile during his 30-minute address. Instead, he issued calls for tougher ethics oversight, the abolition of programs he called wasteful and a cap on state spending, often drawing on Biblical language.
"Prosperity hides all manner of sin, but no longer," Mr. Paterson declared. "We have to rise to the highest expectation of our people and bring them the lasting change they have long, long fought for and desired."
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You know the ship is in serious trouble when even the rats start jumping into the frothy abyss rather than risk sticking it out on the cracking boat.
Sen. Chris Dodd's announcement yesterday that he would abandon his hopeless bid for re-election is only the latest in an alarming and growing body of evidence that President Obama and Democrats in Congress have blown through more political good will in one year than most parties do in a decade.
With elections still 10 months off, 13 incumbent congressional Democrats have decided to give up rather than face the certain wrath of voters.
These are the kinds of defections a party suffers when it is toiling away in the forgotten minority, not when they hold a stranglehold in the House and a supermajority in the Senate. And not when they are guaranteed that all of their legislation will be blindly signed by their fellow Democrat in the White House.
Even more astonishing is that Connecticut's Dodd is the second powerful committee chairman this week, along with North Dakota's Byron Dorgan, to surrender his seat despite holding pivotal control over some of the most far-reaching legislation ever drafted by Congress.
Things are so bad that one Alabama member of Congress decided last month that life in the powerful majority with all its perks simply wasn't worth it anymore if it meant he had to be a Democrat.
So, in one of the strangest political defections of recent history, he joined the powerless minority.
Perhaps the biggest lie of Dodd's long political career came yesterday when he insisted he was quitting because his job is done and it's time for the next generation of public "servants."
No human on earth has ever given up the Senate Banking Committee chairmanship just so somebody younger can take up the reins of graft and greed.
No, Dodd is giving up because voters were about to throw him out for his extensive involvement in so many of the policies that led to this economic collapse, not to mention the special treatment he enjoyed as one of the politically chosen.
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The down side to all this pre-emptive surrender action is that now these scumsucking POS can vote for the POS health care bil with no fear of retribution. And it is unlikely enough seats will be picked up by non-Donks to effect any sort of viable repeal action in 2010 and beyond.
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Bingo. This isn't defeat. It's tactical withdrawl and consolidation of territory. Watch for the Dems to immediately begin pushing for illegal alien amnesty. They don't need to achieve it by the election, just to make a big enough noise to rally the Hispanic voters. Of course, pushing it through will also consolidate their gains.
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Sen. Chris Dodd's announcement yesterday that he would abandon his hopeless bid for re-election
With the exit of Senator Countrywide that makes Harry Reid the most vulnerable Democrat Senator.
Harrys number one! Harrys number one! Harrys number one!
The national press corps has done a pretty good imitation of a beta male for the past year, saying nothing but "yes, dear" and "anything you say, dear" to President Barack Obama.
Until recently, the only White House press corps reporters who have showed any journalistic independence and watchdog intensity have been ABC's Jake Tapper and Fox's Major Garrett.
But yesterday, CBS's Chip Reid, whose Wikipedia page says, ironically, that he "assumed the position on Jan. 5," decided he was tired of the unchanging view of the beta male. He aggressively challenged Obama's hapless press secretary Robert Gibbs over Obama's broken promise to let C-SPAN televise the health care logrolling session.
This left Gibbs sputtering, his fish-like maw drawn peevishly tight. As one Washington reporter put it on her Twitter page last night: "If Gibbs had a cologne brand, it would be called Cornered Petulance, and it would smell remarkably like Scott McClellan. "
The media has been a lagging indicator of Obama's popularity, continuing to worship the golden-tongued man-child even as the vast rabble from coast to coast has soured on the president's TelePrompTer glibness. That may be changing, if even CBS is beginning to see that the emperor is less than fully clothed.
Over the years, when the media was confronted with charges of bias against Republicans and conservatives, a common rejoinder was, "We're not biased. We just hate incompetence." Well, it's time to test that. As we have seen since Christmas, there is ample incompetence to go around in Washington these days, not just in the executive branch, but in the legislative, as well.
The congressional health care sausage making is the nexus where the incompetence of both branches comes together in one glorious cluster farge.
Cluster farge? It can't be much longer until "Ye gods and little fishes!" rings through the marbled halls in orotund tones of frustration.
Obama promised on the campaign trail last year eight times that the health care debate would be open to all, with all deal-making airing on C-SPAN in unmediated glory.
But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (no relation to Chip) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are taking the Chicago approach, if you like, by flipping the figurative bird to the American public. All deliberations between the two houses will be behind closed doors. The public will be shut out, just as all Republican have been shut out of the process since the beginning.
As Chip Reid showed, if there's one thing even a liberal reporter hates it's being shut out of a meeting that should be public. Will those who cover Congress be as feisty as Reid and hold legislators' feet to the fire? Will they throw off their beta male traits or continue to be happy watching the alpha male's behind for the rest of this first term?
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When you think about it, journalists are inherently beta. They are not the men who are actually doing things but the guys who sit on the sidelines and watch. Just look at the fawning, feeble, submissive way so many of them conduct interviews. They might become aggressive when they are in a pack or if they smell blood. But normally they lie on their backs with their bellies exposed for the big dogs.
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Hey -- I collect nuts and berries... and root vegetables, too. I'll thank you to remember that in hunter-gatherer societies it's the women's gatherings that keep the family fed. The men's hunting results are used to give a treat to the entire community, thus binding it together. But there would be no community to bind together if the women hadn't done their part.
So watch your choice of insults. Beta male does not equal female. Not even close.
The retirements of longtime Sens. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., will likely chill the liberal agenda of the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate as they seek to avoid widespread losses in 2010.
Political experts believe the prospect of significant Republican gains in November will leave Democrats divided over what to do next when it comes to passing their biggest legislative priorities, including global warming legislation and an immigration reform bill.
"Obama is going to make the argument that now is the time to act," said University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato. "But the congressional Democrats who are threatened are going to be saying, 'Sorry Mr. President, we have given you enough tough votes for this term.' "
The bills Democrats are most likely to abandon in the face of this daunting political landscape are the global warming bill, which would cap carbon emissions and fine those who pollute, and legislation that would make it easier for employees to unionize. Immigration reform, which was already considered unlikely, will also come off the table, political analysts say.
Veteran Democratic strategist Doug Schoen believes that in the short term, Democrats will push hard to pass their health care reform bill, preferably in the coming weeks.
"Longer term, they will have to move to the center, otherwise they will face a tsunami," he said.
Experts are predicting gains of 20 seats or more in the House for the GOP. And Dorgan's retirement puts at least nine Senate Democratic seats in reach of Republicans. If those predictions are close to the mark, Democrats in both chambers will have to work with a much smaller majority, which will make it harder, if not impossible, to move their agenda.
Lawmakers may look to Dorgan as a warning sign. The three-term senator watched his once-high poll numbers plummet in recent months as the Democratic health care bill made its way through the Senate.
In a hypothetical matchup with Republican Gov. John Hoeven, Dorgan trailed by 22 points. In the same poll, conducted in December by Rasmussen Reports, 64 percent of voters said they opposed the sweeping Democratic health care reform bill that Dorgan voted for.
The Cook Political Report now lists Dorgan's seat in the "Lean Republican" category.
In the House, there has been a string of Republican and Democratic retirements, but it is the GOP that stands to gain in 2010, according to election analysis data. The Democrats who are calling it quits are vulnerable moderates from districts that lean Republican.
There are many more politically vulnerable House Democrats who have been unwilling to sacrifice their jobs by voting for legislation that is unpopular with their constituents. That isn't likely to change.
"There are still a core group of Democrats here who are not suddenly going to lay down and roll over because of Democratic retirements," political analyst Stu Rothenberg said. "If anything, it will only enhance their position, and leaders will have to find a way to pass bills."
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Sen. Chris Dodd's (D) exit has made way for popular Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, also a Democrat, to become the favorite in Connecticut's Senate race.
It also has left Republicans struggling to figure out how to win a seat that had once looked like a likely 2010 pick-up for the party.
While Sen. Byron Dorgan's (D-N.D.) retirement leaves Democrats trying to retain a seat in a deep-red state, Dodd's exit could actually help his party keep a seat.
Blumenthal is one of the most popular statewide officeholders in the country, and his entry changes the trajectory of the Senate race in a major way.
Immediately after Dodd's announcement Wednesday, Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling released a survey showing Blumenthal leading all Republican candidates for the seat by more than 30 points.
He led former Rep. Rob Simmons (R-Conn.) by a 59-28 margin and former WWE CEO Linda McMahon by a 60-28 spread. In matchups with the incumbent, Simmons and McMahon were both either tied or leading.
Dodd's GOP challengers said Wednesday they would remain in the race with or without Dodd.
Blumenthal's approval in the poll stood at 59 percent, with just 19 percent disapproving. In other surveys, his approval has polled as high as 78 percent. He has served five terms in his current office, making him a well-known commodity in the Nutmeg State.
He wasted no time jumping into the race, which suggests there was an arrangement for Blumenthal to take over Dodd's seat.
Dodd succumbed to allegations of ethical misconduct stemming from a special mortgage with Countrywide Financial, a cottage in Ireland and a flap over a provision he put into the bailout bill which allowed AIG executives to keep their massive bonuses.
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Blumenthal's been aiming for (and missing) higher office since he was got the CT Atty Gen'l slot back in the early 90s.
After watching President Obama's remarks on national security this afternoon, John Lehman, the secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration and a member of the 9/11 Commission, tells National Review Online that, frankly, I'm pissed off.'
President Obama just doesn't get it,' says Lehman. I don't think he has a clue. It's all pure spin. He's ignoring key issues and taking respectable professionals like John Brennan and turning them into hacks and shills. It's beyond contempt.'
The president has ignored the 9/11 Commission's report,' says Lehman. This whole idea that we can fix things by jumping higher and faster is ridiculous. The fact is that the system worked just like we said it would work if the president failed to give the Director of National Intelligence the tools he needs: it's bloated, bureaucratic, layered, and stultified.'
President Obama continues to totally ignore one of the important thrusts of our 9/11 recommendations, which is that you have to approach counterterrorism as a multiagency intelligence issue, and not as a law-enforcement issue. He's made a lot of commission's members angry for dismissing our report and ignoring key recommendations.' Obama, he adds, has taken a lawyer-like, politically-correct approach' to national security issues like terrorist watchlists and no-fly lists. You got to blame the president for enforcing the politically-correct and legalistic policies that led to these failures.'
Oct 27, 2008 Younstown, OH. "Youre known by the company you keep," Lehman said several times. He later defended his mention of Wright, who once described Israel as a colonial power and used the phrase "goddamn America" in a sermon about the continued struggle facing blacks.
"Its an important issue," Lehman told JTA. "I dont see how someone could sit in a pew for 20 years and listen to that crap."
National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter did not cut short his holiday ski trip when he learned of the attempted bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day, according to a report in the New York Daily News.
Leiter, who is in charge of analyzing terror threats, didn't return to his office post in McLean, Va., until several days after the holiday, a decision that has raised some eyebrows in the intelligence community.
"People have been grumbling that he didn't let a little terrorism interrupt his vacation," a source told the Daily News.
The NCTC, the government's primary organization for analyzing all terrorism intelligence, has been roundly criticized for failing to "connect the dots" on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man charged with plotting to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 as it flew from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day.
Leiter, who reports directly to Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, was appointed by President George W. Bush. He was sworn in as head of the NCTC on June 12, 2008 after serving as the center's acting director since 2007. Before joining the NCTC, Leiter served as the deputy chief of staff for the ODNI, where he helped coordinate its internal and external operations and create national intelligence centers, like the NCTC and National Counterproliferation Center.
In a statement issued on Saturday -- eight days after the failed bomb attempt -- Leiter reaffirmed the center's commitment to preventing terrorist attacks perpetrated by Al Qaeda.
"The failed attempt to destroy Northwest Flight 253 is the starkest of reminders of the insidious terrorist threats we face," Leiter said. "While this attempt ended in failure, we know with absolute certainty that Al Qaeda and those who support its ideology continue to refine their methods to test our defenses and pursue an attack on the homeland."
"Our most sacred responsibility is to be focused on our mission -- detecting and preventing terrorist attacks from happening on our soil and against U.S. interests," he said. "The American people expect and deserve nothing less."
Leiter's spokesman, Carl Kropf, did not say when he returned from his ski trip and fully retook the reigns of the agency, according to the Daily News. Kropf's office said he was not immediately available for comment when contacted by FoxNews.com.
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TIMES OF INDIA > [Danish Newspaper Plotter]RANA: I AM A PAKISTAN ARMY DESERTER. Told Chicago court he is hence NOT a flight risk to flee US to go back to Pakistan.
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From CBS News: A source told CBS News that Leon Panetta, director of the CIA, was on holiday in Monterey, Calif. when Abdulmutallab was apprehended, and didn't return to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. until the weekend following Jan. 1.
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It is a well known fact, or at least I thought it was, that terrorists routinely set their dates of attack to coincide with anniversaries, holidays, holy days, and other specific dates of interest. The rationale is quite obvious. Does it not seem strange or possibly inept, that personnel assigned to key intelligence and defense positions would not wish to be readily available and on-hand during these periods, should something go wrong? Evidently the perception by the American people of someone being asleep at the helm matters not to these arrogant, bumbling bureaucrats.
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So what was the guy going to do if he were there?
The same as what was done in his absence: Substantially Nothing.
The problems are much deeper than this guys presence, which would solve nothing. The real problems are going to take a long time to solve, beginning with combining all the intelligence fiefdoms under one roof when it comes to sharing and using terror intelligence.
Wasn't the guy on a vacation with his kid or something? If he's divorced, it's probably a rare opportunity. He asked everyone if they wanted him back, and they said no. Done.
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What gorb said. In spades. Director Leiter was in contact with the home office, and no doubt took his Blackberry (or the secure equivalent) with him on the slopes, so he was constantly available to the staff if they needed him. This is not an issue as far as I'm concerned.
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he probably enhanced the operation and investigation by keeping his fiat fingers out of it. now if we can get him to stay on vacation for another 1300 days or so
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Police are investigating a fistfight between a New Mexico mayor and the publisher of the city's newspaper.
John McCain has run against Barack Obama before.
