September 2006 Archives
Most of the broadcast outlets -- or atleast their affiliates in DC -- I noticed ABC and Fox -- as well as CNN of course -- carried Bush's speech but not the speeches before.
So although Bush had to endure Annan, the head of the General Assembly and Lula (who proposed an international conference on the Mideast) air some very mild criticism of US policy, the US public -- thanks to the networks (obvious exception of C-Span) -- were spared it.
As I recall, this is exactly what happened each time Powell addressed the UN in 2003.
John Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence questioned outside Fox studios in Washington, Sunday, September 17, by Sam Husseini.
Husseini: Ambassador, why did your office approve the Fleitz Report on Iran's nuclear program, even though according to the IAEA, the report contained 'erroneous, misleading, and unsubstantiated information' about Iran's nuclear program?
Negroponte: We did not -- of course, as you know, that report was written by a staff member of the House Intelligence Committee, we did not originate it, and we weren't commenting so much on the content, as we were -- we dealt with it from a declassification point of view, what could be published in an unclassified format, so I wouldn't associate us one way or another, we didn't comment one way or another on the conclusions that were drawn by that report.
Husseini: Ambassador, do you know that Israel has nuclear weapons?
Negroponte: I don't want to get into a discussion about Israel's nuclear powers.
Husseini: You can't comment on whether Israel has nuclear powers?
John McCain was outside ABC studios Sunday morning, September 17, 2006.
Sam Husseini: People have also criticized the Warner plan. For example, The Center for Constitutional Rights says that it, as well as the Bush plan, have provisions that would "prevent anyone taken into US custody anywhere in the world, past or present, innocent or not, from ever having their case heard in a court of law." Are you familiar with that provision of the Warner legislation?
Sen. John McCain: No, I'm not, I'm not familiar with that. I'm not familiar with that.
HERMAN [Former FBI official]: Yes. And he considers himself a comrade, a warrior in the war against America, and that's what he stands for, and he feels that he's a soldier carrying out this message.
O'REILLY: A soldier who kills little children and women. There are no soldiers like that. ...
Conspiracies abound about 9/11. Raed Jarrar is detained for wearing "We Will Not Be Silent" in Arabic on a T-shirt.
What's the real conspiracy? What will we not be silent about?
