Rumsfeld can't recall discussing Plame

[sabra]

http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051101-035141-5097r

Rumsfeld can't recall discussing Plame

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday he could not recall if he spoke to Vice President Dick Cheney about outed CIA agent Valerie Plame.

Cheney's chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was indicted by a federal grand jury last week for allegedly lying to federal agents and obstructing an investigation into the leak that revealed Plame's identity.

"How would I know if I ever spoke about it with the vice president over five years?" Rusmfeld said at a Pentagon press conference Tuesday. "I don't recall speaking with him about it, and I don't recall the department being involved. Is it possible? I mean, my goodness, that's -- that question is such a -- it's -- what is that game? Fish. Give me all your sevens or something. I mean, that's not for me."

[tanyev]

1. My goodness. They really need to tape their conversations.

Every friggin' one of them has situational specific Alzheimers.

[Sub Atomic]

2. sounds like Donald's involved.

"Fish".

OK, got any personal emails that implicate you?

I'll bet you do, asshat.

[Canuckistanian]

21. Even better, "New Fish"

The new darling of Cell Block 3A.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Liar / Cover-Up

Nothing but crooks and cronies in here

[Radio_Lady]

6. Stumbling, bumbling government hack. I hope he rots in some jail someday.

[Lost-in-FL]

4. Maybe he has Alzheimers like Reagan had...

[spindrifter]

11. They call it CRS

Can't Remember Sh*t.

[0007]

19. They're playing the "I don't remember game" and Rummy's

is rallying the players.

[texpatriot2004]

5. Free trip to tortureville for Rummy. He qualifies with this bullshit

"I can't recall" answer. Maybe a trip to Gitmo or Abu Ghraib or Jordan will jog his memory.

[babylonsister]

7. Here's a guy who supposedly offered his resignation.

Add another fubar...

[CoffeeCat]

8. One thing is for sure...

The incredible CARE AND PRECISION that this administration takes when outing a CIA agent is just amazing.

It's just so impressive. The CARE and the HUMANITY that does into the denials and the stonewalling--not to mention the initial crimes themselves.

It's just....really as impressive as anything anyone could see.

The CARE...I just can't get over the CARE and the HUMANITY of these people.

So refreshing.

Dear Rumsfeld: SHUT IT!!!!!

[Straight Shooter]

9. My grandmother had a word for evasive liars like Rumsfeld.

"Smart-ass."

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

10. Hall of Fame!

"How would I know if I ever spoke about it with the vice president over five years?" Rusmfeld said at a Pentagon press conference Tuesday. "I don't recall speaking with him about it, and I don't recall the department being involved. Is it possible? I mean, my goodness, that's -- that question is such a -- it's -- what is that game? Fish. Give me all your sevens or something. I mean, that's not for me."

[jimshoes]

13. Love to strap his creepy ass

to a lie detector or get him under oath. Translated, the above dreck simply means, "Fuck yeah, we planned the whole goddamned thing together".

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. To be added to the Collected Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld

My Mother is a Fish
by D.H. Rumsfeld

How would I know
if I ever spoke
about it
with
the vice president
over

five years?
I don't recall
speaking
with him about it
and
I don't recall
the department

being

Involved. Is it possible?

I mean
my goodness
that's --
that question is
such a --
it's --
what is
that game?
Fish.
Give me all
your sevens
Or
Something
I mean
That's not for me.

For more Rumsfeldian verse, see http://www.slate.com/id/2081042/

[LiberalCompassionate]

20. Goodness gracious

that is hilarious (and classic Rummy):rofl:

...."there are known unknowns and known knowns, and unknown unknowns,"

...."we know where they are; there east, west, south of Baghdad"

To today:

How would I know
if I ever spoke
about it
with
the vice president
over
five years?
I don't recall
speaking
with him about it

Amazing, now he states he doesn't know a known.
LIAR
:wtf:

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. Translation: He's got his filthy fucking paws all over it

What a disgrace!

[gumby]

15. And the Press Corpse thought that answer was 'sexy.'

Or, is Rummy-as-studly-sex-symbol passe?

[tabasco]

31. Disgusting seeing those ass-kissing reporters ...

laughing at the wit and humor of our Nation's greatest war criminal.

:puke:

[truthisfreedom]

16. and his eyes wandered down and to the left as he spoke, and his veins

pulsed in his neck.

[yellowcanine]

17. Yeah Rummy you were fishing all right. Fishing for plausible deniability.

What a moran.

[Occulus]

18. Deleted.

Because it's sooooooooooo obvious he's in it too.

[MadisonProgressive]

22. In his defense, he is kinda old and senile.

[wordpix]

34. LOL---but is senility a defense for Mr. War Machine?

[LSU_Subversive]

23. nt

[Scout1071]

24. Sure sounds like a guy trying not to commit to an answer to me.

Sounds like the asshole boyfriend who constantly cheats on his girlfriend.

[WhiteTara]

25. So Rummy is in on the Plame Outing

If he says he doesn't recall, the image of the conversation must be etched in his mind.

[Dangerously Amused]

26. Translation: "I can't remember" means...

You can't prove that I DID remember when you pin the rest of the indictments on me, so as long as I SAY "I don't remember" to everything, you won't get me to confess AND you can't charge me with perjury!

Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyaaahhh nyaaahhh!

[dchill]

40. The correct phrasing is...

"I don't recall." He didn't say "I can't remember" or "I can't recall." It's "I DON'T..." "I can't remember" or "I can't recall" would not be true, and therefore would be ethically unacceptable (meaning prosecutable.)

This specific wording is precisely deliberate. If I choose not to recall, then I don't recall. Very simple. It's like they all took a course in Black Box Truth - or something like that.

[ngGale]

27. Yeah, right...n/t

[indepat]

28. Didn't Rummy not even know about 9-11 until the Pentagon was hit? If so,

surely his credibility is suspect.

[Catrina]

29. It's scary what we're finding out

about this administration. I know I never trusted them, but I never suspected they were into torture, bestiality and child porn. Rumsfeld is an evil old man. I don't know why the press continues to laugh at his lame attempts to pull the wool over their eyes. Old habits die hard, I suppose.

I love also, how they are all claiming that we should not expect them to remember something from all those years ago (two). Why doesn't some reporter remind them that this investigation began just two months after the outing of Valerie Plame, so we're not talking 'years'.

I wonder why our Secretary of Defense would not have been so concerned when he discovered that our natiional security may have been compromised in July, 2003, that he would have called in all those involved and demanded answers himself? Surely in July of 2003, with the story so big in the news, it would have jolted his memory as to whether anyone had mentioned Valerie Plame to him? Were he really concerned about this country, it was then that he should have dealt with this.

They are all so quilty, it is so obvious. I don't see how he can't be sure that he either did or did not talk about Valerie Plame.

Libby and Rove are claiming faulty memories also. How convenient, but the way I see it, if Rummy's memory is so poor, (remember in the 9/11 hearings, he had not even bothered to talk to the pilots from Norad, years after 9/11!! No curiosity as to what went wrong on 9/11) No interest in such important threats to our National Security!

It's stunning really. And it leads you to only two possible conclusions, they are either guilty or so incompetent (Rummy was taken by surprise by Abu Ghraib also, even though he had approved of the torture) that either way, they are not fit to work at scrubbing floors, let alone be in the positions they are in. Why do we tolerate it??

[donkeyotay]

37. Beats me as to why we continue to tolerate it when guilty or incompetent

are the only two explanations available. Libby can't remember. Rove can't remember. Rummy can't remember. When asked by Russert how the forgery stuff got BACK into the intelligence assessment, Dr. Rice said she forgot, too, and so did Hadley. They all forgot how they lied to America. I say, we remember.

[indepat]

38. The only two possible conclusions are evident to all but true-believers

and other brain-dead, brainwashed.

[Uncle Joe]

41. Well said Catrina and many good points.

You would think a Secretary of Defense would be at least a little bit concerned about a national security breech during a time of war. I guess if you are busy trying to think up new and creative ways to skirt the law and torture people, it does not leave much time for trivial things such as national security.

[november3rd]

30. He's dirty

The leader of the Sneer campaign can't give a straight answer when the VP's chief of staff gets indicted for perjury?

He's dirty.

[Javaman]

32. I...Forgot...

The old Steve Martin routine has taken over the repukes.

Remember that old stand up routine he did years ago about how to become a millionaire?

1) get a million dollars

2) don't pay your taxes

3) when the IRS comes calling, just say, "I forgot".

And here we now have a party-wide case of amnesia. also known as group shoulder shrugging. Funny how that works.

They are despicable.

[wordpix]

33. lie, bumble, stumble, incoherence, lie, stumble, my goodness, Go Fish

[Roland99]

35. "over five years?" Um, Rumsfailed? We're talking *two* years.

[grumpy old fart]

36. "my goodness, do you think I'm as stupid as Scooter"?

You can't be indicted for "I don't recall". "Did we make up all this shit up so we could go kill Saddam, my goodness, I don't remember..."

[dchill]

39. "that's not for me."

Rumsfeld has never expected to be questioned or second-guessed about anything he has said, done or advocated. To him, it's none of our business anyway. If he lies to us, so what? What do we expect - the truth? "That's not for me."

[Orsino]

42. There's a lot of that going around.

Must be something in the water.

[barb162]

43. selective memory syndrome

[daleo]

44. Another non-denial denial, that means he was in on it.

"Rumsfeld said Tuesday he could not recall if he spoke to Vice President Dick Cheney about outed CIA agent Valerie Plame."
- could not recall.

"I don't recall speaking with him about it, and I don't recall the department being involved.
- could not recall.
- could not recall, a second time.

"Is it possible? I mean, my goodness, that's -- that question is such a..."
- notice he began one of his stock rhetorical question responses, which normally would have ended as "I mean, my goodness, that's possible". But he caught himself in time, and wandered off into some pretense of senility, by talking about the game Fish.

He is a slippery psychopath.

"The fish turn in schools, as they are joined together by the sea."

[DoYouEverWonder]

45. These bastards knew everything before the war

Now they don't know shit?

[mandomom]

46. Another radical republican who can't simply say "no, I didn't".