Card Blames New York Times For ‘Advertising’ Nuclear Secrets ‘To The World’

[sabra]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/03/card-blames-nyt/

Card Blames New York Times For ‘Advertising’ Nuclear Secrets ‘To The World’

This morning on NBC, former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card excused the Bush administration’s role in posting nuclear weapons secrets on a public web site, and instead blamed the New York Times for having “advertised” the secrets “to the world.”

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Full transcript:

LAUER: What do you make of this? Who’s gonna get the blame for this?

CARD: Well, you know, this is one of those things that John Negroponte warned us that we don’t know what’s in these documents, so these are being put out at some risk. And that was a warning he put out right when they first released the documents. We pulled them down, and I think the government has acted very quickly, and we’ve pulled them down. I’m a little bit concerned that the New York Times has advertised them to the world, so that more people might see them…

LAUER: What about the timing? Four days before, five days before a mid-term election this report comes out. Do you question the timing of this report?

CARD: Well, I think most things that happen just before an election are designed by someone to have an impact on the election. But I actually think it’s important that we recognize the government is doing the right thing. They shut the website down. They’re not providing information.

[WilliamPitt]

1. *munch munch munch*

As I eat my own face...again.

[lazyriver]

2. Save some face for about 24 hours from now

when they get it spun down to "Clinton's fault!"

[zulchzulu]

3. No! It was Clinton!!! Clinton!!! Clinton!!! Clint.... (drop)

Card's assessment is like a robber blaming the local newspaper for reporting his latest heist.

[Richard D]

4. You mean it's not Clinton's fault?

[Crankie Avalon]

5. UN...FUCKING...BELIEVABLE...

I mean I just...WHERE DO PEOPLE LIKE THIS COME FROM?????

[LilyLibber]

24. I'm with you!

I'm stunned at their superhuman ability to hurl the blame at someone else faster than a speeding bullet! :crazy:

[requiem99]

6. Card is right, the whistleblower is to blame, not the government that placed nuclear secrets online.

[GreenPartyVoter]

29. But of course!

[Nite Owl]

7. Like everything else with them

they are more worried about the getting caught part not what they did. How dare anyone tell the truth is the attitude.

[requiem99]

8. I know! How DARE people call attention to such a huge blunder!!

[Imagevision]

27. There is no fucking oversight with this administration and it's like your 9 year old

telling YOU the way things are going down, the way things are going to happen! Bush, a mindless child trapped in a man's body...

[CTyankee]

9. Then Lauer went right John Kerry!!!

You know what the deal was? It was that if Card talked about this issue, Lauer had to bring up John Kerry to keep that story going. That's when my TV was turned off!

[Kadie]

10. I was waiting for that.

They are so predictable.

Always someone else's fault.

[Graybeard]

20. Shameless.

Always, always, always whining that THEY are the victims.

[Kadie]

30. Welcome to DU Graybeard!

:hi:

[doublethink]

11. Oh I get it ....

if the NYT wouldn't of called them out on this ..... the Bomb plans would still be on-line today, tomorrow, who knows for how long and ...... oh never-mind. :crazy:

[Imagevision]

12. Rove/Repukes; blame it on the dawg, blame it on who the hell ever is handy

repugs are half way out the door, they can all kiss their asses good-bye while Bush-boy finally gets leashed!!

[Hugin]

13. It was them damn Internets tubes!

Getting all coagulated when cogitating!

[sabra]

14. LOL !

[Beetwasher]

15. "...and I think the government has acted very quickly..."

From the NYT:

"Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war."

--snip--

"Last night, the government shut down the Web site after The New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts and arms-control officials."

--snip--

I guess in Bushworld that constitutes quick action. :eyes:

[Throwing Stones]

18. But of course...

the NYT also sent the links to the private email addresses it has for osama and kji BEFORE alerting the government.

[Beetwasher]

21. They Didn't Need To Do That, Einstein, Since Bush and the Repubs

Published it, in Arabic (you know, so it's real easy for them to understand right off the bat), for them online and left it there for months and months and months. Repubs passed a special piece of legislation PRECISELY to do this. The only thing Repubs DIDN'T do (as far as we know) was send Iran, Bin Laden et al. engraved invitations and spam pop up ads about it. Although I hear Freepers had a link for terrorists to go right to the web page from their website. :rofl:

Yeah, sucks to be a Repub these days doesn't it? The cognitive dissonance must make one even stupider than usual.

Of course all of this happened AFTER Cheney sold nuclear reactors to both North Korea AND Iran so they can enrich the uranium to use w/ the plans they published online for easy access.

[doublethink]

16. .......

"this is one of those things that John Negroponte warned us that we don’t know what’s in these documents, so these are being put out at some risk." Gee ya think? What a bunch of incompetent bastards these guys are! Reminds me of prior to 911 when we didn't have the arabic speaking translators to interpret the freaking intercepted conversations of suspected terrorists ...... bla bla bla ..... holy shit, these guys couldn't run the local Taco Bell night shift let alone our Government! VOTE THEM OUT NOW! F......K!

[antonialee839]

22. I was thinking the same exact thing. You put this stuff

out on your website and have absolutely no idea what you put out? Scary to think they didn't bother to even have a translator look at this stuff. Maybe they can borrow one from the Times.

[elehhhhna]

17. rofltipmp

[sqarebis]

19. OMFG!

Desperate people acting desperately.

This is extremely pathetic - we look like MORONS in this country with these idiot leaders.

[Fovea]

23. Andy Card, poster boy for the party of personal responsibility

blames the 4th estate for not being NeoCon.
This is simply VILE!

[Gregorian]

25. And republican nitwits have a new talking point.

Lack of vigilance. Those uninterested in the truth. They will all spout the lie. I can here the guy who delivers my propane.

It's getting harder to tolerate. As things disintegrate.

[Imagevision]

26. After the NY. Times exposes, --> They shut the website down...

[Garbo 2004]

28. They shut the website down after the NYT contacted them, before the article was published.

So the info was gone from the site by the time the article was published.

So the NYT didn't "advertise" nuclear "secrets." It exposed that the gov't had made them publicly available for months.

[glitch]

31. Corrupt AND incompetent.

We can rule out the OR option now.

[Straight Shooter]

32. Does it not occur to Card that terrorists peruse the WH site judiciously?

Where else would the terrorists go for information on our government and what it's doing than straight to the source?

Lucky for the terrorists, the Republicans are on their side, because they hit a little-bitty jackpot right on the White House web site.

The bush administration is beyond the pale when it comes to incompetence. This is criminal negligence.

[Guaranteed]

33. Uhhh...you know, I could have sworn that it was the WHITE HOUSE that put that info on the Internet

Yeah.....nice, Card.

[williesgirl]

34. What utter gall even for them! They totally disgust me - recommended

[Canuckistanian]

35. Like I always say, never stand near a conservative when things go wrong

Those pointing fingers can poke your eye out.

[Vinca]

36. Well this just takes the cake - it's the NYT's fault.

I think I'm going to go bury my head in a pillow until November 8.

[Disturbed]

37. This info was on the Net for several months.

It is strange that it took the NYT so long to discover this. Doesn't anyone else read the shit that is on that site?