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| GOP Klingons... |
 Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:21 pm |
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The FBI's summary was released today to the watchdog group Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Cheney was concerned about Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson,
who accused the White House of manufacturing intelligence to justify the
Iraq invasion.
CREW writes:
The transcript reveals that Mr. Cheney - generally credited with razor
sharp intellect and recall - demonstrated an astonishing inability to
recollect even simple facts much less the numerous conversations others have
testified to regarding his involvement in the administration's efforts to
discredit former Ambassador Joe Wilson. Mr. Cheney's memory frequently
failed to improve, even when confronted with his own hand-written notes. The
transcript does indicate however, that Mr. Cheney held Mr. Wilson in low
regard and called the CIA's decision to send Mr. Wilson to Niger
"amateur-hour."
Read the full transcript of the interview here.
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/43172
Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted of perjury,
obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI.
Send Cheney a coffin. Dick is dithering with the truth. |
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| Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:39 am |
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"GOP Klingons" <Stalinists at (no spam) Bush.net> wrote in message
news:hcfvu6$s0f$1 at (no spam) news.albasani.net...
Quote: The FBI's summary was released today to the watchdog group Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Posting its results late this afternoon at Recovery.gov, the White House
claimed 640,329 jobs have been created or saved because of the $159 billion
in stimulus funds allocated as of Sept. 30.
Officials acknowledged the numbers were not exact, saying that states and
localities that reported the numbers have made mistakes.
In recent days, the Recovery Act board has been reviewing all the numbers,
with many inaccurate ones having been posted. California's San Joaquin
Regional Rail Commission received $5 million in stimulus funds to hire
workers to build addition train track for the Union Pacific Railroad in an
economically tarnished spot of the Golden State.
Brian Schmidt, director of planning and programming for the commission said
that his staff originally reported to the Obama administration that the
stimulus money saved 250 jobs. Then, realizing they had mistakenly double
credited, they later changed that to 125 jobs. Tuesday, they updated it
again to 74 jobs.
Ed DeSeve, senior advisor to the president for Recovery Act implementation,
said he'd been "scrubbing" the job estimates so much since they came it at
the beginning of the month that he now has "dishpan hands and my fingers are
worn to the nub."
White House officials heralded the unparalleled transparency in reporting
job numbers to the public, but acknowledged there is no consistent standard
across states or localities, or among federal agencies giving out stimulus
funds, in differentiating between a "saved" job and a "created" job.
The White House argues that the actual job number is actually larger than
640,000 -- closer to 1 million jobs when one factors in stimulus jobs added
in October and, more importantly, jobs created indirectly, such as "the
waitress who's still on the job," Vice President Biden said today.
So let's see. Assuming their number is right -- 160 billion divided by 1
million. Does that mean the stimulus costs taxpayers $160,000 per job?
Jared Bernstein, chief economist and senior economic advisor to the vice
president, called that "calculator abuse."
He said the cost per job was actually $92,000 -- but acknowledged that
estimate is for the whole stimulus package as of the end of 2010.
Vice President Biden heralded news this week of gross domestic product
growth in the 3rd quarter of 3.5 percent, saying "the economic forecasters
have attributed ... the vast bulk of this growth to the Economic Recovery
Act -- the much-maligned and battered Economic Recovery Act. Put another
way, without the Economic Recovery Act, it's very unlikely this economy
would have expanded at all this last quarter. It may have even contracted."
DeSeve and Bernstein were not able to say how many of the 640,329 jobs were
saved and how many were created. How do they know that government officials
asking for stimulus funds to help prevent layoffs were legitimate?
"What we have to do is expect that our public officials are honest," DeSeve
said. "I know that's a high bar."
Joining Biden at an event in which reporters were not permitted to ask
questions, California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the money
California has received "has created or saved 62,000 teachers' jobs; but not
only teachers' jobs. Those are for administrators and professors. So
there's again people that said, 'Well, we would have done something about
that, anyway.' No, those teachers would have been gone if it wouldn't have
been for the federal stimulus money. I just wanted to make sure you
understand that."
Of the 640,329 jobs cited today, White House officials said 80,000 were in
the construction sector and more than half -- 325,000 -- were education
jobs, despite President Obama's claim in January that 90 percent of the
stimulus jobs would be in the private sector. Bernstein said Mr. Obama's
pledge was an assessment of the totality of the jobs saved or created by the
end of 2010.
Officials pointed out that today's report did not include jobs saved or
created by more than $80 billion in tax cuts, as well as other money in the
$787 billion stimulus package, such as $250 stimulus checks for 54 million
Americans. |
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