Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer
Amy Goodman interviews former Marine spokesperson Josh Rushing on Democracy Now about his experiences serving at CENTCOM at the start of the Iraq war. In addition to sending over a Hollywood set designer to build a platform costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, Washington sent political operative Jim Wilkinson, who ran the media operation like a political campaign. According to Rushing, Wilkinson is also “credited with coming up with the line about Gore having invented the Internet,” had his hand in the “Brooks Brothers Riot” during the 2000 Florida election recount, and was the guy handing George W. the bullhorn at Ground Zero on September 14, 2001.









What do you expect from those who are trained by this system to become this?
Is anything else to be expected as a result of this institutionalization of deceit?
I would sure like to see this guy interviewed on Keith O. Low information voters need to be made aware of the mechanics of the 6 1/2 year infomercial we call ‘The Bush Administration’.
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I think we’ve posted here before, that this Jim Wilkinson character (like Thor Hearne) orchestrated a lot of things for Bushco, like bussing in operatives during the 2000 chad counting to make it appear as if citizens were protesting…and the media covered it and ate it up, without disclosing to the viewers that it was orchestrated. And wasn’t this guy in “Weapons of Mass Deception”, that he was setting up the “War Room” for TV, and things like that?
You know, these fuckers ruined our country with FAKE everything, and then they CRY, and say they were “only doing their job”, and they LIE some more about their part in it…WHEN THEY ARE FINALLY EXPOSED!!!!!!!!!
They say, “We aren’t so bad, everyone’s picking on us”, and they CRY about it!
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Summer 2002: White House Iraq Group assigns Communications Director James R. Wilkinson to prepare a white paper for public release, describing the “grave and gathering danger” of Iraq’s “reconstituted” nuclear weapons program. Wilkinson report claims Iraq “sought uranium oxide, an essential ingredient in the enrichment process, from Africa.”
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August: White House Iraq Group founded to coordinate campaign for war with Iraq. Operates out of Cheney’s office, chaired by Karl Rove. Includes Libby, Andrew Card, Mary Matalin, James R. Wilkinson, Nicholas E. Calio and Karen Hughes. Meet twice weekly in White House Situation Room. (May have funneled disinformation provided by Ahmad Chalabi to Judith Miller and others in U.S. press.)
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http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/4585
This guy is ALL OVER THE PLACE…part of the WHIG group, too!
There’s a LOT of guys like that! Jack Abramoff is another one who was into a little bit of everything in Bushco…Cheney seems to be involved in everything…Thor Hearne and Gonzales, WOW! Maybe they’ll all have a reunion…IN THE SLAMMER!
OFF TOPIC DISCLAIMER!
McNulty’s testimony is being rerun on CSPAN3 right now.
And the guy speaking for the Republicans started out by whining about the site the House Judiciary has set up for whistleblowers to contact Congress!
Got that waaaahmbulance standing by?
McNulty is giving his opening statement, explaining how employees of the DOJ “check their partisanship at the door”
Uh huh.
Yep, I firmly believe their partisanship is checked at the door…
… and checked again in the lobby…
… and cross-referenced against their Federalist Society membership cards before they are allowed on the elevator…
The essence of the RNC and the regime is deceit:
(Noam Chompsky + Robert Trivers on Deceit, emphasis added).
It is just that bushies are not very good at it. It is obvious that if their lips are moving they are lying.
Rove and Cheney are saying that their emails were on an RNC server on a boat on a lake that disappeared overnight:
(Yeah … That’s The Ticket, And So’s This).