It’s the BushCo Department of Just-Us at work.

The typical reaction when confronted with an adverse ruling.

It is so far unclear whether the appeal of the Locy contempt citation will be considered moot. The U.S. Court of Appeals (D.C. Cir.) heard oral arguments on Locy’s appeal of the contempt order on May 9.

His suit was based on a government leaking that he was a “person of interest” to the press. That’s a violation of statute. Rather than let the public find out which person in the government was the leaker (probably pretty high up, if it was a low-level schlep, they’d have been fed to the wolves) to the press, the DoJ decided to scuttle the case with a settlement.

And at any rate, yes, it was worth 6 million dollars to shut down the process. Odd timing, because the process is nearing the end anyway, and the cost of litigation is sunk.

it’s kinda off-topic ew, but we ARE talkin bout money, so …

I got a question:

I heard that GM is on the ropes

I don’t know if it’s true, but I read that at $12 a share, GM is only worth $7 billion

an I read an article about mcsame’s appearance at an auto plant from Talkin Points Memo that says Chrysler is borderline bankrupt

I suspect Ford has some problems too

since you’re in Michigan, you might have a better idea of what’s really goin on

could we see one or more of the “Big Three” automakers go belly-up before November ???

First of all a drink to David Gregory who keeps getting more and more ridiculoser every minute.

And ole leaker Toni Locy will probably have contempt actions and lawsuits against her dismissed now, and she will be off Reggie Walton’s official D.C. District Court shit list, although she’ll be eternally on mine. The D.C. CA panel will set her free.

Will Le Tony Loci continue to teach leaking fiction to the good students of journalist at the University of West Virginia on Christy Hardin Smith’s home turf? You betcha ass she will.

Five people died in the wake of the Anthrax mailings and the incompetence and stupidity of DOJ played a prime role in this as well as the stupidity of the CDC’s Julie Gerberding, M.D. who continues to run the CDC into the ground driving off key researchers to private industry and hemorrhaging money out the wazoo.

Second of all let’s raise a glass high to Hatfill–he zoomed a lot of people with his resume–he’s not a killer–he’s a poor shlep that DOJ and in particular Pierre Howard then with ABC and CNN’s shill for DOJ and drinking buddie of the DOJsters Kelli ah Don’t Know Jack but it don’t stop mah mouth Arena.

What happened to Valerie Plame was truly reprehensible and dangerous of Bush, Cheney, Rove, Scooter and others,and she is entitled to damages and the satisfaction of seeing the criminals Rove, Cheney, and Bush jailed. Fitzie came close and his apologists say he didn’t have the evidence, the gray mail and the email screwed him, and we may never know.

However Valerie and her husband have enough money and pensions to live comfortably not to mention great health care on the gov, and Stephen Hatfill was left screwed and tatooed by the Department of Jusssst Uzzzzzzz with not a cent. Now he can go out and buy a Prosche, a house and live reasonably well. Applying for a job with his totally nutcase resume and the way he’s been smeared is like Typhoid Mary going into a D.C. Georgetown ‘yuppie bar’ with her name tatooed on her forehead and trying to get laid.

Your kid can grow up to make six figures and dish shit if Gregory can.

Out of Gregory’s pithed brain and mouth:

“What does Obama have to offer as far as energy saving? McCain offers a gas tax relief package and he wantsa drill.”

Reality check: Gas tax relief wouldn’t be passed by Congress ever, and it ain’t in session soon after fucking you on FISA and if it could pass Blue Doggies and Bush’s veto which it can’t it would buy you 5 packs of Gummie Bears on sale. Boy that’ll stop the mortgage crisis and exponential numbers of foreclosures fer sure.

Far be it from reality–ole prematurely grey Gregory doesn’t want to drill below the Barbie Doll surface. Both solutions from McCain have an equally high index of moronicity and pandering to morons.
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This is perfect for the middle of a Friday Happy Hour. It makes you want to have another double partly because you’re happy for Dr. Hatfill. He had the putziest resume for a physician I’ve seen in captivity, with some very absurd credentials that were an enigma enshrouded in a mystery. None of them added up to expertise in germ warfare or much else however the Dept. of Jussssst Uzzzzzzzz did screw him over. Good for Stephen–way to hang in their and glad you bit their ass on Mooooooo Cassseeey’s (the SDNY’s world’s biggest nebish –the mighty Mooo Casssey Kasey struck out on this one).

From the wiki folks who make pedias: (Stephen seems to take a little hike down Alice’s rabithole with the truth and his background–i.e. he doesn’t have any compelling credentials for expertise in microbiology, pathology, hematology, or germ warfare.

His resume reads and translates: Sean Puffy Combs hip hop artist, concert violinist who taught Yo Yo Ma, and after one year training neurosurgeon. It doesn’t add up to diddly, not because he trained out of the U.S., but none of his degrees or periods of study make any sense whatsoever.

At any rate, he got a job working with seriously dangerous microbes, and hey the CDC in Atlanta now has their most dangerous lab’s broken door seal covered with duct tape. Welcome to the bannana republic of America. They say they don’t need the duct tape, and their duct taped doors have failed inspection as a seal, but someone has the duct tape on the door. I’ll bet Emory University Hospital next door is sure happy with that news.

Steven Jay Hatfill (b. October 24, 1953) (photo [1]) is an American physician, virologist and bio-weapons expert. Hatfill served as an enlisted soldier in the U.S. Army in the late 1970s. (In 1999, he would tell a journalist during an interview that he had been a “captain in the U.S. Special Forces”, but in a subsequent investigation the Army stated that he had never served with the Special Forces[1].)

Hatfill then settled in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where his claimed military associations included work with the United States Army’s Institute for Military Assistance, the Rhodesian SAS, and the Selous Scouts. He stayed on to study medicine (1978-84) at the Godfrey Huggins Medical School [2] in Salisbury (now Harare), graduating (after failing in 1983) in 1984. In that year he also took a board certification in hematological pathology from South Africa. The South African government recruited him to be medical officer on a one-year (1986) tour of duty in Antarctica. He then served (1987-1990) as an Emergency Medical Officer at the Conradie General Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. A medical residency (1991-93) at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, resulted in a Master’s Degree in Medicine and board certification in hematopathology.

Hatfill later claimed a Ph.D. in molecular cellular biology from Rhodes University in South Africa, as well as completion of a post-doctoral (sic) fellowship (1994-95) at Oxford University in England and three master’s degrees (in microbial genetics, medical biochemistry, and experimental pathology). Some of Hatfill’s credentials have been questioned. During a later investigation, officials at Rhodes University insisted that he had never been awarded a Ph.D. from their institution [3]. On 11 March 2007, Hatfill’s lawyer Tom Connolly [4] (in his lawsuit against the former Attorney General of the United States John Ashcroft and the FBI) admitted that his client had “Puffed on his resume. Absolutely. Forged a diploma. Yes, that’s true.”[5]

Say what? How’d he get to be that?

Any kid’s dream can apparently come true ’cause:

Hatfill’s “post-doctoral” appointments included one (1997) at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. He subsequently worked (1997-99) as a civilian researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), the U.S. Department of Defense’s medical research institute for biological warfare (BW) defense at Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD. There he studied, under a National Research Council fellowship, new drug treatments for the Ebola virus and became a specialist in BW defense.

So even though his background is purely surreal and much of it faked, he was working with some bad boys if he worked with Ebola–we’ll give him that however the hell he got his hands on that and hey Don Rumsfield was Sec Def with questionable qualifications for that so what the hell.

1) A toast to “/shark-fu/shark bitch”–the girl do have some spunk in her rhetoric even if her message is misdirected and confused. Further the name “shark bitch” will get you a couple great man to take home before the bar closes on Friday. “Yo ahm shark bitch and maybe ah kin be your boo.”

The gov aka the Dept. of Justtttt Usssssss ain’t gonna put some things past shark bitch but her Congress doesn’t give a rat’s ass–they love lying to her face.

I wonder when shark bitch will figure out that the DOJ or Dept. of Jusssst Uzzzz fucked around with the samples of the antrhax striken postal workers who might have been saved if real physicians had tested the patients and instituted an IV quinolone stat, i.e DOJ was a co-conspirator in killing these people with whoever sent the Antrhax and 4+ stupid to boot as was the CDC’s Julie Gerberding MD who wanted to stay on the short list and gave the samples up to DOJ who fucked around with them while the patients that died deteriorated.

If the “bitch” were in power and there were real eye for an eye justice, maybe the people at DOJ who fucked with the treatment of these postal victims would have the same pathogen and the same witholding of prompt appropriate IV quinolone treatment and respiratory support. They might get the idea then to leave the treatment to doctors instead of futzing around with the samples for valuable days.

PP @40, circadian is ok unless typed too quickly with typographical errors. It worked in the forensic society, but being a polyglot and etymologist helps. I think I cited circuit precedent in that thread, or simply referred to it. It depends on which judge it is, and whether they are experienced with canines. ew launched me on a research project in English law with the referenced post, as well. It seems in the US bloodhounds are the pinnacle of evidentiary admissibility, and Hatfill’s case involved some unusual hitech researchers’ dogs. I forget the specifics and am busy on something else at the moment. I appreciate the link to the prior thread about the Hatfill side. I agree with the Wilsons, that McClellan may have given them a gift.

http://www.truthout.org/articl…..-all-along

It was oil all along.
Bill Moyers