McKinney apologizes while grand jury meets
In an attempt to save her ass, McKinney apologized this morning on the floor of the House.
"There should not have been any physical contact. I am sorry that this misunderstanding happened at all, and I regret this escalation, and I apologize," she stated.
A misunderstanding? Umm, no, sorry. You refused to stop after being asked to do so three times. You then hit a police officer, there's no misunderstanding that.
Three points here. First, she did not apologize to the police officer she hit. Secondly, it took over a week to even get to this point. Third, she did not apologize for escalating the situation by crying racism.
She could have taken the high road by saying "ya know, I was mad, and I was wrong. And for that I am truly sorry both to the Congress which I have disgraced and to the police officer I hit." That's something that I and I think most Americans could have understood. We all get mad. Did she do that? No. Instead, she's made excuses and called the officer racist.
While that was taking place, a federal grand jury was meeting to hear both sides of the story.
"I'm troubled by all the economics going into this, and the U.S. Attorney's office here has a lot of other crimes to look at. ... But on the other hand, the member's not acknowledging at all that what she did was incorrect and now she's putting up the smoke and mirrors that we're racist and it was done because she's black. That's wrong." That's from former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Terrence Gainer, whose last day on the job was Wednesday. He believes prosecutors should bring a case against McKinney.
Apparently, not only is this racism, but McKinney says "that [this is] much ado about a hairdo," McKinney told FOX News on Wednesday. She also has claimed that her being stopped is due to racial profiling.
So, wait, is it racism or because you changed your hairdo?
Some charge that she blames everything on racism. "She has a long history of racism," DeLay, R-Texas, told FOX News. "Everything is racism with her. This is incredible arrogance that sometimes hits these members of Congress, but especially Cynthia McKinney."
Just as I was wrapping up this post, I saw this on the news. Details are sketchy, but here's what we know right now:
As McKinney was entering the building to give her apology statement this morning, a reporter got in an argument/shoving match with someone. McKinney's personal security guard reportedly said he would "throw the reporters ass in jail." Doesn't seem so bad, right? McKinney hasn't don't anything else wrong, right? Ohhhh, wait. You cannot use private security on capital hill. So now we have another investigation for Cynthia McKinney. Strike two for Cynthia.
Tags: McKinney Congress, Racism
posted by David @ 12:52 PM
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Actually, that's not at all what the released document says, as you would love to believe. All it says is that Libby says that Bush authorized the release of Iraq intel, presumably in an attempt to curb criticism.
Unfortunately for you, this has absolutely nothing to do with the Plame case. But it's a nice way for the media to put in their headlines "Bush authorized leak." It's all about the headlines man. And those certainly are misleading. As a side not, there is absolutely nothing on CNN's homepage this morning about McKinney. But, hey, there's no liberal media, right?
In addition, the President has the legal power and authority to release classified documents.
In addition to that, the document was released later anyways.
But nice try, :-) Sorry this wasn't all you thought it was cracked up to be.
About the article, I didn't get the chance to read the whole thing yet, but from what I see, you sure are reading into it. Gonzalez simply said he would not rule it out.
Presumably this is an attempt to cover their asses in case they did, accidentally or not, "spy" on a conversation or two on two americans.
It's a busy morning, I'll have to read the whole article later
Ok, after more reading, here's what I take away from that article:
"At the hearing, Mr. Gonzales inched closer toward acknowledging that intercepting purely domestic calls could be considered legally permissible in his view if the communications involved Al Qaeda."
Do you consider members of al qaeda Americans? Even if they are, I would struggle to call them Americans if they are planning to kill us. That's my thought.
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