Powell scolds aide after interview interrupted
By The Associated Press (as published on MSNBC).
Secretary of State Colin Powell chastised a press aide for trying to cut short the taping of a television interview Sunday.
Powell, speaking from a Dead Sea resort in Jordan, was listening to a final question from moderator Tim Russert, who was in the Washington studio of NBC
Mirrors are up now!
Here’s the first mirror of the highlight clip:
http://synthesize.us/~leif/weblog/mirror/05-16-04-colin.html
Thanks Leif!
First mirror of all three clips:
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 2
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 2
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – WMD and Press Aide Interruption Highlights
Thanks Dave!
Second mirror of all three clips:
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 2
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 2
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – Apology for Bogus WMD Evidence and Press Aide Interruption Highlights
Thanks Reid!
Third mirror of all three clips:
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 2
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 2
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – Apology for Bogus WMD Evidence and Press Aide Interruption Highlights
Thanks Steve!
This is from the May 16, 2004 program of
Meet the Press.
This is pretty unbelievable. Colin Powell’s press aide attempted to put an early end to the interview by suddenly moving the camera away from Powell (right after Powell addresses the torture situation and right before Russert asks a hard-hitting question about the fake nigerian yellow cake WMD evidence he cited within his U.N. speech). Powell gets her out of the way somehow, manages to get the camera pointed in the right direction, and resumes the interview. You can hear him say “Emily, get out of the way.”
Here’s the clip that contains what I mention above (happens about half way through):
Colin Powell Clip – Meet The Press (12 MB)
It happens about half way through, right after Powell’s admission that he and numerous top officials, including Condi Rice and Rummy, were made aware of the torture situation via a report from the Red Cross they all received way back in mid-February 2004.
Update 4:49 pm: Use one of the three mirrors below:
Here’s the first mirror (of the interview parts one and two):
http://synthesize.us/~leif/weblog/mirror/05-16-04-colin.html
Thanks Leif!
Here’s a complete mirror (of all three clips):
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 2
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 2
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – Apology for Bogus WMD Evidence and Press Aide Interruption Highlights
Thanks Dave!
Here’s a second mirror (of all three clips):
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 2
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 2
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – Apology for Bogus WMD Evidence and Press Aide Interruption Highlights
Thanks Reid!
Third mirror of all three clips:
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 2
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 2
Colin Powell On Meet The Press – Apology for Bogus WMD Evidence and Press Aide Interruption Highlights
Thanks Steve!
Here’s a Fourth mirror (woo hoo!):
All three clips are located here.
Thanks Richard!
The Gray Zone
How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib
By Sy Hersh for the New Yorker.
The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on the hunt for Al Qaeda, to the interrogation of prisoners in Iraq. Rumsfeld’s decision embittered the American intelligence community, damaged the effectiveness of
This is from the May 10, 2004 program.
McCain On The Daily Show – Complete (Small – 19 MB)
McCain On The Daily Show – Part 1 of 2 (Small – 12 MB)
McCain On The Daily Show – Part 2 of 2 (Small – 7 MB)
The Daily Show (The best news on television.)
This is from the May 10, 2004 program.
Highlights include Rummy forgetting to bring the chart of the chain of command with him to the hearings:
Mc Cain: “Mr. Secretary, I’d like to know…I’d like you to give the committee the chain of command from the guards to you. All the way up the chain of command.
Rummy: “I think General Myers brought an indication of it…”
General Myers: “We did not bring it.”
Rummy: “Oh my. It was all prepared.”
Myers: “It was!”
Jon Stewart: “Let me get this straight: The two guys in charge of proving that the military has its shit together forgot to bring the chart proving it had its shit together?”
Daily Show On Rummy’s Tortured Testimony (Small – 12 MB)
The Daily Show (The best news on television.)
In case you haven’t noticed, my entire server went down (again) this last week (this time for a different reason than the usual reason).
No worries though. I’m moving my entire archive to another server with a bigger pipe for easier distribution. Everything should be moved over in a few days.
After the move, I’m going to really need your help looking for bad links. So please, when I give the word (after a big global replace in Movable Type), go to your favorite categories and verify that all of the videos are linked OK.
I’m also very interested in working with others to create some kind of P2P distribution network that might take some of the load off of the server to begin with. It is my hope to be reaching thousands upon thousands over the next few months leading up to this year’s presidential election — when distribution of these materials will be more important than ever to help educate voters about the issues affecting their lives.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
After the move my archive should be “bigger, stronger, faster…”
–That kind of thing 🙂
Sorry for the hold ups. I know how important access to this material is for many of you. It should be smoother sailing from this point on.
Peace,
lisa
This is from the May 6, 2004 program.
Update 05/11/04: new links that work!
Jon clarifies for us, among other things, that this isn’t “abuse” as Rummy and CNN like to call it:
“This is fucking torture.”
(Can you say “electrofied genitals?” I knew you could.)
He also clarifies that, despite all the headlines last week saying “President Bush Apologizes,” he actually did no such thing. He let his press flak do it for him.
Daily Show – Giant Messopotamia (Small – 10 MB)
Rob Courddry also gives us follow up commentary:
Rob Courddry On The US Torture Of Iraqi Prisoners
(Small – 5 MB)
The Daily Show (The best news on television.)
One of you suggested that I check out the $25 a month video tutorials at to ramp up on my Final Cut Pro.
That’s the best $25 I’ve spent in a long time. I’ll probably keep my subscription up to help support (not to mention that there are other titles of stuff I want to learn).
It took about a lesson and a half for me to get off and running on my project. (About 30 min of instruction at most.) I’m pretty impressed.
The way the courses are organized, I can move ahead to find out what I need to know, and go back to learn more of the introductory stuff, as needed. There are little 15 minute movies for everything. You can just pick what you need from the index.
Leave it to you guys to hook me up with another great resource!
Thanks again for all the great advice.
(What would I do without cha? 🙂
It’s been a long time coming on this one. I sure never thought he’d go out with *such* a bang.
But here it is — something I’ve been saying for a long time now 🙂
Donald Rumsfeld Should Go
(a ny times editorial)
The world is waiting now for a sign that President Bush understands the seriousness of what has happened. It needs to be more than his repeated statements that he is sorry the rest of the world does not “understand the true nature and heart of America.” Mr. Bush should start showing the state of his own heart by demanding the resignation of his secretary of defense.
This is far from a case of a fine cabinet official undone by the actions of a few obscure bad apples in the military police. Donald Rumsfeld has morphed, over the last two years, from a man of supreme confidence to arrogance, then to almost willful blindness. With the approval of the president, he sent American troops into a place whose nature and dangers he had apparently never bothered to examine.
We now know that no one with any power in the Defense Department had a clue about what the administration was getting the coalition forces into. Mr. Rumsfeld’s blithe confidence that he could run his war on the cheap has also seriously harmed the Army and the National Guard.