Comments on: It had nothing to do with “luck”

By: sisu

sisu — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:33:12 +0000

The humble guardian at the gate

We’ve already heard about this from bright-eyed and bushy-tailed bloggers, but Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough pull it all together in The Washington Times this morning [via Drudge Report]: U.S. officials tell us that the FBI is focusing on a

By: sisu

sisu — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:29:08 +0000

The humble guardian the gate

By: William Meisheid

William Meisheid — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:37:22 +0000

My take is that the significance is not in the drafts of the report itself. I am convinced it was because of the handwritten comments on the drafts, which sometimes reveal more about various peoples thinking than the drafts themselves. There had to be something pretty significant in those coments, something worth stealing the papers for.

By: Martin aka Blogbat

Martin aka Blogbat — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:24:25 +0000

Irishman, Rob must have been joking, he seems far too literate to truly have such sentiments

By: mb

mb — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 06:05:33 +0000

irony, isn’t it? all this stuff about how it’s so wrong to photograph places like major tourist attactions, and now a photo of a border guard at a customs post!

By: ms heather

ms heather — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 05:51:50 +0000

I wondered the same thing, Jim.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 03:34:42 +0000

She did great! Is it wise to put her name and picture on the internet?

By: Irishman

Irishman — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 01:56:59 +0000

Rob,
Your post was a joke, right?
Try shift and spell checker. Please tell me this is a joke. Also check your headings for the thread.
My bad, you’re just messin’with us anyway, so accept my apologies.

By: JEF

JEF — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 01:23:02 +0000

I’ll bet Clinton and his pals were pissed! If the bomber had succeeded think of it. He could have had his legacy. Why all of the dramatic speeches he could have made! Monica would have become a minor footnote to be quickly written out of the history books…

By: Blogs for Bush

Blogs for Bush — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 01:19:23 +0000

Dems Blame Republicans Over The Timing of The Berger Story Leak

How sad. How pathetically sad it is that the best Democrats can do to avoid the potential fallout of the Berger Pants-Stuffing Incident that they have to question the timing of the leak! Instapundit has been all over this story…

By: Blogs for Bush

Blogs for Bush — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 01:19:21 +0000

Dems Blame Republicans Over The Timing of The Berger Story Leak

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:56:01 +0000

I agree with some of the others – at least vis a vis the Clinton administration, it was most definitely luck. Diana Dean deserves all the credit – on her part, it wasn’t luck at all, but rather her own vigilance. But Diana Dean would have been vigilant no matter who was in office, and that includes the Clintonistas, who we know were anything *but* vigilant against terror (which is why we now have the first Clinton-related scandal that involves someone actually putting something *into* their pants instead of taking it out … ).

By: Shelby

Shelby — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:23:02 +0000

Luck. The country, the Clinton administration, and everyone who wasn’t killed got very lucky. Stopping the bomber was not the result of any deliberate activity undertaken by the government.

Diana Dean, along with all of us, was lucky that the bomber was so inept.

“every (military) strategic plan always comes down to a single soldier walking point”

What we had here was a skilled soldier whose route happened to cross paths with a suspicious target, a target that fortuitously was even more significant than it first appeared.

By: Seattle boy

Seattle boy — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:36:48 +0000

My boss happens to be Mrs. Dean’s brother in law. She no longer lives in Washington State and has recently left the boarder patrol (a couple months ago). She had planned on doing so earlier, but wanted to be in uniform in the case she was asked to testify in front of the “9/11″ commission. Does not seem they were interested. Wonder why?

By: Bob Anderson

Bob Anderson — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:26:15 +0000

I read your article in US Today on the Security Moms and how they will or should vote. You couldn’d have said it better. People had better wake up and see Kerry for what he is. God help this country if he is elected. We are at war with people who will kill you and your family and then bragg about it. The UN won’t protect you or me , WE must protect our country and our families. I guess it will take another Sept. 11th to wake up the stupid people in this country and sometimes i’m not sure that would work.
Keep up the good work,
Bob