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<\/a><\/p>\nI\u2019m still on dialup, although I suspect I could fathom the AT&T thing if I had to. But actually dialup isn\u2019t all that awful, oddly enough. I am not going to download any video, of course. <\/p>\n
The trickiest part of this operation was figuring out how to get Livewriter to update the list of \u201crecent posts\u201d. That requires going to the open recent post item, ignoring the popup stuff that appears when you hold the mouse on it, and clicking on the open recent posts thing, then when that opens a dialog selecting the site name. It\u2019s obvious from there. Thanks to Rick Hellewell for having the patience to explain it to me. Three times.<\/p>\n
The news is full of the President\u2019s invocation of Executive Privilege to protect someone in his Justice Department from being found out by Congress. For the President to invoke that privilege the President has to say that something in this involves him; Executive Privilege does not work to protect malfeasance or incompetence form being exposed. It has to say that the Office of the Presidency would somehow be at risk if the documents became public. If for example there were a document naming a specific person to be assassinated as part of the operation, or something embarrassing a foreign head of state, or a CIA contact in Mexico \u2013 we can speculate endlessly. But there is no evidence that any such thing happened. It\u2019s more likely that one of the Chicago White House staff got involved in covering up Fast and Furious \u2013 which is itself embarrassing \u2013 and wrote things he\/she should never have written, and — well, that\u2019s speculation too. But whatever happened, the President doesn\u2019t want to throw the staffer under the bus, and has been willing to own Fast and Furious as if it were his operation; which, I would have thought, would be more embarrassing than anything else could be.<\/p>\n Eventually it will all come out. It always does in these high technology days. The Three Musketeers can\u2019t bring the Queen\u2019s Necklace just in time to save things\u2026 It will come out, and I for one will be curious as to just what was so important that it required Executive Privilege to protect. And also exposing the President\u2019s lack of knowledge about the constitutional issue here.<\/p>\n View 729 Thursday, June 21, 2012 I am down at the Beach House. Sable is home with the house sitters, and gets two walks a day so while she misses us she has mixed emotions about the whole situation. Anyway all is well here and there. Except that I am \u2026 Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"