New Videos and Torture Photo's --- Distraction To Be ====> Rehnquist Quits

[cthrumatrix]

This weekend is the announcement:

Book it... the WH is already interviewing the "short list"

and this "suffocate all other stories"... it's already planned.

(IMHO)

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. Tomorrow

Friday

The short news day

Release the stuff at 7:20 pm

Too late for the Friday evening news

Too late for the Sunday papers

Cool

[kohodog]

17. WashingtonPost.com already announced it, then retracted.

But it will all wait until next weekend, I think (7:20 July 1) as people relax for a long weekend.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

18. Really?

They retracted it??

Katharine Graham spins silently at a thousand miles per hour in her grave.

Yeah, I forgot about next weekend. I'll bet you a pitcher of beer (see below) you're right.

And, your avatar is absolutely the BEST one I've seen on DU. I'm madly jealous.:woohoo: :applause: :woohoo: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :woohoo:

[kohodog]

19. Here's the link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062301297.html?nav=rss_nation

Thanks for the compliment on the avatar...My daughter found it and used it as a screen saver when she was 11.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

22. Your kid's gifted,

and the Post - jesus, what can I say?

Is it me, or is this whole world getting weirder by the minute?

Thanks for the link.

[Spazito]

2. Agree, it makes eminent sense

They need something big enough to waylay whatever MSM that might, otherwise, actually cover the torture evidence.

[Gelliebeans]

3. thought the ACLU

said they would be out around the middle of July. Have they upped the date? I am not looking forward to viewing those pictures but I have to say that they are going to have an effect on people's opinion.

[stevedeshazer]

4. I'm with you

If the torture pics and photos are as devastaing as advertised, the distraction may not last, however.

[sam sarrha]

5. I would die in my robes on the Bench to make a point.. if i were him

[sam sarrha]

7. are these the tapes with the shrieking screaming children being raped???

there is some bad shit out there.. women and children stuff..

[cthrumatrix]

9. BUT ....Durbin and Dems needed to "apologize".... makes sense

[Kraklen]

6. Consider:

U.S. troops raping children under orders.

[sam sarrha]

8. probably contractors.. or 3 letter groups, I wouldnt accuse the troops of

that... there were some local security groups in the prisons.. i had some info but my computer crashed and i lost almost everything

[Kraklen]

11. I would accuse US troops of that.

We know they did it.

We saw pictures of US troops raping, torturing, and murdering people.

Time to take the blinders off people.

[sam sarrha]

16. Link> ... to Children in Iraqi Prisons

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0804/dailyUpdate.html?s=ent

http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/iraq/2389.html

[cthrumatrix]

21. they have the media all taken care of ...

[catmandu57]

10. Yes Rehnquist goes friday

I don't know when the photos come out though, who is releasing them?

[Kraklen]

12. Scheduled for release on the 30th.

The Pentagon's releasing them.

[cynatnite]

13. Pictures are far more powerful

While Rehnquist will be major news...it's the pics that'll overshadow. Those are the kinds of things most people will won't forget.

The attempt to use the resignation to divert attention will be there, but I think it'll fail.

On edit: The pictures may wind up get more people pushing to get the troops out of Iraq.

[Spazito]

14. Are the pictures to be released to the ACLU or directly to the

public? The reason I ask is that if the pics go to the ACLU, they can have some control on the best news cycle to release them whereas if the order is to release the photos to the public there is NO question it will happen with a suitably big diversion such as you have put forward.

Edited to add: I found the answer to my question. The judge's order is to have them released to the ACLU, according to a Washington Post article at the time:

"Judge Alvin Hellerstein, finding the public has a right to see the pictures, told the government Thursday he will sign an order requiring it to release them to the American Civil Liberties Union, the lawyers said."

I don't have the WP link, I found the quote on Kos:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/27/115214/962

I hope the release of the photos and videos are solely up to the ACLU and the bush cabal can't release them publicly simultaneously with the release to the ACLU.

[cthrumatrix]

20. timing will be the KEY..... the WH will adjust theirs as well

[in_cog_ni_to]

15. Then the photos shouldn't be released until the Rehnquist distraction

dies down. The release of those photos/videos needs to be a surprise attack. Don't tell ANYONE when they will be released. That way the cabal can't create a distraction.

On second thought....

they probably have a ton of crap to throw out anyway . A terrorist attack? A dirty bomb alert? A new Color code warning? Terri Schiavo isn't really gone? Bin Laden is cornered and will be caught any minute now? Cheney's pace maker had a short? It's time for Saddam's trial? They OWN the media and will use it any way they see fit to bury the Abu Ghraib pics.

[Oscar Trout]

23. Rehnquist distraction

It won't be Rehnquist. It'll be Sandy Day O'Connor.

[kohodog]

24. I don't think so.

She only has three clerks so far for this year. Speculation is that she will pick up one of Rehnquist's.

[OneBlueSky]

25. BushCos entire program is NOTHING BUT distractions . . .

virtually everything they do and every proclamation they make is intended to divert attention from the crimes they are committing daily . . . the question isn't "What's the next distraction going to be?" . . . the question is "What is today's BushCo announcement distracting us from?" . . .