Goss on Moore:
In Michael Moore's new movie Fahrenheit 911, Porter Goss defends the Patriot Act to the hilt and urges anyone who has problem with it to call his 1-800 #.
Problem is, he doesn't really have one, so Moore put his office number on the screen.
According to Goss's staff people were calling from theaters while they were watching the movie to see if it was a real number.
Goss told the local paper in Naples Florida, "I can go along with a good prank as well as everybody else, but we are a nation at war.
And I'm not sure how suitable a forum this is to be playing these kind of games when we've got people out in places like Afghanistan and Iraq and Indonesia and elsewhere putting their lives in harm's way for our freedoms."
Indonesia? We invaded Indonesia and no one told me? Goss is suppossedly in line to take George Tenet's job, so it's good to see we've got another able DOI to provide more slam dunks for the president.
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Cheney prepares to deliver "F" bomb.
Cheney told FOX that "I expressed myself rather forcefully, felt better after I had done it.
I think that a lot of my colleagues felt that what I had said badly needed to be said, that it was long overdue.
[His colleagues? At Halliburton?]
Ordinarily I don't express myself in strong terms, but I thought it was appropriate here."
[The senate was the appropiate place for "fuck yourelf?"]
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BUsh spreading the love around:
Bush continues his good will tour around the world and in Turkey before he arrived yesterday the love was evident as this AP story relates:
(AP)Saturday, June 26, 2004; 4:01 PM
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish police fired tear gas at more than 150 left-wing demonstrators who hurled rocks and tried to smash through a barricade in Ankara on Saturday, just hours before President Bush arrived for a NATO summit.
Police used bomb-detecting dogs to comb the area around the hotel where Bush is expected to stay, and security officials closed streets throughout the capital, part of a massive operation following Thursday bombings in Ankara and Istanbul that killed four people and injured 17.
Also Saturday, supporters of Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said they had kidnapped three Turkish workers in Iraq, Arab TV station al-Jazeera reported.
An al-Jazeera employee told The Associated Press that the group threatened to behead the hostages within 72 hours if Turkish companies did not withdraw from Iraq.
Bush is unpopular in Turkey, where the overwhelming majority of the public opposed the war in neighboring Iraq. If Turkish hostages were executed in Iraq, that could considerably increase tensions.
