April 2007 - Posts
Storm Center : The former CIA chief's book is out and already attacked for propping up the Bush Administration's excuses to go to war in Iraq, it is now being truth squadded by the State Department for claiming the Administration targeted Iraq from the day the Supreme Court decided Bush v Gore. Former CIA counter-terrorism specialist Philip Giraldi joins us. Mission & Misdirection : The war that Tenet and company got the United States into - claiming a heavy toll. Over a hundred American troops killed in April alone, while the President prepares to veto funding for said war four years after "mission accomplished."ODDBALL : The coolest volcano video you'll see all week...What drives ATM thieves? In this case, it's a back-hoe... and a man with a million bees all up in his grill.For a Good Time... A Deputy Secretary of State has already resigned because he availed himself of her "massage services". Who else is among the 15,000 names on the so-called "D.C. Madam's" client list? Dana Milbank covered the circus today, and joins us with a full report.Tony Snow is Back: The White House Press Secretary returns to his podium after undergoing cancer treatment, he looks great and is greeted by the press corps with a standing ovation. WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD :Rudy Giuliani's campaign releases a list of supporters, some of the 125 are surprised to be on it... The Bald Headed Stooge from the Imus show makes the ridiculous Nazi comparison of the week... and the guy who looks like Osama bin Laden who keeps getting arrested in Pakistan.Enter Bateman : The star of the best show ever to be canceled for no good reason, Jason Bateman of "Arrested Development" is here to talk politics, sports, his new movie and whatever else comes up.
Well, that was some interview with Vince McMahon George Tenet on 60 Minutes tonight. Lots of revelations, accusations and agitated gesticulation.the CBS page sums it all up nicely, but for purposes of starting the discussion here, we kinda like how 'Todd from New Orleans' kicks it off, with his comment post in the 'puppies' thread below... CONTINUED >>
It seems so long ago that Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias resigned after getting himself caught up in a Washington sex scandal, but that's why they always do these things on a Friday night .customer phone number list of the "D.C. Madam" includes the names of some "very prominent people," as well as a number of women with "important and serious jobs" who had worked as escorts for the firm.next Friday night to find out the who's and the what's and the with who's and the what with's . ABC plans a sweeps-week report on the D.C. Madam and her clients on May 4th. CONTINUED >>
click for VIDEO Countdown salutes Keith's debate night tag-team partner Chris Matthews, with a condensed version of Thursday's coverage... Ha!
Wow, talk about "take out the trash night!" AIDS activists protest against a speech by Tobias in Bangkok in 2004 Friday night, after all us media types have gone home for the weekend, Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias, whose emphasis on abstinence in AIDS prevention programs has been so controversial, tries to quietly exit, stage left. submitted his resignation one day after he confirmed to ABC News that he had been a customer of the escort agency run by the so-called "D.C. Madam." CONTINUED >>
Keith anchors live from Charlotte, North Carolina tonight... Changing Tenets : There is no possible alternative conclusion now: The President lied us into war. Quoting his former head of the CIA: "There was never a serious debate that I knew of within the administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat." George Tenet also says he did say the case for war in Iraq should be presented as a "slam dunk" -- that the President used it, and him, to justify an unjustifiable war. Plus, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin admits members of the Senate Intelligence Committee knew the American people were being lied to in the run-upo to the Iraq war, but remained silent because they were sworn to secrecy. Larry Johnson joins us. Office Politics :A list of Justice department information Congress can't see, yet another US attorney who would have been fired, if he hadn't quit first, and at least 20 apparent violations of the law prohibiting political conduct at the governmental office. The fresh stench of scandal from the administration.ODDBALL : A dangerous haircut at 14,000 feet, two deer caught on tape rampaging through a nursing home, and what your help desk guys are doing in the office when you go home at night.The D-8 Debate : A fresh look at the Democratic debate 24 hours later. How and when to get out of Iraq was front and center, we'll rate the candidates. Plus a special presentation: "HA! Four and half hours of Chris Matthews in 90 Seconds!" VIDEO No Limits: WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : John Gibson makes no sense, but he's plenty offensive doing it... John McCain's really really short memory... and John Boehner flip flops like we've never seen before.See The Stars
: Richard Gere's Kiss Karma, and Alec baldwin consults Doctor Phil. When celebrities are in trouble, who you gonna call? Michael Musto!
Former CIA Officer and Deputy Director of the State Department's Office of Counter Terrorism, Larry Johnson, will be our guest tonight. Read the full letter here --->
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Some of what we're working on for tonight... Former CIA Director
George J. Tenet has a new book out, so apparently he's in the clear now to begin telling us some of the truth about how the administration got us into the Iraq war. In the book, titled “
At the Center of the Storm ,” Tenet says “There was never a serious debate that I know of within the
administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat,” nor, “was there ever a significant discussion” about
the possibility of containing Iraq without an invasion.
Tenet complains in the book, and in an upcoming
60 Minutes interview , that the administration misused and twisted his "slam dunk" comment about the evidence of WMD in Iraq to justify the invasion, then later to deflect blame to Tenet and the CIA when the weapons were not found.
It didn't stop him from later accepting the Presidential Medal of Freedom (above), though he says in the book, he was "not at all sure he wanted to accept" it.
But he did.
On the TODAY show, White House lawyer Dan Bartlett was the designated hatchet man sent out to discredit yet another adminstration official with a dangerous book. Bartlett said, "I am a bit confused by that because we have never indicated the
president made the sole decision based on that 'slam dunk' comment."
But in fact, they did "indicate that." Vice President Dick Cheney on Meet The Press
September 10, 2006 , told Tim Russert"
" when George Tenet sat in the Oval Office and the
president of the United States asked him directly, he said, 'George,
how good is the case against Saddam on weapons of mass destruction?'
the director of the CIA said, 'It’s a slam dunk, Mr. President, it’s a
slam dunk.' That was the intelligence that was provided to us at the
time, and based upon which we made a choice."Much more on this tonight, along with the
amazing statement of Democratic Senator Richard Durbin, who said
this week that he knew the American people were being lied to in the run-up to the Iraq war, but kept quiet about it, because due to his position on the Senate Intelligence Committee, he was sworn to secrecy.
The White House has always said that the
Congress voted to go to war based on the same intelligence the president had, but Durbin says that is simply not true . "The
information we had in the Intelligence Committee was not the same
information being given to the American people. I couldn't believe it,"
Durbin said Wednesday.
"I was angry about it. (But) frankly, I couldn't do
much about it because, in the Intelligence Committee, we are sworn to
secrecy. We can't walk outside the door and say the statement made
yesterday by the White House is in direct contradiction to classified information that is being given to this Congress."
Something could have been done. Something should have been done. And while the failures of these two men pale in comarison to those of the administration that used them, we find it difficult to celebrate the forthrightness of Tenet and Durbin, who both suddenly found candor four and a half years too late .
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This just not in : Instead of a document dump tonight, the Justice Department sending lawmakers a detailed list of all the memos and emails they are refusing to dump. What seems to be the Bush administration equivalent of a "Wish you were here" postcard - if a postcard can be 159 pages long.
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No Countdown tonight, Keith is at South Carolina State University to cover tonight's Democratic debate. Alberto Gonzales should resign . Why hasn't he mentioned this before? He says it is because nobody ever asked him. “He’s not serving the president well," McCain said, "I reached that conclusion a long time ago. I just haven’t been asked.” He may not be on the Judiciary Committee, but as a candidate for the nation's highest office, that's no excuse. Can't help but wonder what else is on the list of things he hasn't weighed in on because no one has thought to ask, can you?Update : It's not true, he had been asked .SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER This just came to our attention. The Iraqi parliament is taking the summer off. The entire summer ... July and August... eight weeks... regardless of whether it has reached agreement on the issues that have paralyzed the political process, and thus, the entire country. And for that, the political process in this country is approaching paralysis as well. For that, 3,334 (and counting ) Americans in uniforms have died. How many more will be dead by September?
On the fourth anniversary of his infamous 'Mission Accomplished' speech on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, the president will likely veto the bill that would begin to bring the troops home from that mission. The $124.2 billion war funding legislation , passed by the Senate today by a 51-46 margin, would require the start of troop withdrawals from Iraq by October 1. The Senate said the bill was on track to arrive on the president’s desk
by Tuesday, four years to the day after President Bush’s announcement that major combat operations in Iraq had ended.
Michelle Malkin shows once again why she's the intellectual superstar of conservative punditry. Combining substantive debate, scathing satire and top-notch production values, Malkin makes the strongest case yet for staying the course in Iraq - no matter what the Generals say.MediaMatters has the full context of Harry Reid's comments.
click to WATCH VIDEO "Rather than a reasoned discussion — rather than a political campaign
advocating your own causes and extolling your own qualifications — you
have bypassed all the intermediate steps and moved directly to trying
to terrorize the electorate into viewing a vote for a Democrat, not as
a reasonable alternative and an inalienable right ... but as an act of
suicide."Full Transcript
The Politics of Fear : If you had hoped the 2008 election cycle might move the national debate beyond the politics of fear, if you had expected more out of the candidate who had been there when the World Trade Center fell, if you had imagined that on the very day Congress was debating a phased withdrawal from Iraq the Commander in Chief might do more than dance... literally dance... It seems that you have been expecting way too much out of your elected leaders.Scabdalabra : Gonzales-gate escalates. The attorney general goes to Capitol Hill to try to patch things up, instead he gets news of a possible no confidence vote and an offer of immunity to top aide. Monica Goodling.ODDBALL : The Countdown Cool-Ass Robot if the week, is actually kinda creepy -- and decorating tips for Karl Rove, what to do with all that shredded paper!Factor Fiction : Bill O'Reilly has declared was on the website Media Matters , so we decided to investigate to see what all the fuss was about. Turns out they do the slimiest thing: They take direct quotes of Billo lying, offending, or otherwise making a fool of himself, and post them... in context! Ro Better Blues: Rosie O'Donnell is leaving 'The View', was because of her views? The line to claim responsibility forms to the right. WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : Glenn Beck suddenly cares about the Iraqi people when it's politically convenient, Rush Limbaugh figures he's got a "Be A Racist For Free" card, and Congressman Dana Rohrabacher tells Americans opposed to the US taking suspects to other countries where torture is allowed: "I hope it's your families that suffer the consequences." They Hate Us For Our Freedom
: A survivor of 9/11 threatens voters with a new 9/11 if they dare to vote for anyone but him. Why is Giuliani trying to terrorize the electorate?
Keith Olbermann will deliver a Special Comment tonight on the remarkable and disappointing fear-mongering of politician Rudy Giuliani. The following is a preview...(click here for video & transcript ) FULL TRANSCRIPT & VIDEO
Charles Ommanney / Getty Images TIME Magazine's Joe Klein has an amusing translation at Swampland of Vice President Dick Cheney's impromptu press conference yesterday
CHENEY: Maybe it's a political calculation. Some Democratic leaders seem to
believe that blind opposition to the new strategy in Iraq is good
politics. Senator Reid himself has said that the war in Iraq will bring
his party more seats in the next election. It is cynical to declare
that the war is lost because you believe it gives you political
advantage. Leaders should make decisions based on the security
interests of our country, not on the interests of their political party.
Translation: We have never played politics with Iraq. We didn't
schedule the initial authorization vote for just before the 2002
elections. We didn't cook the intel. We had nothing to do with the
Mission Accomplished banner. The Navy told Bush to put on the flight
suit. We didn't ignore the insurgency and spend vast resources on the
Iraq Survey Group to look for non-existent WMD. Karl Rove never told
Republicans they could use the war for their benefit. We never
questioned the patriotism of people who opposed the war. I'm not
questioning Harry Reid's patriotism now. And if you can't get that
through your thick heads, you stupid, stupid Americans...you stupid
Americans impatient with our master plan for VICTORY in the middle
east...you...you... well then, as I once explained to Pat Leahy
[expletive deleted].
Rudy Giuliani is apparently eager to show Republican primary voters that he can use wild scare tactics with the best of 'em, warning a crowd of supporters of a 'new 9/11' should a Democrat win the White House. They hate us for our freedom. ' Update: Barack Obama has issued a statement : "Rudy Giuliani today has taken the politics of fear to a new low and I
believe Americans are ready to reject those kind of politics." Keith Olbermann will deliver a Special Comment on Giuliani tonight. Some of the other stories we're working on for tonight... CONTINUED >>
love this.LA Times that started the whole "magic negro" meme in respect to Obama -- much like the Imus' defense, that black rappers invented the term "Ho" -- so Rush can hardly be blamed for so enthusiastically running with this when he's clearly holding a "Be A Racist For Free" card.
Alison Stewart is in for Keith tonight... True Heroes :The death of Pat Tillman and the rescue of Jessica Lynch...both stories falsley portrayed by military and administration officials, both stories used to distract Americans and the media from the mistakes in Iraq. Both stories set straight before congress today.Turd-Blossoming Investigation :A special counsel is looking into the political moves of Karl Rove from inside the White House. He vows that no stone will go unturned, but just how serious is this investigation, or is it a political smokescreen?ODDBALL : It's raining women in Australia, Captain America hits rock bottom, and the fastest way to add years to your jail sentence is demonstrated in an Oregon courtroom.The '08 Horserace: The big momentum in the Democratic race for president. Can Barack Obama do anything to stop his progress in the money race and the polls? Is it critical Hillary Clinton slam the breaks on the Obama express? Seriously Distracted Driving: New details about the car crash involving New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine. Did a love triangle distract the trooper behind the wheel of that speeding SUV? Support the Troops : Paying tribute to the troops. John Mellencamp this week singing for wounded vets at Walter Reed. How did the loud voice against the war get picked for the performance... and what does he hope to accomplish?
Some of what we're working on for tonight... Karl Rove is going to be investigated... again. But what makes this one different, and potentially more dangerous for the White House and Bush's Brain, is that it has been launched not by Democrats in Congress, but by the administration's own Office of Special Counsel, headed by Bush appointee Scott J. Bloch. The LA Times reports the obscure investigative unit will launch a broad inquiry into Rove's political operations, it will examine the firing of at least one U.S. attorney, those missing White House
e-mails, and the efforts to keep presidential appointees
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this link . The clip contains multiple F-Bombs and adult content from monologuist Mike Daisey during a live performance in Cambridge, MA last week, and the last thing we want is the sort of reaction that he received. So here's your fair warning about the harsh language .WARNING about the STRONG LANGUAGE ?the clip to see the reaction of 87 members of Daisey's audience who apparently couldn't -- then the remarkable reaction of Daisey himself, who manages to pull his show back together afterward.CONTINUED >>
Alison Stewart is in for Keith Olbermann tonight... The War on Reality :
As nine U.S. soldiers are killed by an IED in Iraq, the President and the Congress continue their war of words over the troop funding bill. Plus, President Bush stands by his man, Alberto Gonzales, saying of the Attorney General's testimony last week, "he answered as honestly as he could."Hot on the Trail : The race to replace President Bush. Obama and Clinton both fighting to earn the black vote, and the Mrs. teasing yet again what role the Mister might have if she gets to move in to the Oval Office.ODDBALL : The worst place in the world to stash $14,000 in cash, and the miracle of San Diego: kids...walking on water.Laugh A Little :
The White House Correspondents' Dinner...Sanjaya was there -- and he wasn't the only one without talent. Rich Little bombs, but the real fireworks came from none other than MC Rove, getting in a heated debate over global warming.Blue Angels Crash: Uncle Junior, Off His Meds : Some gangsters get whacked, others just fade away....Then there's "The Sopranos." How will it End? We'll try to get some hints from Dominic Chianese, "Uncle Junior" himself is here.
photo: Doug Elbinger, Elbinger Studios.
The apparent run-in between Karl Rove and the Global Warming tag team of Sheryl Crow and Loaurie David is getting top billing on the Huffington Post...
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Some of what we're working on for tonight... he has called for construction to stop .
Quoting him, via the Associated Press, “There are
other methods to protect neighborhoods. The Iraqi
premier adding “This wall reminds us of other walls,"
in an apparent reference to the wall that divided the
German city of Berlin during the Cold War.
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The War, Politics and the War Politics : To hear the President tell it, the American force in Iraq might as well be George Washington's starving troops at Valley Forge. Even though his own Pentagon says there will be no funding issues until July, he says: give him the money now...debate whether or not to save their lives later. Plus, the administration's own policy in Iraq is apparently changing -- in significant, albeit still secret ways... and secrecy was the first priority of the Pentagon as new details emerge about the cover-up after the death of Pat Tillman.But Seriously, Folks :
It's insert-foot week on the '08 campaign trail. John McCain jokes about bombing Iran, then follows up with 'Get a Life', and President Clinton gives a shout out to a Presidential candidate not his wifeODDBALL : We take a quick run through some of the odd news we missed this week, mostly just to make sure there's enough for the upcoming Plays of the Month!Witz End?
One of the salesmen of the war, Paul Wolfowitz, on the ropes at the World Bank for mixing business and pleasure. A chief deputy calls on him to resign, because of seeming favoritism over job contracts to his girlfriend. Flubya: WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : Whereever there might be anti-semitism, Bill O'Reilly will be there to defend it, Tommy Thompson digs himself in deeper looking for someone else to blame... and dividing America has made Rush Limbaugh into one of the country's "super-rich", which means he's got two reasons to say the Virginia Tech murderer "had to be a liberal."Custody Battles of the Rich & Famous
: The extremely ugly turn in the fight between Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger over their 11 year-old daughter. After he insults his daughter on tape, and somebody else releases that tape -- should either of them get custody?
Some of what we're working on for tonight... Ahmad al-Rubaye / AFP - Getty Images Iraq is "lost", because the "Dems Don't Support the Troops" distraction tactic works so much better than discussing the actual substance of his remarks. But when, as McClatchy Newspapers reports today, we find that the U.S. has abandoned the policy of "when they stand up, we'll stand down", Newsweek reports there seem to be no actual military plans drawn up for withdrawal at any time, and the new plan to stop the sectarian violence is a giant, 3-mile wall through Baghdad ... Americans can be excused for wondering: how exactly Iraq can ever be "won"? Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Robert Gates made another trip to the region, and warned Iraqi leaders that American patience is wearing
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driving directions from New York to London , you probably deserve to be messed with by the code monkeys extremely talented and smart software developers (sorry...really!).CONTINUED >>
I Don't Recall :
The Attorney General's make-or-break hearing before the Senate looking to be irreparably broken. Certainly in the eyes of at least one Conservative Senator. Mister Gonzales, today defending
his controversial decision to fire eight U-S attorneys, but insisting
that his involvement was limited... leaving some Senators dumbfounded. Republican Arlen Spector, calling that characterization "significantly, if not totally, at variance with the facts." Files Not Found : Untold numbers of e-mails, documents and other records conveniently "lost" by the Bush administration. Who needs a shredder when you have a department of "losing stuff"? Countdown's chronicle of the missing data.ODDBALL
: Baseballs, beers and flying pizza come together to make the perfect sports hightlight ... and the The Big Sky Montana "Hypothermia Challenge."Law & Odor
: A Republican Senator calls on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign, while the White House says it was pleased with his performance. John Dean joins us to analyze these events taking place through the looking glass.Virginia Tech : As that campus again honors the victims, there is reaction too, to the killer's multi-media
manifesto and to the NBC News decision to disseminate portions of
those materials. WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD : John 'Rambo' Derbyshire, Neal Boortz and the rest of the "Blame the Victims First" crowd...they used to call Karl Rove a "genius", but his act is wearing thin...and Billo sends out the O'Reilly Youth to stalk and ambush a reporter who dared It's Over. It's Finally Over
: American Idol dealing with its own backlash from the Virginia Tech tragedy, Simon Cowell forced to explain his eyeroll when a contestant mentioned the shootings. Oh and yeah... that kid with the hair... Sanjaya? He's finally gone. Our American Idol princess joins us.
"I think it was Osama bin Laden's.'' - Karl Rove , asked yesterday whose idea it was to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq. "One of the lessons of these tragedies is to make sure that when people see somebody or know somebody who is exhibiting abnormal behavior, you do something about it, to suggest that somebody take a look." - President Bush , referring to VT Killer Cho Seung-Hui, who was "red flagged' for years as troubled, abnormal and disturbed -- even declared "mentally ill and potentially dangerous" by a Virginia court, yet was still able to purchase firearms. "Bomb bomb bomb... bomb bomb Iran." - Senator John McCain , responding in song to the question from a supporter: "When are we going to send an air mail message to Tehran?" "I don't recall." ["I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall." "I don't recall."] - Alberto Gonzales , testifying at least 45 times today at a Senate hearing that he could not recall
events he was asked about. Just some of what we're working on for tonight. Countdown 8pm ET / 5pm PT
Someone has posted a clip on YouTube of what appears to be an injured student at Virginia Tech being interviewed in the hospital. We'll try to get some more information on this, but it is a frightening and heartbreaking description of what students faced during the rampage of killer Cho Seung-Hui.John 'Rambo' Derbyshire , who chastises the victims, "at least count the shots and jump him reloading or changing hands. Better yet, just jump him."Neal Boortz , who characterized these young victims as evidence of the "wussification of America," and asked: "How the hell do 25 students allow
themselves to be lined up against the wall in a classroom and picked off one by
one?"Update: The student is named Garrett Evans, and he's from the Chicago area. The clip is from an interview with ABC station WLS, and they have much more with Evans on their site.
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Update: 4:25pm As Alex Witt has just reported, NBC News has a received a communication, believed to have been sent by gunman Cho Seung-Hui, containing "some images" and "a lengthy diatribe".CONTINUED >>
The Day After :
The murderer Virginia Tech authorities thought had left the campus, perhaps the state, was a Virginia Tech student, was still on campus, had made bomb threats against the campus last week and had reportedly, left behind an extraordinary letter.Profiles and Courage
:The warnings about the Virginia Tech shooter, the failed attempt to warn police about him. And the successful effort by a Holocaust survivor -- to save some of his own students, at the cost of his own life. Death and Distinction :
There are other young men and women to be remembered, to be eulogized. Same ages, same aspirations. Some, trying to work their way into colleges like Virginia Tech. Our grief about the victims there is genuine and noble. What happened to our grief about those kids we've lost in Iraq?Gonzo Interrupted : WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD :
The sad political pundit who jumped to conclusions of terrorism and bigoted smears, and what could be more cowardly than to write that the Virginia Tech victims should be "ashamed" of themselves for not fighting off their killer like some action movie hero? It is John Derbyshire and Nathaniel Blake who should be ashamed today.Finding Facts and Faith : We end the Countdown where we began, a day of contrasts at Virginia Tech. Details about the worst of students and events there, and poignant memorials to the best of students and events there.
"When I first heard about the multiple shootings at Virginia Tech
yesterday, my first thought was about my friends, and my second thought
was 'I bet it was Seung Cho.'" - Ian McFarlane, an AOL staffer who was a former classmate of Cho Seung-Hui, the man police have identified as the gunman in the Virginia Tech rampage.two disturbing plays he says were written by Cho.When we read Cho's plays, it was like something out of a nightmare. The
plays had really twisted, macabre violence that used weapons I wouldn't
have even thought of. Before Cho got to class that day, we students
were talking to each other with serious worry about whether he could be
a school shooter. I was even thinking of scenarios of what I would do
in case he did come in with a gun, I was that freaked out about him.
When the students gave reviews of his play in class, we were very
careful with our words in case he decided to snap. Even the professor
didn't pressure him to give closing comments. That was last year.On The Scene blog.clicked has a fascinating collection of the online lives of some of the victims. (helps if you have a FaceBook account)important development s in the Alberto Gonzales case either. Trying to work the balance on this busy news day. Stay tuned...
Massacre at Virginia Tech :
We get the latest details from NBC's Kevin Corke, and analysis from former FBI agent Clint Van Zandt. Survival Story :
This campus crisis as survived by one Virginia Tech sophomore. Trey Perkins tells us his amazing story of survival as he watched a gunman enter his classroom and open fire.Gun Control : Columbine was supposed to spark change in our gun control laws, yet Virginia Tech has already been cited as a reason for toughening them -- and relaxing them. 
