Bush Didn't Know

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20050418/a_williams18.art.htm
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The administration's public relations efforts have been under scrutiny since USA TODAY reported that the Education Department, through a Ketchum contract, paid $240,000 to conservative commentator Armstrong Williams for helping to promote Bush's No Child Left Behind program.

Bush said Wednesday that he does not think taxpayer money should be used to promote administration policies in that way. "I expect my Cabinet secretaries to make sure that that practice doesn't go forward," he said at a White House news conference.

Of the arrangement with Williams, Bush said: "We didn't know about this in the White House"...


http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-02-22-bush-ports_x.htm
White House: Bush not initially aware of port deal

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President Bush wasn't aware that shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports were being sold to a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates until after his administration had approved the deal, the White House said Wednesday.


http://hotair.com/archives/the-blog/2006/05/30/haditha-bush-didnt-know-until-time-magazine-reported-it/
Haditha: Bush didn’t know until Time magazine reported it

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Says Tony Snow, who adds that it was NSA Stephen Hadley who broke the news to the president.


http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/06/02/bush_didnt_know_about_probe/
Bush didn't know about probe

It took nearly a month for President Bush to be told that the military was investigating reports that Marines killed unarmed civilians in Iraq, the White House said yesterday.

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But, Snow said, Bush was not informed about the investigation until March 11, when he was briefed by Stephen Hadley, the national security adviser. Bush pledged yesterday that the Pentagon would "get to the bottom of this" and that the results of the inquiry would be made public.



http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/8/215257/257

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Peter Galbraith - former U.S. diplomat: January 2003 the President invited three members of the Iraqi opposition to join him to watch the Super Bowl. In the course of the conversation the Iraqis realized that the President was not aware that there was a difference between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. He looked at them and said, "You mean...they're not, you know, there, there's this difference. What is it about?"


http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1101030707-461781,00.htmlJul. 7, 2003

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Meeting last month at a sweltering U.S. base outside Doha, Qatar, with his top Iraq commanders, President Bush skipped quickly past the niceties and went straight to his chief political obsession: Where are the weapons of mass destruction? Turning to his Baghdad proconsul, Paul Bremer, Bush asked, " Are you in charge of finding WMD?" Bremer said no, he was not. Bush then put the same question to his military commander, General Tommy Franks. But Franks said it wasn't his job either. A little exasperated, Bush asked, So who is in charge of finding WMD? After aides conferred for a moment,...


http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=195&row=1
Bush Didn't know about 9/11



http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/12/bush-not-aware-that-his-own-fema-director-no-longer-works-for-him/
Bush Not Aware That His Own FEMA Director No Longer Works For Him

"Maybe you know something I don’t know." That was President Bush’s reponse to a reporter who asked whether he had heard that his own FEMA director, Michael Brown, resigned today from the administration. For the second time today, Bush demonstrated that the Commander-in-Chief is not on top of things.

Just bizarre.

When Cheney shot Whittington, I posted that Whittington's wife is James A Baker, III's older sister.

My Mother phoned me the next day, saying I had betrayed a trust.

My family is heavily vested in KBR. They had to be monitoring or filtering this site for her to know that.

That type of filtering capability is impressive. Lot of computational "oomph" required to acheive that sort of granularity!

:sarcasm:

That's the expression his father used.

Remember that Bush didn't know about all of the Katrina victims stranded in the New Orleans SuperDome until he saw it on TV.

not til later anyway...