NationStates Jolt Archive


Bush To Press: How do you keep finding out about our super secret programs?

New Foxxinnia
28-06-2006, 00:03
WASHINGTON DC- During a press conference today President Bush desperately asked the press, particularly the New York Times, how they are finding out about the government's super secret anti-terrorism measures. "Following the recent publishing of the secret financing-tracking program by the New York Times, the administration and I would like to know how you could have found about this," Bush said desperately. "I mean, if the press could find out about something like this, imagine how easily a terrorist could find out about important secret programs." This is not the first time this has happened however. Last year it was made public that the extremely important, super-secret NSA wire-trapping program was listening in on USA citizens. Now this massive program is essentially rendered useless, because of extremely weak intelligence security. "Seriously, this is really important," Bush pleaded. "Really."
Skinny87
28-06-2006, 00:04
"Awww, come on, tell me. I'll be your friend!" Added Bush.
Hydesland
28-06-2006, 00:05
Because the CIA and NSA suck, but the SIS (Mi6) are teh pwnag3
Assis
28-06-2006, 00:05
one word: patriots.
Ginnoria
28-06-2006, 00:06
Damned liberal media, gets you every time.
TeHe
28-06-2006, 00:07
Because the CIA and NSA suck, but the SIS (Mi6) are teh pwnag3

Which is why they almost instated a Soviet mole as the head of Mi6 during the Cold War. :rolleyes:
Hydesland
28-06-2006, 00:07
Which is why they almost instated a Soviet mole as the head of Mi6 during the Cold War. :rolleyes:

That was then, this is now;)

Edit: Besides, that was the KGB, they pwn3d all.
Utracia
28-06-2006, 00:11
Some newspapers still know how to investigate. I'm sure if you ask how they did it really nice Dubya, then the NYT will tell use to shove it, also really nicely.
Ginnoria
28-06-2006, 00:13
That was then, this is now;)

Edit: Besides, that was the KGB, they pwn3d all.
Mossad > KGB + Mi6
Muravyets
28-06-2006, 00:14
The media find out the same way the terrorists do: Bush tells them.

Hardball on MSNBC just replayed Bush's 2001 press conference in which he announced and described the sh-sh-secret bank records program that the Times inconveniently just "revealed."
Super-power
28-06-2006, 00:14
one word: patriots.
Everybody know's they're the real one's who rule the US :eek:
Jenrak
28-06-2006, 00:15
WASHINGTON DC- During a press conference today President Bush desperately asked the press, particularly the New York Times, how they are finding out about the government's super secret anti-terrorism measures. "Following the recent publishing of the secret financing-tracking program by the New York Times, the administration and I would like to know how you could have found about this," Bush said desperately. "I mean, if the press could find out about something like this, imagine how easily a terrorist could find out about important secret programs." This is not the first time this has happened however. Last year it was made public that the extremely important, super-secret NSA wire-trapping program was listening in on USA citizens. Now this massive program is essentially rendered useless, because of extremely weak intelligence security. "Seriously, this is really important," Bush pleaded. "Really."

Can I get a link?
The Lone Alliance
28-06-2006, 00:15
one word: patriots.
The Lalilulelo!!!!
Colodia
28-06-2006, 00:16
Wow, awesome. Link?
New Foxxinnia
28-06-2006, 00:19
None.
Jenrak
28-06-2006, 00:25
None.

I will find this information (while comical) sketchy until a reliable source is provided.
New Foxxinnia
28-06-2006, 00:26
Go for it.
Lunatic Goofballs
28-06-2006, 00:26
Ninja clowns. That's how. :)
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
28-06-2006, 00:27
The media find out the same way the terrorists do: Bush tells them.
After all, the ship of state is the only ship which leaks from the top.
Muravyets
28-06-2006, 00:33
After all, the ship of state is the only ship which leaks from the top.
Yea, verily.
Markreich
28-06-2006, 00:34
That was then, this is now;)

Edit: Besides, that was the KGB, they pwn3d all.

Sorry, I just can't buy that a country which had a Department To Study the problem of Washing Powder pwn3d much of anything...

(NB: True! The CCCP actually had an economic department to try to figure out why the country had to import laundry detergent and the like. AFAIK, they never solved the problem!)
Pride and Prejudice
28-06-2006, 00:48
*laughs at everything here*

Even if NONE of this were true, it's made me laugh!
Deep Kimchi
28-06-2006, 00:49
one word: patriots.

well...

Oh, ya think? Well, I got news for you, Moby: I’m not exactly thrilled about any such comparison MYSELF, okay? See, I didn’t spend the last ten years crawling in the sand at jihad training camp, getting my knuckles thwacked by an Imam every time I forgot a Quran verse, and living in smelly Baghdad safehouse just to get compared to a bunch of trucker-hat AltWeekly motards from Austin and Seattle.

Me, like the American Left? I mean, are you fucking joking me?

As. Fucking. If.
[NS]Liasia
28-06-2006, 01:09
Is this true? Cause I can't see him appearing that weak unless he was making a joke, which the OP doesn't seem to suggest. Linky?
Commonalitarianism
28-06-2006, 01:44
The programs are giant and full of holes. Asking a company like Bank of America or AT&T to keep a secret and treating it like a spy agency just doesn't work.
Desperate Measures
28-06-2006, 01:46
New Foxxinnia has just won the game of life.
Angermanland
28-06-2006, 10:40
Mossad > KGB + Mi6


Mossad is the Israeli one, yes?

... somehow, their agents still got busted by, of all things, NZ and/or Canadian border security, if i remember rightly. that doesn't sound like pawnage to me...

hehe. i remember some french agents/terrorists a decade or so back getting busted by the NZ public, as much as anything. kinda funny from that angle.
BogMarsh
28-06-2006, 10:56
WASHINGTON DC- During a press conference today President Bush desperately asked the press, particularly the New York Times, how they are finding out about the government's super secret anti-terrorism measures. "Following the recent publishing of the secret financing-tracking program by the New York Times, the administration and I would like to know how you could have found about this," Bush said desperately. "I mean, if the press could find out about something like this, imagine how easily a terrorist could find out about important secret programs." This is not the first time this has happened however. Last year it was made public that the extremely important, super-secret NSA wire-trapping program was listening in on USA citizens. Now this massive program is essentially rendered useless, because of extremely weak intelligence security. "Seriously, this is really important," Bush pleaded. "Really."

We learn all about it from Carlisle Group Investor Relations communiques..
Demented Hamsters
28-06-2006, 11:01
Maybe all Bush wants to do is offer them a job in the NSA. They seem to be much better at investigation and security than the clowns already there.
Non Aligned States
28-06-2006, 11:03
Ninja clowns. That's how. :)

Until you've gotten ninja clowns with invulnerable testicles LG, they're only posers

......

wait a minute...

Damnit. So that's what your planning you sneaky little devil. You plan on training your offspring as ninjas don't you? With your genetic material, they'll be invincible!

*contacts skynet*
Straughn
28-06-2006, 11:05
Damned liberal media, gets you every time.
Hahahahhahahahaha!!
Hoofd-Nederland
28-06-2006, 11:46
"I'll screw this intern if you don't tell me"... oh... wrong president? damn...

"I'll start a war if you don't tell me"
JiangGuo
28-06-2006, 11:50
Mossad > KGB + Mi6

KGB in its hay day could have stolen the nuclear football from Nixon, and have the chairs in the oval office in Red Square within a week of the order being given.
Crown Prince Satan
28-06-2006, 16:29
well...
Well done. These bastard peaceniks think they are patriots! HA! Burn them all... Shut the voices of dissent....
Sumamba Buwhan
28-06-2006, 17:19
The media find out the same way the terrorists do: Bush tells them.

Hardball on MSNBC just replayed Bush's 2001 press conference in which he announced and described the sh-sh-secret bank records program that the Times inconveniently just "revealed."


Exactly! I remember them talking about how they wanted to track the flow of money, in a much more personally sensitive way, through bank transactions and such and banks were having to spend extra money to comply with govt requests.