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Big Barbecue for CIA: Bush 41 Guest of Honor
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The CIA threw a 60th birthday party barbecue for itself at its Langley, Va., headquarters today, with former President George H.W. Bush as the special guest of honor.
According to a CIA statement, Bush, the director of the CIA from 1976 to 1977, spoke to some 1,500 CIA employees and criticized "doomsayers who know so little about what you do."
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In an unusually detailed description of the event, the CIA statement says Bush was invited to attend the outdoor event by CIA director Michael Hayden, and "cut a birthday cake and lunched on a barbecue menu that included pulled barbecue pork, barbecue chicken, hamburgers, cole slaw, German potato salad, baked beans and brownies."
There was no mention of French Fries or the type of beverages served.
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September 18, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (18)
Slow news day, huh? Maybe ABC should conduct an investigation as to why "German" potato salad was served and not traditional potato salad. Indeed, maybe Waxman should hold hearings on the "German potato salad" issue.
Posted by: jim jones | Sep 18, 2007 4:19:27 PM
How about the biggest gift of all...a rendition flight for Kissinger to Chile...think bush daddy and hayden might unwrap that surprise?????
Posted by: daddy | Sep 18, 2007 4:33:53 PM
Do you think they fondly remembered bushie 41 and his testimony of lies before congressional panels that probed his CIA ties which bushie 41 failed to admit? No, they conveniently forgot that as they passed the PORK and drooled over the history of the USA which they tampered with.
Posted by: daddy | Sep 18, 2007 4:42:17 PM
waterboarding the watermelons and listening to greased pigs squeel(sp?) was part of the fun...
Posted by: daddy | Sep 18, 2007 4:49:14 PM
M. Bush worked for the CIA in the 1960s as well but does not want this fact to be known. He worked on Cuban projects through his "oil company" and was later identified as a CIA agent by Hoover in a letter connecting him to the "follow-up" of the JFK assassination.
Posted by: Lucien Sarti | Sep 18, 2007 5:03:57 PM
OH GOOD, I SUPPOSE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE PAID FOR IS FLIGHT THERE TO THE PARTY AND BACK. THEY ONLY HAVE MORE MONEY THAN GOD. THEY SOULD BE REMINDED AS GOOD CHRISTIANS, IT HARDER FOR A RICH MAN TO GET TO HEAVEN, THAN A CAMEL TO GET THREW THE EYE OF A NEEDLE. KEEP RAKEN IN THE BUCKS BUSH.THERE IS STILL LOTS OF OIL TO BE HAD FOR THE PRICE OF HOW MANY AMERERICAN SONS AND DAUGHTER, BUT NOT YOURS. YA
Posted by: DONNA | Sep 18, 2007 5:07:02 PM
They were really celebrating the record OPIUM CROP IN AFGHANISTAN ! That ensures they will have plenty of money for their covert operations and it will help them continue their "War on Drugs".
Posted by: Steve | Sep 18, 2007 5:22:56 PM
So? I didn't get an invitation. What's next? Are you going to wave food at me?
Posted by: VeteranD | Sep 18, 2007 5:59:28 PM
BUSH IS A GREAT MAN! BOTH OF THEM!
Posted by: steve | Sep 18, 2007 7:42:58 PM
Bush was not Director of the CIA long enough for him to be a special guest - give me a break. He couldn't keep down a job - he kept changing till he became Prez - and he didn't hold that job very long - the American people saw to that.
Posted by: Alexander Bernal | Sep 18, 2007 7:44:20 PM
It is rather obvious that George Tenet wasn't the only head of the Firm to kiss HW.
Posted by: Luis Rodriguez | Sep 18, 2007 8:14:35 PM
There really should be an oversight committee of publically elected officials that keeps tabs on EVERYTHING the CIA does.. they are shady, but nobody knows!!!
Posted by: Robert | Sep 18, 2007 8:58:57 PM
Good grief, do only left-wing read this site???
Posted by: Kevin | Sep 20, 2007 3:55:29 AM
No one eats french fries at a barbecue
Posted by: jebus | Sep 20, 2007 9:09:37 AM
The entire organization shouldn't be concerning themselves with BBQ's, but how to recover the lost credibility and individual responsibility they were entrusted with prior to some of the fiascos of recent decades. However, if one cannot do that, then the next best thing to divert attention is to put on a Texas-style shindig.
Posted by: Woodrow | Sep 20, 2007 1:15:17 PM
Your tax dollars at work.
Posted by: bobby stickers | Sep 20, 2007 5:29:38 PM
Well I can still taste the barbecue ribs,and delicous potatoe salad. It'stoo bad that former President Bill Clinton wasn't invited, because he was a big CIA Asset, as the Governor of Arkansas, because the CIA filled Planes providedbilions of dollarsfor Osama bin Laden's war against the Soviet Union's militry forces in Afghansitan.
Posted by: EagleWisdom | Sep 25, 2007 4:19:03 PM
Pulled pork as opposed to chopped and no hushpuppies? Something sounds very...strange!
Posted by: Edward Teach | Sep 25, 2007 5:46:20 PM
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