Another rat jumps off : Key Bush Latin America Aide, Otto Reich, resigns

[CatWoman]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Otto Reich, who took a hard line against presidents Fidel Castro (news - web sites) in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, resigned as a top adviser to President Bush (news - web sites) on Latin America, officials said on Wednesday.


White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) said in a statement that she accepted the resignation of Reich "with regret" and praised his "service to our country and his commitment to a brighter future for the western hemisphere."

Reich said last month he planned to quit for "personal and financial reasons" and that he may join Bush's re-election campaign. Rice's statement did not say what Reich's plans were, but an aide said he planned to return to the private sector.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040616/pl_nm/latam_reich_dc

[burythehatchet]

1. time to cash in

[NMDemDist2]

2. Reich?? holy shit!

we'll see if he joins the campaign

[stevedeshazer]

3. Whoa!

That's a BIG rat!

on edit: some Otto Reich information for those who don't know.




Ad placed by the Young Republicans, one of the groups under the cognizance of the Office of Public Diplomacy and discussed by Oliver North in a March 20, 1985 memorandum.

much more: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB40/

[CatWoman]

4. I'm really starting to believe that Capitol Blue Story.............

[stevedeshazer]

6. Unhinged

He's coming unhinged...me too.

[Sapphocrat]

5. And an especially evil one...

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB40/

[stevedeshazer]

8. What can I say?

You got it, too.

[Sapphocrat]

11. GMTA :) n/t

[CatWoman]

7. Just found this on Yahoo -- Resignations from the BFEE admin

Karen Hughes - Bush Aide
Mary Matalin - Assistant to President
Lawrence Lindsay - White House economic aide
Harvey Pitt - Chairman of SEC
Henry Kissinger - (3 days in 9/11 commission)
Nicholas Calio - White House Director
Eugene Scalia - solicitor Department of Labor
Patricia Ware - Executive Director Advisory Council on HIV
Joe Albaugh - Director of Federal Emergency Management
Trent Lott - Senate Majority Leader
John Dilulio - White House Director for Faith-based initiatives
Glenn Hubbard - Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers
John Brady Kiesling - political officer at US Embassy in Athens, Greece.
Richard Egan - Ambassador to Ireland
Janet Rehnquist - Assistant Solicitor General
John H Brown - Foreign Service Officer
Charlotte Beers - PR, State Department
Richard Perle - Chairman of National Security advisory Council
Jack Walters - Boone County GOP Chairman, Missouri
Eric Schaeffer - Head of Office of Regulatory Enforcement
James Furnish - Deputy chief of the U.S. Forest Service
Martin Sullivan - Cultural property Advisor
Richard S. Lanier - Cultural property Advisor
Gary Vikan - Panel member of cultural property
Thomas White - Civilian Army Chief
Howard Schmidt - White House cybersecurity adviser
Mercer Reynolds III - U.S. ambassador to Switzerland
Rand Beers - Senior Director of National Security Council for combating Terrorism
Mitch Daniels - White House Budget Director
Paul J. Redmond - assistant secretary for information analysis at the Department of Homeland
Ari Fleischer - White House Spokesman
Christie Whitman - head of the Environmental Protection Agency
Victoria Clark - Assistant Secretary of Defense
Mary Wright, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Ulan Bator, Mongolia
Paul O'Neill - Treasury Secretary
David Kay - Weapons Inspector
Joe Wilson - Ambassador and nuclear weapons investigator
Richard Foster - WhiteHouse advisor on medicare
Gen. Eric Shineski - Army Chief of Staff
Richard Clarke - WhiteHouse advisor and counter terrorism expert
Roger Cressey - WhiteHouse counter terrorism expert
Sylvia K. Lowrance - EPA official
Rich Biondi - EPA official
Jeremy Symons - EPA official
Bruce C. Buckheit, - EPA official
George Tenet - Director of CIA
Eric Schaeffer - EPA official
James Pavitt - head of CIA clandestine service
Colin Powell - Sec of State, to leave shortly
Richard Armitage - deputy secretary of State, to leave shortly
Otto Reich - Bush Latin America Aide

... this is only a partial list ....

[Tatiana]

9. DAMN.

If a war criminal like Reich resigns, there must be something BIG up. I wonder these recent resignations are because Bush is nutso, or if there are some real criminal charges coming down the pike and everyone is trying to steer clear of getting caught up.

[CatWoman]

10. to be fair, some of those people were fired

but the great majority resigned.

[camby]

15. I think U hit nail on head

[mopaul]

12. jeeeez what a list!....i had no idea....thanks catwoman.....n/t

[Sapphocrat]

13. Gadzooks!

I follow this stuff with a near-obsession... but when you see the whole list (or even part of it) laid out in front of you... :wow:

[Pobeka]

14. I would love to see a comparable list for Clinton.

One point I'm thinking of bringing up on my trip back to conservative-land next week is the number of very high level officials who've resigned and become whistle-blowers.

Who in the Clinton Admin at the level of a Richard Clarke or higher bailed out and said "this guy stinks" ?

[CatWoman]

16. and most of the Clinton resignations

occurred after the first term was completed. but no one (well, except Morris and Stephanopolus) wrote books. And even they didn't tell the world what an ignorant fuck Clinton was.

[lanparty]

17. EPA guys ....

That was supposed to be a revolving door in the Bush administration. All those guys are lobbyists for big polluters. They're just taking turns gutting environmental protection.

[berry]

23. I know you said this is only a partial list (though it's amazing), but

do you mind if I add one name?

Thomas Scully, former Medicare Administrator who quit just ahead of a scandal that may yet catch up with him, and now is making big bucks lobbying for big Pharma. Yech.

[0007]

30. LIke to see Thomas Scully in jail, or homeless, or sick without meds.

He is one big fat fucking rat!!

[LiberalCat]

26. Wow

Such a long list. I don't remember the Mary Matalin resignation. When and why did she resign?

[CatWoman]

29. to spend more time with her family, of course

http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/17/calio.resigns/

[peacetalksforall]

18. IMO He's going to be the Negroponte of Iraq in Cuba. Get ready.

They only have a few months to take Cuba for their friends. Watch for more laws and agreements to be broken.

[radfringe]

19. kinda funny how all of a sudden

the bush* rats all want to spend time with their families or need to jump ship for personal reasons...

me thinks there is some mighty rotten cheese in the holds of the ship of state

[DemoTex]

20. Adios mother-flogger

His "personal and financial reasons" give me laugher's cramps. Too fucking funny. It is unraveling, more quickly than I anticipated.

That means Cheney is toast. He must go to save the regime. If Powell throws in the towel (good slogan, there), Bu$h might be replaced on the ticket.

[LittleApple81]

21. When Ari Fleischer and Karen Hughes resigned (pretty close in dates)

I told my son: THEY ARE IN THE INNER CIRCLE. They know something really rotten is going to come out. They are getting out while the getting out is still good.

[devilgrrl]

22. They're still blathering bullshit artists.

Fleischer still whores for the Bush Crime Family. Also, Karen Hughes may have quit but she still seems to be around quite a bit. Same goes for Carville's wife... what's her name... whatever.

[LittleApple81]

24. Mary Matalin. But they are not there to be questioned, and I think

they want to "bask" in the glory but not take the punches. And Matalin went back when called by her master.

[David Zephyr]

25. Catwoman, Otto Reich Is A Rat Among Rats.

Thanks for the story on this very vile human being.

[DemoTex]

27. Yeats said it best (in "The Second Coming"):

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all convictions, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

[peekaloo]

28. Geez......when the Nazis start bailing ya gotta wonder........

further evidence Dr. Rice-a-Roni is insane....praising Reich (great name for the Boo$h's to bandy about) for his "service to our country and his commitment to a brighter future for the western hemisphere."

Personal and financial reasons? Someone must have made him an offer he could further exploit.