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Unlike XFree86 3.3.x where there are multiple X server binaries, each
of which drive different hardware, XFree86 4.0.2 has a single X
server binary called
XFree86. This binary can either have one
or more video drivers linked in statically, or, more usually, dynamically
load the video drivers and other modules that are needed.
XFree86 4.0.2 has X server support for most UNIX(R) and UNIX-like operating systems on Intel/x86 platforms, plus support for Linux on Alpha, PowerPC, IA-64, Sparc, and Mips platforms, and for Darwin on PowerPC. Work on support for additional architectures and operating systems is in progress, and is planned for future releases.
The XFree86 X server has a built-in run-time loader, donated by Metro Link. This loader can load normal object files and libraries in most of the commonly used formats. Since the loader doesn't rely on an operating system's native dynamic loader support, it works on platforms that don't provide this feature, and makes it possible for the modules to be operating system independent (although not, of course, independent of CPU architecture). This means that a module compiled on Linux/x86 can be loaded by an X server running on Solaris/x86, or FreeBSD, or even OS/2.
One of the main benefits of this loader is that when modules are updated, they do not need to be recompiled for every different operating system. In the future we plan to take advantage of this to provide more frequent driver module updates in between major releases.
The loader in version 4.0.2 has support for Intel (x86), Alpha and PowerPC platforms. It also has preliminary support for Sparc platforms.
The X server makes use of modules for video drivers, X server extensions, font rasterisers, input device drivers, framebuffer layers (like mfb, cfb, etc), and internal components used by some drivers (like XAA),
The module interfaces (API and ABI) used in this release is still subject to change without notice. While we will attempt to provide backward compatibility for the module interfaces as of the 4.0 release (meaning that 4.0 modules will work with future core X server binaries), we cannot guarantee this.
Note about module security
The XFree86 X server runs with root privileges, i.e. the X server loadable modules also run with these privileges. For this reason we recommend that all users be careful to only use loadable modules from reliable sources, otherwise the introduction of viruses and contaminated code can occur and wreak havoc on your system. We hope to have a mechanism for signing/verifying the modules that we provide available in a future release.
The X server configuration file format has been extended to handle some
of the new functionality. The
xf86config utility can be used
to generate a basic config file, that may require some manual editing.
The X server also has preliminary support for generating a basic config
file. This is done by running (as root) "
XFree86 -configure".
Alternatively, the sample config file
XF86Config.eg that is
installed in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11 may be used as a starting point.
XF86Setup utility is currently not usable, but work is
continuing in this area.
The main changes are covered here, but please refer to the XF86Config manual page for more comprehensive information:
.so suffix
should no longer be specified with module names. Options may
be supplied for modules by loading the module via a SubSection
instead of the usual Load keyword. The
bitmap module
is the only font module that is loaded by default. No server
extensions are loaded by default, but some are built-in to the
server. It is strongly recommended that the extension module
containing a range of small miscellaneous extensions (
be loaded because some commonly used things won't work correctly
without it. The following example shows how to load all the server
extensions plus the Type1 and TrueType fonts support, and a
commented example that shows how to pass options to an extension
(this one is for loading the misc extensions (
with the XFree86-VidModeExtension disabled):
Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "record" Load "glx" Load "pex5" Load "xie" Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" # SubSection "extmod" # Option "Omit XFree86-VidModeExtension" # EndSubSection EndSection
where the option just has a name specified. The name is case insensitive, and white space and underscore characters are ignored. The second type consists of a name and a value:Option "name"
The value is passed transparently as a string to the code that uses the option. Common value formats are integer, boolean, real, string and frequency. The following boolean option values are recognised as meaning TRUE:Option "name" "value"
"1", and no value. The values recognised
as FALSE are
"0". In addition to this,
"no" may be prepended
to the name of a boolean option to indicate that it is
false. Frequency options can have the strings
kHz, or
MHz appended to the numerical value
Note: the value must always be enclosed in double quotes
"), even when it is numerical.
Option "blank time" "10" Option "standby time" "20" Option "suspend time" "30" Option "off time" "40"
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard 1" Driver "keyboard" Option "AutoRepeat" "500 5" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse 1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "SampleRate" "80" EndSection
UseModes" keyword. The Monitor section may also
include Options. Options that are monitor-specific, like the
"DPMS" and
"Sync on Green" options are best
specified in the Monitor sections.
Section "Device" Identifier "MGA 1" Driver "mga" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection
See the XF86Config man page for a more detailed explanation of the format of the new ServerLayout section.Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout 1" Screen "MGA 1" Screen "MGA 2" RightOf "MGA 1" InputDevice "Keyboard 1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse 1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse 2" "SendCoreEvents" Option "BlankTime" "5" EndSection
The config file search patch has been extended, with the directories
/etc/X11 and
/usr/X11R6/etc/X11 being added. The full
search path details are documented in the XF86Config manual page.
The following new X server command line options have been added:
This specifies the colour depth that the server is running at. The default is 8 for most drivers. Most drivers support the values 8, 15, 16 and 24. Some drivers also support the values 1 and 4. Some drivers may also support other depths. Note that the depth is different from the ``bpp'' that was specified with previous versions. The depth is the number of bits in each pixel that are significant in determining the pixel's value. The bpp is the total size occupied by each pixel, including bits that are not used. The old
-bppoption is no longer recognised because it isn't a good way of specifying the server behaviour.
This specifies the bpp format to use for the framebuffer. This may be used in 24-bit mode to force a framebuffer format that is different from what the driver chooses by default. In most cases there should be no need to use this option.
This specifies that the client-side pixmap format should be the packed 24-bit format that was often used by the 3.3.x servers. The default is the more common 32-bit format. There should normally be no need to use this option.
This specifies that the client-side pixmap format should be the sparse 32-bit format. This is the default, so there should normally be no need to use this option.
This specifies which ServerLayout section in the config file to use. When this option is not specified, the first ServerLayout section is used. When there is no ServerLayout section, the first Screen section is used.
This specifies which Screen section in the config file to use. When this option is not specified, the first ServerLayout section is used. When there is no ServerLayout section, the first Screen section is used.
This specifies which InputDevice section in the config file to use for the core keyboard. This option may be used in conjunction with the
This specifies which InputDevice section in the config file to use for the core pointer. This option may be used in conjunction with the
This specifies the module search path. The path should be a comma-separated list of absolute directory paths to search for server modules. When specified here, it overrides the value specified in the config file. This option is only available when the server is started by the
This specifies the log file name. When specified here, it overrides the default value. This option is only available when the server is started by the
This specifies that the
scanpcimodule should be loaded and executed. This does a scan of the PCI bus.
This options specifies the verbosity level to use for the log file. The default is 3.
The following X server command line options have been changed since 3.3.x:
This option specifies the verbosity level to use for the server messages that get written to stderr. It may be specified multiple times to increase the verbosity level (as with 3.3.x), or the verbosity level may be specified explicitly as a number. The default verbosity level is 1.
This option has been extended to allow non-root users to specify a relative config file name. The config file search path will be used to locate the file in this case. This makes it possible for users to choose from multiple config files that the the sysadmin has provided.
The XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) has been completely rewritten from scratch for XFree86 4.x. Most drivers implement acceleration by making use of the XAA module.
Some multi-head configurations are supported in XFree86 4.x, primarily with multiple PCI/AGP cards. However, this is an area that is still being worked on, and we expect that the range of configurations for which it works well will increase in future releases. A configuration that is known to work well in most cases is multiple (supported) Matrox cards.
One of the main problems is with drivers not sufficiently initialising cards that were not initialised at boot time. This has been improved somewhat with the INT10 support that is used by most drivers (which allows secondary card to be "soft-booted", but in some cases there are other issues that still need to be resolved. Some combinations can be made to work better by changing which card is the primary card (either by using a different PCI slot, or by changing the system BIOS's preference for the primary card).
Xinerama is an X server extension that allows multiple physical screens to behave as a single screen. With traditional multi-head in X11, windows cannot span or cross physical screens. Xinerama removes this limitation. Xinerama does, however, require that the physical screens all have the same root depth, so it isn't possible, for example, to use an 8-bit screen together with a 16-bit screen in Xinerama mode.
Xinerama is not enabled by default, and can be enabled with the
+xinerama command line option for the X server.
Xinerama was included with X11R6.4. The version included in XFree86 4.x was completely rewritten for improved performance and correctness.
Known problems:
DGA 2.0 is included in 4.0.2, but is not implemented by all drivers.
Preliminary documentation for the client libraries can be found in the
README.DGA document. A good degree of backwards compatibility
with version 1.0 is provided.
The VESA(R) Display Data Channel (DDC[tm]) standard allows the monitor to tell the video card (or on some cases the computer directly) about itself; particularly the supported screen resolutions and refresh rates.
Partial or complete DDC support is available in most of the video drivers.
DDC is enabled by default, but can be disabled with a "Device" section
Option "NoDDC". We have support for DDC versions 1
and 2; these can be disabled independently with
Option "NoDDC1"
Option "NoDDC2".
At startup the server prints out DDC information from the display,
but it does not yet use it the determine modelines. For some drivers,
the X server's new
-configure option uses the DDC information
when generating the config file.
Changed behavior caused by DDC. Several drivers uses DDC information to
set the screen size and pitch. This can be overridden by explicitly
resetting it to the and non-DDC default value 75 with the
75 command line option for the X server, or by specifying appropriate
screen dimensions with the "DisplaySize" keyword in the "Monitor" section
of the config file.
Precision Insight (now part of the Professional Services group at VA Linux Systems) was provided with funding and support from Red Hat, SGI, 3Dfx, Intel, ATI, and Matrox to integrate the GLX extension for 3D rendering in an X11 window. The 3D core rendering component is the Mesa library. SGI has released the sources to the GLX extension framework under an open license, which essentially provides the glue between the 3D library and this windowing system. Precision Insight has integrated these components into the XFree86 X Server and added a Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI). Direct Rendering provides a highly optimized path for sending 3D data directly to the graphics hardware. This release provides a complete implementation of direct rendering support for the 3Dfx Banshee, Voodoo3 and Voodoo5 graphics cards, as well as the Intel i810/i815 cards, ATI Rage 128, and Matrox G400. Updated information on DRI compatible drivers can be found at the DRI Project on SourceForge.
The XVideo extension is supported in XFree86 4.x. An XvQueryPortAttributes function has been added as well as support for XvImages. XvImages are XImages in alternate color spaces such as YUV and can be passed to the server through shared memory segments. This allows clients to display YUV data with high quality hardware scaling and filtering.
The X Rendering extension provides a 2D rendering model that more closely matches application demands and hardware capabilities. It provides a rendering model derived from Plan 9 based on Porter/Duff image composition rather than binary raster operations.
Using simple compositing operators provided by most hardware, Render can draw anti-aliased text and geometric objects as well as perform translucent image overlays and other image operations not possible with the core X rendering system.
XFree86 4.0.2 provides a partial implementation of Render sufficient for drawing anti-aliased text and image composition. Still to be implemented are geometric primitives and affine transformation of images.
Unlike the core protocol, Render provides no font support for applications, rather it allows applications to upload glyphs for display on the screen. This allows the client greater control over text rendering and complete access to the available font information while still providing hardware acceleration. The Xft library provides font access for Render applications.
On the client side, the Xft library provides access to fonts for
applications using the FreeType library, version 2. FreeType currently
supports Type1 and TrueType font files, a future release is expected to
support BDF and PCF files as well, so Render applications will have access
to the complete range of fonts available to core applications. One
important thing to note is that Xft uses the vertical size of the monitor
to compute accurate pixel sizes for provided point sizes; if your monitor
doesn't provide accurate information via DDC, you may want to add that
information to
To allow a graceful transition for applications moving from core text rendering to the Render extension, Xft can use either core fonts or FreeType and the Render extension for text. By default, Xft is configured to support only core fonts, see the section on building FreeType support for the changes needed to add FreeType/Render fonts.
The Xft library uses a configuration file,
XftConfig, which
contains information about which directories contain font files and also
provides a sophisticated font aliasing mechanism. Documentation for that
file is included in the Xft man page.
XFree86 4.0.2 includes sources for FreeType version 2.0.1, but they are not built and installed automatically. As a result, Xft is configured to provide only core fonts by default.
To build FreeType support for Xft, first FreeType must be built and
installed, either from the sources included in XFree86 in
extras/freetype2 or from another FreeType (version 2.0.1 or later)
release. Early FreeType version 2 releases used a different header file
installation and aren't compatible with XFree86. Instructions for building and
installing FreeType can be found in the
INSTALL file included with
the FreeType release.
Second, XFree86 needs to know the installed location for FreeType, usually
/usr/local. Edit (or create)
config/cf/host.def to
#define Freetype2Dir /usr/local
Finally, build XFree86 with "make World" from the top.
Only three applications have been modified in XFree86 4.0.2 to work with the Render extension and the Xft and FreeType libraries to provide anti-aliased text. Xterm, xditview and x11perf. Migration of other applications may occur in future releases.
By default, xterm uses core fonts through the standard core API. It has two command line options and associated resources to direct it to use Xft instead:
-fa family /
.VT100.faceName: family. Selects the
font family to use.
-fs pointsize /
.VT100.faceSize: pointsize.
Selects the pointsize.
Xditview will use Xft instead of the core API by default. X11perf includes tests to measure the performance of text rendered in three ways, anti-aliased, anti-aliased with sub-pixel sampling and regular chunky text, but through the Render extension, a path which has not been optimized within the X server yet.
The XFree86-Misc extension has not been fully ported to the new server architecture yet. This should be completed in a future release.
The XFree86-VidModeExtension extension has been updated, and mostly
ported to the new server architecture. The area of mode validation
needs further work, and the extension should be used with care. This
extension has support for changing the gamma setting at run-time, for
modes where this is possible. The new
xgamma utility makes
use of this feature. Compatibility with the 3.3.x version of the
extension is provided. The missing parts of this extension and some
new features should be completed in a future release.
Two versions of the Xaw library are provided with XFree86 4.x. A version with bug fixes and a few binary compatible improvements and a new version with several new features.
New features:
displayList resource is available to all Xaw widgets. It
basically consists of a list of drawing commands, fully described in
Xaw(3) manual page, that enables a integration of Xaw
programs with the new window/desktop managers that allows for
configurable themes.
M-y allows traversing the kill
ring list.
international resource is not set. Users will
need to properly set the locale environment to make
complete use of this feature.
multiply interface is provided. Pressing
C-u,<number> (where number can be negative)
allows passing parameters for text actions.
Bug fixes:
Version 3.4k of the Xpm (X pixmap) library is now integrated into XFree86.
Xedit have been changed to use most of the new features added to the new version of the Xaw library, and some xedit only features were added. Emacs users will find that several of the emacs key bindings work with the new version of xedit. These include:
C-x,d is pressed, or when a directory name is specified.
autoReplace resource, that enables automatic text
replacement at the time text is typed. This feature is useful to create
simple macros, or to correct common spelling errors.
Details about the font support in XFree86 4.x can be found in the README.fonts document.
XFree86 4.x comes with two TrueType backends, known as
`xfsft' (the
"freetype" module) and `X-TrueType' (the
"xtt" module). Both of these backends are based on the FreeType
Support for CID-keyed fonts is included in XFree86 4.x. The CID-keyed font format was designed by Adobe Systems for fonts with large character sets. The CID-keyed font support in XFree86 was donated by SGI. See the LICENSE document for a copy of the CID Font Code Public License.
XFree86 4.x has a ``fontenc'' layer to allow the scalable font backends to use a common method of font re-encoding. This re-encoding makes it possible to uses fonts in encodings other than their their native encoding. This layer is used by the Type1 and Speedo backends and the `xfsft' version of the TrueType backend. The `X-TrueType' version of the TrueType backend uses a different re-encoding method based on loadable encoding modules.
The glyph metrics array, which all the X clients using a particular font have access to, is now placed in shared memory, so as to reduce redundant memory consumption. For non-local clients, the glyph metrics array is transmitted in a compressed format.
What is included in 4.x:
-u8 option).
"freetype" module) and the X-TrueType
"xtt" module) TrueType font backends support
Unicode-encoded fonts.
XFree86 now includes the ``Lucidux'' family of professionally hinted Type 1 fonts. This family consists of the fonts ``Lucidux Serif'', ``Lucidux Sans'' and ``Lucidux Mono'' in Roman and oblique variants, and includes over 370 glyphs in each font covering among others the glyphs needed for ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 9 and 15. Bold variants will be included in a future release. The design and font outlines were donated by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes from Bigelow and Holmes Inc., and the hinting was donated by Berthold Horn and Blenda Horn from Y&Y, Inc. For more information, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com , or consult Y&Y's web site.
Some changes to the installed XFree86 directory structure have been
implemented for 4.x.
One important
change is a modified search path for the X
XF86Config file. The details of this can be found
in the XF86Config manual page. The other main change is moving
most of the run-time configuration files to
/etc/X11, with
symbolic links in the old
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11 location pointing
to the new location. Some run-time generated files are now located
under the appropriate subdirectories of
/var, again with the
relevant symbolic links in the old location.


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When installing a new printer earlier, I first installed it in Windows Server 2008 R2 (which of course only exists in a x64 version), and tried to add the x86 (XP) driver since all the clients run XP.
After providing the "additional drivers"-wizard with the printer driver, it asked me to "Please provide path to Windows media (x86 processor)", which was a bit difficult since I had no 32-bit media (I would have tried 2008 32bit or similar, if so).
Turns out, the solution is blindingly simple: Share the printer, and with an admin user (typically the same who installed the printer on the server), log on to an XP computer, and install the shared printer from there. It will ask you to provide the driver since the server has none. After installing, go into printer properties in XP, find Sharing, Additional drivers…, and check off "Windows XP/2000, x86". The driver will be uploaded to the server.

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Bristol-Myers Squibb, a global biopharmaceutical company, announced plans Thursday for a $250 million expansion of its large-scale biologics manufacturing facility in Devens.
The expansion will introduce biologics development and clinical trial manufacturing capabilities to the site, while eventually adding about 350 employees to the Devens workforce, the company said in a press release. The current head count at Devens is about 400.
"Biologics are increasingly important in the treatment of serious diseases and are a growing part of our company's pipeline of potential new therapies," Lou Schmukler, the company's president of global manufacturing and supply, said in a statement. "This initiative is designed to accelerate the development of new biologics medicines through the closer alignment of biologics research and development, and manufacturing."
Bristol-Myers Squibb said it plans to construct two new buildings on its 89-acre Devens campus. Together, the two buildings will add about 200,000 square feet of laboratory and office space to the Devens site, which is now made up of six major buildings in a 400,000-square-foot complex.
Construction of the Devens site was completed in 2009. It was Bristol-Myers Squibb's first major facility in Massachusetts and the largest capital investment in its history – $750 million – and helped signal the company's transformation into a next-generation biopharmaceutical company.
Work on the expansion is expected to begin in late 2013 and be completed in 2015. In the interim, Bristol-Myers Squibb has leased 30,000 square feet of laboratory space in nearby Hopkinton to begin moving some biologics process development functions closer to Devens during construction.
The Devens facility currently manufactures the active drug ingredient for Orencia, a drug that reduces signs and symptoms in adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis.
Shortly after the company's announcement, Governor Deval Patrick issued a statement on the news. Patrick has made nurturing the life sciences a priority of his administration.
"Thanks to our growth strategy of investing in education, innovation, and infrastructure, Massachusetts leads the world in life sciences," Patrick said. "Our economic development team worked closely with Bristol Myers-Squibb as they weighed their options for where to expand, and we look forward to them creating more jobs and economic opportunities here in Massachusetts."


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A report released today by the National Transportation Safety Board confirms that Yankee pitcherCory Lidle's October crash
joins a long, and tragic, line of accidents caused by pilot error.
On Oct. 11, 2006, Lidle, a 34-year-old pitcher for the New York Yankees and recently certified private pilot, was flying with Tyler Stanger, his 26-year-old flight instructor. Both men were killed when Lidle's Cirrus SR-20 slammed into a midtown Manhattan high-rise. The apartment building stands on the east side of the island, adjacent to the abrupt dead-end of an airspace corridor over the East River.
"The pilots' inadequate planning, judgment, and airmanship in the performance of a 180-degree turn maneuver inside of a limited turning space" led to the crash, according to the NTSB. No system, structural or engine malfunctions were found by investigators.
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As Jeff Wise, a contributing editor at PM and a private pilot who has flown that corridor, described shortly after the crash, a sliver of VFR, or Visual Flight Rules, airspace extends north up the river—to a point. Private planes were allowed to fly the corridor provided they kept their altitude under 1100 ft., but about halfway up Manhattan Island, the corridor runs into LaGuardia Airport's Class B airspace. Lidle and Stanger would have had to get prior permission from the airport's control tower to fly through. So they tried to turn around. (Listen to Wise describe the airspace involved in the accident on the Popular Mechanics Show podcast.)
According to the NTSB, they began their U-turn "in the middle of the East Channel … as opposed to beginning the turn from the eastern shoreline." Additionally, winds from the East forced the aircraft toward Manhattan and shortened the lateral turning area even more. Investigators determined the pilots misjudged the necessary bank angle.
One costly question remains unanswered, however. "Due to the complex accident forces involved in the crash sequence" and "the lack of a cockpit voice recorder or a flight data recorder, it was not possible to determine who was the pilot in control during the accident flight or if flight instruction was being given," according to the NTSB.
Five weeks ago, Cory Lidle's widow sued MetLife Inc., claiming she is owed Major League Baseball's accidental death benefit of $1.05 million. That policy contains exclusions for "any incident related to travel in an aircraft … while acting in any capacity other than as a passenger."
As for how the NTSB's findings with affect other pilots, the Safety Board recommended the Federal Aviation Administration, "Permanently prohibit visual flight rules flight operations involving fixed-wing, nonamphibious aircraft in the New York East River class B exclusion area unless those operations are authorized and being controlled by air traffic control."
That would mean pilots having to call LaGuardia airport before venturing anywhere up the river. Though perhaps that's a better solution than some alternatives proposed.
As Wise initially wrote about the crash:
"Some people who aren't pilots don't understand why some of us risk our lives for what seems to be a pointless thrill. For them, the logical course of action would be to shut down the VFR flyway to prevent more deaths. But pilots see things differently. To us, flying is a great privilege that, yes, carries a certain amount of inherent risk. But living in the presence of danger and accepting responsibility for it is one of the things that makes life meaningful. We don't want to live in a world that's foolproof and accident-free. We want one where prudence and respect can be rewarded with an indescribable freedom—a freedom that too few people are lucky enough to enjoy.
"The appropriate response to the death of Lidle and Stanger is not to ban similar flights. It's for fellow pilots to study what happened, learn from it, and go on to be safer flyers." —Davin Coburn
Two NYPD Traffic officers watch over the intersection of 72nd Street and 1st Avenue in New York on Oct. 11, 2006, as the crash-site building looms over them.
PM contributor Jeff Wise followed Lidle's flightpath, beginning at the southern tip of Manhattan.


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NATO fuel tanker explodes in Pakistan, killing 15
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Militants in northwest Pakistan blew up a tanker carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan on Saturday, and a secondary explosion killed 15 people as a group gathered to try to siphon off some of its fuel. Another bombing damaged 14 NATO tankers in a nearby border town, but no one was hurt.
A Pakistani Taliban group claimed responsibility for both attacks, underscoring the threat to vehicles that carry non-lethal supplies for Western troops in Afghanistan through Pakistan — a threat that could grow more acute in the wake of the U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden in northwest Pakistan.
The explosions coincided with the publication of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables indicating that U.S. Special Forces provided intelligence and other assistance to the Pakistani army as it fought Taliban forces in 2009. It was the latest evidence that the U.S. troops did more than just train Pakistanis, as was publicly claimed.
The explosions occurred overnight in Pakistan's Khyber tribal region, an area that numerous trucks carrying supplies for U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan must traverse, local administrator Abdul Nabi Khan said.
In the Landi Kotal area of Khyber, a tanker caught fire after a bomb blast. Once it seemed the blaze was controlled, people tried to take the tanker's fuel. Another blast then occurred, killing 15 people and wounding one, Khan said.
The 14 tankers damaged in the other bombing were parked at Torkham, a town along the Pakistan-Afghan border. Torkham has witnessed many attacks on the U.S.-NATO supply line.
A man who claimed to be a spokesman for the Abdullah Azzam Brigade, a Taliban group, called journalists in the northwest city of Peshawar to say the group was behind the attacks. The goal was to stop the U.S. from launching more missile strikes in Pakistan's northwest, said the man, who declined to give his name in line with his group's policy.
U.S. and NATO commanders insist the attacks in Pakistan barely affect their operations. But in recent years, the military units have tried to reduce their dependence on Pakistan routes, increasingly using roads running through Central Asian countries and relying on supplies to be flown in.
U.S.-Pakistani relations are at a low point over the unilateral May 2 American raid that killed bin Laden in the northwest Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad. Pakistan is angry that it was not told in advance of the raid and says it did not know the al-Qaida chief was hiding in the area.
In the wake of the raid, Pakistan's parliament has demanded that the U.S. stop its missile strikes, and warned that the government may cut off the supply route altogether if the strikes don't end. On Saturday in Karachi, around 5,000 Pakistanis led by former cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan protested the missile strikes.
But there have been multiple missile strikes since the bin Laden slaying, a sign that the U.S. is unwilling to abandon what it considers a highly effective weapon against insurgents that hide in Pakistan and threaten Western troops in Afghanistan.
Pakistani leaders' positions on the missile strikes and other U.S. involvement in the region are murky, with growing evidence that officials condemn any such "violations of sovereignty" in public while privately backing them.
The newly published U.S. diplomatic cables appear to support that.
The cables were obtained through the Wikileaks organization and published by Dawn, a respected English-language newspaper in Pakistan. Several of the cables were written by Anne Patterson, then the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan.
The cables indicate that U.S. troops joined Pakistani forces for the purposes of intelligence, reconnaissance support and surveillance during 2009, a year when Pakistan was involved in multiple offensives in its northwest, pockets of which were under the control of various Taliban factions.
This year, officials have said the U.S. presence in Pakistan has been scaled back, and joint operations suspended. Some of the chill is related to the bin Laden raid, but some of it dates to January, when an American CIA contractor shot dead two Pakistanis he said were trying to rob him. The incident angered the Pakistani army, but the American was freed after his victims' relatives accepted compensation.
The U.S. cables referred to some of the sites where the cooperation occurred as "fusion centers." In April 2009, for instance, there was U.S. involvement in intelligence gathering for the Pakistani military operation in Lower Dir, which preceded a major offensive in the Swat Valley.
The U.S. appeared keen on increasing its involvement to include assistance on the ground in battle zones.
The cables included apparent references to at least one case in which U.S. troops did provide assistance in a conflict zone, that of the Pakistani operation in Bajur tribal region in fall 2009.
That instance has previously been referenced in media reports about earlier cables released through Wikileaks. Those reports also described small U.S. troop deployments in South Waziristan and North Waziristan, where the Americans offered intelligence, surveillance and other assistance, including coordinating U.S. missile strikes.
Associated Press Writer Nahal Toosi in Islamabad and Mohammad Farooq in Karachi contributed to this report.


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CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Forty-five days and counting.
Let's play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews in Washington. Leading off tonight: Trying to cap it. BP managed to slice off that pipe with a pair of oversized shears, but the cap placed over it to siphon off oil may not fit tightly now. As we wait to see just how successful cut-and-cap is, Florida's panhandle is bracing for oil to wash up on its beaches today. In a moment, I'll ask the mayor of Pensacola what he thinks of the response to this disaster.
And President Obama is set to return to the Louisiana, the coastline, tomorrow, his second trip in a week, which raises the question, has this disaster torpedoed his agenda? Can the White House really focus on anything else this summer, like jobs and the economy, as long as oil keeps gushing in the gulf?
Plus, the federal corruption trial of impeached Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich began today, as he tries to rope in the White House into the case. Is the national media blitz—or if the national media blitz is any indication, it promises a summer of second city political theater.
Also, is there really anything scandalous in the White House's sloppy attempts to clear the field for Arlen Specter and Colorado senator Michael Bennet, or is this just politics being jumped on? Our strategists will go at it.
And "Let Me Finish" tonight with some thoughts on how the president can revive America's spirit amid the gulf mess.
Let's start with the latest on the oil spill and BP's efforts to contain it, such as they are. Mike Wiggins is the mayor of Pensacola, Florida. Mr. Mayor, I can only imagine what's in your heart right now. What's going to happen to your city? What's going to happen to the Florida coast?
MAYOR MIKE WIGGINS, PENSACOLA, FLORIDA: Chris, there's grave concern here because not only do we have a large oil spill 35 miles off our coast, but we also have what we call an oil sheen, which is a very light amount of oil, which is only seven miles off our coast. The wind's blowing in the wrong direction, and it's headed our way.
MATTHEWS: So what can you do? What stands between you and BP's oil?
WIGGINS: Well, that's the problem because—let me tell you this, Chris...
MATTHEWS: Nothing?
WIGGINS: ... we in Pensacola—well, there—no, there's some things we're doing. But I'm telling you, the people in Pensacola, we can handle hurricanes. We know what to do in that one. But this is an unknown. What BP has done, of course, is put out beach-cleaning units. We've put out aerial reconnaissance. We've got booms in place. All of that is going on.
But as we went through that whole process, of course, we had communications problems with BP. We had equipment problems with BP. So there's been a lot of questions that need to be answered along the way. And quite frankly, what's going to happen at the end is unknown at this point. We're going to have to do the best we can.
MATTHEWS: Well, let's take a look at this. The National Center for Atmospheric Research put out this computer model of where the oil could go. It's around Florida right now and halfway up the East Coast. If you look at this projection, this is pretty scary. You're going to be the first target hit in the Florida area. Now, look at this thing. It goes up in this loop current out into—up beyond Cape Hatteras, out into the Atlantic Ocean. A lot of damage, a lot of damage along that route, sir.
WIGGINS: No question, Chris. And the answer to stopping that, of
course, is to cap the well. That has got to be done. If we have this
oil gushing into our gulf for the next month-and-a-half or two months,
just think exactly what's going to happen. It's going to be an economic
and environmental disaster, quite frankly, if it's not already. We have
my citizens in Pensacola are frustrated. They're angry. And we're very concerned here in the panhandle.
MATTHEWS: Well, you know, here's my problem with BP down the line
here. And maybe I'm beating a dead horse. I don't know. But listen to
this. Here's what Tony Hayward—he's the British guy who's head of BP
had to say. He says BP's unprepared. He said they're unprepared, which—"What is undoubtedly true is that we did not have the tools you would want in your tool kit."
Well, that's clever CEO language, You would not have the tools in your tool kit. But here's the Bloomberg headline of a couple days ago. "BP ready for spill 10 times gulf disaster, plan says." They said in their permit application for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico that they were prepared to handle an oil spill more than 10 times larger than the one we have now off the coast.
So here's a company that swore in its documents it could handle a spill 10 times this big, deal with it in a clear-cut, planned way, not this "try something every day"—junk shot, you know, top kill. The latest is cut-and-cap. We keep hearing this new stuff as it comes across the—whatever, their brain waves, every couple days. And yet they claim to have had a plan in place to deal with 10 times the spill. Do you trust BP?
WIGGINS: I'd say they did not have a plan. If you just look at what's happened in the last month or so, they did not have a plan. And Chris, this is why we in the state of Florida are so upset. We do not have offshore drilling here. The city of Pensacola has put out many a resolution opposing offshore drilling because we were concerned about environmental effects of an accident. We were told, so many experts said, It can't happen. Well, it did happen, and obviously, the tools are not there to rectify the situation. Very frustrating for those in northwest Florida.
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about your part of the country. I mean, it seems to me what everybody knows about Pensacola is flight training, naval flight training. Tell me something else about your city.
WIGGINS: Well, let me tell you about our city, Chris. We have the world's most beautiful beaches. We are the oldest city in America, 450 years old. We're steeped in history. We have a great military presence. So we have a lot of reasons for people to come to Pensacola. Tourism is a huge industry here, and this particular situation obviously is affecting not only our hotels and restaurants but our entire economy. It's very, very disturbing situation insofar as our economy is concerned, as also the environment.
MATTHEWS: Well, as mayor, you probably know most of the lawyers in town. What's everybody thinking in terms of your ability to...
MATTHEWS: No, really. I know politics, and you do, too. What do you make of the fact of—the chance of you guys reclaiming all this lost tourism, lost money, from BP? Are their pockets deep enough to pay Pensacola? Just as we begin this route around Florida up to cape Hatteras in the Carolinas, is your city alone going to get its money back from BP for its damage it's doing to your economy? Can you get that money in court?
WIGGINS: Well, we had better get it back Chris, because we have been told—BP has said they're going to, one, clean up the mess. And two, they're going to compensate those who have lost revenues. That is what they have said, that's what we're going to hold their feet to the fire on because this is what's going to make us whole again because this is not just an overnight affair.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let's...
WIGGINS: If this oil keeps gushing, this is going to happen for a long time.
MATTHEWS: I want you to join me in catching the key word in the BP ad. Here's their new ad that's running. Listen for the key word. I think you'll hear it as I hear it. Sir, Mr. Mayor, let's listen together to BP's latest PR ad.
TONY HAYWARD, BP CEO: We will honor all legitimate claims and our clean-up efforts will not come at any cost to taxpayers. To those affected and your families, I'm deeply sorry.
MATTHEWS: Well, we usually like English accents in this country. I'm not sure we like that one. What do you think of that key word he dropped on us, did you hear it, "legitimate"? In other words...
WIGGINS: Legitimate.
MATTHEWS: ... you're going to have to win this case in court, right?
WIGGINS: Well—well, and Chris, we all have looked at that word for many, many weeks now, and we hope that it's not going to cause us problems down the line. BP says they're going to make us whole. We're going to make that happen.
MATTHEWS: OK, Mr. Mayor, we'll stay with you in the next couple weeks as we watch this reality occur. Good luck with everything. And I mean it. Best of fortune to you and the people in Pensacola, especially the military families. There.
WIGGINS: Thank you very much, sir. Thanks for having us.
MATTHEWS: OK, Mark Badger is a businessman from Ft. Lauderdale in Florida. We've been putting out the word. He's got an idea about how the oil washing up on the shores can be dealt with. Here's a picture, by the way, of the situation. It's a boom that's higher than the ones used now. We've got a picture of your thing. It's so—oil-soaked water can't wash over it. It's got a skirt, by the way, at the bottom to catch the oil beneath the surface.
Mark, give us a case for your contraption there, if I call it that.
Go ahead, Mark.
MARK BADGER, BUSINESSMAN, FT. LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA: Well...
MATTHEWS: How's it work?
BADGER: ... our boom is—OK. Well, the boom works just like a conventional oil boom. The anchoring system is a lot different for it. It will—it's designed to stay offshore. It's not designed to be used in close. And it's designed to stay in place for a long time. It's designed to protect the shoreline and the property and to keep oil out of sensitive—sensitive ecological areas.
MATTHEWS: Well, can you put them up in front of Pensacola right now?
BADGER: Yes, I...
MATTHEWS: If somebody gave you the money?
BADGER: ... could put them up—if somebody gave us a purchase order for this boom, we could get it manufactured and get it out there.
MATTHEWS: Well, the name of the company is BP, British Petroleum.
I hope you can get ahold of them. They're well know. We just heard...
BADGER: We have tried...
MATTHEWS: Their CEO is Tony Hayward, that well-spoken gentleman we just heard with the British accent. Is he hard to get ahold of?
BADGER: We have contacted BP probably 30 or 40 times. Every time I've spoken to them on the phone, the answer we get is, We receive so many calls, we might call you back, but we probably won't. And that's exactly what they told me on the phone.
We've submitted the paperwork that they send out through the Web site probably a dozen times. And you know, they don't reply. And that's not—it's not to say that they haven't seen it, I just think they're overwhelmed by the suggestions that people are trying to bring forward.
MATTHEWS: Well, here's the White House number, 202-456-1414 --
202-456-1414. You should probably go through the White House, perhaps through the press office, I think that's 2100 -- 456-2100. You might get through that way. They're helping, I hear. Anyway, thank you very much, Mark Badger.
Coming up—we're going to keep doing this, by the way. Coming up: President Obama is going back to the gulf tomorrow. Has the oil spill crisis taken over his presidency? Is his legislative agenda at the mercy of whether BP can plug this leak? Is BP running the show? We'll get back to that next.
And tomorrow night on a special "DATELINE," inside the cozy relationship between big oil and Washington, plus never before seen video from the night the Deepwater Horizon rig blew up. That's "DATELINE" tomorrow on NBC at 9:00 o'clock. What a great show that's going to be for this whole dark story.
Anyway, we'll be right back.
MATTHEWS: Wow, the tea party candidate in the Nevada Senate race is surging. Sharron Angle now leads the Republican field, and if she hangs on to win, she'll face Senate majority leader Harry Reid come November. Take a look at the new Suffolk poll. Angle has 33 percent, Danny Tarkanian is 26, and one-time favorite Sue Lowden, who would be the toughest opponent, is 25 percent. It's still a close race, but Angle, the tea party favorite, has all the momentum. It looks like Reid may be lucky here, but Angle stacks up as the worst against Reid, as I said. A new Research 2000 Daily Kos poll shows Reid leading all three Republicans. He's beating Angle by 6, Tarkanian and Lowden by just 4.
HARDBALL returns after this.
ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: If jumping up and down and screaming were to fix a hole in the ocean, we'd have done that five or six weeks ago. We'd have done that the first night. I think we're going to be judged and the president'll be judged on our response and our recovery efforts to what we all know now is the worst environmental disaster in our nation's history. But pounding on a podium isn't going to fix a hole in the ocean.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. That was White House press secretary Robert Gibbs today. Is the oil spill drowning the Obama administration? The president says they're in charge, but does it look like they're really in control? Chuck Todd's NBC News chief White House correspondent and political director. And we also have "Washington Post" columnist Eugene Robinson here. He's an MSNBC political analyst.
Chuck, I've got to ask you—you're on post at the White House. Have they gone from—they're doing Larry King tonight. Are they going from cool to schmaltz?
MATTHEWS: I mean, is this the alternative to cool, to do Larry King?
CHUCK TODD, NBC POLITICAL DIR./WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, first of all, I think for him, it has something to do with some sort of anniversary that Larry King is celebrating. So he was able to...
MATTHEWS: The 25th. That's right.
TODD: Yes. He was able to get away with that. It was sort of a pre-booked thing type of deal.
But no, look, I think the White House has struggled to get ahead of this story from the very beginning. Ever since the explosion happened on the rig, they've always felt a step behind, a day behind, a week behind. And I think once again, they're trying to get their arms around this—this one, and that's why they hastily are sending the president back down there tomorrow.
I think they worried that they couldn't figure out a way to do it next week. And they're going to get him down there. They figure sooner is obviously a lot better than somehow getting him down there later. They know they have this perception problem. They think it's unfair that they have it, you know, and they get mad at us in the media for pointing it out and somehow creating—they think we're almost creating too much of a story out of this. And yet they're reacting to it.
MATTHEWS: Well, let's look at the vice president, Vice President Biden, who was on "Charlie Rose" last night. It was a very sophisticated show. I'm not sure the Biden message was really strong, though. Let's listen to his case.
JOSEPH BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: From my perspective, I think if there's any mistake made, that we haven't communicated clearly enough what the president has done in this oil spill from the beginning. We were there the first day, the first morning after that wellhead blew and that platform collapsed. We were in the Oval Office. He mobilized everyone in the White House and the West Wing, made it clear that every single asset of the federal government should be made available.
MATTHEWS: So what we have here is a failure to communicate.
MATTHEWS: It's right out of "Cool Hand Luke" and J.D. Cannon (ph) here...
MATTHEWS: Is the president supposed to say (INAUDIBLE) boss? I mean, what—what's going on...
MATTHEWS: Is this going to work?
EUGENE ROBINSON, "WASHINGTON POST," MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, no. I mean, no. His saying, We have a failure to communicate doesn't make it so, and that doesn't divert the focus. And much of it is proper (ph) on the White House because, look, it's not Barack Obama's fault that BP screwed up and the well is leaking and we have an environmental disaster of epic proportions going on. But I think you have to—you know, I think people have the sense that the White House could be doing more, if not to plug the leak, then to contain the oil and contain the damage. And I think...
MATTHEWS: One question. One—I'm sorry. One question I have for both of you gentlemen—I'll start with Chuck—is does the White House have an ongoing effort to try to find solutions independently of BP, Chuck?
TODD: Well, they do. They say that they are doing this, that they have this way that—I'd say Stephen Chu—his name is no longer Stephen Chu, the energy secretary, it's Nobel Prize winner Stephen Chu, right?
TODD: They've made sure every time they mention his name, they throw in that...
MATTHEWS: Why?
TODD: ... Nobel prize winner...
MATTHEWS: Why do they do that? Why do they do that?
TODD: Well, I think it's this attempt to say, Hey, look, we're getting as many experts as we can to look at this, that they are trying to count on people outside of BP. But I'll be honest with you, Chris, it doesn't—sometimes—they don't—they have yet to communicate to us, OK? I cannot give you a good example of how they are using outside ideas and how they are taking in ideas and figuring out if they work.
You know, you will push them and ask them—for instance, we had the former Shell Oil executive who said, Hey, you know what? Why don't they have all these supertankers surrounding this spill and sucking it up? Well, after a few days, they did respond to them. They said, Well, they did look into that, and they said, Well, the oil is too dispersed in the gulf and you can't just find all these supertankers, so—but they—they aren't making it easy for us to see this. And I think that's another part of this perception problem with the public, where the public just wants to see action all the time, and frankly, that's just not plausible.
ROBINSON: ... here's one—here's one thing, Chris. You know, we have heard about Stephen Chu's Nobel prize about a million times. Everybody from the administration mentions it all the time, as if—as if it's part of a set of talking points.
I think I personally would feel better if I saw a room in Houston full of, you know, the heir to Red Adair or something...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
ROBINSON: ... you know, these people who—they don't give Nobel prizes for oil drilling. And so if—if you saw a room full of old hands at oil exploration, at wildcat oil drilling or something, undersea exploration, whatever, that image, I think, would go a long way.
Now, I understand there's a command center in Houston in which there are people from all these...
MATTHEWS: Yes, like we see NASA. We get all those NASA shots.
Let me go back to Chuck on this.
Chuck, it seems to me they have a conundrum here. There was an old Washington—I want to say this as cleanly as I can. There was an old Washington expression I heard years ago from a Washington bureaucrat. He was like a GS-18.
And he said people don't do their best work when they're being peed on. Now, that's a crude way to put it, but isn't that the White House's conundrum here? If they start dumping on BP, at the same time, it's their only game in town. BP solves the problem. It's not going to be very constructive.
So, they really can't dump on them or pee on them or whatever, at the same time they're asking them to fix the problem.
TODD: Right.
It's funny you bring that up. And you could feel that tension today right here in the White House press briefing room, where I'm standing. There was a whole bunch of questions about BP's credibility. Does the federal government still trust BP all this? And you could hear, on one hand, Robert Gibbs wanted to unload on BP.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TODD: And, on the other hand, he was hesitant to for that very reason.
I think there is a concern that—of what you're just saying, which is, if you dump on them too much—I think there's a lot of anger at Tony Hayward in particular, the CEO.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TODD: He is not making a lot of friends, that comment about him wanting to get his own life back, and the fact they...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TODD: ... seem to be a little bit on a P.R. campaign, rather than saying, hey, enough with the P.R. campaign, just put all your energy into stopping this leak from the ground.
But they're—that tension is there. And you're right, Chris. That's another fact of life. BP has the technology. Maybe they could get another oil company in with similar technology. But you would still be relying on an outside oil company entity.
ROBINSON: But, see, separate the two theaters of this war, though. You have got a mile down under the Gulf of Mexico, clearly, BP has to be in charge. They're the ones who have to plug the leak.
But, up on the surface, there's all this oil. And manning the barricades, trying to clean up the marshes and keep the oil away from the marshes, what we see are these BP workers in hazmat suits who are under orders not to talk to the media.
There don't seem to be enough of them. There don't seem to be enough ships or whatever. And, so, if you look at those two theaters separately, I think you could legitimately ask the question, shouldn't that—that manning-the-barricades kind of aspect of this crisis be handled in more of...
MATTHEWS: I agree with you. There's no perception...
ROBINSON: .. but a national security sense.
MATTHEWS: We have a larger role.
Let me ask you about the time factor. You and I—we all know this. Certainly, Gene and I know this and Chuck. We have all gotten used to the fact that the American people have a very limited ability to show patience.
TODD: Yes.
MATTHEWS: We fight wars. We love brushfire wars. We're out of there. We won. Great. John Wayne stuff. Long, long wars, like Korea or Vietnam or the ones in Afghanistan and Iraq now do not sell in the American public.
MATTHEWS: No one will go to a movie about these wars.
TODD: Not anymore. Right.
MATTHEWS: They won't even—they don't want to think about them.
TODD: Right.
MATTHEWS: So, what happens when it's August 15, and us three are sitting here? What happens when it's September 15, when it's October 15, when it's the first week in November and the elections are being held?
Has anybody in the White House realized, if they lay this campaign on to BP from now to November, they are going to lose 100 seats in the House? Maybe. I don't know.
TODD: Well, look, I think the fact is—you're doing a lot of what-ifs. The fact is this. If oil is showing up on the beaches and on the coast of Florida, OK, and that is, you know, where people actually go for beach vacations, where half the country is aware, Florida and California, that's where you go for—if that's what's happening, and you just see the just oil coming ashore, well, then you're absolutely right.
But I think, at this point, they're not looking at that. They really believe these relief wells are going to fix this problem and fix it in August. But you're right. If it keeps lingering, it is what it is.
MATTHEWS: I didn't know that. They're confident. I haven't heard that before. They really think the relief well alternative will stop this problem in August?
TODD: Yes. Yes, they do. And it's the only thing that stopped the one in Mexico in 1979, the one that happened in Australia. Relief well is the only final answer here.
MATTHEWS: Well, OK. Well, that's something, something to wait for.
ROBINSON: Well...
MATTHEWS: Anyway, thank you, Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning Eugene Robinson.
MATTHEWS: By the way, this is what you do well, so it's OK to mention your prizes when they're on what you're doing.
MATTHEWS: If this guy had been Red Adair, we could keep saying, you know, well-drilling prize winner.
Anyway, up next: You have heard about Mark Kirk and Dick Blumenthal, two Senate candidates who admitted exaggerating their military records. Next, you're going to hear what the governor of Arizona said about her dad's service. The "Sideshow" continues.
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MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Now for the "Sideshow."
Larry Craig is back. How could you forget him? He's the conservative Republican from Idaho who was arrested in a Minneapolis airport bathroom for soliciting sex from an undercover cop. OK, we have gotten used to the hypocrisy angle, the wide stance in this case.
Anyway, though Craig has laid low since retiring from the Senate last year, he, for whatever reason, agreed to an interview with "The Daily Show"'s John Oliver. Here he is last night.
JOHN OLIVER, "THE DAILY SHOW": So, Larry Craig...
OLIVER: I had so many questions about the infamous scandal that drove him from the Senate. Unfortunately, he insisted that I ask none of them.
OLIVER: Do you—tell me, Larry Craig, what was your favorite perk in your time in the Senate?
LARRY CRAIG ®, FORMER U.S. SENATOR: Favorite perk?
Well, there aren't many left. But, when I was rushing to National Airport to catch a plane to Idaho, because I became a very aggressive commuter—I came back to my state a lot—that parking slot at National Airport to me was a big perk.
MATTHEWS: Outrageous. It guy worse, actually, that interview.
Next, will any—will everyone please drop the Hitler references? I mean everyone. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer told a local paper recently that comparisons of her state's tough new immigration policies to Hitler's Germany were hurtful because her own father—quote—
"died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany"—her words.
Well, the hitch? Brewer's father was actually a munitions worker in Nevada during World War II, and he died in 1955, a decade after the war ended. Brewer's spokesperson, however, later clarified, saying that the toxic fumes Brewer's father inhaled while working in that munitions factory ultimately led to his death 10 years later.
In a follow-up interview with "The Arizona Guardian," Brewer added that she never misled anybody—those are her words—"You're trying to make a liar out of me."
Well, we will see.
On a lighter note: news today that Laura Ling, one of the two journalists that President Bill Clinton saved from a North Korean jail cell last year, has given birth to a baby girl. Miss Ling has named the baby Li Jefferson. She says the name is a tribute to the man who got her home, William Jefferson Clinton.
For tonight's "Big Number": a reminder that the days fly by quickly. As of today, how long has Barack Obama been president? Five hundred, 500 days exactly, 500 days of the Obama presidency behind us, half the length, for those historians among you, of the New Frontier—tonight's "Big Number."
Up next: Rod Blagojevich has his day in court today. His trial started today. And he's trying to drag the White House into the whole mess. How much of a "Sideshow" will this be for the Obama team?
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A little late-day turbulence on a mixed bag of economic data, leaving stocks only modestly higher, the Dow Jones industrials adding five points, the S&P 500 tacking on four points, and the Nasdaq climbing nearly 22 points.
Investors gearing up for the May unemployment report due out tomorrow. Today's weekly numbers showed initial claims falling slightly, and the private sector adding fewer than expected jobs in may. Another report shows service sector activity holding steady in April.
Still, that sector has been in growth mode for five straight months.
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
The federal corruption trial of ousted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich kicked off today. He's charged with 24 criminal counts, all felonies, including bribery, racketeering, and attempted extortion.
And perhaps the most sensational charges center on his alleged attempts to sell President Obama's Senate seat. Blagojevich's defense team has subpoenaed White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.
And after a year-long celebrity blitz—that's included appearances in "Celebrity Apprentice," "Letterman," and "the View," and also "Ellen"—here's what the impeached former governor said in a radio interview on Wednesday.
ROD BLAGOJEVICH (D), FORMER ILLINOIS GOVERNOR: I can't wait to get on there and swear on the Holy Bible to tell the whole truth, and—and to begin to give clarification and explanations, and—and confront my accusers and confront those who are lying.
MATTHEWS: Lynn Sweet is the Washington bureau chief for "The Chicago Sun-Times" and Jim Warren is an MSNBC political contributor and Chicago columnist for "The New York Times" and "BusinessWeek."
And I want to start with Lynn, who is here, then to Jim.
Does Blago know what Blago has done? Does he have the sanity and the ability to remember what he's said that was taped? Does he know what he's into here?
TIMES": My guess is, no, he doesn't, and that, by now, he's created in
his—my guess is, knowing the guy, though I haven't talked to him
since he was arrested, that he—he thinks that, if all these tapes are
played, there will be not be a word
Isn't it confident of somebody...
MATTHEWS: I like that.
MATTHEWS: Let me go—Jim, is that your conclusion, that he doesn't know what he said that he's incriminated by, perhaps?
JIM WARREN, DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR, "THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE": No, I don't know if he believes that. But I certainly think he believes that it's all—quote—"politics" and anything that we might consider a quid pro quo is just sort of the normal business of a big-time governor.
MATTHEWS: Yes, but the one case that's been—we have been talking about it around here—if he's caught on tape, planning or conspiring to give that Senate seat away and to get a job for himself, a private-sector job in the labor movement or elsewhere that gets him an income, is that criminal? And doesn't he know it? Why doesn't he know it? Because he must remember that, the SEIU thing he was working on.
WARREN: Yes, he will be reminded.
I think the audio portion of this is absolutely critical, because even though, if you believe, like I do, that this is going to be a primer for all of us, for all Americans about how government works every single day in every state capital, every big-time city, the fact that you're going to be hearing it I think is going to make the huge difference.
Plus I don't think a national audience realizes, nor should they, that, under the radar screen this last year or so, have come a series of guilty pleas of top Blagojevich aides, as Lynn knows, who have admitted to everything from kickbacks to illegal quid pro quos.
And you have matters such as the absolutely brazen alleged attempt by Governor Blagojevich to get $50,000 from the head of the most esteemed children's hospital here and telling him, unless you give me the 50 grand in my campaign fund, I'm going to hold up $8 million which the legislature has already appropriated for you.
Just imagine what a jury is going to think if that testimony plays out in front of them.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let's not—let's not get too hairy here, but I have to—I have remembered a conversation I had with somebody in Philadelphia once about a U.S. senator that told somebody, some university, you got your 12 million bucks. Now I want $100,000 in campaign contributions by May 30.
OK. Is that illegal?
SWEET: It may be, depending how it was said.
You know, this line—the line is bright to a prosecutor, not so bright probably to someone who is soliciting contributions. If...
MATTHEWS: Yes. But this stuff, as Jim says, goes on all the time. He said this is picking up the rock of politics and seeing the bug life underneath, OK? Do you buy that?
SWEET: What—you know the saying what's legal is a crime, what is legal is a crime? Why do you think people go to venders for political contributions? But the point on this trial here...
MATTHEWS: You mean people that do business with the government?
SWEET: Yes. When you look at who—who contributes, this is...
MATTHEWS: Yes, it's called the contractors. It's called the legal business. They want the legal notices. They want everything. They want the underwritings, the financial houses.
SWEET: Right.
And that's why, if you look at the financial committees in Congress, who donates? But the point about this trial is Rod Blagojevich...
MATTHEWS: And lawyers want to be judges.
SWEET: Rod Blagojevich would like nothing more than to make this whole trial about American politics, about Illinois and Chicago politics, because that buttresses his point he's doing nothing wrong.
OK, let's go to the question here. Let's really circle the wagons here.
Jim, you open an interesting question. Why do you think every law firm is good for bundlers? Why is it always good to go to a lawyer to get a bunch of other lawyers to bundle money together? Why would lawyers want to always give money to politicians? Why would they want to do it?
WARREN: Well, as...
MATTHEWS: Their public service?
WARREN: ... now a noted nationally—as a nationally-respected bug life inspector, the reasons are—the reasons are obvious.
WARREN: You're potentially going to get big business.
And there's a lot of stuff that we as reporters don't ever follow, like big bond business going to law firms that specialize in that sort of stuff. And it's really substantial, you know, moneys of the—from the public trough for the white-collar folks.
Now, it may be that, as Michael Kinsley said long, long ago, the most outrageous stuff is the stuff that is—is legal, but I do think here that tape is going to make all the difference. And, again there are a bunch of top aides who pleaded guilty or who will be testifying for the government. And I think they could be very damaging.
MATTHEWS: Is he right? Could Blagojevich be right by saying I've sat around and basically BSed with my staff guides about ways that I could leverage this appointment to fill this seat of Barack Obama. What can I get for this? How could I raise money out of this? Who might give me money for my campaign treasury if I do certain things? What kind of bank shots can I hit, where I hit this one person and somebody else does me a favor because they care about that appointment.
Somebody wants Valerie so they will do something for me. Somebody wants this. Somebody wants Jesse Jackson Jr. You know what I mean? That's what he was doing. He was speculating with his staff about who might benefit and want to pay to benefit from an appointment of one of these guys or women to be the senator. Right? Is that a crime?
SWEET: And he's saying, you're criminalizing—this is him, would say you're criminalizing some BS conversations of just—
MATTHEWS: Do you believe in that, Warren? Is that kind of generalized conversation, sitting around the office thinking, how can I leverage this appointment to fill the seat of Barack Obama? How can I get something out of it to pay off my campaign debts? Is that a crime?
WARREN: It conceivably could be, particularly if you put it in the context—and there's allegations here of personal enrichment, Chris. Not just money going to the campaign fund. But there's suggestions that he was out to personally enrich himself. Remember, you've also got the allegation of no-show real estate work, essentially, and splitting of fees by his wife. You've got suggestions that there was some remodeling work done on the home in exchange for state business.
So, again, it will all be the context in which that is placed. And I do think potentially, without knowing what the tapes say, that the audio could be absolutely damaging for a bunch of normal Americans.
MATTHEWS: Here's some interesting slop. Blagojevich was asked if there was a comparison to be made between what he did and what was offered to Joe Sestak. We all know about that. Joe Sestak was offered something by the White House. Let's listen.
BLAGOJEVICH: So starting tomorrow, when this case begins, the truth was put in the lock box by these prosecutors, who falsely accuse me of things and have lied. We're going to unlock that lock box tomorrow when we start out in court, and the truth will come out and people will see exactly what's happened here. And among the things you'll see is the answer is yes. Your analogy between Sestak and me—and a lot of the same players are involved.
MATTHEWS: What a great trouble-maker this guy is. What do you think, Lynn?
SWEET: I think if he—even though Rahm Emanuel was subpoenaed, it doesn't mean for sure he'll testify. But that's exactly the point that Rod Blagojevich wants to make. So you're talking to—you know, to this guy about appointments. Your deputy, Jim Messina—that's the story today—went to another candidate and—
SWEET: And we have email to show it. What did I do that was wrong or different than anyone else who is not in trouble? Now there is a difference of course in the circumstances.
MATTHEWS: And also the charges. Let me tell you, the charges that have been raised by the Republicans, Sean Hannity and others, are basically misdemeanors. They're fines or imprisonment less than a year, which are misdemeanor charges. What this guy is up on are serious felony charges like racketeering. So there's that difference.
SWEET: Right. That's why you're in the federal court. These are
you'll have a pretty serious judge. I bet there will be a lot of arguments over what's germane and not germane.
MATTHEWS: The best part of this, I'm going to have both of you guys back on again and again and again this summer. This is like the confessions of Eddy Coyle (ph) or something, out of the world of Eddie Coyle. I love it. It's dark. It's dirty. It's under that rock, Jim warren, the bug life under the rock. Thank you so much, Jim Warren, out in Chicago, Lynn Sweet right here.
Up next, first Sestak, now Romanoff. The Obama White House is facing a fresh batch of questions about back-room deals after a second Senate candidate, Andrew Romanoff of Colorado, acknowledged a top Obama aide, Jim Messina, encouraged him not to run and offered him whatever, who knows. Is this just clumsy politics in the White House or what? The strategists join us next. This is HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: After losing badly in his quest to become the first African-American to win the Democratic nomination for governor down in Alabama, U.S. Congressman Artur Davis says he's done with politics altogether. Davis told the "Birmingham News" he has no interest in running for office ever again, and added that when a candidate fails as badly as he did, it's time to find something else to do with your life. Boy is that fresh? I've never heard that one before.
After starting the year with a 30-point lead in the polls, Davis lost in a shocker Tuesday night by nearly two to one. HARDBALL will be right back.
ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: We went through a
pretty contested primary. They're not altogether fun things. Does the
again, does the leader of the party have an interest in insuring that primaries that tend to be costly aren't had, so that you're ready for a general election? Of course.
MATTHEWS: Wow. We're back. That was White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs again today, commenting on the new reports that the deputy White House chief of staff discussed potential job opportunities with Colorado Democrat Andrew Romanoff before he decided to run for the Senate against the White House's preferred candidate, Michael Bennett. Some Republicans want an investigation. But is the White House guilty of anything beyond politics as usual?
For more on that and today's immigration meeting between the president and the Arizona governor, let's bring in our strategists, Democrat Steve McMahon, who is with me, and Republican Todd Harris.
Todd, you're laughing, but let me ask you this, don't both parties do what's called clear the field? When they have a preferred candidate they have recruited for the race, they don't want a bunch of other candidates raising a lot of money and causing trouble in the primaries and smearing up their candidate. They want to go in clean with lots of money to the general.
What's wrong with going to the other candidates and saying, if you stick around, there might be something for you?
TODD HARRIS, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Well the short answer is, absolutely. This has been going on for a really long time. Both parties do it. And I don't really think that that is what the issue is here.
There are two things that I think make this problematic. The first one is that this president came into town promising an age of transparency, you know, that the age—the old politics is over. This is change and hope. This really—it's been happening for a long time, but this really looks and smells and sounds a lot like the old politics.
But the larger problem, Chris, is that this is a symptom of a White House, that because of the president's policies, doesn't have the political muscle anymore to force its will on even members of their own party.
MATTHEWS: You're whacking them—he whacks you from both directions. You're not sleazy enough. You're sleazy a little bit more than you said you would be, but you're not sleazy enough.
STEVE MCMAHON, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Let's take a look at the facts for a second. One of the reasons that we know what happened in the Sestak case, for instance, is that the White House did an investigation and put it all together and put it out there. Now, they took too long to get there.
MATTHEWS: You think they're telling the truth?
MCMAHON: They bungled it a little bit.
MATTHEWS: You think they are telling the truth?
MCMAHON: Yes, I think they are telling the facts—telling the truth, because if they don't tell the truth, the truth will be discovered at some point. That's one rule in politics. It's never the act. It's always the, quote, cover up. I think to avoid being accused of any kind of cover up, they got the facts and they got the facts out. What people see when they look at the facts is, oh, my gosh, there's politics going on here. They wanted to clear the field for what they thought was the strongest candidate. When you're the leader of the party, that's your prerogative.
MATTHEWS: Is that what's going on? I don't think former President Bill Clinton, having had his own problems over the years with somebody taping him—her name was Jennifer Flowers, years ago—he's not going to say something over the phone to Joe Sestak. First of all, I don't think he will do it anyway. But I don't think he would ever say, if you do this, the White House—Rahm tells me he will do this for you, something that could be criminalized. Wouldn't he say something like, you know, Joe, you're crazy to make this race; Eddie Rendel's not going to get you any money; you're going to have a hard time raising any money; you're going to just cause yourself a lot of trouble and that lose that House seat that we really need in the party. Down the road, Gates is leaving Defense. There is going to be some openings over at Defense Department, maybe even the top job down the road. So why don't you stay where you are?
That sounds like the conversation of a smart politician. Totally legal, absolutely legal, not quid pro quo, just it's a better career move to stick where you're at, because, down the road, with your admiral's experience, you could be a great guy to be secretary of Defense or assistant or deputy whatever. Doesn't that sound right to you, Todd? Doesn't that sound like the conversation, not like this other one where he supposedly offered him the secretary of the Navy job that wasn't even open, or offered him an independent advisory job you can't even take if you're a congressman? Let's be logical here. Let's use our brains. Your thoughts, Todd?
MCMAHON: Todd, use your brain now. Come on.
HARRIS: Look, President Clinton is a pretty smart guy. I seriously doubt that he picked up the phone and said some of the things that have been alleged. At the end of the day, I don't think any votes in Pennsylvania are going to be lost by Sestak because of this whole affair. I think he will lose a lot of votes for a whole lot of other reasons. I think the White House is going to take a hit. And I think in Colorado, Bennett may take a hit, because he looks like the ultimate insider who has the White House now trying to clear the field for him. So I think he could have a problem.
Ultimately, I think this all comes down to the fact that the White House has lost its muscle.
MATTHEWS: I think you may be right in both regards. They have lost their finesse is the right word. Here's Arizona GOvernor Jan Brewer at the White House today. Let's switch to this immigration issue, where the president has a little bit of problem, I think. Let's watch.
GOV. JAN BREWER ®, ARIZONA: I have the responsibility, of course, to the people of Arizona to take back to them some specific information. I will tell you, I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. Now, I hope that's not wishful thinking. I hope that is positive thinking.
MATTHEWS: Toomey has apparently come out in Pennsylvania—did you know this, Todd—and supports the Arizona law. This thing isn't as unpopular as the president thinks it is among Republicans.
MCMAHON: When you look at the poll results in Arizona, even when you look at the poll results around the country, in the short term, the Republicans are probably doing the right thing politically. In the long term, though, they're driving Hispanics, which is the fastest growing voting population, away from their party. It's stupid.
MATTHEWS: Short term gain for your party, long term loss of the Hispanic vote?
HARRIS: Yes, I actually said that on the air before. I think it's probably a win-win today for both Brewer and the president. The president gets to make it look like he excoriated her.
MATTHEWS: That's not good. He shouldn't be doing that. He shouldn't be laughing about this. It's a serious issue with people. Thank you, Steve McMahon. Thank you, Todd Harris.
When we return, let me finish with some thoughts about what President Obama can do right now to revive the American spirit. You're watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with an extraordinary proposal to the president of the United States. I think what's been misunderstood in this entire fiasco in the Gulf of Mexico was the spiritual factor. People in our country are heartsick over this. They sit and watch our natural birthright being disfigured, this gift outright that Robert Frost called North America. There's nothing they can do, nothing their kids or parents or anyone they know can do.
It as if we're all a bunch of bystanders watching part our country get destroyed. I have a small recommendation. It could fill a big part of our national heart. Put out an offer, Mr. President, to the people of America, not just the youth, but to anyone who can participate. Create right now a modern Civilian Conservation Corps, CCC, like they had back in the '30s, and deploy it in all the states of the Gulf. Invite any American who wants to join it to come down south this summer and work to clean up the beaches and the wetlands.
I know there will be people who will warn you of the hazards, the possibility of somebody getting hurt or drowning or whatever. Let people sign releases if it's necessary. But giver Americans a chance to do something.
I got this idea from the headmaster of Choat Rosemary Hall, the school in Connecticut where John F. Kennedy attended back in the '30s. The headmaster writes, "it is now June 3rd and millions of high school boys and girls, college men and women, are finishing up their economic work, some of them with jobs, many of them, no doubt, without jobs. Is it not within the purview of any of our many federal agencies to mobilize a National Peace Corps or National Environmental Protection Corps for the next three months for the purpose of capturing the oil that is already beginning to cause irreparable harm to our environment and to those who live in the Gulf area?"
There's a wonderful story behind this. When he was a student at
Choat, young Jack Kennedy organized a group of trouble making classmates
he christened them the Muckers. He gave each member a little shovel to show he belonged, the Muckers. Maybe you could give that nickname to the huge brigade of not just young people I predict would sign up to clean up the Gulf this summer. Maybe the best thing you could do, Mr. President, is while slapping BP with the bill for all this, let the American people regain the spirit of Kennedy and get out there and reclaim this America the beautiful of ours.
That's HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us. Right now, it's time for "THE ED SHOW," with Ed Schultz.
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I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I'd been nominated for the One Lovely Blog award by Deb from A Pocket Full of Family Memories, and Alona from Lone Tester. While I've been away I've again been awarded the blog by Niki Marie of My People in History and Helen Smith from who kindly mentioned my 2012 Beyond the Internet series. It's such a privilege when readers enjoy what we've written and think of us when awards are being handed out. Thank you to Deb, Alona, Niki Marie and Helen!
In my previous response I alluded to a long discussion that had gone on some years ago and which I'd had on my blog tabs until recently regarding my approach to awards, and the rationale behind it. Instead of nominating other blogs I referred my readers to the list of some of the blogs I like to read (I have hundreds in my Feedly reader).
In retrospect this seemed a bit curmudgeonly so with these new nominations I decided to add a list of blogs I enjoy, some of which I've only just discovered; some I read all the time and love; and some which aren't even about family history (gasp!). I know that at least some of these blogs don't accept awards and so feel free to step off the award merry-go-round. However others may like to claim their award and carry it forward…entirely up to each of you. I think that's called having a dollar each way…For those who wish to participate here are the rules:
- Thank the person that nominated you and link back to that blog.
- Share seven things about yourself – see below.
- Nominate 15 bloggers you admire –or as many as you can think of!.
- Contact your bloggers to let them know you've tagged them for the One Lovely Blog Award
I hope you enjoy the reading opportunities – I think each of these blogs is One Lovely Blog irrespective of whether they take up the award. I hope you make some new discoveries among them.
By the Bremer (for those of us with Ipswich, Qld ancestry)
The Back Fence of Genealogy (Crissouli)
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My Past Whispers (Lauren)
Tree of Me (Sharon)
Derek's Den (Derek is new to family history, why not welcome him)
Essex Voices Past (Kate)
Wrote by Rote (Arlee of A to Z Challenge fame writes about memoirs)
Destination Unknown (fabulous travel photos by Kellie)
Becoming Prue (Prue)
On a Flesh and Bone Foundation (Jennifer)
In the Footsteps of My Ancestors (Tanya)
The Empire Called and I Answered (Lenore)(Do explore the list of volunteers from Essington and Flemington)
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