Last week it was reported that just as First Lady Michelle “Antoinette” Obama was returning from her partially-taxpayer-funded vacation to Spain, her staff was contacting a British fashion designer about commissioning a coat for the First Lady. Of course, this isn’t the first time Mrs. Obama has used White House staff to recruit designers for her wardrobe. Last year, then-White House social secretary Desiree Rogers , made a much-publicized trip to New York’s Fashion Week, claiming she was on a research trip to identify up and coming designers for the First Lady to promote. Her trip, which included a lunch at the famed Four Seasons restaurant hosted and paid for by a prominent interior designer, was largely paid for by taxpayers. Now Rogers is out, pushed over the beating the Obamas took for their shoddy social events and the even shoddier security at them, but she landed on her feet. Last week Rogers was announced as the new CEO of the Johnson Publishing, the publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines. But White House sources say that Rogers, among other friends, maintains contact with a number of fashion designers and “people in the arts” for the First Lady. “She has a network of people who look out for her for clothes and arts and crafts to promote,” says a White House source. “Just because Desiree isn’t here, doesn’t mean she isn’t helping us where she can.”
Death to traitors… (NPR) – Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told WHMI, a Michigan radio station, that Pfc. Bradley Manning should be executed if he did, in fact, leak classified documents and video to WikiLeaks. “If they won’t charge him with treason, they ought to charge him with murder,” Rogers said yesterday. The host of the program asked the congressman if treason during wartime is a capital offense, punishable by the death penalty. “Yes,” Rogers said. “And I would support it 100 percent.” According to The New York Times, “Manning with disclosing a classified video of an American helicopter attack to WikiLeaks, as well as more than 150,000 classified diplomatic cables.” Military officials said Friday that the private was also the main suspect in the disclosure to WikiLeaks of more than 90,000 classified documents about the Afghan war, some of which were published this week by The New York Times, the German magazine Der Spiegel and the British newspaper The Guardian. In the interview, which WHMI has posted in its entirety, he said that there is “a culture of disclosure,” which encourages leaks, is “a growing and serious problem.” According to Rogers, “it’s hard to make a decision based on one piece of the puzzle, but they do it often.”
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GOP Congressman: If WikiLeaks Leaker Manning Is Guilty, He Should Be Executed…
