lies. about the most consequential things. that led to that war that ultimately cost hundreds of thousands of lives. he told abc news, for example, after the invasion, when he was asked how come no weapons of mass destruction that you guaranteed were there, how can they haven t been found? he insisted to abc news that not only were they weapons of mass destruction that were going to be found, but he knew where they were. he said quote, we know where they are. they re in the area around tikrit and baghdad, and east, west south and north, somewhat. donald rumsfeld die today at the age of 80. he did not die at his home at mount misery. which was the sleeve breaking site of the life changing and world changing torture of frederick douglass. the police that he bought as a weekend retreat while serving as defense secretary. he died and said at new mexico at a ranch he had their.
struggle against it. and then here s actually the kicker from that piece. the professor says, quote, preserving mount misery as a public site of contemplation where the meanings of democracy and despotism are given a human face also would help keep saint michael s from being merely a resort for the wealthy. a resort for the wealthy? check this out. the occasion for that call that well-argued piece in the baltimore sun that mount misery should be purchased and preserved by this country against saves in great numbers but specifically against one of the greatest americans of all time, the key role that the torture in that house played in turning on our american conscious to eventually overthrow slavery, the occasion
post was first to report that grand jury has now produced indictments. criminal charges have been filed agnst the trump organization and it s a long chief financial officer, an executive name allen weisselberg. charges were filed today by the grand jury, they will be unsealed tomorrow afternoon. meaning that we won t know the exact nature of the charges until they are unsealed. that reporting has now been confirmed by nbc news and by several other news organizations, but whatever charges we do see tomorrow, we keep being told that may not be the end of the story. this is what i have questions about, basically every news organization that reported i.c.e. has sort of put forth this prospect in their own way. as an example, i ll tell you this is how the wall street journal put it today, quote, the charges expected tomorrow, thursday, could be the first in a series of charges in the future, particularly if prosecutors able to gain cooperation from mr. weisselberg in order to bolster their
weekends with the president s men. it s kind of a kick-y sidebar piece. in the new york times that was published in the summer of 2006. and that piece revealed that that sights on the eastern shore of maryland, mount misery, that house, that farm, had actually been recently pursued just and it is now being lived in as a private home. can you imagine? right. the house is first of all still cold mount misery today. that is still the name by which it is known. who would want him to live in a place called that misery? but then you get to the reason that it is called mount misery, right? it is the home, the actual home, the same building that is standing there since 1804. frederick douglass was tortured there in 1833, 1834. it is the same actual physical place in which the great frederick douglass was tortured and beaten and worked nearly to death every day for a year.
whether or not you think that place should be purchased by this country and made into a memorial for the worst, most violent evils of slavery, and their role in turning on americans conscious is to end slavery, and right, that is a substantive an interesting proposal. whether or not you re into that idea, would you want to live there yourself? would you like to wake up there in the morning play their breakfast, who would do that? that article published was published published and controversial at that time. because in writing that beast, it revealed the exact home address of a senior government official, that in fact had made mount misery his private home. his name was donald rumsfeld. and he was at the time, in the summer of 2006, struggling to the end of his disastrous tenure as secretary of defense of the georgia we bush administration. he lived at the time at mount