NEW YORK -- The Bush administration is letting Cuba play ball. The Cubans will be allowed to participate in the inaugural World Baseball Classic after the U.S. government reversed course Friday and issued the special license necessary for the communist nation to play in the 16-team tournament.And, it's nice to see that little Scottie the professional liar is still immune to irony.
Baseball's first application was denied in mid-December by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, but the commissioner's office and the players' association reapplied Dec. 22 after Cuba said it would donate any profits it receives to victims of Hurricane Katrina.
"The president wanted to see it resolved in a positive way," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. "Our concerns were centered on making sure that no money was going to the Castro regime and that the World Baseball Classic would not be misused by the regime for spying. We believe the concerns have been addressed."The Bush administration reaction to the Cuban regime spying: Concerned.
The Bush administration reaction to the President spying on American citizens illegally and without warrants: Not concerned.
Scottie, when are our concerns about its own government spying on citizens illegally going to be addressed? Hmmm.
Oh, I see you have a propaganda campaign scheduled to start next week. I guess you need that when you can't seem to follow the law.
But that’s not all. Alberto Gonzales has a speech scheduled on the issue for Tuesday and former NSA director Michael Hayden has an event at the National Press Club scheduled for Monday.The administration does a good job scheduling a PR campaign. They do a bad job of following the law.
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