Quote: the G-man said: I wonder....does the level of animous whomod displays for Ms. Rice have anything to do with the fact that she is a proud, strong, successful African-American woman?
Yeah, G-Man. I'm the Grand Wizard of the L.A. branch of the KKK.
It seems Frist isn't the only Republican that's reaching, today.
“Mr. Clarke has told two entirely different stories under oath,” Frist said in a speech from the Senate floor.
But he later told MSNBC that he personally had no knowledge that there were any discrepancies between Clarke’s two appearances. He said, “Until you have him under oath both times, you don’t know.”
Frist has gone done quite a few notches in my book.
As for Dr. Condaleezza Rice, media darling/commission no-show, here's a paper she wrote pre-9/11 where she's zeroing in on terrorism as her top priority.
In the article Rice notes five key foreign policy priorities. Only the last made any mention of terrorism, but not al Qaida or Osama bin Laden.
Instead she wrote about North Korea, Iraq and Iran.
There's no mention of Afghanistan or the madrassas in Pakistan, the importance of knocking down terrorist financial networks, Islamist sleeper cells in American or Germany.
None of it.
Her words certainly support Clarke's view of things.
I'll add another in a growing chorus of REPUBLICANS speaking out against party but for country and honesty:
Quote: Ray McGovern, CIA Security Analyst who met daily with Reagan and Bush Sr.
McGovern on Condoleezza Rice:
“Condoleeza Rice was not equipped to handle the situation before or after 9-11.”
"Frontier Justice" by Scott Ritter was the first book that tried to tell the truth about Iraq and Bush. It really made me start to think and research this a bit. But, everyone put him down--just like Clark. He said there were no WMDs and he turned out to be right. Then came all the other so called "disgruntled" ex-Bushies and WMD experts who call Bush liar.
Outgoing Deputy National Security Advisor Lieutenant General Donald L. Kerrick, who stayed through the first four months of the Bush administration, said,
Quote: "candidly speaking, I didn't detect" a strong focus on terrorism. "That's not being derogatory. It's just a fact. I didn't detect any activity but what Dick Clarke and the CSG [the Counterterrorism Strategy Group he chaired] were doing."
General Hugh Shelton, whose term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff began under Clinton and ended under Bush, concurred. In his view, the Bush administration moved terrorism "farther to the back burner."
America Unbound, p. 76
Ivo Daalder & James Lindsay
whomod- enjoying his front row seat at the Administration meltdown.
