Up is Down, Black is White
Like a speed user searching for an ever greater high, this White House just can't believe what they can do, and not get called onto the carpet by responsible members of their own party. White House withholds Rice speech.
They've declared this speech to be secret. Never mind that she was scheduled to give it in public on September 11, or that parts of the text have already been leaked to the newspapers. Somehow, now, it's in the realm of the Secret Bush World.
Somebody please explain to me how this is anything other than a naked political move. And before you trot out the very tired "the commission is a partisan political entity" crap, feel free to be specific. Which commissioners are the partisans? Bush picked them all. As far as I can tell, it's pretty balanced. Everything they do is on the official 9/11 commission site. Point out the partisan bits, please!
Bushie whining about the "partisan commission" is pretty flat, given the fact that they've produced no alternative plan and they picked the entire commission.
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I really have no idea why
I really have no idea why they'd do that. It makes no sense, on several levels:
1) It's already out there, at least bits of it.
2) It can't be that damaging, because everyone knows what happened that day, and how it changed things.
3) Withholding it gives ammunition to those who don't like the administration. Like Ross, for instance.
4) It looks bad even to supporters. Like me, for instance.
The commission does seem pretty even-keeled. I don't have a problem with it - and in fact wish they'd get their work done, so that we can stop obsessing over how we got here, and start obsessing over where we're going.
Side note - I was sympathetic, to some extent, with the administration's reluctance to have Dr. Rice speak in public - she is the National Security advisor, after all. But this is just effing retarded.
Aside from a double handful of complaints that I have about domestic policy emanating from this administration, the biggest problem I have is their lack of openness. They instinctively conceal information. In many situations, especially in war, this is wise. But they have not, and especially Bush has not, appeared before the public to let us know what's going on, and why - at least beyond the platitude level.
Although, now that I am thinking about it, I wonder how much of that is the media's fault. If you are a news junky, follow the blogs, the sunday morning shows, you hear from the players what is happening. But the day to day media don't package that information, not even Fox.
Still, an organized effort from the White House would get the job done.
And let's not forget that the
And let's not forget that the findings of the 9/11 commission are now due.... after the November elections!
Did I just troll my own site?
Did I just troll my own site?
What's with the title? This
What's with the title? This isn't lying, propaganda or misinformation, for which that title could be relevant. Rather, it's secrecy.