The Blame Game
The muckracking, partisan, and utterly filthy Boston Herald has a thought-provoking editorial today that raises two important points.
Point the first: "We'd like to know how Clarke squares his contention that he was the only one in the Bush administration truly committed to thwarting terrorism before the Sept. 11 attacks with this: It was Clarke who personally authorized the evacuation by private plane of dozens of Saudi citizens, including many members of Osama bin Laden's own family, in the days immediately following Sept. 11."
Point the second: "By all accounts, Clarke made hundreds of decisions in the days after Sept. 11, many clear-headed and right. Approving those special flights seems like a wrong one, but it was a judgment call made in the aftermath of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil in history. Perhaps it was the best decision he could make under the circumstances. It's too bad Clarke cuts no one in the Bush administration the same slack he so easily cuts himself."
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Marcland linked to this, from
[url=http://www.marcnet.org/marcland/]Marcland[/url] linked to this, from jon">http://qando.net/archives/002491.htm]jon henke:
1: If you are going to write a book in '04 saying the Bush administration was slacking off on terrorism, you probably shouldn't give interviews in '02 saying they were "vigorously" pursuing the existing policy
2: If you think you might write a book criticising the Administration's dedication to fighting terrorism in '04, you probably shouldn't give interviews praising it in '03.
3: If you do all of those, you should probably try to disable Google, before every blogger in America notices these things.
4: Question: if you seriously believe there is a dereliction of duty in government - one that puts national security at risk - why does Simon & Schuster get first dibs on that information?
Also, from Krauthammer:
Also, from Krauthammer:
"It is only March, but the 2004 Chutzpah of the Year Award can be safely given out. It goes to Richard Clarke, now making himself famous by blaming the Bush administration for Sept. 11 -- after Clarke had spent eight years in charge of counterterrorism for a Clinton administration that did nothing. "
So, you are arguing that he
So, you are arguing that he was 'playing nice' before?
Johno: why are you enraged by Junior's joke and not Clarke's testimony? Does it not make more sense to switch the two around?