To Tell the Truth...


 


Mike, at Cold Fury, has a great post that you need to read.

The situation: A reporter asks Tom Ridge a question about the recent terror threats. Mike proposes that he answer with, well, the truth, gotta love it...

“Christ almighty, what is it with you people? You’ve spent a couple of years asking why we didn’t prevent 9/11, calling for an investigation, asking ‘how much did Bush know and when did he know it?’ You blamed us for something we failed to prevent after eight months in office, and yet to this day you give the Clinton admin a free pass, even though he had eight years—eight fucking years, people—to do something about al Qaeda and didn’t do one goddamned thing.

“You finally get your investigation, the results of which confirm most of what we’d been saying all along, but you don’t want to hear that any more than you wanted to hear about the fact that one of the Democrat commissioners, Jamie Gorelick, was responsible for the so-called “wall of separation” prohibiting information-sharing between the FBI and CIA, which nearly everyone now acknowledges was one of the biggest problems preventing any effective defense against terrorist networks. You do deign to acknowledge that problem, but the part you originally claimed to be most interested in—who was responsible—is suddenly not so interesting anymore the moment you realized you couldn’t reasonably blame us for it...

That is just the beginning, so you need to read it all, now. In fact, get everybody to read it. Nice job Mike, very nice job and I would love to see it at every single press conference.


Posted: Thursday - August 05, 2004 at 00:18          

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