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QOTD: DADT Repealed Edition
If I Ran the Zoo —
Richard Clark in this morning's Washington Post: [T]he decisions that Bush officials made in the following months and years -- on Iraq, on detentions, on interrogations, on wiretapping -- were not appropriate. Careful analysis could have replaced the impulse to break all the rules, even more so because the Sept. 11 attacks, though horrifying, should not have surprised senior officials. Cheney's admission that 9/11 caused him to reassess the threats to the nation only underscores how, for months, top officials had ignored warnings from the CIA and the NSC ...
Oh my goodness, and it's in the WaPo
Rising Hegemon —
So I guess, David Broder will never hear of it. Richard Clarke's article on how Bush & Cheney fucked up and are still fucked up in what they did post 9/11 is a must read. ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... Republicans (89 votes) Yes 24% No 64% Depends (volunteered) 12% Democrats (92 votes) Yes 8% No 89% Depends 3% Richard Clarke: Cheney and Rice say anyone would respond as they did. ...
Rejecting temporary insanity as an excuse
Political Animal —
REJECTING TEMPORARY INSANITY AS AN EXCUSE.... Richard Clarke has been listening to Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, and other leading Bush administration officials, offer excuses for their national security policies, pointing to the terrorism crisis. Today, Clarke has a ...
trauma of 9/11 no excuse
skippy the bush kangaroo —
... on interrogations, on wiretapping -- were not appropriate. careful analysis could have replaced the impulse to break all the rules, even more so because the sept. 11 attacks, though horrifying, should not have surprised senior officials. cheney's admission that 9/11 caused him to reassess the threats to the nation only underscores how, for months, top officials had ignored warnings from the cia and the nsc staff that urgent action was needed to preempt a major al-qaeda attack.- wapo ...
Cheney Blames Richard Clarke For 9/11: ‘He Missed It’
Think Progress —
... Writing in Sunday’s Washington Post, Richard Clarke, the former counterrorism chief under Presidents Clinton and Bush, slammed Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice for invoking what he called “the White House 9/11 trauma defense” — namely, the shock of 9/11 was so great as to justify all and any actions taken in the name of national defense. Clarke called the decisions on interrogations, detentions, and Iraq were all “wrong,” and the White House panic proved that Cheney and company had simply been ignoring the warning signs: ...
