Clarke Contradictions Leave Many Questions

Foxnews.com ^ | 3-24-04 | Jim Angle, Wendell Goler, Sharon Kehnemui

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

So...Mr. Clarke, were you lying then or are you lying now?

Richard A. Clarke said Wednesday that when he praised the White House for its steadfast attention to the Al Qaeda threat during a 2002 briefing for reporters, he was merely putting spin on Bush administration operations.

I guess that means you were lying then. It still makes you a liar and nothing you say is to be believed and you are not to be trusted...which means your book is to be treated as a collection of fabrications.

[JOE6PAK]

Let Barns & Noble know the Clarke book is FICTION!... http://www.barnesandnoble.com/

[maranatha]

He sure changed his tune and that's obvious, but why? Just book selling? I suspect something serious from the Dirty Dems. He is trying to bring down the Commander-in-Chief during a time of war, a war against terrorists. This is serious business and I just can't believe it is all about selling books. He knows from personal experience the terrible Clinton, and all liberals' weakness in war and fighting this danger which so consumed him and what it would mean if Kerry and his unknown gang would displace Bush, Rice, Powell, Cheney and Rumsfeld during this critical time; it has to be something huge to have him do this.

[AmericanVictory]

His gleaming, shining, detached head enters the twilight zone, where loyal bureaucrats are utterly detached from reality. And he fails to answer, in light of Rummy's testimony, just how it would have made any difference if anyone had listened to him or done anything that he suggested. Truth does not matter; it is the powerful bureaucrat that matters.

[Jim_Curtis]

Richard Clark was behind the leak of the predator video a few days ago. Had I been on the panel I would have asked him:

Me: "had the predator videos not been leaked a few days ago, what effect would that have had on the testimony of Clinton associates these last couple of days?"

Clark: "We would have had to lie under oath about it and THEN the Republicans could have leaked it or we could have admitted that we had Bin Laden in our cross-hairs as late as fall of 2000 by dropping that bombshell during this hearing which would have sapped any credibility that we have and put us on the defensive throughout."

[cricket]

"Drudge is even ignoring it. Amazing"

Good grief; that is amazing; more like 'scary'.

Actually e-mailed him/his site earlier today asking when the headline would change. Forgot to even look to see what was up. Know others were doing same.

Seems Fox now being criticized for playing tape. I going to lose it!

[VadeRetro]

Asked by commissioner and former Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson (search) which of his seemingly contradictory statements is true — assertions from the book attacking the White House or the background briefing he gave to a small group of reporters — Clarke said neither.

Don't have to know much more than that.

[maranatha]

Bob Kerry made a stupid charge against Fox during the hearing like someone had been doublecrossed. The same people, (White House), who had put it on background now says its okay to go public, it's there legitimate call. How stupid Kerry's remarks were..however, some people are eager enough to attack Fox and/or Bush,or dumb enough not to figure out what was done; or as usual, a combination of both, to believe any stupid charge.

[facedown]

Maybe I have just missed some reporting here; but seems Fox News are the only ones who see any relevance in the contradictions.

Nah, it's all over the place - CNN, CBS - all trying to downplay it, but they can't contain it.

[Jorge]

Nah, it's all over the place - CNN, CBS - all trying to downplay it, but they can't contain it.

CBS too? I heard CNN was running the story. Amazing.

[Lib-Lickers 2]

I thought the whole idea of these bullshit hearings was to get to the truth?,, and Bob Kerry has a problem with information coming out that proves Clarke is a liar?,, HUMMMMMM?????

[facedown]

CBS too? I heard CNN was running the story.

'Your Government Failed You'

Love the title. Gotta read down aways.

[Enduring Freedom]

Smash!

[F16Fighter]

I see the entire Clarke debacle as a Win-Win for Dubya Bush...Consider the following:

1) The maggot-infested can of worms that was opened was the Democrats if anyone's

2) A Democratic Clinton Administration is clearly shown in testimony as weak, indecisive, and putting politics ahead of the security of America.

3) The Bush Administration was proven to have shown itself to have already begun initiating a policy to destroy Al Qaeda before 9/11.

4) Preemptively striking enemies is now established for ALL to see as absolutely necessary as a deterrent to the threat of terrorism.

[prov1813man]

All true. The problem is that most don't see the hearings, they see and hear the enemy media spin on the hearings.

[Ben Hecks]

"He knows from personal experience the terrible Clinton, and all liberals' weakness in war and fighting this danger which so consumed him and what it would mean if Kerry and his unknown gang would displace Bush, Rice, Powell, Cheney and Rumsfeld during this critical time; it has to be something huge to have him do this."

Ritter, Blix, Kay and now Clarke. All went over to the dark side for some reason. We are not dealing with an enemy that has a conscience so I would not rule anything out.

[Milligan]

Richard Clarke must be pretty mad being demoted. So angry that he turned on the Bush Administration. Sounds like real sour grapes. He rather undermine our security for his brused ego. A grown man acting like a spoiled child. When does the good of the country comes first?

[Helms]

Beware The Media and DNC are using the Plausible Lie Tactic:

The Art of "The Plausible Lie"

. ...."The basic assumption that the truth lies between the testimony of the two sides always shifts the advantage to the lying side"

Our world seems to have been invaded by individuals whose approach to life and love is so drastically different from what has been the established norm for a very long time that we are ill- prepared to deal with their tactics of what can be called the "plausible lie."

We can even see that this philosophy of the "plausible lie" has overtaken the legal and administrative domains of our world, turning them into machines in which human beings with real emotions are destroyed.

Take, for example, the "legal argument." The legal argument seems to be at the foundation of our society. This amounts to little more than con-artistry: the one who is the slickest at using the structure for convincing a group of people of something, is the one who is believed.

Because this "legal argument" system has been slowly installed as part of our culture, when it invades our personal lives, we normally do not recognize it immediately.

[Jorge]

And it refocuses the election around the war on terrorism which is clearly Bush's strong point.

No matter how much the Dems and the lib media tries to spin it, everybody know without a question that Bush has gone after the terrorists like NOBODY else.
Bush is absolutely #1 here and in the world in the war on terrorism.

[F16Fighter]

"The problem is that most don't see the hearings, they see and hear the enemy media spin on the hearings."

You;re right -- Many won't initially, but they WILL learn the truth eventually from O'Reilly, Hannity, Scarborough, Rush, the internet, and the subsequent trickle down from word-of-mouth and other sources.