Rice Accuses Clarke of Conflicting Stories

Myway News via Drudge ^ | Mar 24, 7:58 PM (ET) | Steve Holland

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP*!

Once a Clintonite always a Clintonite!

[cincinnati65]

I really would love to see someone come out and say that the Clinton Adminstration was more worried about popping the "W"s off the White House keyboards, than communicating terrorist threats or any supposed "plans" to deal with the threats.

[GailA]

BUT, BUT Dr Rice didn't give her statement under OATH, like dickie did.

[Howlin]

It was a big mistake for her not to testify, but the moment has passed; if she asked to go now, it would look too defensive.

[Tempest]

The article should be retitled

Rice Proves Clarke's stories are self contradicting.

What's with this accuses crap.

[socal_parrot]

Tonight on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, one of his guests was talking about the fact that Bill was worrying about his office space in Harlem and Hillary was trying to get her book deal done before the Senate rules prohibited her from taking the large advance. There was also no way Gore was going to cooperate, he was too busy chewing on sour grapes.

[TomGuy]

BUT, BUT Dr Rice didn't give her statement under OATH, like dickie did.

I've seen a couple of references to her not being under oath. Is there verification for that? I thought anyone testifying before a Commission, whether public or private, were under oath.

[CMOTB]

"as she castigated her former employee"
And... the above should read:
"As she castrated her former employee"
She's doing a pretty good job of shedding light on what he claims and what he says :).

[teletech]

In my view, this is one woman who is WELL QUALIFIED to be President at some future time. It would be my honor and privilege to vote for her. I would love to see Dr. Rice take on this "Kangaroo Commission".

[Steven W.]

Unfortunately Bush had to protect the basic fundamentals underlying the separation of the branches in our government and assure the presidency itself is preserved for future presidents, not just this president at this time. Counter this with Bill Clinton's extravagant legal extrapolations to try and create new "Protective Function Privelege" or any of the other myriad of different priveleges he threw at the legal system to try and protect the likes of Bruce Lindsey, Sid Blumenthal or other hit team members during his impeachment. But to see the media & liberals in full spin mode against Bush at this point, you'd never even suspect Clinton was, indeed, impeached & disbarred for perjury and obstructing justice, during the time his (Clinton) administration was supposedly spending every waking moment fighting AlQaeda (or at least when Madeline NotSoBright was clinking glasses of champagne with Kim Jong Il)

[SW6906]

"Clarke said in testimony before the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks that the Bush administration considered terrorism important but not urgent, while the previous Clinton administration, for which he also served, considered it a top priority."

PRECISELY the opposite of reality!! If it wasn't a higher priority for Bush, why then did he quintuple the budget right after he took office?!!?

[vbmoneyspender]

A small point, but under questioning by Jim Thompson (sp?) today, Clarke said he had voted in the Virginia Republican primary. Clarke volunteered this info apparently as part of an effort to show that he is not a Democrat stooge. I was hoping that Thompson would follow up this info (which Clarke volunteered) by asking him who he voted for in the primary. I believe he voted for McCain because if he had voted for Bush he would have said so. Likewise, in the general election, I believe Clarke voted for Gore, otherwise he would have said he voted for Bush. This may be a small point, but given that Clarke opened the door on the issue of how he votes by volunteering the information about him being a registered republican (at least for the 2000 election), I would love for someone to go back over the past three presidential elections to find out how Clarke has voted. I can guarantee to you he hasn't been voting for Republicans, otherwise Clarke would have volunteered this info in order to show his alleged impartiality.

[Jodi]

I wondered today if she should go in front of the committee, in an unprecedented move, on Friday during Kerry's "major" economic speech. Kill two rats with one stone, so to speak.

[Howlin]

This is like a faux-impeachment, IMO.

If they can just PROVE Bush knew and lied about it, why, they can demand he resign from his ill-gotten election anyway!

[Howlin]

They aren't meeting again until April 15th, too late in my opinion.

[SW6906]

From Open Secrets we do know that Clarke's one and only campaign contribution was $2000 to a DEMOCRAT running for Congress from Missouri, of all places. He lives in Virginia.

A Republican that donates the maximum amount to a Democrat?!!?

[Tacis]

Just heard on the local Fox outlet, a tape said to be Clarke, testifying after W got in office, praising Bush for immediately increasing 5 fold over Willie, our efforts against kerrorism. You won't hear it on the neocommunist media but most of the objective media should also have it tomorrow.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This is from Reuters.