I have to say, this attack by Clarke (and jumped on by the Dems) has been one of the most bumbling, amateurish attempts I've ever seen.
Anyone catching a whiff of desperation??
Forked tongues are notoriously stinky.
If Clarke were truly heroic, would he have endangered the American public by lying to them?
When a pre-9/11 tape was produced on which Clarke told reporters that the Bush Administration was intensifying its fight against al Qaeda, Clarke tried to dismiss it, by saying that it was his job to lie for the administration.
Clarke reminds me of Kerry.
Kerry supposedly did not like killing the Vietnamese.
But
Kerry was unwilling to stop killing the Vietnamese ("committing war crimes") until he could use his highly visible protestations as a steppingstone to his goal of becoming President.
Someone reported on another thread Harold Ford seems to be backing away now. Imus went after the commission also today.
The jig is up.
Coop this is a Terry McC DNC operation....he can't shot straight to save his life.
Will people buy the lies? Strikes me that they might.
National security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that administration records -- including former White House counterterrorism official Richard Clarke's own words and actions -- prove false his "scurrilous allegation that somehow the president of the United States was not attentive to the terrorist threat."
Condi Rice? The same National Security Adviser who in May of 2002 said, "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would ... try to use an airplane as a missile"? That Condi Rice?
To outsiders, INTJs may appear to project an aura of "definiteness", of self-confidence. This self-confidence, sometimes mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive, is actually of a very specific rather than a general nature; its source lies in the specialized knowledge systems that most INTJs start building at an early age. When it comes to their own areas of expertise -- and INTJs can have several -- they will be able to tell you almost immediately whether or not they can help you, and if so, how. INTJs know what they know, and perhaps still more importantly, they know what they don't know. INTJs are perfectionists, with a seemingly endless capacity for improving upon anything that takes their interest. What prevents them from becoming chronically bogged down in this pursuit of perfection is the pragmatism so characteristic of the type: INTJs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "Does it work?" to everything from their own research efforts to the prevailing social norms. This in turn produces an unusual independence of mind, freeing the INTJ from the constraints of authority, convention, or sentiment for its own sake.
INTJs are known as the "Systems Builders" of the types, perhaps in part because they possess the unusual trait combination of imagination and reliability. Whatever system an INTJ happens to be working on is for them the equivalent of a moral cause to an INFJ; both perfectionism and disregard for authority may come into play, as INTJs can be unsparing of both themselves and the others on the project. Anyone considered to be "slacking," including superiors, will lose their respect -- and will generally be made aware of this; INTJs have also been known to take it upon themselves to implement critical decisions without consulting their supervisors or co-workers. On the other hand, they do tend to be scrupulous and even-handed about recognizing the individual contributions that have gone into a project, and have a gift for seizing opportunities which others might not even notice.
In the broadest terms, what INTJs "do" tends to be what they "know". Typical INTJ career choices are in the sciences and engineering, but they can be found wherever a combination of intellect and incisiveness are required (e.g., law, some areas of academia). INTJs can rise to management positions when they are willing to invest time in marketing their abilities as well as enhancing them, and (whether for the sake of ambition or the desire for privacy) many also find it useful to learn to simulate some degree of surface conformism in order to mask their inherent unconventionality.
Personal relationships, particularly romantic ones, can be the INTJ's Achilles heel. While they are capable of caring deeply for others (usually a select few), and are willing to spend a great deal of time and effort on a relationship, the knowledge and self-confidence that make them so successful in other areas can suddenly abandon or mislead them in interpersonal situations.
This happens in part because many INTJs do not readily grasp the social rituals; for instance, they tend to have little patience and less understanding of such things as small talk and flirtation (which most types consider half the fun of a relationship). To complicate matters, INTJs are usually extremely private people, and can often be naturally impassive as well, which makes them easy to misread and misunderstand. Perhaps the most fundamental problem, however, is that INTJs really want people to make sense. :-) This sometimes results in a peculiar naivete', paralleling that of many Fs -- only instead of expecting inexhaustible affection and empathy from a romantic relationship, the INTJ will expect inexhaustible reasonability and directness.
Probably the strongest INTJ assets in the interpersonal area are their intuitive abilities and their willingness to "work at" a relationship. Although as Ts they do not always have the kind of natural empathy that many Fs do, the Intuitive function can often act as a good substitute by synthesizing the probable meanings behind such things as tone of voice, turn of phrase, and facial expression. This ability can then be honed and directed by consistent, repeated efforts to understand and support those they care about, and those relationships which ultimately do become established with an INTJ tend to be characterized by their robustness, stability, and good communications. Famous Maserminds are: Dan Aykroyd, actor (The Blues Brothers)Susan B. Anthony, suffragistArthur Ashe, tennis championAugustus Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus), Emperor of Rome Jane Austen, author (Pride and Prejudice) William J. Bennett, "drug czar" William F. Buckley, Jr., conservative political advocate Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides)Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane), actor (Fletch)Phil Donahue, television talk show host Michael Dukakis, governor of Mass., 1988 U.S. Dem. pres. candidate Greg Gumbel, television sportscaster Hannibal, Carthaginian military leader Veronica Hamel, actor (Hill Street Blues) Orel Leonard Hershiser, IV, major league baseball pitcher Peter Jennings, television newscaster Charles Everett Koop, former U.S. surgeon general Ivan Lendl, tennis champion C. S. Lewis, author (The Chronicles of Narnia) Joan Lunden, television talk show host Edwin Moses, U.S. olympian (hurdles) Martina Navratilova, tennis champion Charles Rangel, U. S. Representative, D-N.Y. Pernell Roberts, actor (Bonanza) Maria Owens Shriver, television newscaster Josephine Tey (Elizabeth Mackintosh), mystery writer (Brat Farrar) Rudy Giuliani, New York City mayor Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense General Colin Powell, US Secretary of State
U.S. Presidents:Chester A. Arthur,calvin Coolidge Thomas Jefferson John F. Kennedy James K. Polk Woodrow Wilson
Sometimes to understand a work product you have to understand the person doing it. While this may seem trivial or silly to try to draw a picture of a person's personality, the Meyer/Briggs approach has been widely used for 60 years.
Rice said Clarke did once mention in an early 2001 memo the possibility of al Qaeda sleeper cells in the United States. But she said he made "no recommendation about what to do about them."
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God bless Conde Rice!