[vbmoneyspender]

Technically, his testimony wasn't a lie because he said he registered as a Republican in the Virginia primary in 2000. He was very careful to refrain from saying whom he voted for. This testimony on his part however was certainly very misleading and he clearly intended it to be so.

[Stultis]

This testimony on his part however was certainly very misleading and he clearly intended it to be so.

Exactly. I don't agree with the "Clarke is lying" rhetoric many Pubbies are adopting. It gives him too much credit. His case against Dubya is pure spin, and we should be portraying it that way. E.g. Clarke claims that the Bush administration "did nothing" about terrorism before 9-11, but by his own admissions, in sworn testimony, this "doing nothing" was carrying forward the Clinton policy toward al-Qaeda, while considering and adopting a much more aggressive policy over a space of eight months. The resulting policy was similar -- excepting more ambitious and comprehensive -- to the suggestions Clarke had submitted to the Clinton administration in '98, and which it had not acted on in two years.

IOW Clarke's bitch is that Bush did nothing, and didn't do it fast enough!

[sirchtruth]

Technically, his testimony wasn't a lie because he said he registered as a Republican in the Virginia primary in 2000. He was very careful to refrain from saying whom he voted for. This testimony on his part however was certainly very misleading and he clearly intended it to be so.

Then that makes it worse than a lie because by intending to "decieive" you automatically lose all credibility. Heck you don't even have to lie...just the intention of deception makes you scumbastic!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Technically, his testimony wasn't a lie because he said he registered as a Republican in the Virginia primary in 2000. He was very careful to refrain from saying whom he voted for. This testimony on his part however was certainly very misleading and he clearly intended it to be so.

Yes! But it is his standard way of operating! Sort of like the Muslims do also. Maybe he reads the Koran a bit.

[YaYa123]

Clearly, Clarke was parsing his words in order to deceive.

mikegi, thanks for giving a thread to this deception. Most media monkeys wouldn't have even noticed, the rest won't care.

[maro]

Someone help me out here. Doesn't Virginia have a caucus system rather than primaries??

[Darnright]

"Technically, his testimony wasn't a lie because he said he registered as a Republican in the Virginia primary in 2000."

Virginians don't "register as republicans" or democrats, for that matter, to vote in primaries.

Clarke is so full of cr@p it's not funny.