Posted on 02/19/2006 9:18:43 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Clinton: Secrecy Sparked Shooting Reaction
23 minutes ago
Former President Clinton said Sunday the Bush administration's "enormous penchant for secrecy" sparked the strong reaction to Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting mishap.
"We have people quite often who are shot in quail incidents, so I didn't feel the need to get into the pile-on," Clinton said Sunday on ABC's "Good Morning America."
Cheney has been criticized for not disclosing the shooting on Feb. 11 of Texas lawyer Harry Whittington until the following day.
"I think the White House should have said something about it sooner," Clinton said. "I think that it's gotten a little more light than it would have because the administration has an enormous penchant for secrecy for not telling anybody anything about anything."
The shooting had little impact on public opinion about the job done by Cheney, which was already low. A Time magazine poll found 29 percent of those surveyed approve of the job done by Cheney, close to the 32 percent approval for the vice president in November.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
You got that right....mind boggling for sure! The aggravation for me is when Clinton makes comments like this, and no reporter, or anchor, or late night comic, or talking head, or editor, will crucify him, or at least ridicule him, for his monumental "sociopathic chutzpah".
This administration knows how to keep quiet whereas Bill Clinton always had an alibi at any given moment.
Takes one to know one...or project on one, actually.
No Bill, what you chacterize as secrecy is just the administration's cautious and measured approach to releasing information to the jackals in the liberal media who have an "enormous penchant" for distorting news.
This month the talking point is "Republican administration secrecy".
Last month it was "Republicans spying on the peoples".
Next month is will probably be yet another idiotic thing that they will all repeat, one after another, while looking straight and sternly into the cameras, as if they are inventing the DNC phrase for the first time.
Were they not so pathitic, it would be funny.
Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark! One of the best comments I've read here in weeks.
But will "adopted" Bush son Billy Clinton be disinvited for Sunday dinner today?
HEY!,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Willy!,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,STFU!
This administration is very secretive, unlike yours.
Willard hypocrisy mocking ---off----
All I have to say is "Remember Vince Foster". Talk about secrecy. Sheesh.
Correctamundo on ALL counts, but the elitist skull and bones' allegiance is to...themselves.
Btw, imagine Reagan palling around with Jimmy Carter??
How much respect would we have lost for the Gipper?
"When the Clinton's shoot their lawyer, he stays dead."
ROFLMAO...
Exactly! How he has the nerve to even speak out on this is beyond me. If we had an honest D.C. press corps, this would have stopped a long time ago as they would have outed both Clintons instead of wearing kneepads for both.
OMG..I can't believe any Clinton would have the nerve to critique the "secrecy" of any other Administration. Of course, this wouldn't even be possible if not for the collaboration with the MSM. After all, these are the same people who sat quietly by as "they" witnessed one of the most outrageous purges in American history.
There has never been a more secretive administration than that which Hillary belonged. From the DA Massacre, which replaced all the US Attorneys, to the purges of Inspector Generals and department heads, Bill Clinton created one of the most impenetrable walls of protection that any president had ever erected. Heck, they ruined a mans reputation and career (Billy Dale) simply because Hillary wanted one of her trusted friends at the Travel Office.
From billing records to FBI files to campaign finance fraud to Richardson and IRS abuse (another Hillary confidante) to every frickin' scandal-"gate" under the sun, the Clintons were immersed in secrets and corruption. You had an AG who was routinely threatened with Contempt of Congress because she refused to turn over relevant documents that Congress was investigating. Whether it was numerous witnesses who "just couldn't recall" or those 100+ who fled the country to avoid testifying...this was the most secret and corrupt administration in history.
I truly believe that Monica-gate became the media's scandal dejour simply because it took these other more serious issues of the front page...and they thought they could easily beat it. It is disgusting to watch the media and libs try and routinely create scandals from benign incidents under Bush, while they deliberately ignored and marginalized those much more serious incidents under Clinton.
Well, we knew that "Culture of corruption" must have been the #1 term to emerge from focus group testing. Now we know that the #2 phrase was "enormous penchant for secrecy". Unfortunately for the Democrats this one won't fly either.
The only strong reaction was from the press....most of America went on with their lives
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.