Richard Clarke: If I am in charge, I want my stapler back. You took my red stapler. I don't know about the planes. All I know is you took my stapler. And I haven't received my paycheck.
Posted on 09/11/2006 8:03:13 PM PDT by YaYa123
Clarke must have been snapping the photo.
["I'm in charge." - Secretary of State Alexander Haig
Said after Reagan was shot while George Bush was out of the country. He didn't realize that next in line is the Speaker of the House, followed by the Ranking Member of the Senate]
one of the biggest "oops" in American Politics.
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There is nothing in this story that I had not read and heard Cheney describe on tv shortly after 9-11. I believe on the Tim Russrt show. It amazes me how short is the memory of the public, if they paid attention in the frst place.
Before you go yaya over that picture. Remember that a couple hours after the first plane hit the WTC, Cheney was still in his White House Office. It was only when Flight 93 was headed for the White House that the Secret Service picked him and carried him to the Bunker. I'm not saying he wasnt leading the response, but his own testimony on Meet the Press indicates he was in his office until the SS agents whisked him away as planes intruded on Washington airspace.
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Are you forgetting Dick Clark works for ABC as a consultant and would have had a major role in this miniseries as "expert" and would thus have the opportunity to present his totally false side of the story and glorify himself?
Are you forgetting Dick Clark works for ABC
Not for a minute! He was hired the week after his testimony to the 9-11 Commish.
Ironic isn't it.
Clark, a Clinton holdover, gets to advise the movie.
Stephy, the Clinton White Aide from Arkansas, gets to review Bush's speech.
Makes me ill!
The left can't have it both ways.
Well, role models are important for children destined to become Gay, too. Viva "Dick" Clarke. /sarc off
He's cowering under the desk.... in his office.
lmao
I thought the casting decision for Richard Clarke was rather amusing.
Notice they did not cast a Bubba. He was totally out of the loop.
Very good!
Richard Clarke: If I am in charge, I want my stapler back. You took my red stapler. I don't know about the planes. All I know is you took my stapler. And I haven't received my paycheck.
TERESA HEINZ KERRY: You know, it's very interesting. I landed at National Airport less than 12 hours before, coming from Pennsylvania, where I was doing a prescription drugs thing -- meeting. And I came in from Pittsburgh, landed at National, and that's the last time I landed at National for quite a while.
LARRY KING: How'd you hear about it?
TERESA HEINZ KERRY: I was at home in Washington. I had just come in and I got a call...
JOHN KERRY: I think I called.
TERESA HEINZ KERRY: And they said, look at the TV. I looked at the TV and I couldn't believe it.
LARRY KING: Where were you?
JOHN KERRY: I was in the Capitol. We'd just had a meeting -- we'd just come into a leadership meeting in Tom Daschle's office, looking out at the Capitol. And as I came in, Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid were standing there, and we watched the second plane come in to the building. AND WE SHORTLY THEREAFTER SAT DOWN AT THE TABLE AND THEN WE JUST REALIZED NOBODY COULD THINK, and then boom (editor's note: 35 minutes later), right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon. And then word came from the White House, they were evacuating, and we were to evacuate, and so we immediately began the evacuation.
TERESA HEINZ KERRY: You walked out with John McCain, didn't you?
JOHN KERRY: Yes.
LARRY KING: You and what?
TERESA HEINZ KERRY: He and John walked out together.
LARRY KING: He and John McCain walked out -- what did you think? Did you think?
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