Condoleezza Rice’s testimony to the 9\/11 Commission tomorrow morning is shaping up to be even more Must See than Richard Clarke’s testimony a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n
But in the last week or so, it’s all become simply bizarro. This Administration’s behavior vis a vis the 9\/11 Commission, the disasters unfolding in Iraq and their odd behavior in respect to it. Self-preservation and all of that, I suppose. But it just gets curiouser and curiouser as if these guys seem to be living in an alternate universe or something.<\/p>\n
I once again associate myself with the excellent Josh Marshall<\/a>, who points out the following the quote from an Evening Standard article<\/a>:<\/p>\n Oddly enough, that quote refers to the FBI’s interrogation of Saddam, not George W. Bush as one could similarly argue.<\/p>\n In the meantime, the Whitehouse is still fighting to keep Condi’s Foreign Policy speech, planned to be given on September 11, 2001, out of the hands of the 9\/11 Commission. On what grounds? National Security? Executive Privelege? It was to have been a public speech<\/i> for crying out loud. What the hell are they so afraid of?<\/p>\n And then there’s Richard Clarke again today on Hardball<\/i><\/a> pointing out that Tom Clancy’s 1997 book, Debt of Honor<\/i> featured hijackers that fly a plane into the US Capitol Dome<\/b>! Again, along with Clarke’s admission that he cobbled Anti-Aircraft Defenses into place for the ’96 Atlanta Olympics, a stunning counterpoint to Condi’s now infamous May 2002 comments: “I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people.. would try to use…a hijacked airplane as a missile.” Bush said as much himself this past Monday in his bizaare presser<\/a> in North Carolina.<\/p>\n Would anybody in America hold it against these guys if they simply said “We under-estimated the terrorist threat before 9\/11, but have learned our lesson since?” I understand the current need to lie about the screwups which have now entangled us in Iraq, but surely they could come clean on 9\/11. Again, unless they have something even more<\/i> damaging to hide than what we already can figure out on our own. I don’t know that they do, but their bizaare behavior and coverups and constant kicking, screaming participation with the Commission sure doesn’t look good.<\/p>\n It’s all simply falling apart for these guys. It’s Bizarro World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Condoleezza Rice’s testimony to the 9\/11 Commission tomorrow morning is shaping up to be even more Must See than Richard Clarke’s testimony a few weeks ago. But in the last week or so, it’s all become simply bizarro. This Administration’s behavior vis a vis the 9\/11 Commission, the disasters unfolding in Iraq and their odd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}