{"id":64,"date":"2004-04-10T14:48:04","date_gmt":"2004-04-10T18:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2004-04-10T14:48:04","modified_gmt":"2004-04-10T18:48:04","slug":"clarke-vs-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"Clarke vs. Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still trying to decide who&#8217;s giving you the straight story, Clarke or Rice? The <i>LA Times<\/i> offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/images.latimes.com\/media\/acrobat\/2004-04\/12162171.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">side-by-side comparison<\/a> on their differing answers to a few items, for example:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ClarkeSwears_front.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Q: Was Clarke prevented from briefing Bush directly on terrorism?<\/p>\n<p>CLARKE: &#8220;I asked for a series of briefings on the issues in my portfolio, including counterterrorism&#8230;I was told I could brief the president on terrorism after this policy development process was complete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/CondiSwears_front.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"0\" align=\"right\">RICE: &#8220;All that he needed to do was to say, I need time to brief the president on something&#8230;Dick Clarke never asked me to brief the president on counterterrorism.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>So who&#8217;s telling the truth? See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&#038;b=44887\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> from <i>Center for American Progress<\/i> comparing Condi&#8217;s opening statement this week with on-the-record <i>facts<\/i>. You decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still trying to decide who&#8217;s giving you the straight story, Clarke or Rice? The LA Times offers a side-by-side comparison on their differing answers to a few items, for example: Q: Was Clarke prevented from briefing Bush directly on terrorism? CLARKE: &#8220;I asked for a series of briefings on the issues in my portfolio, including [&hellip;]<\/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-64","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\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}