Did they know?

[Colleen Thomas]

Clarke resigned, Colly, or was allowed to resign, after being removed from contact with the president and effectively demoted. For what it's worth, the books I've read by 3 sources, none of whom had very much in common (Wilson, Price, Clarke) all paint similar pictures of people and events, and in the places where there is some crossover, I found no contradictions. They would have had some work to do to get their stories straight before staggering the publication of their books, wouldn't they? And a shared agenda to discredit the president? And to discredit him on the same issues? And in Price's case, with supporting documents for every directly quoted meeting, e-mail, love note and memo?

People have been fired from other White Houses and waited until the next administration to publish their revenge. How credible is it that three people of such stature within previous White Houses who had the respect of other conservative Republican presidents, would break with the tradition of not publishing tell-all books about a sitting president; all slandering his character with similar accounts of his behavior behind the scenes; all expressing doubts about the motives for the Iraq invasion, and painting Cheney as the man in charge - if there wasn't enough truth there to protect them from libel suits? That's a lot of Bush-bashing, credited to two people (Price and Wilson) considered favorites of Bush I.


Side topic: Because you aren't suspicious of Cheney as I am, you might be the best person here to ask if there might have been a reason for the president's Secret Service contingent not to move him after they learned that the 2nd plane had hit and it was now assumed that the country was under attack. I'd ask the same about GWB or President George Clooney in the same circumstance, because their inaction that day has bothered me ever since I saw the classroom footage. Were they negligent because they were just stunned? Can Secret Service agents be stunned and keep their jobs?

I don't have an answer for you sher. I remember siting there in stunned disbelief watching the second plane hit the towers. I suppose it's just to easy to postulate they were just as stunned as I was.

 

[shereads]

I don't have an answer for you sher. I remember siting there in stunned disbelief watching the second plane hit the towers. I suppose it's just to easy to postulate they were just as stunned as I was.

Cheney's agents weren't stunned.

 

[Op_Cit]

Originally posted by shereads
If there's lots of evidence that a witch has been cooking children in the local forest, I think a witch hunt would be in order. Even if all we can do when we find her is call her names and make her feel bad.

What you're missing is that the smoke yer smellin' is the machinery of government. It is in its nature to conspire, plot, foment, and foil. That's all they do. It's all they've ever done.

And they do it with the full, implicit acceptance of the mob. The evils won't end until people take responsibility for themselves.

But it's too comfortable here in Omelas.