No, none at all.
" I do not know if Mr. Clarke’s motive for these charges is partisan gain, personal profit, self promotion, or animus because of his failure to win a promotion in the Bush Administration. But the one thing that his motive could not possibly be is to bring clarity to the issue of how we avoid future September 11 attacks. " - Senator Bill Frist (emphasis added)
I am nearly speechless. What an utterly contemptible and despicable thing to say. Clarke, by all honest accounts, was an exemplary civil servant, serving one and only one master: the people of the United States. To have a life dedicated to the safety and security of the United States called into question by a representative of those people is thoroughly base.
Damn you, Bill Frist. You too took an oath to defend this country and you spit on it. Damn you.
Posted by MartialMaybe we could avoid future September 11th attacks if we had a political leadership who took national security seriously.
Just a thought.
Posted by: Kevin Moore on March 30, 2004 02:06 AMYou don't need to damn somebody like that. He's already well on the road to Hell.
Posted by: Dave Trowbridge on March 31, 2004 12:27 AMI don't see what's so bad about what Senator Frist said. Clarke's story now is almost exactly the opposite of what he was saying before he had a book to sell.
Posted by: Lynn S on April 3, 2004 01:59 PMMartial,
While you may be right, we need to figure out why Clarke's stories don't match his old stories:
http://www.pejmanesque.com/archives/006277.html
Was he lying then, or now?
Posted by: paxpression on April 3, 2004 04:05 PM