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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (2040)5/26/2004 3:48:11 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Clarke says the issue of the flight is a "tempest in a teapot", but Chairman Hamilton warned that it is "a story that could shift" and it still "under review."

Real Clear Politics
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So what gives? On one hand, it looks pretty simple: Clarke was the person responsible for authorizing the flight. If so, then his testimony before the Commission was at best misleading and the fact he's kept silent about it knowing the Commission has been desperately seeking the answer shreds whatever is left of his credibility (which isn't much, if you ask me). <font size=3>

But if Clarke really was responsible for authorizing the flight for bin Laden's relatives it begs the obvious question: wouldn't someone from the White House have testified to that effect or leaked the information to the press?

On the other hand the article still seems to suggest, as do the quotes from Commissioner Roemer, that Clarke simply could not have been responsible for authorizing the flight on his own and had to have received direction from someone higher up in the White House. In other words, Clarke is taking the fall.

Why on earth would he do that? It makes absolutely no sense that Clarke would step up and fall on his sword to do the Bush administration any favors.
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Nevertheless, Clarke is now on record saying he was the
guy responsible for the flight. Watch how the left deals
with this fact.

Will Al Franken apologize to President Bush on Air
America? Will he even acknowledge the story at all? Will
Michael Moore edit his award-winning film (which I believe
contains references to Bush being directly responsible for
spiriting bin Laden's relatives out of the country)?

Warning to my fellow Americans: do not hold your breath.

Or will the left turn on a person they've just spent
months fawning over as a courageous, truth-telling
whistleblower and now call Richard Clarke a liar? At least
that would be a little more realistic, because Clarke was
either lying before or he's lying now.
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