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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Srexley who wrote (735904)	4/7/2006 12:15:40 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Respond to of 769670

In any government work, incompetency is a better explanation than conspiracy. The chore of issuing these clearances fell into this Marceca fellows lap after the staffer who did it for the Reagan/Bush administrations retired. He was overwhelmed by the volume of work, and had to gather new names and combine them with previous staffers who still needed clearance. He started with a list from the previous staffer, which is where the few recognizable prominent names came from (I think you meant Joseph Whitehouse Hagin, not John Whitehead). The work proceeded slowly, and I think that's where the problem started. Add into that an overzealous media that misreported, and then distorted, both the volume of names and the purpose of the files. 400 prominent Republicans? The real count still stands at seven. I think some even quote a figure of 900; I guess when you're making up numbers, hey, why not pad it a bit? That's why nothing ever came of it, and no charges were filed.