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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (185426)4/20/2006 3:10:36 PM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
So why don't you stop trying to weasel around the issue or playing Clinton administration "apologist".

It's hard to figure out what the issue is with you and I'm not playing a Clinton administration "apologist". That's for sure.

You don't just have a congressman creating his own FP to overthrow another government without the White House putting its stamp of approval on it.

He could, but I think in this specific case I would agree. I had to click back to the article to make sure I didn't miss something. ... there's no implication in that article that the White House or Clarke didn't know about what Newt was doing or that they didn't work with Newt, the CIA and the DOD to do something.

It seems to me that you, once again, are fabricating things that were never said.

I've had my objections to policies of the Clinton Administration and I've never been found of George Tenet, whether he was serving in the Clinton Administration or serving in the Bush Administration. The only difference is that there are a lot more people now who are not fond of George Tenet. And I didn't like Casey either. Come to think of it, I don't like Negroponte either. Wait a minute! I can't think of a single DCI that I've liked.

To assert that Richard Clarke, and the Clinton administration, was not involved in the policy is absolutely LUDICROUS..

Why can't Clarke just come out and admit that the White House was ALSO involved, even if Gringrich might have proposed the operation and guaranteed the funding in the budgeting process in Congress??


You're smoking [or ingesting] something that is inducing serious hallucinations.

Can't you talk some more about the Taleban threat? [speaking of hallucinations.]

jttmab



To: Hawkmoon who wrote (185426)4/20/2006 10:52:28 PM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
The "Clinton Administration" tried to arrest Robert Baer? Would you happen to have any documentation for that? My recollection was that Baer's grand scheme wasn't approved, which, given how W's much, much grander scheme worked out, seems fairly prudent. The arrest thing sounds like something from the warblogosphere.