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Hear, hear. How much more loudly does this have to be shouted from the rooftops before We, the People, finally take notice and do something constructive about The Trinity on the Hill?
All that matters here is what the truth actually is, and that it comes out. And the White House is doing us the favor of showing that that is not a goal they share.
Why would ShrubCo want the truth to come out? That’d just land the lot of them in Spandau :-P
In The New York Times (registration required):
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/politics/29PANE.html
President Asked Aide to Explore Iraq Link to 9/11
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: March 29, 2004
WASHINGTON, March 28 — The White House acknowledged Sunday that on the day after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush asked his top counterterrorism adviser, Richard A. Clarke, to find out whether Iraq was involved.
Mr. Bush wanted to know “did Iraq have anything to do with this? Were they complicit in it?” Condoleezza Rice, the president’s national security adviser, recounted in an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes.”
[…]
The conversation — which the White House suggested last week had never taken place — centers on perhaps the most volatile charge Mr. Clarke has made public in recent days: that the Bush White House became fixated on Iraq and Saddam Hussein at the expense of focusing on Al Qaeda.
[…]
Last week, the White House said it had no record that Mr. Bush had even been in the Situation Room that day and said the president had no recollection of such a conversation. Although administration officials stopped short of denying the account, they used it to cast doubt on Mr. Clarke’s credibility as they sought to debunk the charge that the administration played down the threat posed by Al Qaeda in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks and worried instead about Iraq.
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.