Whiskey Bar on Clarke.
- “We cannot find evidence that this conversation between Mr. Clarke and the president ever occurred.”
I know from my dental hygienist (long story) that there are many powerful Republicans who are not happy with Bush, and I have long been wondering whether they would crawl out of the woodwork before the election. Some are, apparently. While Clarke does not sound like a guy I would like to hang out with, he sounds credible on this issue, and the White House denials don’t.
And, since I was talking about it earlier, here’s Orcinus on the Madrid bombings, making more sense than I did.
[both links via peggy]
Watching Clarke on CSPAN (I really did. For, like, three hours.), he struck me as someone I really would like to hang out with. Except for the whole ‘surveillance for the rest of your days’ thing. But the whole intensely rational, well-spoken thing, hooee, that’s hot. Fingers crossed that average Americans are paying attention, ’cause this could be the reason Bush doesn’t get re-elected (of course, crap like this could be the reason he does).
I’m sure they looked REALLY HARD too for evidence that that conversation took place. I’m envisioning several of their best men burning the midnight oil, poring over documents, thinking “We must find this evidence!”