The Official List of Who Once Worked in * Admin But Spoke Out Against Him

[lostnfound]

I will start it with today's item, but there's several more:

Richard Clarke -- White House Counterterrorism Deputy
- says Bush is weak on terror; ignored warnings; wanted false link to be made between Iraq and 9-11/Al Qaida

[Eric J in MN]

1. former Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill (nt)

nt

[lostnfound]

3. Karen Kwiatowski - Office of Policy/Special Plans nt

[Generic Other]

2. Ari "Watch what you say" Fliescher

ex-press secretary

on edit: he never spoke out against Bush. He never even got his head out of Bush's ass! My bad.

[thebigidea]

9. his book will probably turn out to be David Frum-style froth

[Mike Niendorff]

4. John Diullio (whose name I'm sure I just misspelled)

Former head of Bush's "Faith-Based Initiatives" team.

Key quotes:

"Everything -- and I mean everything -- is being run by the political wing."
"It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis."


MDN

[RamboLiberal]

5. Getting late - who was the guy in the Faith Based office who called them

Mayberry Machiavellis?

[Desertrose]

6. I would NOT want to be on this list

and fly a small plane or be sent to a war zone...or...even cross against traffic!!

:evilfrown:

Peace
DR

[Chango]

7. Thomas White - Sec. Army

General Anthony Zinni
General Shinseki
David Kay
Jay Garner
What's his name - the first czar of faith-based welfare?

[salinen]

8. Whitman?

Is she gone?

[Eric J in MN]

11. Christine Todd Whitman has left, but hasn't spoken out against Bush, as

Christine Todd Whitman has left, but hasn't spoken out against Bush, as I know.

[adriennel]

23. she's working on the Bush (re)election campaign

back on the payroll! so is Karen Hughes.

[lostnfound]

10. Patrick Lang & Greg Thielman - CIA - armtwisting for false intelligence

Said * misused/twisted intelligence info
http://www.thetip.org/art_There_was_No_Failure_of_Intelligence_749_icle.html
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1071774

[lostnfound]

17. Odd..Thielman (mis)quoted re death of Kokal (fall from State Dept roof)

http://globalfreepress.com/article.pl?sid=03/11/22/2316240

On first read, I thought Thielman was talking about Kokal, but on second read, I guess the "he" he mentions is himself.

[lostnfound]

12. Rand Beers (in an unspoken, mime sort of way) - NSC, anti-terrorism

Resigning & joining Kerry camp says alot, doesn't it..

Maybe.

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Rand_Beers&printable=yes

More directly in http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/7-01-03/discussion.cgi.76.html">Nightline interview, he discussed how war on Iraq directly diverted needed resources from Afghanistan and hunt for binLaden.

[emulatorloo]

20. Pretty outspoken actually -- see this WP interview

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62941-2003Jun15?language=printer

Former Aide Takes Aim at War on Terror

<snip>

"The administration wasn't matching its deeds to its words in the war on terrorism. They're making us less secure, not more secure," said Beers, who until now has remained largely silent about leaving his National Security Council job as special assistant to the president for combating terrorism. "As an insider, I saw the things that weren't being done. And the longer I sat and watched, the more concerned I became, until I got up and walked out."

<snip>

The focus on Iraq has robbed domestic security of manpower, brainpower and money, he said. The Iraq war created fissures in the United States' counterterrorism alliances, he said, and could breed a new generation of al Qaeda recruits. Many of his government colleagues, he said, thought Iraq was an "ill-conceived and poorly executed strategy."

<snip>

[w4rma]

13. FBI counter-terrorism chief, John O'Neil, may he rest in peace

In August 2001, FBI Deputy Director John O'Neill resigned from his post over George W. Bush's policy on terrorism and Osama bin Laden. Specifically, O'Neill's department was told to "back off" their bin Laden and Al Queda investigations while the Bush administration negotiated with the Taliban. O'Neill became the security chief of the World Trade Center - where he died during the events of 9/11.
http://www.rememberjohn.com/

[lostnfound]

14. Eric Schaeffer, head of EPA Regulatory -- "ripped White House"

I'd missed this one. http://www.nukewatch.org/media/more_media/03-00-02/03-06-02/EPA.html

[lostnfound]

15. John Brady Kiesling -- Foreign Svc: Not upholding interests of Amer public

[w4rma]

16. At least four US diplomats and various former US intelligence officials.

...
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0207-04.htm

U.S. diplomats also tried to stop this invasion:

U.S. Diplomat's Letter of Resignation
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/international/27WEB-TNAT.html

Letter of Resignation (Mary Wright)
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/marywright.asp

U.S. Mongolian Diplomat Resigns Over Iraq (Fourth U.S. Diplomat)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=542&e=84&u=/ap/200303...

Third U.S. Diplomat Resigns Over Iraq Policy
http://truthout.org/docs_03/032303G.shtml

Second US Diplomat Resigns in Protest
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/03.03/0314krieger_diplo_resign.htm
U.S. diplomat resigns over Iraq war plans
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N10105063.htm
...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=27269

[Kickin_Donkey]

18. Joseph Wilson

He was appointed by the Bush administration to check out the Nigerian yellow cake uranium deal. Wilson found it to be without merit.

The administration ignored his findings and kept screaming yellow cake. Wilson called them on it publicly.

For his trouble, his wife, Valerie Plame, was outed as an undercover CIA operative.

[Hekate]

19. Joe Wilson was speaking out as early as October 2002, if not sooner

He spoke at UCSB (he's an alumnus)that month on the subject of the coming war in Iraq, and the biggest lecture hall was packed with students and community members hoping to hear from someone who could make sense of this insanity. It was riveting to hear his first-hand encounters with Saddam, and how he debunked the apologists for the monster at the same time he debunked the rationale for atttacking Iraq. During Q&A someone asked if Rumsfeld was telling the truth, and Wilson said that if Rumsfeld's lips were moving, he was lying.

What will it take before the "news" media and the public wake up? All these people who are trying their utmost to tell us that the Titanic has struck the iceberg must collectively feel like Cassandra: cursed to tell the truth that no one believes.

Hekate

[Widgetsfriend]

21. It occurred to me last night that there should be a...

conference held to allow all of these different people to come together. Together, they could put the whole Bush culpability scenario in place and fill in all the gaps. Colleen Rowley and Wright, the FBI agents should be included. As damning as Clarke is, if you put the FBI agents' experiences into the context of what Clarke is saying, you come up with LIHOP (Let It Happen On Purpose). I think there is absolutely NO doubt that this is what happened. Now, if we could just pry Cheney's energy papers from his cold slimy hands.....

Shouldn't the Supreme Court be recusing Scalia for him?

[lostnfound]

22. That's exactly what I was thinking..if not a conference, at least

a group interview with some subset of them.

I think it would be very powerful to hear them corroborate and flesh out each others' stories.