Situation Room v Situation Room Complex: splitting hairs, Mike McC?

[displacedtexan]

“Situation Room” v “Situation Room Complex”: Is the White House (Mike McClellan) splitting hairs?

From Clarke's 60 Minutes Interview:

CLARKE: Yes. The president -- we were in the situation room complex -- the president dragged me into a room with a couple of other people, shut the door, and said, 'I want you to find whether Iraq did this.' Now he never said, 'Make it up.' But the entire conversation left me in absolutely no doubt that George Bush wanted me to come back with a report that said 'Iraq did this.'

STAHL: Didn't you tell him that you'd looked and there'd been no connection?

CLARKE: I said, 'Mr. President. We've done this before. We have been looking at this. We looked at it with an open mind. There's no connection.' He came back at me and said, "Iraq! Saddam! Find out if there's a connection.' And in a very intimidating way. I mean, that we should come back with that answer. We wrote a report.

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/60min_StahlClarke_transcript.html
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Q Scott, this morning, you said the President didn't recall the conversation in the Situation Room on September 12th that Mr. Clarke said he had, where the President asked Dick Clarke three times to pursue links between 9/11 and Iraq. And you said he doesn't -- I had two questions. So did the President tell you or somebody in the White House over the weekend, he doesn't recall?

MR. McCLELLAN: Yes, I talked to him. He doesn't recall that conversation or meeting.

Q And that was -- he said it this morning, or this weekend? When did he say that?

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, this weekend and this morning, yes.
Q Okay. And secondly, Clarke now says that he has three eyewitnesses, and he repeated it again this morning, and he named them -- to the conversation.

MR. McCLELLAN: Let's just step backwards -- regardless, regardless, put that aside. There's no record of the President being in the Situation Room on that day that it was alleged to have happened, on the day of September the 12th. When the President is in the Situation Room, we keep track of that. But put all that aside, let's go to the heart of the matter. This was supposedly the day after the September 11th attacks. And, of course, you want to look at all possibilities of who might be responsible. It would be irresponsible not to consider all responsibilities.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/03/20040322-4.html

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[yardwork]

1. What morons.

Didn't they learn anything from Bill Clinton? Don't argue semantics - people laugh at you.

Dolts running the country.

[aprilgirl]

2. But the truth will come out despite the media.

I think the panel should ask Clarke a direct question on this and let him answer directly to the public.

[MSgt213]

3. McClellan is the official lyer for the executive official lyer

[displacedtexan]

4. I'm tired of McClellan playing the 'press corpse' like a fiddle.

This parsing of words crap has got to stop! The press corps idiots have to prepare for this war of semantics.

[GOPisEvil]

5. WMD somehow morphed into WMD related program activities.

A lie by any other name...

[displacedtexan]

6. Absolutely!

Excellent point, GOPisEvil!

[hang a left]

7. I guess this is as a good a place as any to share my thoughts.

You know, something just doesn't feel right here. I posted about this last week with my gut feelings about the Spain disaster and other leaders coming out against *Bush's Iraq fiasco.

Here we go again. There is a non-stop assault on *Bushco. It is just too good to be true. Whistle is getting his clock cleaned everyday all day long. WTF is up. It is like it was all planned this way. I remember in the run-up to the war, questioning the dem motives, and at one point actually thinking, they are setting *Bush up. They are gonna let him have his war, knowing that it will end in his demise.

Yes, I am a big time foiler. But really, Leslie Stahl, the Bildeberger, it is like this has been the plan all along.

I am very uneasy with recent remarks made by Kerry on Iraq, Venezuela, and others. It is like I can feel the manipulation in the air. Don't get me wrong, I am glad this administration is getting it's comin' uppins, but something feels very very wrong. It is mutiny on the bounty big time. I feel quezy inside.