I'll bet Richard Clarke wasn't "in the loop"...

[Junkdrawer]

Dick Cheney, on the wingnut Rush Limbaugh show (?!?), said that Richard Clarke wasn't "in the loop". There's the context (courtesy of Limbaugh's own site):

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, he wasn't -- he wasn't in the loop, frankly, on a lot of this stuff. And I saw part of his interview last night, and he wasn't --

Q He was demoted.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: It was as though he clearly missed a lot of what was going on. For example, just three weeks after the -- after we got here, there was communication, for example, with the President of Pakistan, laying out our concerns about Afghanistan and al Qaeda, and the importance of going after the Taliban and getting them to end their support for the al Qaeda. This was, say, within three weeks of our arrival here.


So what "loop" wasn't the Chief Anti-Terror Czar in? Could it be the loop that included those secret energy policy meetings? You know, the loop the offered the Taliban a "carpet of gold or a carpet of bombs", the loop that many believe decided that a little terror attack on US soil would be just what the doctor ordered to justify an invasion of Iraq.

Yeah, I'll bet Richard Clarke wasn't in that loop.

[FreakinDJ]

1. Everyone is wrong ......... Bush is right

No matter what they say never forget

What a bunch of pathetic liars

[izzie]

2. Either was George Bush the first. Even he said that.

So much for the govt knowing what they are doing. Right?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

Poppy was lying...Junior gets it honestly.

[maddezmom]

3. and yet condi says he was in the loop

now which one do we believe, condi or cheney ? The only one I trust is the one that took the oath, Clarke.

[MSgt213]

5. You notice how Condi and the white house for that matter are releasing

all types of previously classified documents to prove their point. But Condi in particular has a lot of friggen gall to not want to sit in front of this commission in public. First despite the fact that the commission really wouldn't in my opinion just totally attack her. The fact that she sat and answer questions like everyone else would at least let the families know that she is not trying to hide something.

[booksenkatz]

4. You're right, Junkdrawer, there is more than one loop!

There is one loop, for example, that is a legitimate fight against terror. There is another loop, for example, that is a legitimate quest for fat pockets and no-bid contracts. There is no question that Clarke was out of that latter loop! Good point.

[Junkdrawer]

7. Yep. He has now openly admitted that, in the months leading to 9/11,

there were at least two policy tracks.

[Jivenwail]

6. Well, as Jon Stewart so aptly questioned this "Cheneyism"...

Clarke's the terrorism expert in the administration and he's "not in the loop"???

Something is seriously out of whack it that's true. Clarke's not in the loop???

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Seems to me that this misadministration is seriously worried, if this is the best they can come up with.

[rvgwinn]

8. keeping Clarke

Why did they bother keeping Clarke on?

[Solomon]

9. Because he knew what the hell he was doing. The best man for the

job. He served several administrations.

[Junkdrawer]

10. Because they WANTED two tracks and having Clarke head the public...

track deflected examination of the "other" track.

[billybob537]

11. WHIG

Whitehouse Iraq group. thats the loop clarke wasn't in. Special Projects Group at the pentagon; sifting the pentagon trash to find reasons to invade Iraq. Another loop around real inteligence agencies.

I didn't think they could stack shit that high.

[Junkdrawer]

13. OK. At least two tracks...

I wonder how many "loops" there are at the Whitehouse?

[billybob537]

14. Plenty

If they don't like the message they just shoot the messenger.

[librechik]

16. Let's face it: they're just plain loopy n/t

[UTUSN]

12. The Spin This A.M. on the IMUS Circus from Bill ARKEN

Some dude named Bill ARKEN(?), who was labeled as a consultant for NBC, said that CLARKE was the original "wolf"-crier, that he was the one who fueled the faulty Y2K hysteria and (something else), that he was wrong about those, that crying-wolf on a daily basis loses impact and credibility, that when the Shrubbites took over they saw him that way and marginalized him. Actually, the rest of his yada was still fairly anti-Shrub and when IMUS tried to lead him into anti-CLINTON stuff, the dude would slip out of it. Fwiw.

[Bandit]

15. I say PROVE IT release the Energy Papers which tell who was in the loop

We want Proof of who was in the Loop and who wasn't. Release all pertinent papers like the energy task force papers. The Burden of Proof now lies on Cheney.

[Junkdrawer]

18. Now THERE'S an independent investigation I'd like to see...

Subpoena Kenny Boy et. al.

[sam sarrha]

17. he isnt a NEOCON .. he wasnt in the loop.. they needed 911 as an excuse

for military expansion into oil territory.. notice we are getting sucked into protecting oil fields in Columbia...?

[Junkdrawer]

19. Kick

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