Look! More insiders removing the mask off of Bush....

[Postman]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_03_21.php#002768

More dirty scoundrels who won't give Condi Rice and the president their due ...

, who stayed through the first four months of the Bush administration, said, "candidly speaking, I didn't detect" a strong focus on terrorism. "That's not being derogatory. It's just a fact. I didn't detect any activity but what Dick Clarke and the CSG were doing." General Hugh Shelton, whose term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff began under Clinton and ended under Bush, concurred. In his view, the Bush administration moved terrorism "farther to the back burner."

America Unbound, p. 76
Ivo Daalder & James Lindsay
Who knew how far the Clarke cabal stretched?


-- Josh Marshall

[truthspeaker]

1. disgruntled former employees with a political agenda!

Their timing and credibility is suspect! We were too focused on terrorism! Were too!

Just helping Scotty McClellan rehearse his lines here.

[NicoleM]

2. At some point

if we're supposed to believe that they really all just disgruntled former employees, one has to wonder WHY they're all so disgruntled. Is it just because all these people were secretly Democrats their whole lives, pretending to be Republicans just so they could get jobs in George W.'s administration and take him down from the inside?

I really wish somebody would ask Scotty that.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Yeah! Maybe They're Disgruntled Because. . .

. . .they saw a crooked bunch of thugs with no focus and no real plan slowly but surely screwing up everything they touched. That would disgruntle me too if i was a competent professional amidst that crowd.
The Professor

[NewJeffCT]

7. yes, that must be it...

Or else maybe Rush cut off their Oxycontin supply after they left the White House and they got crabby going through withdrawal?

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

8. I found this link interesting

i wish the media would just stop peddling and DO their job! I found this article pretty much sums up the disgruntled <http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=6490&fcategory_desc=Under%20Reported>

[Renew Deal]

3. For the record

Hugh is not Wes Clark's friend to put it nicely. Him and Edwards are friends, but I think he is a Bush supporter.

[underpants]

4. Former ARmy Sec. John White on ABC's Rummy's Rules last night

The rpeview on ABC WNT also featured Marine Lt.Gen Greg Newbold saying that Rummy and his staff hyped prewar intelligence and that everything he saw (raw intel.)painted Saddam as a "paper tiger" but I can't find that quote anywhere.


http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Primetime/World/donald_rumsfeld_040325-1.html

John White, who was Secretary of the Army at that time, said Rumsfeld micromanaged what the military calls deployment: determining exactly which troops would go and exactly when they would leave.

He charges Rumsfeld's interference caused troops to arrive in Iraq without equipment, and crucial support units to be weeks late in getting there. "I would argue he was not part of the cure. He was part of the problem," White said.

"We didn't have enough troops, enough boots on the ground, to stop the looting, to stop the wholesale destruction of the infrastructure of the country that we're now asking the American taxpayers to pay for," said White.

[Sliverofhope]

5. Don't forget Sibel Edmonds, as well n/t