A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
As Americans are burned and desecrated by "liberated" Iraqis, revelations about the Bush administration's "slash and burn" campaign against patriot Richard Clarke continue to emerge. The Washington Post revealed that White House Legal Counsel Alberto Gonzales
placed calls to some Republican members of the 9/11 Commission before they tried to discredit Clarke.
Of course, FOX News, the White House television propaganda outlet, distributed information to GOP members of the panel around the same time, aimed at undermining Clarke's veracity. Meanwhile an MSNBC online news report, since removed, quoted a White House source as indicating that the CIA would look through Clarke's 2002 testimony to cherry pick what would be declassified "with an eye toward pointing out contradictions."
Even the much-headlined retreat by the Bush Politburo to "allow" Rice to testify under oath is less than it appears. No other administration official will be called before the panel under oath, as part of the agreement to obtain Rice -- and Bush and Cheney -- like the dummy and his ventriloquist -- will appear before the commission together and in private. Of course, this is designed to prevent the two of them from contradicting each other -- and to allow Cheney to be close enough to Bush that the commission members won't see him pulling the strings when George W. talks.
But you can bet, Cheney will be doing most of the lying for the two of them.
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