Reply #31: Condi used a similar tact in an interview last night [View All]

[Rose Siding]

She's asked one thing and then spins the question slightly so that she evades any of its implied responsibility

MARGARET WARNER: The 9/11 Commission report today said, as I know you know, that the most important failure was one of imagination, and they said that though most of them officially said, oh, we understood the danger, here's what they said, they said, we do not believe leaders understood the gravity of the threat.

Do you think that's a fair assessment?

CONDOLEEZZA RICE: I think it's a completely fair assessment. As a matter of fact, I've used those very words myself, that, I think before Sept. 11, given that there had not been a major attack on the American mainland for 200 years really, we just didn't see that it could happen in quite that way.

Later, she's asked if she feels any responsibility and she take about half a sentence to spread it out to everyone involved in govt over the last 22 years.

It's depressing that the repubs somehow found so many people willing to live by rote. Not one answers 'in the human': Yes, I have to tell you, I lose sleep but the next day- every day, I get up recommitted to learning everything I can and to finding the most efficient and effective way to...blah blah.

Clarke did it but not til he'd fallen outside the cabal.


(oops, link to News Hour interview)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec04/rice_7-22.html