Man you gotta love Bob Woodward! His street cred is established, even vis a vis this very administration. He can't be counted as a critic with an agenda, and he reveals the real deal.
Does anyone see a problem with Condi forgetting a warning that the CIA officer Woodward interviews says he recalls as 'the starkest' warning they had given the WH to date?
Anyone see a problem with Ashcroft saying he'd wished he been told about an imminent threat of attack with 'great consequences to government and many casualties'?
Does it sound like another instance of a 'doing a heck of a job' crap, blowing off serious need to get off collective behinds and do something?
A bad time for Condi to have 'responded' to the Clinton comments for instance with "we were not given comprehensive plans to deal with terrorism; for instance, they left us no viable plan for dealing with Pakistan"!?
Did they also need a comprehensive plan for how to respond to intelligence saying WATCH OUT NOW!?
2006-10-03 05:21:21 · 12 answers · asked by Michelle H 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Bob Woodward will lose all credibility because his book is being refuted quote by quote.
When the people he quotes can't recall saying what they are having attributed to them he looks more like Dan Rather with falsified documents, then the Bob Woodward who broke Watergate.
I'll guess you haven't heard Rice's rebuttal, she explains everyone was saying something is going to happen, but no one knew when or where. With embassies in 140 countries more information was required.
2006-10-03 05:30:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesi, sweetie, Condi Rice has lost all credibility. 100%. She has perjured herself on more than one occasion. Do your research.
Bob Woodward in my opinion, is an idiot. He has had this information for years and did NOTHING with it. Thousands of Americans and Iraqi citizens are dying and this guy withholds such information from the American public. Just as he did with the CIA leak. He should be tried for treason.
But back to the question - Condi remembers. She was warned repeatedly about Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda attacked the Cole a mere three months before Bush took office and they were discovered as the attackers just AS Bush took office. NOT ONE THING WAS DONE. Condi ignored all of those around her because of her arrogance and her lack of knowledge on the Mid-East. She was a "cold war" girl and was in over her head.
Unfortunately, little will be done about this unless there is a change of power in November.
2006-10-03 05:40:01 · answer #2 · answered by knoxymama 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She didn't say she didn't recall (a la Hillary), she said she would have recalled actually being told that. For it to come out now, like it has, when it was clearly and thoroughly proven in the 9/11 Commission testimony that there was no actionable intelligence, is surely to be of questionable veracity.
I need better evidence than one person's word - a person that has not come out with a sworn affadavit that this is in fact what happened. And Bob Woodward has been known to distort the truth and fabricate before, too, so his 'cred' is quite questionable.
2006-10-03 05:46:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
well, Jesi - you are sorta right. What condi is saying is there was SO MUCH being given to her on terrorism that she didn't think that bit of info was more important than others.
Where are your sources on Woodward's book being refuted (difference between refuted and debunked, i might add) quote by quote. So far they just say he had an agenda.
I would say he did. To get to the bottome of this blundering US Two Party system
2006-10-03 05:35:31 · answer #4 · answered by DEP 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Liars seldom remember.
Politicians have the worst memory of any Job holder in the world.
Err I don't recall that
Err I don't recollect that.
err the CIA lied
err I can't remember who spoke Valerie Plame's name
2006-10-03 05:42:59 · answer #5 · answered by cork 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anyone who's ever testified in court knows that saying "I can't recall" is a strategy to avoid lying when you know you did something wrong!
2006-10-03 05:48:35 · answer #6 · answered by Lee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Condi's "can't recall" answer was/is her way of denying to answer the question.
2006-10-03 05:34:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
that is funny that she dont recall
i would not admitt to recall that too if it mean me looking bad and everyone hating me for the past
2006-10-03 05:24:01 · answer #8 · answered by besos 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, basically when someone says "I can't recall", especially in matters of importance, it's basically saying, "I'm covering my a@! now!".
2006-10-03 05:25:24 · answer #9 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just like the Reagan republicans and "I really don't recall",,:-(=
2006-10-03 05:30:49 · answer #10 · answered by Jcontrols 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋