Faith-Based Aide's Charges Denied
WASHINGTON, January 21, 2003 -- Bush administration officials today denied allegations that the White House lacks a coherent policy-making process ...However, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said DiIulio was "not in the loop."
White House Denies O'Neill's Charges on Iraq
WASHINGTON, January 14, 2004 -- Bush administration officials today criticized comments from former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who claimed...that President Bush...began planning for an invasion of Iraq within days of taking office....O'Neill was "not in the loop," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
Cheney: Clarke's Charges Not Credible
WASHINGTON, March 22, 2004 -- White House officials reacted with anger today to charges by President Bush's former top counter-terrorism advisor, Richard Clarke...Clarke..."wasn't in the loop," Vice President Dick Cheney said in an interview Monday with radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Former President Under Fire After Interview
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2007 -- Top aides to former President Bush reacted with scorn to his claim that he was manipulated by top administration officials, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney, into invading Iraq.
In an emotional 60 Minutes interview Sunday, Bush blamed the disastrous war (now in its fourth year) on a small cabel of neo-conservative officials, who played upon his ignorance of world affairs and his obsessive desire to destroy the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Former administration officials derided Bush's claim, saying the former president was in an alcoholic stupor through most of the period in question, and couldn't possibly have detailed knowledge of the key decisions that led to war. "He was out of the loop," said former Vice President Dick Cheney, currently serving a 20-year sentence in federal prison for his role in the Carlyle Group scandal.
President Kerry pardoned Bush for his role in the affair last year.
WASHINGTON, January 21, 2003 -- Bush administration officials today denied allegations that the White House lacks a coherent policy-making process ...However, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said DiIulio was "not in the loop."
White House Denies O'Neill's Charges on Iraq
WASHINGTON, January 14, 2004 -- Bush administration officials today criticized comments from former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who claimed...that President Bush...began planning for an invasion of Iraq within days of taking office....O'Neill was "not in the loop," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
Cheney: Clarke's Charges Not Credible
WASHINGTON, March 22, 2004 -- White House officials reacted with anger today to charges by President Bush's former top counter-terrorism advisor, Richard Clarke...Clarke..."wasn't in the loop," Vice President Dick Cheney said in an interview Monday with radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Former President Under Fire After Interview
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2007 -- Top aides to former President Bush reacted with scorn to his claim that he was manipulated by top administration officials, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney, into invading Iraq.
In an emotional 60 Minutes interview Sunday, Bush blamed the disastrous war (now in its fourth year) on a small cabel of neo-conservative officials, who played upon his ignorance of world affairs and his obsessive desire to destroy the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Former administration officials derided Bush's claim, saying the former president was in an alcoholic stupor through most of the period in question, and couldn't possibly have detailed knowledge of the key decisions that led to war. "He was out of the loop," said former Vice President Dick Cheney, currently serving a 20-year sentence in federal prison for his role in the Carlyle Group scandal.
President Kerry pardoned Bush for his role in the affair last year.
And Billmon has a "rebuttal" of his own for Dick "Dickhead" Cheney's attempt to pass Clarke off as being "out of the loop".
I think we can safely ignore the nonsense about Clarke being "out of the loop" (How out of the loop was he in the White House situation room on the morning of 9/11, Mr. Vice President? More out of it than the guy sitting in the second grade classroom in Florida reading The Pet Goat?)
He goes on to list the points of attack conservatives are taking against Clarke, and showing them for the "tripe" they are, and to point out some of Clarke's actual scandalous activity. In the Reagan and Bush I administrations.
Read the post.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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