It was clear to me there that there was a visible audit trail from the vice president's office through the secretary of defense down to the commanders in the field. |
Katrina gives us no confidence, ... I am 10 times more worried about what happens to civil liberties after that attack. |
More important than that, we know that there was a Defense Intelligence Agency dissent on that testimony even before Colin Powell made his presentation, ... We never heard about that. |
My army right now is truly in bad shape. Problems are brewing. |
not versed in international relations and not too much interested in them either. |
She has more flexibility, but I'm waiting to see if it really means anything, and if she can face down the vice-president on Iran, North Korea, and Syria. We're going to see just how much flexibility she has in the next few months. |
The secretary of defense under cover of the vice president's office, |
There was no way the Secretary of State was going to read off a script about serious matters of intelligence that could lead to war when the script was basically un-sourced, |
This started from the very beginning when David Addington, the vice president's lawyer, was a staunch advocate of allowing the president in his capacity as commander in chief to deviate from the Geneva Conventions, |
What he seems to be saying to me now is the president failed to discipline the process the way he should have and that the president is ultimately responsible for this whole mess. |
When I rationalize for myself not resigning, I did it by saying, 'This is the only sane member of this administration. |