What you're seeing in the East Wing is normal turnover, and what you're seeing in the West Wing is abnormal. It's an aberration to have a team stay as long as this one has. |
Why a White House that was so adept in most of the first term has misjudged two or three big calls in its second term it's puzzling. |
Yes, it absolutely suggests that. It sounds to me... as if they had a negotiation between the agency and the NSC over what they were going to say, that the CIA objected strenuously to the idea of asserting it on the basis of U.S. intelligence, and when the NSC came back and said, let's blame it on them, let's attribute it to the British, the CIA, well, on that basis, on part of our negotiation, we withdraw our formal objection. And Condi Rice is saying, he didn't object, therefore, we didn't take it out. |
You can agree or disagree with Ronald Reagan's policies, his conservatism. |
You can agree or disagree with Ronald Reagan's policies, his conservatism. I was less conservative than he was, but if you add it all up, I believe he ranked as the best leader we've had in the White House since Franklin Roosevelt, and that's saying a lot. |
You can second-guess this all you want ... but there's no question that the four days that elapsed that we had this mini-storm that blew up … was embarrassing for the vice president and embarrassing for the president. |
You can slice and dice this thing any way you want, but I still think it's politically damaging for the administration. |