Not content with merely being the worst National Security Advisor in years (well that certainly should be her reputation, but like John McCain, she gets fawning press coverage no matter what she actually does), she's decided to once again try to compete for the prize of biggest liar in Washington.
"What we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years," Rice added.
Now at this point in the story a serious journalist would point out the history, and give the readers some facts about what Bush and Clinton did. Sadly, Condi had agreed to an exclusive with the New York Post, so ... well, actually being called out on her ridiculous ass-covering lie was never in the cards in this interview. But it would be nice if we lived in a press world where this kind of thing wasn't allowed to go unchallenged.
UPDATE: Sorry, forgot to add the link.
Posted by armand at September 26, 2006 02:34 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Media | PoliticsYou've got to be shitting me. She said that? Was it in the Onion?
Posted by: baltar at September 26, 2006 04:31 PM | PERMALINKworst National Security Advisor in years
At least until we find out what Sandy Berger was trying to steal from the National Archives.
Posted by: jacflash at September 26, 2006 06:56 PM | PERMALINKOh, don't start that Sandy Berger crap. First, this was after he left that job (thus, isn't relevant to his performance), and second, the reports I saw indicated it was mostly just a dumb moment where he forgot to send something back (and walked out with it).
Berger wasn't that great, but his performance wasn't close to Condi's awful years as NSA. She's doing OK as SecState, but I can't actually think of a modern NSA that's as bad as her.
Posted by: baltar at September 26, 2006 09:16 PM | PERMALINKDude, don't start that "dumb moment" crap, he was covering something, on his behalf or Clinton's. He took a lot of stuff, over time, and he was hiding things in his clothing. The National Archives staff watched him for weeks and mounted a little sting operation. "Dumb moment", my ass.
He was trying to alter the historical record. Someday we'll know how, and why.
Posted by: jacflash at September 26, 2006 09:33 PM | PERMALINKThere's no way Berger or anyone else since the nightmare that was the Reagan NSC (1st term)compares to her incompetence. She did nothing to alert the president to things he SHOULD have heard, she did nothing to stop the all-out war between the likes of CIA and DOD, she did nothing when North Korea went nuclear again ... her inaction, incuriousity and inability to limit damaging bureaucratic infighting are (thankfully) without peer in recent years. It's always struck me that she did those things for understandable reason (probably personal ambition, maybe love for the president), but she damaged the country in the process.
Posted by: Armand at September 27, 2006 11:27 AM | PERMALINK