Daily Archives: February 5, 2004

Who is Lying?

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Mark Kleiman considers part of Tenet’s testimony:

But that’s separate from the question of whether the President deceived the American people about the nuclear threat from Iraq. The Director of Central Intelligence just told us, unemphatically but also unequivocally, that he did.
The least you can say about this is that it can’t be right for Bush and Tenet each to keep his job. If Tenet is lying, he should be fired. If Tenet is telling the truth, Bush should be replaced.

This isn’t quite the spin I heard on talk radio today while I spent a few hours on the local freeways. They seemed to be able to only find parts of the testimony that painted bush positive.

Strange Budget Choice

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Why would the folks putting together bush’s budget propose eliminating funds for building decontamination research?

an Environmental Protection Agency acknowledgment that his proposed cut “represents complete elimination of homeland security building decontamination research.”
The agency said in the documents that Bush’s proposal will “force it to disband the technical and engineering expertise that will be needed to address known and emerging biological and chemical threats in the future.”

This certainly seems inconsistent with the image the bushies seem to be trying to project. A mistake perhaps? Or simple blundering?

Slow Blogging

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Yesterday and today have/will be consumed by real work and meetings running into the late evening. I should be back to a ‘regular’ posting pattern sometime tonight.
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