Posted by
Katie Favazza on Monday, September 25, 2006 11:05:46 AM
The oh-so-respectable Clinton interview dominates the Internet this morning. In case you need to catch up from the weekend, go
here,
here, and
here.
Pay special attention to
Mary K's link to
this blog [emphasis from original post]:
According to Clinton, this was all a right-wing hatchet job, and Wallace had never asked similar questions of Bush officials:
So you did FOX’s bidding on this show. You did you[r] nice little conservative hit job on me. But what I want to know..
WALLACE: Now wait a minute sir…
CLINTON:..
WALLACE: I asked a question. You don’t think that’s a legitimate question?
CLINTON: It was a perfectly legitimate question but I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked this question of.
I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked why
didn’t you do anything about the Cole. I want to know how many you
asked why did you fire [D.] Clarke.
Wallace replied that such questions had been asked. Clinton replied: “I don’t believe you asked them that.”
I believe he did.
In 2004, Wallace asked almost the exact same question of Donald Rumsfeld that he asked Clinton today.
Here’s what Wallace asked Clinton today:
[H]indsight is 20 20 . . . but the question is why didn’t you do more, connect the dots and put them out of business?
And here is what Wallace asked Donald Rumsfeld on the March 28, 2004 episode of Fox News Sunday:
I understand this is 20/20 hindsight, it’s more than an individual manhunt. I mean — what
you ended up doing in the end was going after al Qaeda where it lived.
. . . pre-9/11 should you have been thinking more about that?
. . . .
What do you make of his [Richard Clarke’s] basic charge that
pre-9/11 that this government, the Bush administration largely ignored
the threat from al Qaeda?
. . . .
Mr. Secretary, it sure sounds like fighting terrorism was not a top priority.
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