Quick, someone ask Palin and Romney if they were "terrified".
While the Administration was issuing reassurances to everyone, they were privately terrified:
"I hope you understand that it was a very difficult time. We were all so terrified of another attack on the country," she said. "Even under those most difficult circumstances,..."
- Condi Rice, AP
- Condi Rice, AP
There ought to be a proper, independent investigation, if not prosecution. Dribbling out the story to the press via fourth graders is worse.
Think about the low standard we set for our leadership-mindset, though, forgiving all because they were scared witless enough to attempt torture to "save us". What will happen to "us" if a dirty-bomb (higher on my list than bio-weapons) or a nuke goes off somewhere (not even here)?
America is likely to become unbalanced, again, because of the way that this whole debate over security was framed by those (including the flunky Federalist Society?) who saw it as yet another "need" to assert the Executive and so on.
