Someone needs to get Christie Todd Whitman and Tom Ridge in a room together.
For a long time, the worst charge that could be leveled against the Bush administration, including Rumsfeld, was dereliction of duty, for their lack of "A Plan for a Future Iraq". (Paid for in American lives, including the dereliction in Afghanistan, btw).
I doubt many seriously believe that Christie Todd's EPA was going to be allowed to shut down a good part of lower Manhattan. But she should talk to Tom Ridge and see if they can't have a confessional tour, given that Ridge is suggesting that the Administration was indeed interested in subverting the functions of government to political ends, in some of the worst possible frauds on the public.
They outsourced torture. They outsourced assassination, possibly.
And George the senior honestly thinks his son served or was serving honorably. The mind boggles.
Just as the National Security Archives are revealing what Nixon was doing to undermine Chile, perhaps someday we will also find out what Bush authorized for Venezuela.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Bush Moves Beyond Dereliction of Duty
