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Why is that an issue?
Tom Brosz — (archived)

Nobody seemed to object to Clarke hitting all the top media spots, while plugging a best-selling book. And Rice already spent four hours in front of the commission, a fact that seems to escape everyone who brings this up, as though that four hours in front of the commission doesn't "count." Did the commission complain that she was not giving them what they needed? Did anyone even ask?

The pattern is exactly what it was for the "AWOL" flap. The criteria, as then, is if there is not information damaging to the Bush administration, then by definition, not enough information has been released.

When Rice testifies, a large number of people will be watching, not to find out more about 9/11, but in hopes of acquiring some statement or inconsistency (Rice's inconsistencies count--Clarke's apparently don't) that can be used as a political weapon. This is why they want the testimony public. No other reason.

And I assume you're not going to "play thick" and pretend not to know what a "political weapon" is.

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