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It’s one thing for White House staffers to write books to settle scores and make a quick buck – as Bush’s former Press Secretary Scott McClellan did with his truly damning What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception. But it sets a new precedent for betrayal in this respect for a former cabinet… Read more.
Even some of my liberal friends thought I was being too harsh when I commented as follows on the criticisms by conservatives of President Obama’s strategy for fighting “violent extremism” (as opposed to a “war on terror”): They know full well that nothing would herald the revival of the Republican Party quite like a terrorist attack on… Read more.
Alas, the same people who insisted that Barack Obama was too passive, naive and inexperienced to defeat the ruthless team of Bill and Hillary Clinton (or the war-hero John McCain) are the ones now insisting that his choice to head the CIA, Leon Panetta, is too passive, naive and inexperienced to lead this agency “in a time of… Read more.
