Why on God's Green Earth Does This Woman still have a Job

"Every president who has been successful, at least that I know of, in the history of this republic, has developed both informal and formal means of getting checks on whether people who tell him things are in fact telling him the whole truth,"

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In his sharp attack on the National Security Council, Dr. Kay said that the council had failed, in particular, to provide Mr. Bush and Mr. Powell with the intelligence information they needed before the war about Iraq's weapons capabilities, especially after both had expressed some skepticism about the extent of Iraq's weapons programs.

"Where was the National Security Council when, apparently, the president expressed his own doubt about the adequacy of the case concerning Iraq's W.M.D. weapons that was made before him?" Dr. Kay asked.

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In a parallel universe, the 'newspaper of record' would have noted that both Colin Powell and Condolieza Rice admitted that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, that "sanctions worked". Yes, there is (still?) a video of the two of them saying that on the State Department's website.