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September 25, 2005

Is Bush losing supporters over Able Danger?

It sounds like he just lost Mark Tapscott, Director of the Center for Media and Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation:


For a life-long conservative Republican and Bush voter in 2000 and 2004 like yours truly, that last question is especially galling. It was bad enough early in Bush’s first term when he signed an executive order keeping the truth about Bill Clinton’s midnight pardon spree behind closed doors. I swallowed hard and accepted the White House’s executive privilege claim on that one.

But the Able Danger hearing capped a long series of troubling decisions that tortured credulity such as Bush increasing federal spending twice as fast as Clinton, expanding entitlements at a pace only Lyndon Johnson could match, signing a campaign finance law that limits political speech and refusing to veto even the most outrageous examples of congressional pork barreling.

The last straw came the day before William Dugan, an assistant to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said to the Senate panel “I don’t know” when asked if Able Danger had identified Atta. That’s when the Pentagon barred testimony by the five officials who have said they worked on the program and recall seeing the terrorist’s name on a chart during the Clinton administration.

Either the powers-that-be think most people are too stupid to figure out that a whitewash is in process or they assume most people aren’t paying attention and there is little to fear from the Senate. They will be proven right if Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate panel, doesn’t quickly start issuing subpoenas to get to the bottom of this scandal.

Here's another one:


I haven't written about Able Danger lately....
....It's not because there's nothing going on. It's because the Bush administration is really starting to piss me off with the on-again off-again responses of the Pentagon and the clear attempt to do damage control. I want the truth. That's all I've ever wanted. And they aren't cooperating. What the heck is wrong with these people?

Not unlike Iraq, this is fast becoming a lose-lose situation for Bush.

Posted by Mike at September 25, 2005 12:14 AM

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