Rummy, a member of the secret committee that vetted the deal weeks ago and unanimously approved it, says he didn't find out about it until last weekend.
So who exactly did vet this political hot potato? And if Bush didn't know a thing about it, why did he come out with both guns blazing ready to defend it?
Who's feeding him his lines these days?
Oh, and in the "I told you so" department, a google search of "John Kerry" and "port security" turns up 33,800 hits, including this and this. That's a lot, even allowing for freepers. If there was one subject he hammered on during his campaign, this was it.
- The Bush administration's three-year "war on terrorism" has amounted to a "major failure of leadership and makes Americans more vulnerable rather than more secure," according to a new report by Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF), a network of mainly progressive policy and security analysts.
The report, 'A Secure America in a Secure World,' concludes that Washington's invasion of Iraq in 2003 has proven counter-productive to U.S. anti-terrorism efforts and that the administration has failed to protect likely future terrorist targets at home, such as seaports and chemical plants...
...The task force included Robert Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of Churches (NCC); William Hartung, an arms expert at the World Policy Institute (WPI) in New York City; David Cortwright, the president of the Fourth Freedom Forum; Lawrence Korb, a senior Pentagon official under Reagan who is current with the Center for American Progress; and Michael Klare, a prolific author on U.S. foreign policy and conflicts in the Third World based at Hampshire College in Massachusetts.
In addition to criticizing the Bush administration’s counter-terrorism initiatives, the report also offers detailed recommendations of its own, many of which overlap with those proposed by the presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry.
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