Could somebody help me out here? I don’t understand why our National Security Adviser is running around every television show she feasibly can, to discredit Mr. Clark no less, but she refuses to testify under oath in front of the public. I understand her whole argument of setting a “precedent,” i.e. the National Security Adviser has never testified to Congress. If she thinks this is an adequate excuse she is mistaken. As I imagine many of you already know both Zbigniew Brzezinski and Samuel Berger have testified in special Congressional Hearings, such as this in the past. A commentator on NPR said tonight that Ms. Rice has privately told friends she will not return for a second term if President Bush is indeed re-elected, and this is the issue she will risk her career on.
I would argue this error in judgment is so large; we should all be questioning the state of her mind. Ms. Rice’s defense is a plain, barefaced lie! It leads one to wonder if she has been giving this level of advice to President Bush for 3 years now.
Can anyone help me out here? What the heck is she thinking? Why won’t she testify in front of the cameras for us to see? Mr. Clark has made some pretty suspicious accusations, very possibly just to sell a bunch of books, why won’t she respond to these accusations? She is an excellent speaker, and from all accounts a intelligent women. The whole situation has me flaubergasted.