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| Ben-Veniste’s Behavior Indicates Urgent Need for Increased Dosages and Frequencies of Meds |
| 2004-04-15 |
| ... Richard Ben-Veniste’s conduct has grown wilder as the Nielsen ratings attached to the proceedings have increased. Democrats thought they were getting a skilled prosecutor with Watergate and other fine show trial credentials, but the sun is setting on BV’s career, and that does funny things to a man in D.C. The same syndrome of packaged outrage and bad hair cuts has affected Bob Kerrey as well. But in Ben-Veniste the histrionics-cum-political vendetta have been most obvious. A week ago, Ben-Veniste tried to rattle Condoleezza Rice and failed. "I thought ben Veniste was terrible," said the New Republic’s Peter Beinart on my [Hugh Hewitt’s] show after Rice’s testimony. "Ben-Veniste is the most partisan Democrat on the commission, and I wish he wasn’t on the commission." When reliable pundits of the center-left are throwing bricks at Ben-Veniste, then it’s clear he’s not fooling anyone. But it’s too late to stop him from sabotaging the commission. .... he raised the paranoid theory that John Ashcroft had stopped flying commercial airplanes prior to September 11--and just before John Ashcroft blew away the slander with a detailed account of how often he and his wife did in fact fly commercial aircraft before September 11 .... From the moment that Ben-Veniste launched into an unscripted fit over the release of the Predator drone’s video of bin Laden from the fall of 2000, his mission has been clear--to protect the Clinton administration from accountability. The video was proof that the United States had bin Laden in our sights well before September 11, 2001 and had refused to pull the trigger, so Ben-Veniste attacked the evidence, not its inescapable implication. And so he has also attacked every Bush administration figure with a partisan fury that stuns the people of goodwill on the left. |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #2 Considering Ben-Veniste's mention of email sent to the committee, be sure to drop by their site and send them a note regarding your views. For instance: Jamie Gorelick should be sworn in as a WITNESS to discuss why she thought it would be helpful to ignore intel when pursuing terrorists. (To answer my own question, it might have been to keep the intel from being sealed along with other grand jury testimony. But that's being charitable.) |
| Posted by: eLarson 2004-04-16 2:26:29 AM |
| #1 Mr Slick in a double knit. The guy has 'hit me' written all over his pasty face. The whole 911 commission is a farce. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-04-15 11:54:49 PM |