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Ridiculous

From the New York Times:

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 - The White House said today that it was "ridiculous" for anyone to suggest that President Bush's top political adviser had leaked secret information in an effort to discredit an outspoken critic of Mr. Bush's policy on Iraq.

I'll tell you what is "ridiculous" - when the National Security Adviser of the United States can't remember to take faulty claims out of a State of The Union Address:

Condoleeza Rice on NBC's Meet The Press -

"It’s not a matter of getting back in. It’s a matter, Tim, that three-plus months later, people didn’t remember that George Tenet had asked that it be taken out of the Cincinnati speech and then it was cleared by the agency. I didn’t remember. Steve Hadley didn’t remember. "

You are the person who said "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud". And then you can't remember the alleged facts that would ever support such a statement? You send a former US Ambassador to get to the bottom of the story, and when he comes back with the wrong answer, you out his wife as a CIA agent, and then you say YOU FORGOT!!! You are talking about a country attacking us with NUCLEAR WEAPONS - the only real WMD - and you say you forgot...

Who is buying this garbage? Tim Russert went too easy on Rice on Sunday - he should have asked how she could sit there and lie to his face on national television. Where is the accountability in this Administration?