Saturday, June 23, 2007
Our Dear Embattled Leader listens to his Evil Grand Vizier.
How else to explain the dear boy's insistence that Uncle Dickwahd's unique take on ODEL's Executive Order applied to him, too. If Uncle Dickwahd don't have to show anybody, then he don't neither, so there! And the explanations have given birth to such flights of fancy as this one from Under Assistant Junior Press Gasser Tony Fartto.
Fratto conceded that the lengthy directive, technically an amendment to an existing executive order, did not specifically exempt the president's or vice president's offices. Instead, it refers to "agencies" as being subject to the requirements, which Fratto said did not include the two executive offices. "It does take a little bit of inference," Fratto said.My dear Mr. Fartto, I have never heard the word inference used to describe something dragged kicking and screaming out of your ass. Perhaps a better explanation is this.
Several security experts said they were not aware that the president had exempted his own office from the oversight requirements.Sounds more like it.
But they said it fit what they saw as a pattern in the administration of avoiding accountability, even on matters of national security.
"If the president and the vice president don't take their own rules seriously, who else should?" said Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive,
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