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Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
I guess the contradiction in this statement is that he uses the term "vigorously pursue"? If not I guess I miss why this is pertinent. At any rate, vigourousness is in the eye of the beholder, and frankly I can't call the guy's integrity into question because he used the term "vigorous" but now disagrees with the admin's policy.
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I think that this part:
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JIM ANGLE: You're saying that the Bush administration did not stop anything that the Clinton administration was doing while it was making these decisions, and by the end of the summer had increased money for covert action five-fold. Is that correct?
CLARKE: All of that's correct.
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ANGLE: So, just to finish up if we could then, so what you're saying is that there was no — one, there was no [Clinton] plan; two, there was no delay; and that actually the first changes since October of '98 were made in the spring months just after the [Bush] administration came into office?
CLARKE: You got it. That's right.
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belies his claim that there was a failure of vigor, or at least belies his assertions of those claims now. Seems to me to be directly in opposition to "they weren't doing much about it", which is how I translate his criticisms.
