Washing Dirty Laundry in Public part XXVIII
Clarke Vs Rice

CNN summarises Condoleezza Rice's 60 minutes testimony, oops I mean interview.

""I know that shortly after we came into office I asked the counterterrorism team -- which we kept in place from the Clinton administration in order to provide continuity and experience -- we asked them what policy initiatives should we take."

She said Bush officials were given a list of policy initiatives, which they followed, and that they put in motion a strategy to eliminate al Qaeda.

The strategy was in place before the attacks, she said."

Well that's progress. Previously she said they were given a laundry list.

The claim they followed the list is completely new and clearly false, but notice that it is not a direct quotation.

"in place" means on the presidents desk for approval. It does not mean approved.
"before the attacks" means on 9/10/01 which is, indeed, before 9/11/01.

Below I proposed that to make this a fair fight, Clarke ought to be forbidden to use words containing the letter e. I now think he should be forbidden to use words containing the letter e or the letter a.