BTC News White House writer and statistitcal analyst Eric Brewer has developed a visual aid for determining, based on the State Department’s “Patterns of Global Terrorism” report, whether our anti-terror efforts are effective. (Leaked comments about the soon to be inoperative report suggest that incidents more than doubled over the past year.)
As you can see, based upon the chart, we haven’t a clue.
Meanwhile, in another bid to protect the nation from annoying information, Secretary of State Rice has requested that State Departmen employees who know anything about John Bolton’s anti-social tendencies keep it to themselves.
Bolton, whose appointment to the post of US amabassador to the United Nations is in increasing jeopardy as a few sane Republicans join Senate foreign relations committee Democrats in questioning whether a fellow with an allergy to information he doesn’t like and an explosive response to the people who deliver it is the best candidate for bolstering our credibility among the foreign community. Rice, typically, finds the problem not to be Bolton’s behavior but the people who are talking about Bolton’s behavior.
On Monday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told her senior staff she was disappointed about the stream of allegations and said she did not want any information coming out of the department that could adversely affect the nomination, said officials speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Rabid foxes in the chicken coop? Cool: what he doesn’t kill, he’ll infect.
Rice: If asked, don’t tell
BTC News White House writer and statistitcal analyst Eric Brewer has developed a visual aid for determining, based on the State Department’s “Patterns of Global Terrorism” report, whether our anti-terror efforts are effective. (Leaked comments about the soon to be inoperative report suggest that incidents more than doubled over the past year.)
As you can see, based upon the chart, we haven’t a clue.
Meanwhile, in another bid to protect the nation from annoying information, Secretary of State Rice has requested that State Departmen employees who know anything about John Bolton’s anti-social tendencies keep it to themselves.
Bolton, whose appointment to the post of US amabassador to the United Nations is in increasing jeopardy as a few sane Republicans join Senate foreign relations committee Democrats in questioning whether a fellow with an allergy to information he doesn’t like and an explosive response to the people who deliver it is the best candidate for bolstering our credibility among the foreign community. Rice, typically, finds the problem not to be Bolton’s behavior but the people who are talking about Bolton’s behavior.
Rabid foxes in the chicken coop? Cool: what he doesn’t kill, he’ll infect.