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The Blogspot archive of the weblog of J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics and Chair of the PEIS major at U.C. Berkeley, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Why Oh Why Are We Ruled by These Liars?

Like calling someone who runs a company's in-house travel department the COO:

Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine, p. 101: The first application of the new rules... would be to Zubaydah.... [T]he value of his capture had already been oversold... and Zubayda wouldn't talk. Tenet was pushing... for a surprise... which he could then deliver to Bush--evidence that would, after the fact, support [Bush's] public statements....

"Around the room a lot of people just rolled their eyes.... Bush and Cheney knew what we knew about Zubaydah.... It was like calling someone who runs a company's in-house travel department the COO," said one top CIS official.... What they'd soon realize was that this was [Bush's] management style. A way, as he would often quip, to push people "to do things they didn't think they were capable of."

Impeach George W. Bush. Impeach him now.

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