[CLUE-Talk] interesting leadership point this morning on KNRC

[Jeff Cann]

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 9:34 am, Nate Duehr wrote:
> A caller to KNRC radio pointed out this morning that in placing the
> blame on CIA & the intelligence community, Mr. Bush is breaking one of
> the first laws of true leadership.  "The buck stops here."
>
> I found that insightful -- if there was a failure of the
> CIA/Intelligence community, a true leader would say "my fault" and come
> up with a plan to keep that from happening again.

Last week on NPR's 'All Things Considered', they interviewed Rep. Jane Harman 
(D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.  She told 
NPR that the reason she voted for the Iraq military action resolution is 
because she 'was briefed by senior people and believed what they told her'.  
The interviewer asked her if she read any of the details of the reports.  She 
answered no, but after all of the problems in justifying the war, she has 
become 'a much more informed consumer of intelligence information'.

You can listen to her interview here - the story is called 'Iraq WMD Hunt 
Prompts Renewed Debate' :

http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgDate=24-Jan-2004&prgId=2

Passing the buck seems to be SOP, as Zonker put it.

Jeff
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