I’m shocked, SHOCKED to read in today’s Best of the Web that Russ el-Slimeroad (Moonbat-Al Qaeda) has some integrity issues:
That integrity, it should be noted, has its limits. National Review’s >Jim Geraghty catches Feingold in a highly misleading statement. Feingold to Russert:
You know, Tim, today it was announced that a guy named Hassan Dahir Aweys is now the head of the government that has taken over in Mogadishu in Somalia. He is on the State Department’s terrorist list. He is known as an al Qaeda operative, or somebody that is connected with al Qaeda. While we were asleep at the switch, while we were bogged down in Iraq, while we were all focused on Iraq as the be all and end all of our American foreign policy, we are losing the battle to al Qaeda because we’re not paying attention. I asked Ambassador [Henry] Crumpton [the State Department’s counterterrorism coordinator] at a hearing the other day, how many people in our federal government are working full time on the problem in Somalia? He said one full-time person.
Geraghty unearthed the transcript of the Feingold-Crumpton exchange, and it turns out Feingold’s account of it is Clintonian–i.e., true, but only literally so:
Feingold: How many people does the State Department have working on Somalia full-time? I just want the full-time figure.
Crumpton: Yes, sir. There is one dedicated Foreign Service officer in Nairobi that looks at Somalia, but there are a multitude of others, not just in the State Department but across the U.S. government, that work the issue.
Well, he is a DemocRAT and a lieberal, so I shouldn’t be at all surprised. Oh wait, I’m not.
