Hart Speaks
Moments ago, Gary Hart spoke on MSNBC’s Hardball. He was quite gracious saying he was “gratified” that the president was acting on his commission’s requests. He said he was surprised because he thought it would take another attack to enact something like what the Hart-Rudman commission recommended.
Unfortunately, Hart did not address how he viewed the administration’s co-opting the H-R commission’s recommendations, and peddling it as something created in a bunker by Andy Card and some other heroic pals. Matthews did not think to ask any questions in this vein. I really would like to hear how Hart feels in this regard.
He did intimate that he felt that this administration seems to think they are beyond reproach and not accountable for the events of 9/11. You could tell he was a bit annoyed by the administration’s mindset. He said he thought it wrong that someone was not fired or did not resign “out of some sense of duty”.
Matthews asked him if he thought people in the executive branch were partially to blame for not piecing together events leading up to 9/11. Hart, who was recommending, in vain, the administration do something to prepare for terrorist attack up until September 6, 2001, answered, “That’s a question that answers itself.”