Daily Howler: John O’Neill lied in George’s face. He knew George was weak and unprepared

Did Kerry try to “gut intelligence” in 1995? Bush said so back in March, and today we get another look at how cosmically phony that claim really was. In today’s Post, Dana Milbank reports that Rep. Porter Goss (R-FL) also proposed a cut in intelligence services that year—a cut that was massively larger than Kerry’s. But is Bush disturbed by Goss’s bad judgment? Hardly! Goss is now the president’s choice to head the CIA!
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DOLE (1988): As we approached the enemy, there was a brief exchange of gunfire. I took a grenade in hand, pulled the pin, and tossed it in the direction of the farmhouse. It wasn’t a very good pitch (remember, I was used to catching passes, not throwing them). In the darkness, the grenade must have struck a tree and bounced off. It exploded nearby, sending a sliver of metal into my leg — the sort of injury the Army patched up with Mercurochrome and a Purple Heart.

Laughable, isn’t it? As Dole explained when he was being more honest, his own Purple Heart was the result of a superficial wound — a superficial wound that was self-inflicted! It takes a special kind of man to say what Dole said to Blitzer on Sunday — and it takes a non-existent press corps to look the other way when he does.