Setanta wrote:Miss Rice may well be a liar; there is no good reason, however, to describe her as an incompetent.
Huh? What has she accomplished to prove her competence? Her lack of action before 9/11 could be considered incompetent vis a vis her statements about no one could imagined...as well her statements regarding the mushroom clouds...of course, maybe she was simply lying.
She didn't appear very competent when responding to Ben-Veniste's grilling. All that said, she is relatively less incompetent than the others and perhaps even sane!