onetime2

Wide open to what? You not agreeing with me? So what. It's my opinion.

I choose to doubt the word of someone who is obviously lying in one or both statements he's making.

For those that say "well, he had no choice, he had to do it", bull. I have been in plenty of professional situations where I was expected to toe the party line even though I knew it was false. I chose to be truthful and express my personal doubts about those things. (In fact I'm currently in just such a situation, where I have pretty firm beliefs and am making no secret of my feelings in direct opposition to my boss's boss. Rather than seeing it as a weakness or a potential opportunity to lose my job, I see it as holding true to my own beliefs and looking out for the company's best interests. Should I lose my job over it, so be it. I will find another and I will excel at that just as I do in every other professinal situation.)

Anytime someone has a clear financial motivation to tell a certain version of a story I wonder about how "truthful" it is and just how much pablum is involved.

Throw in videotaped and written assertions that are in direct contradiction to what they write and prfoess now, and I put little stock in their version of events.

Add to that the possibility of bitterness elicited from being moved to a lesser professional role and that adds more doubt.

Then throw in the possible guilt complex over not being able to better protect the American people, a martyr complex--sacrificing himself to push the agenda he feels is "right", and a savior mentality where his vision is what is going to lead the American people from danger and there's plenty of reason to question his "unbiased" reporting.

But hey, if you're happy with all the inconsistencies and possible conflicts of interest and bias, that's great for you. Feel free to believe what you want, just as I will.

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