Interesting question. TPM <$NoAd$> Reader JO checks in …
In his NYT op-ed, former Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully writes, “It is true that Harriet Miers, in everything she does, gives high attention to detail. And the trait came in handy with drafts of presidential speeches, in which she routinely exposed weak arguments, bogus statistics and claims inconsistent with previous remarks long forgotten by the rest of us. If one speech declared X “our most urgent domestic priority,” and another speech seven months earlier had said it was Y, it would be Harriet Miers alone who noted the contradiction.”
So does that mean she OK’d the 2003 SOTU reference to Saddam’s attempts to get yellowcake from Africa, notwithstanding the fact that it had been deleted from another speech months before? Seems like a fair question for her confirmation hearing.
Sounds worth asking to me too.
