Former Bush press secretary Dana Perino made a rather odd claim on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show last night. Talking about how we ought to label the deadly shooting at Fort Hood — and implying that the Obama administration was shying away from calling it a terrorist attack out of political concerns — Perino said no terrorists attacked the U.S. while President Bush was in office.
We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term. I hope they’re not looking at this politically. I do think that we owe it to the American people to call it what it is.
Perino’s claim went unchallenged — no one on screen mentioned the 9/11 attacks.
Here’s the video:
Late Update: Perino responded on Twitter to the flurry of criticism over her remark.
Last night on Hannity, I obviously meant no terror attack on U.S. post 9/11 during Bush 2nd term. We have the tools, just need to use them!
