It had become a no-brainer that Condi Rice was going to eventually reverse her official position and testify publicly and under oath, there was too vocal of a Republican Party consensus that it was becoming a political embarrassment for her not to. However, the real news of this day was what came just underneath that bally-hooed story, namely that Bush the Second and Cheney the Great would testify before the commission in tandem!
As any one who has had much legal or law enforcement experience knows, you never want to question witnesses or suspects together. So what's up with this? I am fairly certain that I know, but I think I'll let Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo lay out the several scenarios and then you decide:
I am a little surprised that the White House's new insistence on a joint private meeting with President Bush and Vice President Cheney hasn't elicited more notice.
Very interesting. My instincts in such matters leads me to pick reasons no. 2 and 3, with 3 being somewhat more dominant in the minds of the strategic orchestrators at the center of the campaign to ensure that America's only Dynastic Restoration stays around long enough for it to take root and supplant the secular, bi-party, equally weighted three-branched democracy we have had since the Constitution and the Bill of Rights formally became the law of the land in 1791.
