Reply #14: I don't know about "complicit" [View All]

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But if I were a radio host, that might be a good word to use to grab listener attention. What I think is more likely is that Feinstein and Rockefeller got hood-winked by the Bush administration, they know they’ve been hoodwinked, but they’re too proud, stubborn, egotistical or something to admit it publicly. And it would be so much easier to explain themselves to an insider, another member of the club, as it were. Panetta, however, might just want a fuller explanation for why they so willingly gave in even after it was apparent that they should have been exercising some oversight and restraint on the Bush administration.

“Complicit” may be too strong to describe Feinstein’s and Rockefeller’s actions; but “dazzlingly stupid” isn’t an appellation that the Senators are eager to get hung on them, either.