Huckabee’s Doings as Governor of Arkansas

First, Huckabee gets a convicted serial rapist released early. Several of the rapist’s victims write to Huckabee to ask him to reconsider; he ignores them. The rapist, quite predictably, goes on to rape and then kill at least one additional woman.

Fast-forward to the present:

“There’s nothing any of us could ever do,” Huckabee said Sunday on CNN when asked to reflect on the horrific outcome caused by the prisoner’s release. “None of us could’ve predicted what [Dumond] could’ve done when he got out.”

(Huffington Post via Suburban Guerrilla)

Well, gee. The high rate of recidivism among rapists isn’t exactly an obscure fact, now is it?

More on the NIE

From Think Progress, via Cursor:

At a press briefing this morning, President Bush said he was told by his Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell “in August” that “we have some new information” regarding Iran’s nuclear program. But Bush asserted “he didn’t tell me what the information was”:

BUSH: I was made aware of the NIE last week. In August, I think it was John — Mike McConnell came in and said, We have some new information. He didn’t tell me what the information was. He did tell me it was going to take a while to analyze.

Later, when a reporter followed-up on this statement, Bush asserted no one ever told him to stop ratcheting up the rhetoric against Iran:

REPORTER: Are you saying at no point while the rhetoric was escalating, as World War III was making it into conversation — at no point, nobody from your intelligence team or your administration was saying, Maybe you want to back it down a little bit?

BUSH: No — I’ve never — nobody ever told me that.

NOTE: Bolding belongs to Think Progress.