Bob Kerrey is mad at Fox news for telling the truth

The New York Post is commenting on Kerrey's anger at Fox News for broadcasting the background briefing Richard Clarke gave in 2002 which is completely different from what he said in his book and testified at the 9-11 Commission.

Background briefings are giving by government officials to the media where the people providing the information are not identified. Many times the "unnamed sources" that the media quotes are not people leaking documents etc. behind the government's back, but rather were given to the media with the full knowledge of the Executive Branch.

In the Fox News case, the White House Oked the release of the tape so Fox News played it. Fox News did not violate any trust as Kerrey claims because nothing was revealed that the Government wanted to keep confidential. Remember, Clarke was working for Bush when the interview was given, and the interview was given with Bush's approval and knowledge (or at least Bush's people). So the White House is the correct organization to tell Fox News to go ahead and show the tape.

That the tape basically destroys Clarke credibility as a witness (either he lied in 2002 and waited 2 years to set the record straight or he is lying now, either way he is a liar and cannot be trusted) which is not what some people wanted the commission to find.

Now if a background briefing existed by someone else that put Bush in a bad light, don't you think it would be leaked (like Deep Throat back in the Watergate years) to the media? Then Kerrey would be praising the integrity of the honest journalist for exposing the lies of the Administration. Kerrey is playing politics as usual, its sad to see, but not unexpected.