Here is the incredible exchange between Bob Schieffer (CBS) and ARB Chairman Thomas Pickering (this is laughable):
BOB SCHIEFFER: But let me understand what you’re saying. You had Secretary Clinton but you didn’t ask her any questions? And why not?And the esteemed Obama appointed ARB NEVER interviewed Gregory Hicks !
AMBASSADOR PICKERING: Because in fact, we knew where the responsibility rested. She had already stated on a number of occasions, she accepted as a result of her job, the full responsibility. On the other hand, legislation setting up our board made it very clear that they didn’t want a situation in which a department or agency had accepted responsibility and then nobody looked at where the decisions were made. And how and what way those decisions affected performance on security. And whether people where thus responsible for failures or performance. That’s what we were asked to do and that’s what we did.
BOB SCHIEFFER: Well, do you think in retrospect it might have been a good idea to question her? And some of these other ranking officials?
AMBASSADOR PICKERING: I think that we knew and understood because we had questioned people who had attended meetings with her. What went on at those meetings and how they were handled. What was relevant. I don’t believe that it was necessary to do that. I don’t think that there was anything there that we didn’t know.
Where is Inspector Clouseau when really you need him?
