Friday, May 7, 2004 | 9:10 a.m.
The current administration in Washington continues to criticize John Kerry for his alleged flip-flops, citing decision-making over a 20-year period. Perhaps we should look instead at the flip-flops of the current administration over just the past few months.
The White House suppressed the memo about al-Qaida from a month before the atrocity of 9-11, and then released it. It refused to release statistics on how often the constitutionally questionable Patriot Act had been used, and then released them. It withheld information on the mistreatment of Iraqi detainees even from Congress, and then, after the international press published it, released the information.
People in glass houses ...
WALLACE J. HENKELMAN
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