04.08.2004
From Cool, Calm, Condoleezza (washingtonpost.com):
As for the silver bullet, it was but one of a battery of metaphors filling the air of the commission’s conference room yesterday. At one point Rice quoted Bush as saying, in Bob Woodward’s book “Bush at War,” that on the matter of terrorism, “my blood was not nearly as boiling” before 9/11 as it was after. That’s clumsy phraseology even for Bush.Rice made so many references to Bush being averse to “swatting flies” in response to terrorist acts that Kerrey finally exploded: “What fly had he swatted?” She said it was only a figure of speech. “Well, I think it’s an unfortunate figure of speech,” Kerrey snapped.
When she wasn’t alluding to silver bullets, swatted flies or boiling blood, Rice talked about shaking a tree. “I just don’t buy the argument that we weren’t shaking the trees enough” in the hope that terrorists or clues about terrorist activity would fall out, Rice told commission member Fred Fielding.
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