Meet the Press featured a hour long interview with former CIA director George Tenet. He continued to perform CYA/damage control on Russert’s program, but he also defended the president and his advisers from critics who claimed the executive branch was ginning up intelligence out of thin air to justify the war in Iraq:
On Face the Nation, Newt Gingrich continued his under the radar run at the presidency, couching the battle with terrorists in the starkest terms possible:
Fox News Sunday gave Chris Dodd time to talk about his quixotic run at the White House, and John Boehner used his interview to blame the media for driving the start of the primary season earlier and earlier. On the panel, Brit Hume talked about Hillary Clinton’s recent effort to deauthorize the president’s use of force in Iraq:
This Week saw John Edwards recommit to a firm policy of flipflopping (he proudly repudiated his Senate votes on the Iraq War, No Child Left Behind, and the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste site; one gets the sense he wishes he had more positions he could apologize for taking during his Senate career). Tom Tancredo was also interviewed by George Stephanopoulos, and he discussed a wide variety of topics with the ABC newsman, from the philosophical underpinning of hit HBO series The Sopranos to the political ramifications of the French elections. (Just kidding. Tancredo talked about border security.)
