Eye on Winer

Dave has seemingly come out of hiding (or maybe he got bored with cybersquatting the domains of people he doesn’t like) and it’s unsurprising that what brought him out of hiding was McClellan’s new book that’s come out.

Now, I haven’t read the book (I doubt Dave has either), but what strikes me here is how quick Dave is to assume that everything McClellan says is truth and everything current staffers say is a lie. If you’re going to talk about bias and conflicts of interest, you simply can’t ignore that someone writing a book has a motivation to sell more books, and that means stretching the truth, reaching on some conclusions, and even lying outright. He may not be, of course, but to suggest that he’s doing this out of the goodness of his heart is a little disingenuous.

Odds are that the truth is somewhere between what McClellan wrote and what the right-wing apologists would have us all believe.

Also?

In court, if you have a conflict of interest, you’re supposed to disclose it, and if it’s serious enough, it disqualifies you.

I’m sure he means “in jury duty” because no such requirement exists in “court”. It’s the opposing counsel’s job to draw out the conflicts of interest and the Jury’s job to determine what impact they have on the credibility of the witness. The same is true of jury duty, actually, except that trial attorneys are so experienced with voir dire that they never let anyone onto the jury without asking them if they have conflicts.

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