[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4911]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     LESSON IN CONNECTING THE DOTS

  (Mr. BURGESS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, yesterday as the basketball games 
concluded, I was not quick enough to the TV dial; and I was exposed to 
a 20-minute infomercial that was passed off as a news interview.
  We are told a lot these days about connecting the dots, and I just 
want to help people connect the dots just a little bit.
  Mr. Clarke, Mr. Dick Clarke, Richard Clarke was on the CBS news show 
``60 Minutes.'' CBS, as we learned during the Super Bowl last year 
after the half-time show, is owned by Viacom. The publisher of the 
Clarke book is owned by Simon and Schuster. Simon and Schuster, 
according to their Web site, is the publishing operation of Viacom, 
Incorporated, one of the world's premier media companies.
  Mr. Speaker, Mr. Clarke closed his interview with a comment which 
actually should have been first. He said, all of us perhaps share some 
blame for 9-11, and I am partly to blame. Yes, Mr. Clarke, indeed you 
are, and those should have been the first words out of your mouth. 
While you are at it, how about Mogadishu? How about the first World 
Trade Center bombing? What about our servicemen at the Kobar Towers? 
What about the two embassy bombings in Iraq? And, Mr. Clarke, what 
about the Cole?

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