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Politican as self-tracker - Bob Graham's notebooks
Politicians have always been self-trackers. In the flow of political action, you need a notebook just to keep track of people’s names. But when a recent political controversy was resolved by the notebooks of the most conscientious self-tracker in the history of the United States Senate, the reputation of people interested in personal data got an unexpected boost....
Well, there was a noisy politically controversy recently over whether culpability for torturing suspects arrested after the terror attacks of 9-11 should be shared by Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The CIA claimed that Pelosi had been briefed in detail about the torture, and didn’t make any objection until long afterward. Therefore, if there is to be any kind of sanction for torture, it should hit the top Democrat who approved it as well as members of the Republican administration who ordered it. Pelosi, though, denies having been briefed about the torture...
Graham says he consulted his logs “and determined that on three of the four dates there was no briefing held.” He adds: “On one date, Sept. 27, ’02, there was a briefing held and,
according to my notes, it was on the topic of detainee interrogation.”
Graham says the CIA was initially reticent when he told the agency what he had found in his notes. “They said, ‘We will check and call back,’” Graham recalled. “When they finally did a few days later, they indicated that I was correct. Their information was in error. There was no briefing on the first three of
four dates.”
http://quantifiedself.com/2009/05/politician-as-self-tracker/
Well, there was a noisy politically controversy recently over whether culpability for torturing suspects arrested after the terror attacks of 9-11 should be shared by Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The CIA claimed that Pelosi had been briefed in detail about the torture, and didn’t make any objection until long afterward. Therefore, if there is to be any kind of sanction for torture, it should hit the top Democrat who approved it as well as members of the Republican administration who ordered it. Pelosi, though, denies having been briefed about the torture...
Graham says he consulted his logs “and determined that on three of the four dates there was no briefing held.” He adds: “On one date, Sept. 27, ’02, there was a briefing held and,
according to my notes, it was on the topic of detainee interrogation.”
Graham says the CIA was initially reticent when he told the agency what he had found in his notes. “They said, ‘We will check and call back,’” Graham recalled. “When they finally did a few days later, they indicated that I was correct. Their information was in error. There was no briefing on the first three of
four dates.”
http://quantifiedself.com/2009/05/politician-as-self-tracker/
