Word: second-guessing
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Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge does not want to "second-guess" the motivations of his former colleagues in the Bush Administration. But with a new memoir, The Test of Our Times, about to hit bookstores, he is ready to talk about all the second thoughts he has been having...
...asked him to include the language in the first place; and contrary to pre-publication media reports that got many former Bush Administration officials up in arms, he claims that the decision to raise the alert was made without regard to political pressure. "I'm not going to second-guess," he says. "But it was wrong...
...level. Ridge now admits that he thought political calculation might have been at play. (Polls supporting Bush tended to spike when the terrorism threat level went up.) But he is not about to accuse either Rumsfeld or Ashcroft of letting politics cloud their judgment. "I'm not trying to second-guess two colleagues whose service I respect," he says...
...markets like stability, and they really like Bernanke. And Obama might have done the same thing even if he did have a choice. Bernanke hasn't been flawless - he was slow to grasp the crisis and start yanking interest rates down toward zero, and market watchers will forever second-guess the decision to let Lehman go under. But overall he's been courageous and innovative and (so far) successful. And while he's fairly new to Washington, he's shown a flair for politics and p.r., doing a memorable 60 Minutes interview at the height of the crisis, providing...
...we’d even be talking about this if we didn’t have some pretty extraordinary events in the economy,” says Joshua D. Coval, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. “It’s pretty easy to second-guess these decisions...but basically, I think all of those were reasonable things to do in normal or even mildly unusual circumstances.”John P. Huchra, former vice provost for research policy, cites bad luck as the source of Harvard’s current fiscal quagmire...