Puffed Rice...
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I wonder if holding Condi back has been a covert Bush plan to let the Democrats have enough rope to hang themselves? Rice is intelligent, educated, black, and a woman, and I have the feeling when she testifies she is going to show the American voting public how moronic the Dems truly are. For instance, looks like Dickie Clarke's credibility has taken a slide south:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37790
Many of former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke's friends are saying his anti-Bush diatribe has cost him his credibility. ..
When Clarke fingered President Bush for having "botched the response to 9-11," he and other critics left out a major point: Until just two months before the attack, nearly all the senior counterterrorism and intelligence officials on duty at the time were holdovers from the Clinton administration......Some of those who have worked with Clarke have expressed surprise at his sudden vitriolic attacks. Rice and others on the NSC insist that Clarke never made known his present grievances on fighting al-Qaida or preparations for the battle with Iraq while he was in the White House, or even afterward during the early weeks of the Iraq fighting...
This must be how a "botched responce to 9-11" works, eh Dick?
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20040330-120655-9785r.htm
Chicago, L.A. towers were next targets
By Paul Martin March 30, 2004
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
LONDON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda's purported operations chief, has told U.S. interrogators that the group had been planning attacks on the Library Tower in Los Angeles and the Sears Tower in Chicago on the heels of the September 11, 2001, terror strikes.
Those plans were aborted mainly because of the decisive U.S. response to the New York and Washington attacks, which disrupted the terrorist organization's plans so thoroughly that it could not proceed, according to transcripts of his conversations with interrogators.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37790
Many of former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke's friends are saying his anti-Bush diatribe has cost him his credibility. ..
When Clarke fingered President Bush for having "botched the response to 9-11," he and other critics left out a major point: Until just two months before the attack, nearly all the senior counterterrorism and intelligence officials on duty at the time were holdovers from the Clinton administration......Some of those who have worked with Clarke have expressed surprise at his sudden vitriolic attacks. Rice and others on the NSC insist that Clarke never made known his present grievances on fighting al-Qaida or preparations for the battle with Iraq while he was in the White House, or even afterward during the early weeks of the Iraq fighting...
This must be how a "botched responce to 9-11" works, eh Dick?
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20040330-120655-9785r.htm
Chicago, L.A. towers were next targets
By Paul Martin March 30, 2004
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
LONDON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda's purported operations chief, has told U.S. interrogators that the group had been planning attacks on the Library Tower in Los Angeles and the Sears Tower in Chicago on the heels of the September 11, 2001, terror strikes.
Those plans were aborted mainly because of the decisive U.S. response to the New York and Washington attacks, which disrupted the terrorist organization's plans so thoroughly that it could not proceed, according to transcripts of his conversations with interrogators.
Well, it looks like Mr Clarke didn't do such a swell job convincing Willie that terrorism was the most imminent threat to our security.
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Monday, March 22, 2004 10:24 p.m. EST
Ijaz: Clarke Blocked bin Laden Extradition
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/22/223420.shtml
Clinton administration diplomatic troubleshooter Mansoor Ijaz charged Monday that one-time White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke blocked efforts to gather intelligence on al Qaeda and torpedoed a deal to have Osama bin Laden extradited from Afghanistan in the years before the 9/11 attacks.
"I was personally asked to brief Condoleezza Rice's deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley on exactly what had gone wrong in the previous efforts to get bin Laden out of the Sudan, to get the terrorism data out of the Sudan, which I negotiated the offer for," Ijaz told Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends."
He said he also personally negotiated an deal "to get bin Laden out of Afghanistan in the spring and summer of 2000, using at Abu Dhabi Royal Family as a proxy to get him out on an extradition offer."
But Ijaz told Fox:
"In each case of things that were involved in the Clinton administration, Richard Clarke himself stepped in and blocked the efforts that were being made over and over and over again."
The unofficial diplomat said that if Clarke hadn't put up roadblocks to obtaining Sudanese intelligence, the bombing of two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998 might have been prevented.
He called Clarke's account denying offers of Sudanese cooperation "absolutely disingenuous; it comes very close to flat-out lying."
After months of denials from his former aides, ex-President Clinton finally admitted that he personally turned down the offer by Sudan to arrest bin Laden.
"We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again," Clinton told a New York business group in February 2002.
"They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.
"So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan."
In his book, "Against All Enemies," Clarke called reports that Clinton had turned down the Sudanese offer "a fable."
Ijaz: Clarke Blocked bin Laden Extradition
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/22/223420.shtml
Clinton administration diplomatic troubleshooter Mansoor Ijaz charged Monday that one-time White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke blocked efforts to gather intelligence on al Qaeda and torpedoed a deal to have Osama bin Laden extradited from Afghanistan in the years before the 9/11 attacks.
"I was personally asked to brief Condoleezza Rice's deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley on exactly what had gone wrong in the previous efforts to get bin Laden out of the Sudan, to get the terrorism data out of the Sudan, which I negotiated the offer for," Ijaz told Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends."
He said he also personally negotiated an deal "to get bin Laden out of Afghanistan in the spring and summer of 2000, using at Abu Dhabi Royal Family as a proxy to get him out on an extradition offer."
But Ijaz told Fox:
"In each case of things that were involved in the Clinton administration, Richard Clarke himself stepped in and blocked the efforts that were being made over and over and over again."
The unofficial diplomat said that if Clarke hadn't put up roadblocks to obtaining Sudanese intelligence, the bombing of two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998 might have been prevented.
He called Clarke's account denying offers of Sudanese cooperation "absolutely disingenuous; it comes very close to flat-out lying."
After months of denials from his former aides, ex-President Clinton finally admitted that he personally turned down the offer by Sudan to arrest bin Laden.
"We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again," Clinton told a New York business group in February 2002.
"They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.
"So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan."
In his book, "Against All Enemies," Clarke called reports that Clinton had turned down the Sudanese offer "a fable."
Ms Ann Thrope
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Looks like I was right after all. This whole commission is nothing but a witch hunt. I'm watching this on TV, and all I can get from this is 'who are we going to blame for this', instead of 'How can we prevent this in the future'. Everybody on that commission looks like they're only after votes in the next election instead of how to protect the citizens. Then again, how could I be so naive as to believe otherwise... 