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2004-03-26 Home Front: WoT

Transcript: Clarke gives background brief to reporters in Aug â02

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Posted by Super Hose 2004-03-26 4:12:33 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 there was no plan on Al Qaeda that was passed from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration.

Say no more.

Everyone the Clintons touch get burned. I don't really follow this story, because it's such a circus act. But even though the media will protect Clarke from the pyre, it is rare to see someone, who after a lifelong, respectable career, is willing to discredit and whore themselves so shamelessly as this man has done, and for so little.

Posted by B 2004-03-26 6:25:30 AM|| 2004-03-26 6:25:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]

Posted by Anonymous TROLL 2004-03-26 7:44:03 AM|| 2004-03-26 7:44:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 After listening to Clarke's testimony to the Committee, reading the transcript of the August '02 press briefing and listening to his present rationalization of that briefing, the chief impression I'm left with is that Clarke is an ambitious, opportunistic, self-promoting professional bureaucrat with a ferocious mean streak- and little else.

I have little interest in casting blame for our failure to thwart the 9/11 attacks; what matters to me is what we're doing now.

I am interested, though, in just why this unprincipled hack was left in charge of our counterterrorism policy for so long. Who the hell's brilliant idea was that???

Posted by Dave D. 2004-03-26 8:36:52 AM|| 2004-03-26 8:36:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I remember seeing him all over the talk show circuit post 9/11. His song was always the same - cyber-terror. They're coming after our computers (power grid, telecom, etc). Looks like he learned a new song that the crowd loves to hear.

Posted by Uncle War 2004-03-26 9:29:02 AM|| 2004-03-26 9:29:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Was Clarke's testamony to the comitee under oath? If so it seems to me he lied to the commitee under oath.

Of course he is a Clinton crony so lying under oath is no big deal....

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-03-26 10:13:23 AM|| 2004-03-26 10:13:23 AM|| Front Page Top

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