Former National Security Advisor Clarke could testify (for Nacchio)

[El Supremo]

Source: The Rocky Mountain News

By Jeff Smith, Rocky Mountain News
March 21, 2007

Former national security advisor Richard Clarke is on the Joe Nacchio defense witness list, suggesting he could testify if Nacchio’s team pursues a national security defense.

Clarke and Nacchio attended the same meeting in the White House situation room in March 2001, in which possible secret telecommunications work for the government was discussed.

James Payne, former head of Qwest’s government business unit, described that meeting to prosecutors in an interview in November 2005.

The discussion, Payne said, was attended by about 15 to 20 people in conjunction with a President Bush-appointed national security telecommunications advisory panel. Nacchio was a member of that panel, and Payne was his representative. Condoleeza Rice, then national security advisor, also was at the meeting....


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