So, Condi confirms what Clarke said.

[keithyboy]

She said that Clarke was not present at the meetings where Bush allegedly talked about al-qaeda, so he doesn't know what the President said. THAT'S THE POINT. Clarke said that he was shut out of those meetings on terrorism or that Bush didn't meet with him until just before 9/11.
My question is: Why wasn't the most informed individual on national security and terrorism included in these meetings? It is a direct indictment of Bush not paying as much attention as he should have. Condi just coming into her position as National Security Advisor could not have known more than the people who had been involved in fighting terrorism for a decade. Why don't the Dem spokespeople point this out in rebutting Condi's statements today? We just do not have the right spokepeople out there making our case against Bush. Furthermore, the folks they do have allow the Bush supporters to misquote Clarke without correction so that one would be led to believe that Clarke was lying.
When the ALL of the media and ALL of the pundits are lined up in support of Bush, it seems we will be fighting a losing battle.

[Rolling Titanic]

1. Of course they won't

tell us about those supposed meetings because they were "classified".

[RobertSeattle]

2. It's ClarkE, not Clark

Richard A. Clarke

[Uber Llama]

3. I'll tell you why he wasn't let in

because he was a Dem who was not there to line the pockets of Big Business campaign donors.

[Rolling Titanic]

4. He wasn't a Dem

He was a repuke. Claims now to be independent.

[tom_paine]

5. It doesn't matter. He wasn't a Bootlicking Imperial Stooge

That is all that's required to be excluded from the Bushevik "meetings".

Just like I'm sure Hitler didn't let anyone into his inner sanctum who wasn't a Loyal Nazi.

Same thing. Same kind of people.

[displacedtexan]

7. Registered Repuke in 2000.

Appointed by Reagan. voted for W.

[Bandit]

11. He was a Reagan appointee held over by Bush 1, Clinton , and Bush*

because of his expertise. Bush* just had other priorties like Campaigning and vacationing. Read Frankens book about how the Bush* Cabal dealt with terrorism before 9-11. It is called "Operation Ignore" and goes into quite some detail, the chapter about this I mean.

[keithyboy]

6. Hmmm...seems like we have a lot of Bush admin. supporters here.

Truth uncovers a lot.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

8. Indeed that is the point.

I believe they have now "stepped in it".

[buycitgo]

9. WHEN are the media going to ask her about THIS stinker?

from a blog about the URGENT NECESSITY for The Executive Director of the Commission, Phillip Zelikow, and commissioner Jamie Gorelick to resign for EGREGIOUS conflicts of interest, comes this oldie, which NOBDOY is bringing up:


Condoleezza Rice said in May, 2002 "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile."

CNN and others have documented over a dozen instances in which we were warned by our allies and by earlier U.S. investigative commissions of terrorist plots to fly airliners into buildings. The most recent warnings were during the Summer in which the 9-11 attacks occurred. The last of these warnings was in August 2001, when Zakarias Moussaoui's flight simulator instructor reported his suspicious behavior to the Minneapolis FBI. The instructor said that he thought Moussaoui might try to"fly an airplane into the World Trade Center." His intuition was correct.

The competent Minnesota FBI agents arrested Moussaoui on immigration violations, but the Washington, D.C. FBI office refused twice to EVEN ASK A JUDGE for a search warrant for Moussaoui's laptop computer. After 9-11-2001, the FBI did not criminally charge or even fire the FBI employee who thwarted the Minnesota agents from obtaining a
search warrant. THEY PROMOTED HIM.

Commission member Zelikow could be expected to try to cover up Condoleezza's personal incompetence and dishonesty. She had security clearance to read each of the 14 warnings over the years about airplanes into buildings. She was, and amazingly still is, National Security Advisor. She says she did not see any of these warnings.

In September of 2002 Margaret Warner of PBS Newshour asked Rice a question. Warner said the terrorists "talked a lot about using airplanes as weapons. Given everything that has come out, do you still believe that the attacks were unpredictable?"

CONDOLEEZZA RICE: Yes, I do still believe that the attacks were unpredictable. Look, the 1998 reports that apparently some intelligence analysts looked at and made an analysis that perhaps al-Qaida wanted to slam planes into buildings were simply not made available to the Bush Administration."

This is a lie. Why should a man closely tied to this person be on a commission which is sworn to be independent and seeking to protect THE UNITED STATES, not to protect those who don't seek out the information they need to do their job.

http://wampum.wabanaki.net/archives/000697.html

[masshole]

10. Another thing she said

I just heard a replay from a Fox interview this morning... she was defending the timing of the WH's focus on Al Qaeda...

She said that as soon as Bush heard from George Tenent that "there was no link between Saddam and 9-11..."

Supposedly this eye-opening meeting between Bush and Tenent was prior to 9-16.

So NOW Condi is admitting that ALL ALONG, since at least 9-16, the Bush administration knew there was absolutely NO link between Saddam and 9-11!

[sandnsea]

12. New talking points

That's what I heard originally too. Clarke wasn't in the loop.

This afternoon I'm hearing he was the one who was given instructions to come up with a new terrorism plan, was the terrorism czar for 8 years, or in other words, it's HIS fault.