in a column entitled, "The Charley McCarthy Hearings"
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Vice President will not address any queries about why
no one reacted to George Tenet's daily
"hair on fire" alarms to the President about a
coming Al Qaeda attack; or why the President was so consumed with
chopping and burning cedar on his Crawford ranch that he
ignored the warning in an Aug. 6, 2001, briefing that Al Qaeda might try to hijack aircraft; or why the
President asked for a plan to combat Al Qaeda in May and then
never followed up while Richard Clarke's aggressive plan was suffocated by second-raters; or why the President was
never briefed by his counterterrorism chief on anything but cybersecurity until Sept. 11; or why the Administration-in-amber made so many
cold war assumptions, such as thinking that terrorists had to be sponsored by a state even as terrorists had taken over a state; or why the
President went along with the Vice President and the neocons to fool the American public into believing that Saddam had a hand in the 9/11 attacks; or why the Administration chose to
undercut the war on terrorism and
inflame the Arab world by attacking Iraq, without a plan to
protect our perilously overextended forces or to exit with a realistic hope that a democracy will be left behind.
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