NS Archives: Clarke's 1st Memo on al-Qaeda Declassified. (Jan 25,2001)

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Bush Administration's First Memo

on al-Qaeda Declassified

January 25, 2001 Richard Clarke Memo:

"We urgently need . . . a Principals level
review on the al Qida network."

Document Central to Clarke-Rice Dispute on Bush Terrorism Policy Pre-9/11

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 147

Edited by Barbara Elias

February 10, 2005 - Original Post

Update - September 27, 2006



http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB147/index.htm

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1. But that's facts! That's not how this administration works.

Just like the commercial for The Nation. But in reality it ain't really funny.

Not when it's about a now 5000 dead Americans, a score of wounded, scores of thousands of Iraqis and an Al-Qaeda terror group that has grown into a movement with estimated scores of thousands of adherents.