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Gord
Clark to the 9/11 Commission - he claimed he told Bush in regard to a plan about al Qaeda:
You have to be more specific than that . Clarke charged :
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that before and during the 9/11 crisis, many in the administration were distracted from efforts against Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization by a pre-occupation with Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Clarke had written that on September 12, 2001, President Bush pulled him and a couple of aides aside and "testily" asked him to try to find evidence that Saddam Hussein was connected to the terrorist attacks. In response he wrote a report stating there was no evidence of Iraqi involvement and got it signed by all relevant agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the CIA.
That doesn't say they ignored him but they they were more distracted about Saddam than Bin Laden. Was Richard Clarke lying about this?
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After initially denying that such meeting and request between the President and Clarke took place, the White House later reversed its denial when others present backed Clarke's version of the events.
So we see that the Whitehouse is again lying. As for the quote you provided,
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"I think the overall point is, there was no plan on Al Qaeda that was passed from the Clinton administration to the Bush Administration."
This does not contradict his testimony. In fact the Republicans handed in the towel on this particular issue.
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Conservatives inside and outside the Bush Administration vigorously attacked both Clarke's testimony and his tenure during the hearings. In the furor over Clarke's revelations before the 9/11 Commission, Senate Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist immediately took to the Senate floor to make a speech accusing Clarke of telling "two entirely different stories under oath", pointing to congressional hearing testimony Clarke gave in 2002, but Frist later admitted to reporters that he was unaware of any actual discrepancies in Clarke's testimony.
Richard A. Clarke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I do applaud you for finally making an attempt to back up your argument surrounding Richard Clarke. I had only noticed it today.
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Guess that's the last we'll hear from Tuatara...
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