[kattracks]

She outlined what the Clinton administration did to combat the threat of terrorism: expanding the CIA's counterterrorism center; intensifying security cooperation with other countries; enlarging counter-terrorism training assistance; doubling overall counterterrorism expenditure; freezing terrorist assets; training first responders in the U.S.; to name a few of the items on Albright's list.

According to Albright, "As early as 1995, President Clinton said, and I quote, 'Our generation's enemies are the terrorists who kill children or turn them into orphans.'"

That's not what Clarke said in a 2002 Frontline interview.

And according to the Dims, Clarke didn't lie.

Was he, were you, listened to?

Yes, slowly. Certainly after the embassy bombing in Africa in 1998, it was very obvious that what John was saying, what I was saying, was right: that this was more than a nuisance; that this was a real threat. But I don't think everyone came to the understanding that it was an existential threat. The question was, "This group is more than a nuisance, but are they worth going to war with? After all, they've only attacked two embassies. Maybe that's a cost of doing business. This kind of thing happens. Yes, we should spend some time some energy trying to get them, but it's not the number one priority we have."

From this article:

Albright told the panel that combating terrorism was the Clinton administration's top priority.

Again, not so, according to the Dims boy Clarke.

So the frustration that a lot of us had, that people weren't paying enough attention, largely ended with the 1998 embassy bombings.

Some also say that due to the Lewinsky scandal, more action perhaps was never undertaken. In your eyes?

The interagency group on which I sat and John O'Neill sat -- we never asked for a particular action to be authorized and were refused. We were never refused. Any time we took a proposal to higher authority, with one or two exceptions, it was approved....

But didn't you push for military action after the Cole?

Yes, that's one of the exceptions.

How important is that exception?

I believe that, had we destroyed the terrorist camps in Afghanistan earlier, that the conveyor belt that was producing terrorists sending them out around the world would have been destroyed. So many, many trained and indoctrinated Al Qaeda terrorists, which now we have to hunt down country by country, many of them would not be trained and would not be indoctrinated, because there wouldn't have been a safe place to do it if we had destroyed the camps earlier.

So that's a pretty basic mistake that we made?

Well, I'm not prepared to call it a mistake. It was a judgment made by people who had to take into account a lot of other issues. None of these decisions took place in isolation. There was the Middle East peace process going on. There was the war in Yugoslavia going on. People above my rank had to judge what could be done in the counterterrorism world at a time when they were also pursuing other national goals.

So the clinton administration's top prority was NOT the security of the US, but "legacy" building for clinton.

[observer5]

"Albright told the panel that combating terrorism was the Clinton administration's top priority...

...right after the x-rated white house performance!

Alby stfu!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

"I can say with confidence that President Clinton and his team did everything we could -- everything we could think of -- based on the knowledge we had -- to protect our people and to defeat al Qaeda," Albright testified.

Did you think about shooting them? There were thousands of them in Afghanistan.

Did you think about accepting Usama's head on a Sudanese silver platter? Didn't think of that either. Hmmm!

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Why doesn't that odious woman disappear! Sheesh.

[TomGuy]

Albright told the panel that combating terrorism was the Clinton administration's top priority.

Dick Morris in his book, Off With Their Heads, said that terrorism was not a priority during the Clinton Administration.

Maddie is trying to spin and rewrite history again. The Clintonites seem to resurface every few months and try, try again. Sorry, Bill, your legacy is set in stone. All this revisionism just doesn't work because too many other are telling contradictory stories, and Bill, they aren't convicted perjurers (aka liars).

[NormsRevenge]

Do you swear to tell the truth to this committee .... ?

Ohh Yeaahhhhh .. :-\

[FlyVet]

I've been wondering, all these high level meetings about terrorism policy, and no documentation, nothing but hearsay? Where's the paperwork? Shredded, perhaps? Even us little peons in the AF, when we held meetings and something important was discussed, we documented it. Didn't they? And here we go again, another painfully tedious congressonal investigation with hearings, Q&A. Maybe this has already been covered and I missed it.

[MNJohnnie]

To the Editors,

In CNS News glowing story on former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's testimony to the 9-11 Panel, you missed this key statement.

"It is possible and perhaps probable that anger over these detentions has helped (Osama) bin Laden succeed in recruiting more new operatives,"

So apparently in the Clinton Whitehouse, where Albright claims "fighting Terrorism was the number one priority" the idea of locking up Terrorists and their supporters was considered a very bad idea. One has to wonder what Albright thinks the PROPER way to fight Terrorists would be? Give then a stern talking to? File a diplomatic protest? Increase Foreign Aid to their State Sponsors? Albright, unwittingly, has exposed the root cause of 9-11. The inability of the American Political Left to face the reality that there is evil in the world and it MUST be fought with bullets and bombs, not good intentions and words.

[Toddsterpatriot]

"I can say with confidence that President Clinton and his team did everything we could -- everything we could think of -- based on the knowledge we had -- to protect our people and to defeat al Qaeda," Albright testified.

Sounds familiar. "I've never worked harder in my life, but we just can't afford the middle class tax cut",Clinton lied.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Madeleine Albright's legacy: "Shut the gates! Shut the gates!" (as she chases after Arafat. Her pantyhose smoking from the friction created as her inner thighs slap together in a torrent of fat, flab, and fury.) She's just lucky she didn't spontaneously combust at that moment.

[shield]

clinton was after home grown terrorist not foreign. Too bad evidence was covered up connecting foreign terrorist along with home grown terrorist and the OKC bombing......now who was part of that Iraq or Iran?

With all the dirt throwing that's taking place during this presidential election....maybe maybe maybe this will come out too.

the hillbillies are really good at trying to rewrite history. I'm sure the Bush administration has enough to hang 'em all.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

ENOUGH SAID

[Toespi]

"There is not a single solitary nuclear missile pointed at an American child tonight," Clinton said in October 1996. "Not one. Not a single one."

No missiles pointed at an American child huh? The Clinton administration was hell bent on creating an illusion that the world was at peace because of his leadership. This is why our men were butchered in the streets of Mogadishu and forgotten because Clinton did not want to engage an enemy militarily. It is shameless that this event has not been mentioned in the 9/11 hearings. This is also why every terrorist attack from the day he took office was never taken seriously.

[tet68]

The question was, "This group is more than a nuisance, but are they worth going to war with? After all, they've only attacked two embassies.

Ye Gods, and these idiots were in control of our country!
No wonder we're in a fight for our lives now.