[Endeavor]

"The one-page declassified version of the president's daily brief dated Dec. 4, 1998, contains chilling information the CIA had gleaned from several sources indicating that al Qaeda was working with U.S.-based operatives of its deadly ally, the Egyptian group Gama at al-Islamiyya, in the purported hijack plot.

The brief shows that the intelligence community and the White House were aware of al Qaeda's interest in hijacking U.S. airliners long before 9-11. The day the brief was prepared, then-CIA Director George Tenet said in a memo to the intelligence community that "we are at war" and that no resources should be spared to defeat the terrorists"

But how can this be? Mr. Clarke didn't tell us this? Mr. Tenet played dumb to it when he testified before the 9/11 committee (he's played dumb about a lot of things).

[mountaineer]

Mr. Clarke didn't tell us this?

Seems to me that most of the things out of Mr. Clarke's mouth have proven to be untrue, so I guess we shouldn't be surprised that he may have wilfully withheld the truth on other occasions.