Live Thread - September 11 Commission, Day 2, Wednesday, March 24, 2004

CSPAN 3, CBS webfeed ^ | March 24, 2004

[Mo1]

Unbelievable

Roemer is asking if WOT was a high priority under Clinton

[OESY]

Clarke: "I who am about to die, salute you."

[Peach]

Question: How high a priority was fighting AQ in the Clinton admin.

Clarke: Fighting terrorism in general and AQ in particular was a high priority. There was no higher priority. Perhaps the Middle East peace process was as high, but certainly not higher.

Question: How high a priority in the Bush administration.

Clarke: In the first 8 months, they considered terrorism an important but not urgent issue. They and president Bush says as much in his interview with Bob Woodward that he didn't feel a sense of interview. George Tenet and I tried to create a sense of urgency.

[hobbes1]

Well, that did not take long. Impeachement, adn Getting Hillary!ous elected were not higher priorities?

[Miss Marple]

Oh, lies already. Fighting terrorism was of the highest priority in the Clinton Administration. In the Bush Administration in the first 8 months said there was not a sense of urgency.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The media is misrpresenting Clarke's job title, he wasn't Terrorism Czar, he was the Cyberterrorism Czar. There is a HUGH difference between the two.

[Howlin]

He took that quote OUT OF CONTEXT!!!

And didn't he say last Sunday that Bush completely ignored AQ????

[faithincowboys]

This is amazing. Roemer is disgraceful! Clarke is disgraceful!

[Bahbah]

Says Bush admin didn't consider terrorism urgent although he, Clarke, tried hard to push the issue.

[Carolinamom]

Missed the very first of opening.....did he really say his book was "required" reading for the committee?

[cyncooper]

Clarke already has testified that terrorism had no higher priority than in the Clinton administration.

On the other hand he is saying it was not as important in the Bush adminstration and he cites Bob Woodward's book as proof!

(I thought Roemer wanted him to focus on memos and emails and the like and not books!)

[js1138]

Switzerland doesn't border Germany.

LOL. You have to be careful in Freeperland.

[Steven W.]

FOLKS: I think the best angle to go after Clarke now - beyond being a scumbag & LIAR - is that he's obviously a racist who has it out for powerful women of color ala Condoleeza Rice. The libs cannot support a RACIST and that is what they're doing in this full-on attack against Condi.

[Terry Mross]

Clark starts out by saying, "I'm sorry." He's playing for sympathy 'cause he know's he's toast. He started out refuting his own interview that Fox's Jim Angle provided. I hope someone on that committee has that transcript.

[EllaMinnow]

Clarke mentioning Woodward's book!

Think Amazon gives him a kickback?

[Howlin]

I missed it, too.

Anybody, did he really say that?

[BigSkyFreeper]

"We Failed", no Clarke, YOU FAILED!!, which is why your out of a damn job.

[Indy Pendance]

We're watching the book of the month club.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This is just a polite opening!

He likes the shooting of cruise missiles, Bush thinks that is a worthless strategy!

[NautiNurse]

No