[cyncooper]

QUESTION: Were all of those issues part of alleged plan that was late December and the Clinton team decided not to pursue because it was too close to ...

CLARKE: There was never a plan, Andrea. What there was was these two things: One, a description of the existing strategy, which included a description of the threat. And two, those things which had been looked at over the course of two years, and which were still on the table.

QUESTION: So there was nothing that developed, no documents or no new plan of any sort?

CLARKE: There was no new plan.

QUESTION: No new strategy — I mean, I don't want to get into a semantics ...

CLARKE: Plan, strategy — there was no, nothing new.

QUESTION: 'Til late December, developing ...

CLARKE: What happened at the end of December was that the Clinton administration NSC principals committee met and once again looked at the strategy, and once again looked at the issues that they had brought, decided in the past to add to the strategy. But they did not at that point make any recommendations.

QUESTIONS: Had those issues evolved at all from October of '98 'til December of 2000?

CLARKE: Had they evolved? Um, not appreciably.

~snip~

Um, would that be Andrea Mitchell? She who has been acting like the Clarke book is credible?

[xzins]

I think it could be that very same Andrea. It could be that network AND others. Don't you wish Angle would publish who those other networks are?

Or do you think he'll hold back the names, dangling them over their heads, until they come clean on their own???!!

(Nah...they'd never come clean.)

He'll be asked them and will publish them in the next few days, I'd bet.

[My2Cents]

What other lying, dissembling, tool-of-the-socialist-state SOB was in the briefing, I wonder?