[Enduring Freedom]

Clarke committed perjury.

A review of the facts and other testimony surrounding events means:

There is no other possibility - hang him out to dry.

[lainde]

Those darn hard copy packrats. Again, cheers for Jim Angle!!!!

[FranklinsTower]

I have a feeling that someone has bought off or intimidated Clarke. It is Scott Ritter all over again.

[Jackson Brown]

Also, Clarke said -- *under oath* on Wednesday -- that ALL he said in his August 2002 press briefing was true.

Mr. Clarke's attempt to say that what he said during the August 2002 briefing *was true* but "he was emphasizing the positive", begs the question since what he said in 2002 *completely* contradicts what he asserts *now*...that Bush did little or nothing to go after Al Qaeda.

What he may have not have emphasized (implying there were negatives) in 2002 does not change the obvious...his present charges against Bush are NOT true..and he (in effect) said so under oath!

[kcvl]

Congressman Casts Doubt on Clarke's Credibility
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Morning Editor
March 24, 2004

(CNSNews.com) - In a letter to the 9/11 commission on Wednesday, a Republican congressman noted that before the Sept. 11 terror attacks, a House panel held twenty hearings and two formal briefings on terrorism -- and Richard Clarke "was of little help in our oversight."

"When he briefed the subcommittee, his answers were both evasive and derisive," wrote Rep. Chris Shays (R-Conn.) in a March 24, 2004 letter to the national commission investigating the terrorist attacks.

Shays said the commission might find the information about Clarke relevant, given the fact that Clarke was testifying on Wednesday. Clarke made headlines this week after blasting the Bush administration in various media appearances and interviews.

Clarke, in a newly released book, accused the Bush administration of ignoring his warnings about al Qaeda before the September 11 attacks; and he also accused the administration of bungling the war on terrorism by invading Iraq, instead of concentrating exclusively on nabbing Osama bin Laden.

"Clark was part of the problem before Sept. 11 because he took too narrow a view of the terrorism threat," Shays wrote to the commission on Wednesday.

He also noted that "no truly national strategy to combat terrorism was ever produced during Mr. Clarke's tenure."

In fact, said Shays, his subcommittee was "so concerned about Mr. Clarke's narrow view of the terrorist threat" that the subcommittee wrote to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, to express its concerns about Clarke.

Shays is chairman of the House Government Reform Committee's National Security Subcommittee.

[linn37]

If he committed perjury when will he be charged?

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

And ABC News hired the lying twit!