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He won't be found guilty of lying to Goss's committee.

It's his 9/11 commission testimony from yesterday that will be found to be false.

I agree, an investigation into the former should be done as it would provide the basis for demonstrating the latter.

I will not hold my breath that Clarke will face a penalty, so will be content for the documentation to spell it out for posterity.

This is serious. Porter Goss is a serious man, an ex spook and a man with nothing to lose. This is gonna be something.

He won't be found guilty of lying to Goss's committee.

It's his 9/11 commission testimony from yesterday that will be found to be false.

Either way, Bush wins.

Clarke added, “That process, which was initiated in the first week in February [2001], decided in principle in the spring to add to the existing Clinton strategy and to increase CIA resources, for example, for covert action, five-fold, to go after al-Qaeda.”

Posted yesterday...Someone mentioned on talk radio that what we need to do is prove that Clarke's 2002 statement is correct in reference to the "five-fold" increase in funding for the CIA. I have been searching, but most documents I have found state that the CIA budget is "secret". However, I did find this:

The FY 2002 Intelligence Budget: A Five-Year Plan

The budget request submitted by the President includes a substantial increase for programs funded in the National Foreign Intelligence Program. The Committee believes this funding increase should represent the first installment of a five-year effort to correct serious deficiencies that have developed over the past decade in the Intelligence Community.

In this budget, the Committee seeks to highlight four priority areas that must receive significant attention in the near term if intelligence is to fulfill its role in our national security strategy. Those are:

Revitalizing the National Security Agency (NSA)
Correcting deficiencies in human intelligence
Addressing the imbalance between intelligence collection and analysis, and
Rebuilding a robust research and development program.
The budget lays out a five-year plan for addressing each of these areas.

Source (warning: slow loading .pdf file)

According to the articles I have found, the budget blueprint was unveiled by Bush in Feb 2001. The above linked article shows that Congress did not act on it until Sep 14 2001.

I am doing another search again today, since I accidentally found out where the CIA funding is listed in the budget right before I had to sign off yesterday. One of those "If I told you...I'd have to kill you" things, LOL!