[Peach]

Rep. Shays said this:
Noting Clarke told the subcommittee in June, 2000 that there was: “no need for an assessment” of the terrorist threat, Shays stated, “Mr. Clarke is engaging in revisionist history, apparently for personal partisan reasons.

Shays noted that at a briefing on June 28, 2000, he asked Mr. Clarke, then serving as President Clinton’s Special Assistant and National Coordinator, Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counterterrorism, when an all-source threat assessment and strategy would be completed. Clarke's answer: “No assessment has been done, and there is no need for an assessment, I know the threat."

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[maica]

***Clarke's answer: “No assessment has been done, and there is no need for an assessment, I know the threat." ***

Oh, good, I feel much more reassured now. DC had everything under control!

Do you remember what Sandy Berger said in response to the commission's question about how frequently he met with Clinton? I don't, but it seems to me that Clarke was the guy in the Oval Office on a regular basis, until the change of administration.

So close to his 30 years, he must have been getting angrier and angrier in the spring and summer of 2001, as he became subservient to Dr Rice.