Why Didn't Richard Clarke Tell Condi Rice About the 1995 Plot?

http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10324 the Clinton FBI and CIA knew in 1995 that al-Qaida terrorists who had tried to topple the World Trade Center in 1993 had plans to hijack commercial planes and crash them into buildings on American soil.

As also shown in the article above, Condi Rice stated that she did not know this before 9/11. It needs to be determined whether she is lying about that. However, so far nobody has come forward with evidence that they told her about what the Clinton FBI and CIA learned in 1995. Therefore, assuming she is telling the truth, why isn't the Bush Administration demanding to know from Richard Clarke why he or others in the Clinton Administration did not tell her about this?!!!!!

If he did not tell her because he did not know, then who is to blame for him not knowing? Either he or others in the Clinton Administration or Clinton FBI and CIA are to blame, not her or Bush.

If he did not tell her because he knew, but failed to tell her for some other reason, he has no excuse for such a failure. With one exception. Somebody else in the Clinton Administration or Clinton FBI or CIA told her, so he felt he did not have to do so. If that is what he claims, then he must identify the person who told her.

In addition to the preceding, the facts in this article need to be pursued and NOBODY is doing it.

1. How far up the chain did this information get in 1995 and beyond, before 911? And who in the Clinton FBI and CIA or other Clinton agencies knew about this?

Condi Rice does not lie!She has already testified before the commission and in a time of WAR, it would be inappropriate for her to testify publicly.

Sandy Burger and Richardson are Clinton lap pups - anything they say is suspect and Madeline Albright is simply a stupid little woman with terrible views on foreign policy but carried the Clinton appeasement to the fullest including the pampering of Arafat. : Here's a rundown. The Clinton administration:

1. Did not follow-up on the attempted bombing of Aden marines in Yemen.
2. Shut the CIA out of the 1993 WTC bombing investigation, hamstringing their effort to capture bin Laden.
3. Had Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a key bin Laden lieutenant, slip through their fingers in Qatar.
4. Did not militarily react to the al Qaeda bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
5. Did not accept the Sudanese offer to turn bin Laden.
6. Did not follow-up on another offer from Sudan through a private back channel.
7. Objected to Northern Alliance efforts to assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan.
8. Decided against using special forces to take down bin Laden in Afghanistan.
9. Did not take an opportunity to take into custody two al Qaeda operatives involved in the East African embassy bombings. In another little scoop, I am able to show that Sudan arrested these two terrorists and offered them to the FBI. The Clinton administration declined to pick them up and they were later allowed to return to Pakistan.
10. Ordered an ineffectual, token missile strike against a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory.
11. Clumsily tipped off Pakistani officials sympathetic to bin Laden before a planned missile strike against bin Laden on August 20, 1998. Bin Laden left the camp with only minutes to spare.
12-14. Three times, Clinton hesitated or deferred in ordering missile strikes against bin Laden in 1999 and 2000.
15. When they finally launched and armed the Predator spy drone plane, which captured amazing live video images of bin Laden, the Clinton administration no longer had military assets in place to strike the archterrorist.
16. Did not order a retaliatory strike on bin Laden for the murderous attack on the USS Cole.
The latter an act of war.

The Bush Administration is blowing it big time.

I'm not willing to underestimate the Bush team "stratergy" just yet. The lack of a knee-jerk reaction is a good thing; it shows that they are not afraid and are able to think things out carefully. Why do you suppose the Dims have to backtrack and change tacks so often, in spite of a compliant media? It's because they start to howl at the first hint of a scent and end up stepping in it, over and over again.

I wish it hadn't gotten down to this level of blame game, but the the Democrats are forcing our hands by trying to blame 9/11 on Bush.

If I try to rise above the political fighting and look at the big picture, I am absolutely positive that if Clinton or Bush had *any* intelligence indicating suicide hijackings were being seriously planned, something would have been done. The fact is that AQ kept the operational details of the 9/11 plan secret. I think it is unfair to criticize our intelligence agencies and either administration for not connecting the few dots of real intelligence about the 9/11 plan.

That's why Clarke's spewing is completely bogus and partisan. He even admitted that he had no idea that suicide hijackings were planned and he was the self-proclaimed God of Counterterrorism.

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