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Found notes may show Bush plan on Clarke
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| 3/31/04
| Pamela Hess
Posted on 03/31/2004 1:36:56 PM PST by South40
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To: Notwithstanding
Dickie Clarke whines, but no one is listening.
Here's the truth:
This plan, NEVER ENACTED BY KLINTON, was to be implemented over THREE YEARS, beginning with dialogue with the Taliban.
Fact is nothing other than CIA & FBI intelligence could have detected and stopped the 9/11 hijackers after Bush took office. Nothing.
However, Klinton's avoidance of the 1st WTC terrorist bombing in 1993, a disgraceful and shameless act, was directly linked to the eventual attack.
Eight years under Klinton vs. Eight months under Bush.
Bush launched an offensive that saw the American military conquer invincible Afghanistan and walk the streets of Kandahar only 59 days after the 2nd WTC attack.
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posted on
03/31/2004 2:13:53 PM PST
by
Enduring Freedom
(Start buyin' before the boom leaves you cryin' - LANDSLIDE! BUSH 2004!)
To: South40
From the paper ( there's a PDF copy at
John Podesta's CFAP):
"...Sept 4 NSPD had an annex going back to July- contingency plans to attack Taliban"
Clarke said the NSPD was the same as he'd offered in January, but this says it was changed in July.
Podesta must have told UPI not to report that part. Just the part about the administration plot not to attack Clarke.
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posted on
03/31/2004 2:14:50 PM PST
by
mrsmith
("Oyez, oyez! All rise for the Honorable Chief Justice... Hillary Rodham Clinton ")
To: GailA
Nice reply.
This Ruff guy needs to be taken out to the woodshed for this.
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posted on
03/31/2004 2:17:16 PM PST
by
michigander
(The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
To: South40
Biography for Eric Ruff
Eric Ruff is the Director of Communications for the Office of the Secretary, a position not subject to Senate approval. Before joining Interior, Ruff was providing on-the-ground counsel to executives and media relations staff at the Monsanto Company in St. Louis, Missouri. He developed and carried out an array of strategic and tactical programs in support of the companys global agricultural biotechnology acceptance campaign.
Before working on biotechnology, Ruff served as the senior vice president of communications and technology for the National Restaurant Association, overseeing its efforts to promote the restaurant industry and its views to the publicand the news media.
Prior to joining the association, Ruff spent several years in senior public affairs positions in government. In the U.S. Senate he was communications director for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) and Senator John Warner (R-VA). In the Administration of President George Herbert Walker Bush he served in public affairs posts at the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Commerce.
Earlier he served as legislative assistant for Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). After managing the successful 1986 re-election campaign of Att.Gen. Brian McKay of Nevada, Ruff jointed DRGM, the states largest advertising and marketing agency, where he represented Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Nevada in Carson City. He also directed the agencys highly successful public relations campaign for the Nevada mining industry.
In his earlier career as a journalist, Ruff covered Capitol Hill for Congressional Quarterly. Prior to working for CQ, he covered Congress as a bureau chief and regional reporter for the Donrey Media Group. Ruff and his wife, Rebecca, live in Arlington, Va., and have two sons.
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posted on
03/31/2004 2:20:41 PM PST
by
So Cal Rocket
(If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, John F. Kerry’s mind must be freaking enormous)
To: CyberAnt
An absolute MUST READ.
When former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke fingered President George W. Bush for having "botched the response to 9/11," he and other critics left out a major point: Until just two months before the attack, nearly all the senior counterterrorism and intelligence officials on duty at the time were holdovers from the Clinton administration.
Here's a link for ya.
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posted on
03/31/2004 2:23:10 PM PST
by
MamaLucci
(Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA Director.)
To: South40
"WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) -- The White House was worried about the damaging testimony of a former counter-terrorism chief to a commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks last week but was trying to let the issue die on its own, according to Pentagon briefing notes found at a Washington coffee shop. "Stay inside the lines. We don't need to puff this (up). We need (to) be careful as hell about it," the handwritten notes say. "This thing will go away soon and what will keep it alive will be one of us going over the line."
In the old days, one of the things that Free Republuic did well was to actually analyze what was written in articles.
Look above. The lead in paragraph is pure editorial conjecture. The author is taking a guess at what the notes mean.
Then the 2nd paragraph is actually the money quote from the notes.
Notice that the notes themselves don't agree with the author's original speculation. Her bias led her astray, most likely.
From just what she printed of the notes, the White House is simply expressing caution as well as insisting that everyone involved take the high road rather than simply take pot shots at Clarke.
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posted on
03/31/2004 2:25:00 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Frank_Discussion
poor job
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posted on
03/31/2004 2:26:29 PM PST
by
pointsal
To: mrsmith
Right after 9-11, I recall having conversations with a liberal friend who claimed the Bush administration had developed a contingency plan to attack Afghanistan prior to 9-11 (his take, of course, was that this was an oil-related scheme). Now, the liberals are complaining that Bush DIDN'T have a plan to go into Afghanistan.
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posted on
03/31/2004 2:30:29 PM PST
by
Steve_Seattle
("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
To: South40
The notes were written by Pentagon political appointee Eric Ruff who left them in a Starbucks coffee shop in Dupont Circle "Eric...you're fired."
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posted on
03/31/2004 2:30:43 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,Election '04...It's going to be a bumpy ride,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø)
To: South40
Maybe I will go "loose" some notes in a Starbucks that will make the Democrats look really bad. Then we can see if that shows up on UPI.
To: Law is not justice but process
Hey these notes don't make them look bad, they make them look reasonable. Maybe the were lost on purpose. They sure read better than those democrat memoes from the judicial committee.
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posted on
03/31/2004 2:33:27 PM PST
by
rhombus
To: Eva
This stuff is starting to make me laugh out loud. And they call themselves "journalists." HAHAHAHAHAHA..........
To: rogueleader
"Anytime the Republican Party wants to spread some disinfo, just "accidentally" leave some handwritten notes at a DC-area Starbucks."
LOL. . .Have always recommended it as good place to accidentally. . .drop some truth!
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posted on
03/31/2004 2:35:07 PM PST
by
cricket
(The Democrats and the terrorists have a common enemy. . .)
To: RepatriatedTexan
There's nothing in the notes... However, I think I'll bypass Starbucks for coffee from now on since their employees don't respect customer privacy..
I'm happy to report that Starbucks just opened a new starbucks in Odessa. Now I can bypass them too!
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posted on
03/31/2004 2:38:59 PM PST
by
Iron Matron
(Civil Disobedience? It's not just for liberals anymore!)
To: rhombus
I quite agree with you on that. I guess I phrased my point poorly. What I wanted to point out is how UPI picked this up and tried to spin it as embarassing whereas they would be indignant at the intrusion of Democrat privacy if the shoe was on the other foot. Just another attempt at a "liberal press bias" rant.
To: South40
Now, Eric, just where did you leave your laptop computer?
Jerk!
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posted on
03/31/2004 2:39:24 PM PST
by
aShepard
To: MamaLucci
Thanks for connecting that. I posted the original Waller article regarding this issue - and the link you cited is his updated article. Good catch!
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posted on
03/31/2004 2:41:53 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
(The 2004 Election is for the SOUL of AMERICA)
To: petitfour
Yeah, Charles Ruff (I think). Don't know if there is any connection. But, looking at who Ruff has worked for - I'd say that even if there was a connection, Charles wasn't much of an influence on Eric's choice of politics.
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posted on
03/31/2004 2:45:01 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
(The 2004 Election is for the SOUL of AMERICA)
To: Defiant
"Imagine if the notes were found from a Clinton aide. It would say something like, "We have to pull out the FBI files. Say he's a flamer, attack his Grandma, call Peter Jennings and have him do a hit piece."
LOL. . .and see how many times you can use the following in one sentence. . .Enron; Enron friends; Haliburton; pretext for war; oil; oil scheme; disengenuous; 'If I only had a brain. . .and of course, those WMD's. . .
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posted on
03/31/2004 2:46:10 PM PST
by
cricket
(The Democrats and the terrorists have a common enemy. . .)
To: CyberAnt
My pleasure. The issue of dem obstruction of the President's political appointees, etc. has not gotten the attention that it deseves.
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posted on
03/31/2004 2:49:14 PM PST
by
MamaLucci
(Liberal talk radio: "Helping to elect Republicans since 2004".)
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