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Against Selected Enemies (Richard Miniter on Clarke)
The Wall Street Journal ^
| April 1, 2004
| RICHARD MINITER
Posted on 03/31/2004 11:39:14 PM PST by neverdem
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:06:42 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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A year ago, I thought Richard A. Clarke, President Clinton's counterterror czar, was a hero. He and his small band of officials fought a long battle to focus the bureaucracy on stopping Osama bin Laden long before 9/11. For my own book, I interviewed Mr. Clarke extensively and found him to be blunt and forthright. He remembered whole conversations from inside the Situation Room.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: againstallenemies; alqaeda; bookreview; iraq; richardclarke; richardminiter; terrorism
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To: neverdem
Thanks for the link!
To: neverdem
Someone found a thread with an article dated September 22,
2001Looks like Clarke didn't know (as if we ever thought he did) everything the administration was planning and/or talking about.
Notice today that idiotic spin was put out that because Condi Rice was originally scheduled to give a speech on 9/11 that emphasized missile defense, (but also addressed terrorism in the form of suitcase bombs, sarin on the subway and so forth-but it wasn't THE priority), we were invited to conclude that the administration was focusing on "rogue states" and not the REAL threat, Al Qaeda. But perhaps they were (and I am positive they were).
Threat of US strikes passed to Taliban weeks before NY attack
Excerpt
Osama bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York and Washington,
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:35:20 PM PST
by
cyncooper
("The 'War on Terror ' is not a figure of speech")
To: windchime
Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen that article. I e-mailed Scarborough again and sent him a paragraph from the article. I also e-mailed Wachovia the article because I had been in communication with them complaining about them advertising on the Chis Matthews show, using our money against us and threatening to remove our money from their bank. They had promised to moniter the show.
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:43:05 PM PST
by
Eva
To: cyncooper
Thanks for the interesting link.
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:51:00 PM PST
by
neverdem
(Xin loi min oi)
To: NYCVirago
Article: "At worst it will goad Scarborough to turn his attention to relatively apolitical topics like the Michael Jackson scandals."
"I just put on Scarborough Country to see what he was talking about, and it was (drum roll, please) Michael Jackson!"
LOL! And Greta interviewed Karen Hughes. Guess more than Kerry 'flip-flops'.
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posted on
04/01/2004 10:00:08 PM PST
by
windchime
(Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
To: Eva
"I hadn't seen that article. I e-mailed Scarborough again and sent him a paragraph from the article."
Good job! Did you send Scarborough the paragraph that had the following quote in it?
"Its easy to anticipate that Republican Joe Scarborough will soon be either purged or gelded."
Guess he prefers gelded 'cause he's still there.
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posted on
04/01/2004 10:07:44 PM PST
by
windchime
(Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
To: nutmeg
bump
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posted on
04/01/2004 10:20:26 PM PST
by
nutmeg
(Why vote for Bush? Imagine Commander in Chief John F’in Kerry)
To: Eva
I sent Scarborough and e-mail and told him that the leftist guests were ruining his show and that maybe it was time for him to move-On. I said that we were, we're going back to FOX to watch Greta. Cool! It seems to me that if Kaplan were smart, and not just a Clinton-lover, he would have let Joe be Joe, simply to attract conservative viewers turned off by Greta. There aren't that many overall cable news watchers, and the libs are going to watch Aaron Brown. I wouldn't expect MSNBC to be Fox News-lite, but Joe Scarborough was a breath of fresh air on that lineup.
To: windchime
Bump!
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posted on
04/02/2004 12:15:56 AM PST
by
windchime
(Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
To: cyncooper
Great find, cyncooper! This needs lots of attention:Russia's president Vladimir Putin said in an interview released yesterday that he had warned the Clinton administration about the dangers posed by Bin Laden. "Washington's reaction at the time really amazed me. They shrugged their shoulders and said matter-of-factly: 'We can't do anything because the Taliban does not want to turn him over'."
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posted on
04/02/2004 1:09:53 AM PST
by
windchime
(Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
To: CyberAnt
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posted on
04/02/2004 1:22:38 AM PST
by
windchime
(Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
To: neverdem
Thanks for the post, ping.
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posted on
04/02/2004 4:53:05 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: windchime
Well, these old articles predating 9/11 must be false. Richard Clarke has arrived to set us straight. 'Twas Clinton who focused like a laser on terrorism and Bush who shrugged.
/sarcasm
I was especially annoyed by that idiotic Washington Post article yesterday about Rice scheduled to talk about security on 9/11 in a speech she never gave and the main theme was missile defense, though even the article acknowledged and gave examples of references to terrorism in her speech. Excerpts leaked by "former officials" to the Post.
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posted on
04/02/2004 5:13:08 AM PST
by
cyncooper
("The 'War on Terror ' is not a figure of speech")
To: cyncooper
".......Rice scheduled to talk about security on 9/11 in a speech she never gave......"
Clarke is NOT held accountable for words he speaks and Rice IS held accountable for words that never crossed her lips.
We can thank Richard Clarke for his statements which have more emphatically defined the line between those 'for' or 'against' our country.
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posted on
04/02/2004 10:23:01 AM PST
by
windchime
(Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
To: windchime
Clarke is NOT held accountable for words he speaks and Rice IS held accountable for words that never crossed her lips. Well, when you put it that way it sounds unfair to Rice, doesn't it? LOL
I have to laugh or I'll scream at these obstinate press people who blithely go on telling us how "compelling" Clarke was. No, you media morons. He was creepy, smarmy and most important of all---he was LYING.
Thanks for letting me vent.:)
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posted on
04/02/2004 11:24:13 AM PST
by
cyncooper
("The 'War on Terror ' is not a figure of speech")
To: PhilDragoo
Doesn't the orchestration of this attack remind you how press manipulation on other subjects such as the event of 11/22/1963? Can you imagine what would have happened had there been an internet back then? Fascinating to speculate on that.
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posted on
04/02/2004 1:25:40 PM PST
by
justshutupandtakeit
(America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
To: windchime
Yep, that's the paragraph that I sent.
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posted on
04/02/2004 3:07:31 PM PST
by
Eva
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