Clarke Says Rice’s Testimony Bolstered His Claims

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Clarke Says Rice’s Testimony Bolstered His Claims

April 8 — National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice repeatedly told the 9/11 commission today that there was no "silver bullet" that could have averted the deadly Sept. 11 terror attacks on America.

But former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, who is also an ABCNEWS consultant, said he tried to warn the president of the imminent threat of al Qaeda. He testified during the Sept. 11 commission's public hearings that the Bush administration paid too much attention to Iraq and underestimated the threat from al Qaeda, before and after the Sept. 11 attacks.

After Rice's three-hour testimony concluded, ABCNEWS' Peter Jennings asked Clarke what he thought about Rice's testimony before the commission.

The following is an unedited, uncorrected transcript of Clarke's interview with ABCNEWS' Peter Jennings as it aired on Thursday, April 8, 2004:

Jennings: Now let's talk a little bit about Richard Clarke. Even if you heard only a little of the testimony today, much of the testimony centered on the testimony of Dr. Clarke. Dr. Rice, you heard comment on it. She certainly contradicted it in some cases.

Mr. Clarke is an adviser to ABCNEWS on the subject of terrorism and has been for many months. I don't think we necessarily expected that he was going to make the kind of news that he did when he appeared before this commission, but we — you will recall that when he testified before the commission, the Bush administration took ample opportunity to attack in a very public, very widespread way what he had said before the commission.

So in trying to understand some of the truth and the facts about this commission today, we've asked Dr. Clarke, who, as I said, has been a paid consultant to ABCNEWS over many months, to come back and try to answer a couple questions about what he has heard today and he is in Boston.

Mr. Clarke, can you hear me?

Clarke: Yes, Peter, I can.

Jennings: I just want to ask you, you heard people using your testimony in a variety of different ways.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Clarke is now employed by ABC ?

[mabelkitty]

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain....I am the great and powerful Oz!!!

[auboy]

Mr. Clarke? Dr. Clarke?

I guess "Czar" wasn't a good enough title.

Liar Clarke works for me.:-)

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[bobo1]

Clarke is an idiot, a morom and POS. Who cares what he says, besides left wing scum?

Blessings, Bobo

[NativeNewYorker]

Richard Clarke, who is also an ABCNEWS consultant

If anyone has any questions left, this pretty much answers them. The folks who employ Jennings and Stephanopolous have naturally loaded the dice still further.

[thackney]

Clarke is now employed by ABC ?

Dr. Clarke, who, as I said, has been a paid consultant to ABCNEWS over many months

Not just now, he has been.

[mewzilla]

He is or was employed by MSNBC. Which the network, to my knowledge, has never mentioned.

[Republican Wildcat]

Not that ABC needed any help in destroying its credibility. It's amazing that they would admit this.

[Lost Highway]

I'm sure John Dean will be the next "consultant" hired.

[Semper Paratus]

counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke

If You want analogies then Condi played "Lenin" to Clarke's "Czar".

[Delta 21]

I agree. Clark is a has-been.

[1066AD]

Richard Clarke, who is also an ABCNEWS consultant
Another unbiased consultant, like George Stepanopoulospoulosdlkos LOL

[sarasota]

I don't think any of us expected anything else from the spinmeisters on ABC. I know I didn't. You can expect to hear the same drivel on the nightly news. I'll be listening to Brit Hume, our only hope.

[niteowl77]

So Clarke was a paid performer for ABC, NBC and VIACOM (CBS' parent company)!

What's the matter? Fox and PBS not have the $$$?

[EternalVigilance]

Our enemies have no compunction about lying.

But the truth is still far more powerful than lies.

The only way the truth won't win is if men and women of good conscience fail to speak the truth, loudly and forcefully.

Here is the truth that the American people need to hear over and over until they completely get it:

9-11 is the most vivid (to date) outworking of the Clinton legacy.

Eight years of all carrot, no stick foreign relations led to that point in history.

If the Bush team made any mistake in this, it was in keeping so many of Clinton's appointees around.

Richard Clarke is the most glaring example.

[Arrowhead1952]

Mr. Clarke, what hearings did you listen to today?

[Lost Highway]

Clarke Says Rice’s Testimony Bolstered His Claims

The one's where Bush was great and Clinton sucked or the ones where Clinton was great and Bush sucked. Knowing him he'll claim both.

[TommyDale]

What a joke! Clarke is trying his best to spin this in his favor, but the truth is known. He is a narcissistic liar.