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Clarke Says Rice’s Testimony Bolstered His Claims
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Posted on 04/08/2004 11:49:09 AM PDT by chance33_98

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.

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To: Eric in the Ozarks
As I recall, he was everywhere in the media, especially on ABC, during the war. He had every oppurtunity to state his case. He said nothing of this before the book. He's a liar.
21 posted on 04/08/2004 12:04:26 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (We said there was a double standard when the Lott thing blew up. Now we know.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Clarke is
1) a paid consultant and paid analyst for ABC
2) has a book publisher owned by the same company that owns CBS
3) has business partner, Roger Cressey, employed by NBC
4) has teaching partner at Harvard working for Senator Kerry's campaign.



22 posted on 04/08/2004 12:05:22 PM PDT by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
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To: Lost Highway
I'm sure John Dean will be the next "consultant" hired.

I'm still waiting for that inevitable encounter in a dark alley between that weenie Dean and G Gordon Liddy.

23 posted on 04/08/2004 12:05:24 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: chance33_98
I loved the way Rice handled Bob (I'm stupid) Kerry.
24 posted on 04/08/2004 12:06:51 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I have joined the "More Than a Dollar Per Day Donor Club.")
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To: chance33_98
So Clarke wanted to make sure Bush was 'aware' of the threat of Al Queda. It's been shown time and again the Bush and Rice both were well aware of the threat. What the hell is this guy's problem?
25 posted on 04/08/2004 12:07:20 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: EternalVigilance
Dr. Clarke, who, as I said, has been a paid consultant to ABCNEWS

Shouldn't that read: "Dr. Clarke, a has been, is a paid consultant to ABC News."

Seriously, this guy is nothing but double-speak.

He says if everything that he reccomended had been immediately put into place, it would not have prevented 9/11.

Then he says, "Given the warnings, if Bush and his cabinet had gotten more closely involved and 'shaken the trees', then it might have prevented 9/11."

Then I would ask about Clarke: Why didn't the SOB advise Bush to go "shake the trees".

He is not just a liar. He is a pathetic liar.

26 posted on 04/08/2004 12:09:04 PM PDT by San Jacinto
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To: chance33_98
Did he actually hear her testimony?
27 posted on 04/08/2004 12:09:44 PM PDT by roylene
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To: chance33_98
the man (Clarke) is delusional.
28 posted on 04/08/2004 12:10:30 PM PDT by SolutionsOnly
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To: chance33_98
Clarke said:

And frankly, I think that Dr. Rice's testimony today, and she did a very good job, basically corroborates what I said. She said that the president received 40 warnings face to face from the director of central intelligence that a major al Qaeda attack was going to take place and she admitted that the president did not have a meeting on the subject, did not convene the Cabinet. She admitted that she didn't convene the Cabinet. And as some of the commissioners pointed out, this was in marked contrast to the way the government operated in December of 1999, when it had similar information and it successfully thwarted attacks. So I don't see that there are a lot of factual problems with what Dr. Rice said.

When did Condi say any of this today?

29 posted on 04/08/2004 12:10:45 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: chance33_98
INTREP - CLARKE - A mind is a terrible thing to waste!
30 posted on 04/08/2004 12:13:17 PM PDT by LiteKeeper
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Clarke is now employed by ABC ?

Well, he's employed by ABC-BS. ;-)

31 posted on 04/08/2004 12:16:59 PM PDT by an amused spectator (FR: Leaving the burning dog poop bag of Truth on the front door step of the liberal media since 1996)
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To: finnman69
What Dr. Rice really said today:

At the beginning of the administration, President Bush revived the practice of meeting with the director of central intelligence almost every day in the Oval Office, meetings which I attended, along with the vice president and the chief of staff. At these meetings, the president received up-to-date intelligence and asked questions of his most senior intelligence officials. From January 20th through September 10th, the president received at these daily meetings more than 40 briefing items on Al Qaida, and 13 of those were in response to questions he or his top advisers posed.

How Clarke gets to the the fantasy "She said that the president received 40 warnings face to face from the director of central intelligence that a major al Qaeda attack was going to take place" is beyond me.

32 posted on 04/08/2004 12:17:26 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: bobo1
Clarke is an idiot, a moron and POS.

You left out traitor and paid consultant to ABC News.

33 posted on 04/08/2004 12:18:52 PM PDT by EternalHope (Boycott everything French forever. Including their vassal nations.)
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To: chance33_98
"The light of a torch is like the wisdom of a coward; it's not clear because it trembles." -- Victor Hugo
34 posted on 04/08/2004 12:19:03 PM PDT by Stagerite (President George W. Bush is looking more and more like Teddy Roosevelt -- every day.)
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To: mabelkitty
I believe Mr Clarke has relapsed to the 1st stage of grieving-- DENIAL!

He's still spouting the bilge that his "shake the trees" meetings in Dec 1999 stopped the Millenium bomber.


Clarke: "The adoption of the strategy would not have stopped 9/11. What I've said might have had some effect on 9/11 would have been if Dr. Rice and the president had acted personally, gotten involved, shaken the trees, gotten the Cabinet members involved when they had ample warning in June and July and August that something was about to happen.

....She admitted that she didn't convene the Cabinet. And as some of the commissioners pointed out, this was in marked contrast to the way the government operated in December of 1999, when it had similar information and it successfully thwarted attacks.

.....And by having the Cabinet members come to the White House every day in crisis mode and then go back to their departments and look for anything that is anywhere in the departments in December 1999, we were able to get the kind of information we needed to stop the attacks."

Rice clearly stated that it was an alert Customs Agent that caught the Millenium Bomber. That Customs and Border agents had not been put on alert. The "shaking the trees" meetings had nothing to do with it.

I remember seeing a TV news story profiling the Agent that spotted the bomber. The media won't even go back into their archives if it hurts Clarke and the Dems or helps Bush.
35 posted on 04/08/2004 12:19:13 PM PDT by GeorgiaYankee (Friends don't let friends vote Democrat!)
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To: finnman69
She didn't ADMIT anything.
I've had it with these liars, it's time for a REAL document dump.
36 posted on 04/08/2004 12:19:26 PM PDT by MamaLucci (Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
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To: Lost Highway
John Dean was bought and paid for a looong time ago.
37 posted on 04/08/2004 12:20:07 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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To: finnman69
Al Qaeda was mentioned 40 times in the briefings. 13 times were responses to questions by the President. Any information they had was too generic to cause more alerts than had already been raised. She added the rest of the context to his memo that he used to say that he warned them. He was warning her to watch out for the Department heads saying they would help, but not actually helping. (We don't want to see bodies in the street...) If, at any time, he felt that the President needed more information, the open door policy allowed him to bring his concerns forward. He could have requested a meeting at any time, but did not.
38 posted on 04/08/2004 12:23:25 PM PDT by Ingtar (Understanding is a three-edged sword : your side, my side, and the truth in between ." -- Kosh)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
And his current business partner Roger Cressey, and formerly on his staff while employed by the government, is employed a consultant to MSNBC.

39 posted on 04/08/2004 12:23:56 PM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: EternalHope
You left out traitor and paid consultant to ABC News.

Isn't that the same thing?!?
40 posted on 04/08/2004 12:24:25 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg
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