[Mark Felton]

Clarke perjured himself in the 9/11 cmte hearings. He deliberately passed the responsibility to the FBI.

[The G Man]

[Rutles4Ever]

I wait with baited breath for Michael Moore's retraction and subsequent "Farenheit 451" tribute to the negatives for "Farenheit 911".

Will this lead on Larry King tonight?

[Howlin]

You better read his testimony again. He claimed responsibility for this on 60 Minutes. These people aren't paying attention.

[Teplukin]

Interesting. Folks tried to blame this incident on President Bush, and the fact that his family are friends with the Saudi Royal Family. Obviously, President Bush was not responsible at all.

Many thanks for alerting folks to yet another unfair criticism of our President!

[Cicero]

Well, obviously the media will not publicize this. They were all set to go with another big propaganda campaign, but now they will kill it, and Farenheit 911 will not have media support on this particular issue.

If the liberal media hadn't put in so much effort making Clarke a hero just a few weeks ago, they could demonize him now. But it's a bit late to change gears on him so dramatically.

They outfoxed themselves.

[adam_az]

It's all here

http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/flight.htm

[Mo1]

“They asked the question ‘Who authorized the flight?’ and I said I did not know and I’d try to find out,” Hamilton said. “I learned subsequently from talking to the staff that we thought Clarke authorized the flight and it did not go higher.”

I'll bet this Commission has to ask their staff when the have to go to the bathroom

[Triple]

How did the request (for the Bin Laden family to leave while flights were grounded) get to Clark?

Did the Clinton's call him, or was it through more normal channels?

[F.J. Mitchell]

The same Clarke who wrote that Bible, so often refrensed by the members of the 9/11 Commission, Perjured himself?

(gasp!)Is nothing sacred anymore?

[samtheman]

Clarke’s claim of responsibility is likely to put an end to a brewing political controversy on Capitol Hill over who approved the controversial flights of members of the Saudi elite ...

Really? Why won't it raise more questions than it answers, the way these things always do with the left-wing anti-American press?

(Just curious how this is different.)

[slimer]

Referring to questions about who authorized the flights, former Rep. Tim Roemer (D-Ind.), one of the 10 members of the bipartisan (BS) Sept. 11 commission,

Where's the can of BS repellant? If it this was funny it would be a joke. It's not at all funny so it's just plain BULLSH!T!

[Destro]

Your positions are that its ok that these Bin Laden's were flown out? Or that it is not ok that the Bin Ladens were flown out but the blame is not on Bush?

By the way I am not comfortable at all with any American leader being friendly with Saudi Royals - doing business with them in a matter of fact manner? Yes - business is business - Being buddy buddy with these spawn of Satan? No.

[cgk]

“It’s very funny that people on the Hill are now trying to second-guess the FBI investigation.”

Welcome to the party, Dick.

[StAnDeliver]

“I did not at any point say the White House was stalling,” Hamilton added. “They asked me who authorized it, and I said we didn’t know.”

Hamilton said, however, that “we asked the question of who authorized the flight many times to many people.”

Hamilton is getting p l a y e d by Clinton's goons on the Commission, and is old enough to know better. What a shame.

[take]

Former NSA chief named to CompuDyne board
Hanover-based CompuDyne has nominated former National Security Agency head Mike McConnell to its board of directors.


Shareholders in the public security technology company will vote on the nomination at the firm's annual meeting Thursday.

McConnell is a vice president and director of Booz Allen Hamilton's Infrastructure Assurance Center of Excellence, where he leads the firm's assignments in information operations and military intelligence in such areas as systems development, advanced analytics and transformation.

McConnell was director of the NSA from 1992 to 1996. He served as the intelligence officer for the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Operation Desert Storm.

[onehipdad]

This new account of the events seemed to contradict Clarke’s sworn testimony before the Sept. 11 commission at the end of March about who approved the flights.

Learned well under his old boss, didn't he??

[Southack]

The real scandal outlined in this article is that the Democrats will clearly *drop* this line of questioning since it ends at Clarke...but were obviously going to splash it all over everywhere if President Bush had anything to do with that decision to permit the Bin Laden's to leave the country.

It's a classic double-standard. If their guy does it, then there is no issue. If our guy does it, then it is a scandal.

[Saundra Duffy]

Clarke said yesterday that the furor over the flights of Saudi citizens is much ado about nothing.

The darling of the left just crapped on 'em.

[CFC__VRWC]

This probably won't change anything. Clarke's admission will be rammed down the memory hole by the media. At the same time, the ravings of "Bush got his buddies the bin Ladens out of the country" put forth by the leftist conspiracy mongers like Mikey Moore will be dutifully echoed over and over again between now and November. Only after the elction is safely over will the media "discover" Clarke's admission of responsibility.

[GOPJ]

Liberals like Clarke. This won't be a big story.

Had Rumsfelt approved the flights, we'd never hear the end of it. Double standard? Bet on it.

Richard Clarke, who served as President Bush’s chief of counterterrorism, has claimed sole responsibility for approving flights of Saudi Arabian citizens, including members of Osama bin Laden’s family, from the United States immediately after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.