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Good find! There's some very interesting material in this article - the passage below caught my eye, since it blatantly contradicts the entire MSM and Democrat theme of "Bush failed in 2001" and "the Clinton WH was just sooooo on top of these issues".......now the question is, how could Bill Clinton, Sandy Burglar, and Burglar's deputy James Steinberg claim to NEVER have known of the great "Plan Delenda" that Clarke developed for use against Al Qaeda in 1998????? Are they simply lying (likely) and did Burglar deep-six any info about this???? How could Clarke have what he considered to be a comprehensive counter-terrorism plan in 1998 and Clinton, Burglar, and Steinberg tell the 9/11 Commission they knew nothing about it????

"We had seen, for example, an elaborate plan called "Plan Delenda" that was developed by Clarke in 1998. (As our staff statement explained, "the term 'Delenda' is from the Latin 'to destroy,' evoking the famous Roman vow to erase rival Carthage.") It outlined a program of active measures against Al Qaeda. In his private and public testimony for the commission, Clarke made much of this plan. But we found that neither President Clinton nor any individual high up in his administration, including Sandy Berger and his deputy James Steinberg, recalled ever having heard of "Plan Delenda.""