Clarke To 9/11 Comm:"prior to 9/11, people within the FBI knew [9/11] hijackers were in the country"

CNN ^ | 5/19/2004 | staff

[Southack]

Clarke: Bush didn't see terrorism as 'urgent'

9/11 panel hears from Berger, Tenet

Wednesday, May 19, 2004 Posted: 1:16 AM EDT (0516 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush's former counterterrorism chief testified Wednesday that the administration did not consider terrorism an urgent priority before the September 11, 2001, attacks, despite his repeated warnings about Osama bin Laden's terror network.

"I believe the Bush administration in the first eight months considered terrorism an important issue, but not an urgent issue," Richard Clarke told a commission investigating the September 11 attacks.

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He said that prior to 9/11, people within the FBI knew that two of the 19 hijackers were in the country, but that information never made its way up to the highest levels of power.

[FReethesheeples]

Clarke: 8 years as terrorism advisor to Clinton, during 4 Al Q'aeda-Osama bin Laden-terrorism attacks (WTC I, Cole, 2 US Embassy bombings, and another), 8 months on NSC with Bush. You be the judge.

[Southack]

Right now the 9/11 Commission members are claiming that they didn't believe the two intel officers about Able Danger identifying 4 of the 9/11/01 hijackers in 1999 and 2000.

The article for this thread demonstrates that the 9/11 Commission was ALSO told by Clarke himself in public testimony about the FBI identifying two of those hijackers prior to 9/11/01.

So the 9/11 commission is attempting to claim that its most trusted Clintonite, Richard Clarke, and the two U.S. intel officers, were all untrustworthy as to their claims about some of Al Qaeda's 9/11 cell being identified prior to 9/11.

That dog won't hunt.

The 9/11 Commission knew.

No fewer than 3 credible government employees told the 9/11 Commission about identifying the hijackers prior to 9/11.

The 9/11 Commission spiked those facts.

[Cougar66]

Exactly. Before long they will be saying Bush carried Atta's bags thru the airport while that fat pig Clinton and moron administration of his let them run loose through America for 8 years.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Dynamite!!!!

Now which of the Sunday Talk Shows will try to handle this one!!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[turbocat]

The article for this thread demonstrates that the 9/11 Commission was ALSO told by Clarke himself in public testimony about the FBI identifying two of those hijackers prior to 9/11/01.

That's is most interesting and important. They want to discount the witnesses AND clark - uh, connect the dots, people! They just plain decided to bury it.