btw, Clarke, Beers, and Mary McCarthy were three of the top counter-terrorism officials in the country, all in the NSC, in the period 1999-2001. It can truly and fairly be said that the 9/11 plots developed on THEIR watch and that THEIR failings had more to do with it than anyone in the Bush team who'd only had a few months in office and had to deal with the (then) Democratic Senate not confirming important national security appointees, etc.
That needs to be repeated many, many times!
1,261 posted on 04/21/2006 9:54:49 PM PDT by twntaipan
(John McCain: Your 15 minutes of fame were up long, long ago.)