Live Thread - September 11 Commission, Day 2, Wednesday, March 24, 2004

CSPAN 3, CBS webfeed ^ | March 24, 2004

[prairiebreeze]

Clarke isn't having to defend anything at all so far...

[areafiftyone]

I hope you have virus software. Thank god I am at work and we are on a network with good virus software!

[js1138]

That's why you have to be careful. The location of the error was correct, but the diagnosis was flawed.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Actually Abu Nidal took care of himself. Committed suicide.

[cinFLA]

Deleted.

[PISANO]

Should NOT be surprising to you though....it was been pre-ordained this would happen. Because it ALWAYS does!

[SanDiegoBushMan]

I clipped this out of a Reuters story. Wasn't Kerrey refering to Clinton plan when he made the comment below? If so Reuters surely didn't make that clear.

Commission member Bob Kerrey, a former Democratic senator, zeroed in on what he said were severe shortcomings in the plan adopted by the Bush administration to fight bin Laden's al Qaeda organization just days before Sept. 11.


"I was briefed this morning on that plan. I would say fortunately for the administration it's classified because there's almost nothing in it," he said.

[Dr Snide]

oh my god, ABC news top of the hour update fawns all over Clarke for his "passionate opening" where he apologized to the victim's families then goes right to Clinton administration seeing terrorism as urgent and Bush not so urgent with NO MENTION of the tape. The fix is in. Big shock.

[areafiftyone]

Good. What a Sicko!

[Kaslin]

er...actually, Switzerland DOES share a border with Germany

Correct.

[StarFan]

Sheesh, why can't Fox simply wait until after his testimony so as to not force me to switch to CNN.

[Carolinamom]

Clarke, 30 years veteran of sucking on the govt. teat, is the consummate bureaucrat.

[BigSkyFreeper]

That post was pulled before I saw it. LOL

[texasbluebell]

Has there ever been an administration that has had to deal with so many real crises yet had so much resistance from the other party? Never.

How I long for the old days when politics stopped at the borders. Where would we be today if the govt had to face this during WWII?

[boxerblues]

works firewall blocked the link, all I got was a bunch of blocked popups

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Terrorism not urgent issue for Bush administration before Sept. 11, former adviser testifies -AP Breaking News
HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer
(03-24) 11:01 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government's former top counterterrorism adviser testified Wednesday that the Clinton administration had "no higher priority" than combatting terrorists while the Bush administration made it "...[snip]

[Peach]

I know, prairie. sigh

Considering the opening, I'm wondering if AS A COMMITTEE, it was decided they would proceed as though FNC never played a tape of Clarke's contrasting words.

[eyespysomething]

Yeah, quick to hit the link. Thank goodness for virus protection!! lol

[rwfromkansas]

What broke this morning?

[Diogenesis]

"This guy is a moron."

And then some.