It's his 9/11 commission testimony from yesterday that will be found to be false.
Either way, Bush wins.
Posted yesterday...Someone mentioned on talk radio that what we need to do is prove that Clarke's 2002 statement is correct in reference to the "five-fold" increase in funding for the CIA. I have been searching, but most documents I have found state that the CIA budget is "secret". However, I did find this:
The FY 2002 Intelligence Budget: A Five-Year Plan
The budget request submitted by the President includes a substantial increase for programs funded in the National Foreign Intelligence Program. The Committee believes this funding increase should represent the first installment of a five-year effort to correct serious deficiencies that have developed over the past decade in the Intelligence Community.
In this budget, the Committee seeks to highlight four priority areas that must receive significant attention in the near term if intelligence is to fulfill its role in our national security strategy. Those are:
Revitalizing the National Security Agency (NSA)Source (warning: slow loading .pdf file)Correcting deficiencies in human intelligence
Addressing the imbalance between intelligence collection and analysis, and
Rebuilding a robust research and development program.
The budget lays out a five-year plan for addressing each of these areas.
According to the articles I have found, the budget blueprint was unveiled by Bush in Feb 2001. The above linked article shows that Congress did not act on it until Sep 14 2001.
I am doing another search again today, since I accidentally found out where the CIA funding is listed in the budget right before I had to sign off yesterday. One of those "If I told you...I'd have to kill you" things, LOL!