In 1999, Richard Clarke cited gains against bin Laden; "We've made life difficult for him"

The Washington Post Archives | January 23, 1999 | Vernon Loeb

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Approximately 2 years before USS Cole was attacked, Richard Clarke boasted of counterterrorism gains made against bin Laden, and how bin Laden had been made all but impotent thanks to him and Clinton in this 1999 article from the Post archives:

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Richard A. Clarke, who occupies the recently created post of national coordinator of counterterrorism and computer security programs, also said U.S. officials do not believe that bin Laden, a Saudi millionaire now living in the mountains of Afghanistan, has acquired chemical or biological weapons despite his contacts with experts in the production of nerve gas and biological toxins.

"I think we've made life extraordinarily difficult for [bin Laden], but he's still there," Clarke said. "I think it is very difficult for him and his lieutenants to travel. I think it's very difficult for them to raise money or move money or move explosives."

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Assessing U.S. counterterrorism policy to date, Clarke said it's no accident that there have been so few terrorist attacks on American soil.

"The fact that we got seven out of the eight people from the World Trade Center [bombing], and we found them in five countries around the world and brought them back here, the fact we can demonstrate repeatedly that the slogan, `There's nowhere to hide,' is more than a slogan, the fact that we don't forget, we're persistent -- we get them -- has deterred terrorism," he said.

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Freepmail me for full article.

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PING

[NormsRevenge]

1999 .. 5 years ago.. wow

My my,, How times change people..

[Sacajaweau]

Uh huh....Really Dick? So now it's a matter that has been taken care of...according to my interpretation. Usama just exists....unable to do anything!! Uh huh!!

[Enterprise]

"I think we've made life extraordinarily difficult for [bin Laden], but he's still there," Clarke said. "I think it is very difficult for him and his lieutenants to travel. I think it's very difficult for them to raise money or move money or move explosives."

What an arrogant moron. No wonder they struck two years later. So Moron Clarke, what did the Cartoon Administration do to correct the "structural" problems?

[TexasCajun]

Good Job, Again!

[FairOpinion]

You've been doing a great job in unearthing all this!

E-mail it to Rush and Hannity too.

[LADY J]

Send it to Condi and GW!!

[Dog]

You are on a roll today..

[Howlin]

FYI!

[Right_in_Virginia]

You're doing a great service....thank you!

[A CA Guy]

We just know this will show up in the Clarke movie for sure...NOT!

[Registered]

[FreedomPoster]

Bravo, sir! bump.

[Enterprise]

LOL !!!

[Ann Archy]

Mission Accomplished, eh Dickster??

[BlessedByLiberty]

Thank you!

I think you all just want to keep our little fingers busy this weekend emailing everyone. This information knifes any credibility the Partisan Press tried to give Clark as an all knowing expert in the terrorism field.

From another thread I wrote:
It becomes abundantly clear that Clark was a career bureaucrat and the Clinton Regime used his inflated sense of self-importance to put paid to any real government reform or reorganization.

Ultimately, the same media who built Clark up will destroy him as the fall guy for the Clintons. He is not savvy enough to understand that when Ben Veniste Gorelick 60 Mins & Partisan Press outlets praise you, they are using you for their own ends and that of the Clintons.

He is the designated fall guy for the Clinton negligence and alas his self-absorbtion never allowed him to see it.

[GraniteStateConservative]

That is damn funny. Good job.

[Gritty]

Yup. The clinton maladministration sure made it tough on on bin Laden!

It's pretty obvious Clarke was even in 1999 a self-aggrandizing b@st@rd. No wonder he fit in so well in with the clintons. They were all walking around at the time puffing on big cigars and congratulating themselves how they had fooled everybody for seven years were still getting away with it!