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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

Posted on 04/10/2004 2:20:42 PM PDT by nwrep

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.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1999; binladen; clarke; richardclarke
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1 posted on 04/10/2004 2:20:43 PM PDT by nwrep
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2 posted on 04/10/2004 2:22:20 PM PDT by nwrep
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1999 .. 5 years ago.. wow

My my,, How times change people..
4 posted on 04/10/2004 2:24:49 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi Mac ... Become a FR Monthly Donor ... Kerry thread archive @ /~normsrevenge)
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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!!
5 posted on 04/10/2004 2:25:16 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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"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?

6 posted on 04/10/2004 2:26:14 PM PDT by Enterprise
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Good Job, Again!
7 posted on 04/10/2004 2:29:53 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: nwrep
You've been doing a great job in unearthing all this!

E-mail it to Rush and Hannity too.
8 posted on 04/10/2004 2:30:23 PM PDT by FairOpinion (If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
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Send it to Condi and GW!!
9 posted on 04/10/2004 2:31:58 PM PDT by LADY J
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You are on a roll today..
10 posted on 04/10/2004 2:34:16 PM PDT by Dog
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FYI!
11 posted on 04/10/2004 2:37:05 PM PDT by Howlin
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You're doing a great service....thank you!
12 posted on 04/10/2004 2:37:52 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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We just know this will show up in the Clarke movie for sure...NOT!
13 posted on 04/10/2004 2:37:56 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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14 posted on 04/10/2004 2:38:15 PM PDT by Registered
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Bravo, sir! bump.
15 posted on 04/10/2004 2:41:09 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (This space intentionally blank)
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LOL !!!
16 posted on 04/10/2004 2:41:26 PM PDT by Enterprise
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Mission Accomplished, eh Dickster??
17 posted on 04/10/2004 2:45:39 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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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.
18 posted on 04/10/2004 2:48:51 PM PDT by BlessedByLiberty (Respectfully submitted,)
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That is damn funny. Good job.
19 posted on 04/10/2004 3:00:50 PM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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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!

20 posted on 04/10/2004 3:14:32 PM PDT by Gritty ("John Kerry's hip-hop foreign policy: Ask the multilateral gang what's hip, and hop to it-Mark Steyn)
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