More than two years after the worst terrorist attack in history, the President still does not understand the threat we confront, say security experts IVO DAALDER and JAMES LINDSAY
By IVO DAALDER and JAMES LINDSAY
Friday, March 26, 2004 - Page A17
This, by any measure, was Richard Clarke's week. The former counterterrorism czar roiled Washington and the nation with his accusation that U.S. President George W. Bush had failed to understand the threat al-Qaeda posed to the United States before Sept. 11, and bungled the U.S. response afterward. It was a stinging indictment of the Bush presidency, delivered with stiletto precision. And the impassioned response from White House showed that it hurt.
Trust Clarke