What was this about an email...Clarke and Condi...?

[imax2268]

I caught the tail end of something on CNN about an email between Condi and Clarke...

Can anyone elaborate more on that...?

[Blasphemer]

1. A link:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040324/ap_on_go_pr_wh/clarke_white_house_3

"Rice, in a meeting with reporters, released a Sept. 15, 2001, e-mail Clarke sent to her that said: "When the era of national unity begins to crack in the near future, it is possible that some will start asking questions like did the White House do a good job of making sure that intelligence about terrorist threats got to the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and other domestic law enforcement authorities."


He attached an earlier memo from before Sept. 11 in which Clarke warned such agencies that "a spectacular al-Qaida terrorist attack was coming in the near future."


"Thus, the White House did insure that domestic law enforcement ... knew that (his office) believed that a major al-Qaida attack was coming and it could be in the U.S.," Clarke's e-mail said.


She suggested that e-mail was self-serving, and conflicted with other more recent assertions by Clarke.

[readmylips]

2. The memo was URGENT...

Condi...flipped her hair and said she's too busy going on vacation, and didn't answer the urgent memo until 3 months after. But no substance was attacked to condi's answer.