http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/26/95600.shtmlHouse Intel Chair: Clarke Is 'Lying'
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is accusing former White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke of flat-out "lying" in his sworn testimony this week before the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks.
"Clarke’s testimony to our committee is 180 degrees out of line with what he is saying in his book," Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., told Roll Call yesterday. "He’s either lying in his book or he lied to our committee. It’s one or the other."
Clarke's testimony before the 9/11 Commission mirrored the blistering portrait in his book, where he painted the Bush administration as asleep at the wheel in the war on terrorism.
"If he was lying to a congressional committee, he's got a big problem here," Goss warned....(snip)