It was reported that during the transition between the Clinton and Bush administrations, outgoing National Security Adviser Sandy Berger arranged 10 briefings for his successor, Condi Rice, and her deputy, Stephen Hadley.
Mr. Berger made a point to attend the briefing on terrorism, and he told the Bushies: "I believe that the Bush administration will spend more time on terrorism in general, and on al Qaeda specifically, than any other subject."
You might think that such a dire warning would have spurned the new administration into action, but it did not.
On January 25, 2001, just days after the new administration took office, White House counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke (who has served multiple presidents) sent a memo to National Security Adviser Condi Rice, "urgently" asking for a principles-level meeting to discuss Al Qaeda.
He was rebuffed in his request, but FINALLY got his meeting on September 4, just days before 9/11.
Read the de-classified memo from Richard Clarke to Condi Rice here:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB147/clarke%20memo.pdfOther Links:
http://www.avatara.com/operationignore0.htmlhttp://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001120http://amysrobot.com/archives/2004/03/transcript_of_r.phpFor our friends on the other side of the aisle, this is part of the REAL "path to 9/11."
I wonder if that will be in ABC's right-wing propagandist "docudrama?"
But that's just me!