Berger: "More time on terrorism in general, and on Al Qaeda specifically"

[journalist3072]

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.pdf

Other Links:

http://amysrobot.com/archives/2004/03/transcript_of_r.php
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001120
http://www.avatara.com/operationignore0.html


For 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!

[Roland99]

1. Amount of time devoted to discussion of this in the Liberal Media?

0 seconds.

[journalist3072]

3. Exactly! And that is a very sad commentary on the state of today's media.

[eccles12]

2. Sandy should sue ABC. There must be someone out there with enough money

and guts to help him sue the pants off Disney. It's not like ABC hasn't been warned and is ignorant of the facts.

[journalist3072]

4. You hit the nail on the head with your point that ABC knows

that the facts are not correct on this.

Libel can be a tough thing to prove, b/c many times, you have to show that it was intentional.

And it really does make you wonder if ABC is intentially trying to slander the Clinton administration, by putting this garbage on the air that they know is factually incorrect.