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Re: Condi "CYA" Rice Calls Condi "CYA" Rice a Lair |
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:46:36 -0800, "yang AthD \(h.c\)"
<eacmole@SPAMmail.com>, Message ID: <6uWdndC9SeIBcPXdRVn-ug@comcast.com>
wrote in alt.atheism;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25177-2004Mar25.html?referrer%3Demailarticle
"The president wanted more than a laundry list of ideas simply to contain al
Qaeda or 'roll back' the threat...[Clarke's Plans] ...had been already tried
or rejected in the Clinton administration."
-Condi "CYA" Rice
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/4679302.html
Condoleezza Rice: Bush acted fast to protect U.S.
Condoleezza Rice
Published
The Al-Qaida terrorist network posed a threat to the United States for
almost a decade before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Throughout that
period -- during the eight years of the Clinton administration and the
first eight months of the Bush administration prior to Sept. 11 -- the
U.S. government worked hard to counter the Al-Qaida threat.
During the transition, President-elect Bush's national security team was
briefed on the Clinton administration's efforts to deal with Al-Qaida.
The seriousness of the threat was well understood by the president and
his national security principals. In response to my request for a
presidential initiative, the counterterrorism team, which we had held
over from the Clinton administration, suggested several ideas, some of
which had been around since 1998 but had not been adopted. No Al-Qaida
plan was turned over to the new administration.
We adopted several of these ideas. We committed more funding to
counterterrorism and intelligence efforts. We increased efforts to go
after Al-Qaida's finances. We increased American support for anti-terror
activities in Uzbekistan.
We pushed hard to arm the Predator unmanned aerial vehicle so we could
target terrorists with greater precision. But the Predator was designed
to conduct surveillance, not carry weapons. Arming it presented many
technical challenges and required extensive testing. Military and
intelligence officials agreed that the armed Predator was simply not
ready for deployment before the fall of 2001. In any case, the Predator
was not a silver bullet that could have destroyed Al-Qaida or stopped
Sept. 11.
We also considered a modest spring 2001 increase in funding for the
Northern Alliance. At that time, the Northern Alliance was clearly not
going to sweep across Afghanistan and dispose of Al-Qaida. It had been
battered by defeat and held less than 10 percent of the country. Only
the addition of American air power, with U.S. special forces and
intelligence officers on the ground, allowed the Northern Alliance its
historic military advances in late 2001. We folded this idea into our
broader strategy of arming tribes throughout Afghanistan to defeat the
Taliban.
Let us be clear. Even their most ardent advocates did not contend that
these ideas, even taken together, would have destroyed Al-Qaida. We
judged that the collection of ideas presented to us were insufficient
for the strategy President Bush sought. The president wanted more than a
laundry list of ideas simply to contain Al-Qaida or "roll back" the
threat. Once in office, we quickly began crafting a comprehensive new
strategy to "eliminate" the Al-Qaida network. The president wanted more
than occasional, retaliatory cruise missile strikes. He told me he was
"tired of swatting flies."
Through the spring and summer of 2001, the national security team
developed a strategy to eliminate Al-Qaida -- which was expected to take
years. Our strategy marshaled all elements of national power to take
down the network, not just respond to individual attacks with law
enforcement measures. Our plan called for military options to attack
Al-Qaida and Taliban leadership, ground forces and other targets --
taking the fight to the enemy where he lived. It focused on the crucial
link between Al-Qaida and the Taliban. We would attempt to compel the
Taliban to stop giving Al-Qaida sanctuary -- and if it refused, we would
have sufficient military options to remove the Taliban regime. The
strategy focused on the key role of Pakistan in this effort and the need
to get Pakistan to drop its support of the Taliban. This became the
first major foreign-policy strategy document of the Bush administration
-- not Iraq, not the ABM Treaty, but eliminating Al-Qaida.
Before Sept. 11, we closely monitored threats to our nation. President
Bush revived the practice of meeting with the director of the CIA every
day -- meetings that I attended. And I personally met with George Tenet
regularly and frequently reviewed aspects of the counterterror effort.
Through the summer, increasing intelligence "chatter" focused almost
exclusively on potential attacks overseas. Nonetheless, we asked for any
indication of domestic threats and directed our counterterrorism team to
coordinate with domestic agencies to adopt protective measures. The FBI
and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) alerted airlines, airports
and local authorities, warning of potential attacks on Americans.
Despite what some have suggested, we received no intelligence that
terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as
missiles, though some analysts speculated that terrorists might hijack
airplanes to try to free U.S.-held terrorists. The FAA even issued a
warning to airlines and aviation security personnel that "the potential
for a terrorist operation, such as an airline hijacking to free
terrorists incarcerated in the United States, remains a concern."
We now know that the real threat had been in the United States since at
least 1999. The plot to attack New York and Washington had been hatching
for nearly two years. According to the FBI, by June 2001 16 of the 19
hijackers were already here. Even if we had known exactly where Osama
bin Laden was, and the armed Predator had been available to strike him,
the Sept. 11 hijackers almost certainly would have carried out their
plan. So, too, if the Northern Alliance had somehow managed to topple
the Taliban, the Sept. 11 hijackers were here in America -- not in
Afghanistan.
President Bush has acted swiftly to unify and streamline our efforts to
secure the American homeland. He has transformed the FBI into an agency
dedicated to catching terrorists and preventing future attacks. The
president and Congress, through the USA Patriot Act, have broken down
the legal and bureaucratic walls that prior to Sept. 11 hampered
intelligence and law enforcement agencies from collecting and sharing
vital threat information. Those who now argue for rolling back the
Patriot Act's changes invite us to forget the important lesson we
learned on Sept. 11.
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, the president, like all
Americans, wanted to know who was responsible. It would have been
irresponsible not to ask a question about all possible links, including
to Iraq -- a nation that had supported terrorism and had tried to kill a
former president. Once advised that there was no evidence that Iraq was
responsible for Sept. 11, the president told his National Security
Council on Sept. 17 that Iraq was not on the agenda and that the initial
U.S. response to Sept. 11 would be to target Al-Qaida and the Taliban in
Afghanistan.
Because of President Bush's vision and leadership, our nation is safer.
We have won battles in the war on terror, but the war is far from over.
However long it takes, this great nation will prevail.
Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, wrote this article for
the Washington Post.
(c) 2004 Star Tribune
"He sent us a set of ideas that would perhaps help to roll back al Qaeda
over a three- to five-year period; we acted on those ideas very quickly. And
what's very interesting is that . . . ***** Clarke now says that we ignored
his ideas or we didn't follow them
-Condi "CYA" Rice, Two Days Later
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0326-07.htm
Published on Friday, March 26, 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle
In Rush to Defend White House, Rice Trips Over Own Words
by Walter Pincus, Dana Milbank
WASHINGTON -- This week's testimony and media blitz by former White
House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke has returned unwanted
attention to his former boss, national security adviser Condoleezza
Rice.
The refusal by President Bush's top security aide to testify publicly
before the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks elicited
rebukes by commission members as they held open hearings this week.
Thomas Kean, the former New Jersey governor Bush named to be chairman of
the commission, said: "I think this administration shot itself in the
foot by not letting her testify in public."
At the same time, some of Rice's rebuttals of Clarke's broadside against
Bush, which she delivered in a flurry of media interviews and statements
rather than in testimony, contradicted other administration officials
and her own previous statements.
Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage contradicted Rice's claim
that the White House had a strategy before Sept. 11 for military
operations against al Qaeda and the Taliban. The CIA contradicted Rice's
earlier assertion that Bush had requested a CIA briefing in the summer
of 2001 because of elevated terrorist threats. And Rice's assertion this
week that Bush had told her on Sept. 16, 2001, that "Iraq is to the
side" appeared to be contradicted by an order signed by Bush on Sept. 17
directing the Pentagon to begin planning military options for an
invasion of Iraq.
Rice, in turn, has contradicted Vice President ***** Cheney's assertion
that Clarke was "out of the loop" and his intimation that Clarke had
been demoted. Rice has also given various conflicting accounts. She
criticized Clarke for being the architect of failed Clinton
administration policies, but also said she had retained Clarke so the
Bush administration could continue to pursue Clinton's terrorism
policies.
National Security Council spokesman Sean McCormack defended many of
Rice's assertions, saying that she had been more consistent than Clarke.
Rice so far has refused to provide testimony under oath to the
commission that could possibly resolve the contradictions. Wednesday
night, she told reporters, "I would like nothing better in a sense than
to be able to go up and do this, but I have a responsibility to maintain
what is a long-standing constitutional separation between the executive
and the legislative branch."
The White House, reacting to the public relations difficulties caused by
the refusal to allow Rice's testimony, asked the commission Thursday to
give Rice another opportunity to speak privately with panel members to
address "mischaracterizations of Dr. Rice's statements and positions."
Democratic commission member Richard Ben-Veniste disclosed this week
that Rice had asked, in her private meetings with the commission, to
revise a statement she made publicly that "I don't think anybody could
have predicted that those people could have taken an airplane and slam
it into the World Trade Center ... that they would try to use an
airplane as a missile." Rice told the commission that she had misspoken;
the commission has received information that prior to Sept. 11, U.S.
intelligence agencies, and Clarke, had talked about terrorists using
airplanes as missiles.
In an op-ed essay Monday in the Washington Post, Rice wrote that
"through the spring and summer of 2001, the national security team
developed a strategy to eliminate" al Qaeda that included "sufficient
military options to remove the Taliban regime" including the use of
ground forces.
But Armitage, testifying this week as the White House representative,
said the military part was not in the plan before Sept. 11. "I think
that was amended after the horror of 9/11," he said. McCormack said
Rice's statement was accurate because the team had discussed including
orders for such military plans to be drawn up.
In the same article, Rice belittled Clarke's proposals by writing: "The
president wanted more than a laundry list of ideas simply to contain al
Qaeda or 'roll back' the threat. Once in office, we quickly began
crafting a comprehensive new strategy to 'eliminate' the al Qaeda
network." Rice asserted that while Clarke and others provided ideas, "No
al Qaeda plan was turned over to the new administration." That same day,
she said most of Clarke's ideas "had been already tried or rejected in
the Clinton administration."
But in her interview with NBC two days later, Rice appeared to take a
different view of Clarke's proposals. "He sent us a set of ideas that
would perhaps help to roll back al Qaeda over a three- to five-year
period; we acted on those ideas very quickly. And what's very
interesting is that ... ***** Clarke now says that we ignored his ideas,
or we didn't follow them up."
Asked about this apparent discrepancy, McCormack pointed a reporter to a
Clarke background briefing in 2002 in which the then-White House aide
was defending the president's efforts in fighting terrorism.
©2004 San Francisco Chronicle
Stoney
"Designated Rascal and Rapscallion
and
SCAMPERMEISTER!"
When in doubt, SCAMPER about!
When things are fair, SCAMPER everywhere!
When things are rough, can't SCAMPER enough!
/end humour alert
alt.atheism military veteran #11
{so much for the 'no atheists in foxholes' rubbish}
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