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Jim Alder wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/p6du5

In response to Clinton's claim that the Bush Administration did
nothing to try and get Bin Laden, Rice shot back: "The notion
somehow for eight months the Bush administration sat there and
didn't do that is just flatly false and I think the 9/11
commission understood that. What we did in the eight months was
at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in
the preceding years." OK .. so now we have two sides to THAT
story. Who to believe? The man disbarred from the practice of law
because of perjury, or Condi Rice?

.....

As for Bill Clinton's statement that he left behind a
comprehensive terror strategy, that too was exposed as a lie. "We
were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al Qaeda."

Poor, suffering Republi-shills:

First there is the Memo to Rice (dated January 25, 2001):


"Clarke's memo requests an immediate meeting of the National Security
Council's Principals Committee to discuss broad strategies for
combating al-Qaeda by giving counterterrorism aid to the Northern
Alliance and Uzbekistan, expanding the counterterrorism budget and
responding to the U.S.S. Cole attack. Despite Clarke's request, there
was no Principals Committee meeting on al-Qaeda until September 4,
2001. "
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB147/index.htm


then there is the attachment:


"Also attached to the original Clarke memo are two Clinton-era
documents relating to al-Qaeda. The first, "Tab A December 2000 Paper:
Strategy for Eliminating the Threat from the Jihadist Networks of
al-Qida: Status and Prospects," was released to the National Security
Archive along with the Clarke memo."
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB147/clarke%20attachment.pdf


This attachment is a 13 page outline of required actions that is
remarkably similar to the actual plans carried out by the panic
stricken Bush administration in the wake of 9/11.

Then why didn't President Clifford act on these recommendations rather

just passing them on to the next president?

She
would know. And what about Bill Clinton's statement that George
W. Bush demoted Richard Clarke...the country's best guy on
terrorism? Rice shot that down, too: "Richard Clarke was the
counterterrorism czar when 9/11 happened. And he left when he did
not become deputy director of homeland security, some several
months later." So there you have it.

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