Panamah
10-09-2006, 01:52 PM
Osama Bin Missing: Who's Tried Hardest to Tackle Top Terrorist? (http://factcheck.org/article444.html)
It's about the finger jabbing interview between Clinton and Wallace.
I'm still reading it.
Heh... well, lets just say, Factcheck.org agrees with me, Rice was "False" when saying they weren't left with a plan.
Rice: We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al Qaeda.
False: Rice's statement is not supported by the 9/11 Report, which describes the plans Clarke drew up and says they were conveyed to Bush's aides, as we noted earlier. The 9/11 Report says that as the Clinton Administration drew to a close in December 2000, Clarke and his staff developed a policy paper on eliminating the al Qaeda threat, "the first such comprehensive effort" since a 1998 plan known as Delenda (p. 197). The Report also says (p. 201): "After Rice requested that all senior staff identify desirable major policy reviews or initiatives, Clarke submitted an elaborate memorandum on January 25, 2001. He attached to it his 1998 Delenda Plan and the December 2000 strategy paper."
Clarke is emphatic about the matter, telling interviewer Charlie Rose on Sept. 28, 2006:
Clarke: The Clinton Administration in the last month, in December of 2000, asked us to develop a comprehensive plan that we could hand off to the Bush Administration that had a military attack plan, that had an intelligence attack plan. It had diplomatic steps. It had economic steps. It was a comprehensive plan.
It's about the finger jabbing interview between Clinton and Wallace.
I'm still reading it.
Heh... well, lets just say, Factcheck.org agrees with me, Rice was "False" when saying they weren't left with a plan.
Rice: We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al Qaeda.
False: Rice's statement is not supported by the 9/11 Report, which describes the plans Clarke drew up and says they were conveyed to Bush's aides, as we noted earlier. The 9/11 Report says that as the Clinton Administration drew to a close in December 2000, Clarke and his staff developed a policy paper on eliminating the al Qaeda threat, "the first such comprehensive effort" since a 1998 plan known as Delenda (p. 197). The Report also says (p. 201): "After Rice requested that all senior staff identify desirable major policy reviews or initiatives, Clarke submitted an elaborate memorandum on January 25, 2001. He attached to it his 1998 Delenda Plan and the December 2000 strategy paper."
Clarke is emphatic about the matter, telling interviewer Charlie Rose on Sept. 28, 2006:
Clarke: The Clinton Administration in the last month, in December of 2000, asked us to develop a comprehensive plan that we could hand off to the Bush Administration that had a military attack plan, that had an intelligence attack plan. It had diplomatic steps. It had economic steps. It was a comprehensive plan.