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03/20/2004 Archived Entry: "Too bad this isn't going to be televised."
Too bad this isn't going to be televised.
And I'm wondering how ThugCo's gonna spin it back. This could be damning.
Senior Clinton administration officials called to testify next week before the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks say they are prepared to detail how they repeatedly warned their Bush administration counterparts in late 2000 that Al Qaeda posed the worst security threat facing the nation — and how the new administration was slow to act.
They said the warnings were delivered in urgent post-election intelligence briefings in December 2000 and January 2001 for Condoleezza Rice, who became Mr. Bush's national security adviser; Stephen Hadley, now Ms. Rice's deputy; and Philip D. Zelikow, a member of the Bush transition team, among others.One official scheduled to testify, Richard A. Clarke, who was President Bill Clinton's counterterrorism coordinator, said in an interview that the warning about the Qaeda threat could not have been made more bluntly to the incoming Bush officials in intelligence briefings that he led.
At the time of the briefings, there was extensive evidence tying Al Qaeda to the bombing in Yemen two months earlier of an American warship, the Cole, in which 17 sailors were killed.
"It was very explicit," Mr. Clarke said of the warning given to the Bush administration officials. "Rice was briefed, and Hadley was briefed, and Zelikow sat in." Mr. Clarke served as Mr. Bush's counterterrorism chief in the early months of the administration, but after Sept. 11 was given a more limited portfolio as the president's cyberterrorism adviser.
The sworn testimony from the high-ranking Clinton administration officials — including Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, Defense Secretary William S. Cohen and Samuel R. Berger, Mr. Clinton's national security adviser — is scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Pacifica National Radio Presents:
Live from Capitol Hill - The Hearings of the September 11 Commission into Terrorist Attacks on the United States
Tuesday and Wednesday March 23/24 8:30am - 3:00 pm Eastern in New York on WBAI 99.5 fm or live on the web at www.kpfa.org, or find the affiliate near you at www.pacifica.org
The witness list, just announced, includes Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Madeline Albright, and many other present and former government officials.
For the first time in public, the Commission says it will examine what the Bush administration knew and did leading up to 9/11.
Pacifica's National Affairs Correspondent, Larry Bensky, will anchor the hearings from Capitol Hill. He will be joined by author Gail Sheehy, who has been covering the September 11 commision for the New York Observer.
As always, Pacifica's broadcast will feature alternative opinions and interpretations about the subject. Listener phone ins will be taken during breaks.
Info: Producer Stephenie Hendricks 415
Pacifica National Radio Presents:
Live from Capitol Hill - The Hearings of the September 11 Commission into Terrorist Attacks on the United States
Tuesday and Wednesday March 23/24 8:30am - 3:00 pm Eastern in New York on WBAI 99.5 fm or live on the web at www.kpfa.org, or find the affiliate near you at www.pacifica.org
The witness list, just announced, includes Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Madeline Albright, and many other present and former government officials.
For the first time in public, the Commission says it will examine what the Bush administration knew and did leading up to 9/11.
Pacifica's National Affairs Correspondent, Larry Bensky, will anchor the hearings from Capitol Hill. He will be joined by author Gail Sheehy, who has been covering the September 11 commision for the New York Observer.
As always, Pacifica's broadcast will feature alternative opinions and interpretations about the subject. Listener phone ins will be taken during breaks.
Info: Producer Stephenie Hendricks 415 258-9151
Posted by WTC Survivor @ 03/20/2004 04:36 AM NY
Of course, the very same Zelikow is now heading up the 9/11 whitewash commission and Hadley was the one who finally accepted the blame for the uranium remark in the SOTU...
Posted by Damfa @ 03/20/2004 04:57 AM NY
"And I'm wondering how ThugCo's gonna spin it back."
Editor: They'll just lie. It's all they know how to do. It's all they've ever done.
Easiest question I've answered today.
Later.
Posted by Daddy-O @ 03/20/2004 04:33 PM NY
Kinda OT for this thread but at least it's radio-related:
Stern Fans Protest in LA.
This was on the Google News front page BTW...also the only time I have ever sourced a news story to mtv.com. :-)
Posted by Xan @ 03/20/2004 08:55 PM NY
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtml
here's more from richard clarke to cbs - it certainly reads like an indictement of everything the Bush administration did, and I mean from the word go -
I have hope, 'cause it's been said before but it bears repeating - you can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time -
let's hope
Posted by karl @ 03/20/2004 09:14 PM NY
Funny. All the lies. All the proof. Yet not one word of impeachment, or censure.
Posted by IXLNXS @ 03/21/2004 01:02 AM NY
IXLNXS,
That's because no penises were involved. No penises or breasts. Eeew, just thinking about the penis of President Drunkard Cokehead makes my immortal, Catholic soul feel all icky and stuff.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 03/21/2004 01:53 AM NY
TV Runs "Blah, Blah, Blah" Over Presidential Speeches"
A tribute to the power of Blah3! :)
Posted by Xan @ 03/21/2004 11:53 AM NY
Here's another organization ripping on Bush formed by another former Clinton administration man. Cann't wait to see the 60 minutes Clarke piece.
http://www.makeamericaworkforus.org/index.asp
Posted by Demeur @ 03/21/2004 09:59 PM NY
When is the damn dyke going to break anyway? Month after month, we've seen cracks, cracks, and more cracks. Stuff so serious that had Clinton been president, the mighty wurlitzer would have been cranked up to full bore right now. Rush Limbaugh would be apoplectic, and the rest of the shrieking heads would be calling for the Clenis to roll. This just shows it's not justice or truth they were after, just partisan hypocrisy rearing its ugly heads.
Posted by Stentor @ 03/22/2004 03:07 AM NY
