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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (557193)	3/29/2004 2:39:53 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) of 769667

" I am surprised you've only had to do this on a "couple of occasions". I was an R&D engineer and manager.....in this business you don't want to fake data or results.... Negative results are just as important as positive results....But occasionally higher levels wanted their programs to kind of hide their problems for a little while....hopefully until the problems were solved. story.news.yahoo.com Clarke Charges on Bush Seem to Have Sticking Power 2 hours, 1 minute ago Add Politics - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Alan Elsner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House may have mishandled accusations leveled by their former counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke by attacking his credibility, keeping the controversy firmly in the headlines into a second week, political analysts said. Reuters Photo Clarke's charge that the Bush administration did not regard the threat posed by the al Qaeda organization as an urgent matter in the run-up to Sept. 11, 2001, has been superseded by a secondary issue of whether National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) should testify under oath before the national commission investigating that day's attacks. "The administration's attempts to discredit Clarke have backfired. They have merely given the story legs and hurt the administration. The issue of whether Rice should testify should keep the story alive for several more news cycles," said University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape. "The Bush administration and its allies have certainly not helped the story go away," said Howard Opinsky, a Republican operative who ran media relations for Arizona Sen. John McCain during his 2000 presidential bid. "Instead, they adopted the risky strategy of trying to refute his charge

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