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To: Dale Baker who wrote (29196)	9/27/2006 1:45:39 AM
From: wonk	Read Replies (1) of 541259

Rather than having you dig through the boxes for the book, here is Clarke’s memo (essentially an Executive Summary) to Condi Rice on January 25, 2001. (I'm not sure it was in there anyway) rawstory.com The more interesting piece is the lengthy backgrounder: Strategy for Eliminating the Threat from Jihadist Networks of Al Qida: Status & Prospects rawstory.com Note particularly, the last two paragraphs of Page 3 of the pdf and paragraph 2 of page 4 of the pdf. While these do not address preventing future domestic attacks, it lays out what the Governement knew (or thought it knew) and thus its reasonable to assume that increased efforts to prevent domestic attacks would have been on the agenda. Seeing the actual documents, it lends credence to Clarke’s assertions: they weren’t really asleep at the wheel. We know the things that went wrong: the bureaucratic wrangling, a new Administration not having it high on its priority list, etc. ww

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