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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (104262)8/1/2007 12:44:03 PM
From: Steve Dietrich  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
I don't think he's a liar at all. A background briefing done on behalf of the Bush administration doesn't represent his personal views on the subject. He has said so himself.

Here's what he said under oath to the 9-11 commission, speaking for himself:

My impression was that fighting terrorism, in general, and fighting al-Qaeda, in particular, were an extraordinarily high priority in the Clinton administration - certainly no higher priority. There were priorities probably of equal importance such as the Middle East peace process, but I certainly don't know of one that was any higher in the priority of that administration."

"I believe the Bush administration in the first eight months considered terrorism an important issue, but not an urgent issue.

"Well, President Bush himself says as much in his interview with Bob Woodward in the book 'Bush at War.' He said, 'I didn't feel a sense of urgency.'

"George Tenet and I tried very hard to create a sense of urgency by seeing to it that intelligence reports on the al-Qaeda threat were frequently given to the president and other high-level officials. And there was a process under way to address al-Qaeda. But although I continued to say it was an urgent problem, I don't think it was ever treated that way."

And on Larry King Clarke said:

"If Condi Rice had been doing her job and holding those daily meetings the way Sandy Berger did, if she had a hands-on attitude to being national security adviser when she had information that there was a threat against the United States ... [the information] would have been shaken out in the summer of 2001,"

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