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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (9779)	3/23/2004 9:19:55 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Clarke's resignation letter proves Cheney's statement: The White House Washington January 30, 2003 Dear Mr. President, With the coming of 2003, I am now in my eleventh year of continuous White House service and the 30th year since I began my Government service. While there is never a good time to end an assignment, I believe now may be an appropriate point to move on. First, with the stand up of the Department of Homeland Security, some of the operational responsibility for cyber security can now shift there. Second, you have signed the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace and it will be publicly released shortly. Thus, with your permission, I plan to depart the White House and resign as Special Advisor. It has been an enormous privilege to serve you these last 24 months. I will always remember the courage, determination, calm and leadership you demonstrated on September 11th, first on the video link from STRATCOM and later that day in the PEOC and the Situation Room. I will also have fond memories of our briefings for you on cyber security and the intuitive understanding of its importance that you showed. You had prescience in creating the position of Special Advisor to the President for Cyberspace Security and I urge you to maintain that role in the White House. I thank you again for the opportunity to serve you have provided me and wish you good fortune as you lead our country through the continuing threats. Sincerely, Richard A. Clarke CLAIM #3: "[Clarke] was moved out of the counterterrorism business over to the cybersecurity side of things." – Vice President Dick Cheney on Rush Limbaugh, 3/22/04 FACT: "Dick Clarke continued, in the Bush Administration, to be the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and the President's principle counterterrorism expert. He was expected to organize and attend all meetings of Principals and Deputies on terrorism. And he did." – White House Press Release, 3/21/04