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To: jlallen who wrote (40735)	3/29/2004 11:14:35 AM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Clarke is a liar Let me see if I've got this straight. You never wrote a Résumé where you accentuated the positive, and just failed to mention the negative. Get this through that thick RW skull of yours. If you want to work at the WH, and your boss says write a positive memo, that's what you do - or leave. So, since all of those guys that are making disparaging remarks about Clarke these days, are still working, they are doing just what they have been told to do. As for Clarke, he's the one who wants a little "sunshine". Reveal all, Clarke dares Bush camp By Rodney Dalton FORMER US counter-terror chief Richard Clarke struck back yesterday against Republican "character assassination", calling for his testimony to Congress two years ago and emails to his then boss Condoleezza Rice to be declassified and released. Refusing to temper his criticism of the Bush administration's performance on terrorism, Mr Clarke said the documents would show "they wasted months when we could have had some action" on the gathering al-Qa'ida threat. "It was an important issue for them, but not an urgent issue," he told the NBC network. Responding to Senate Republican leader Bill Frist's suggestion that he might have lied under oath while testifying before a congressional inquiry into the September 11 attacks in July 2002, Mr Clarke said there was no inconsistency between his explosive testimony to the commission investigating the terrorist attacks last week and what he told Congress. "I would welcome it being declassified - but not just a little line here or there," Mr Clarke said. His comments came as senior administration officials took to the Sunday talk shows in an attempt to quieten the controversy over allegations that the Bush White House had failed on al-Qa'ida because it was preoccupied with Iraq. Despite pressure from 9/11 commission members and fellow Republicans to appear publicly under oath before the commission, National Security Adviser Dr Rice last night cited "longstanding principle" in refusing to do so. "Nothing would be better, from my point of view, than to be able to testify," she told 60 Minutes. "I would really like to do that. But ... this is a matter of policy." Dr Rice's appearance - one of many media interviews in the past week - came as the firestorm surrounding Mr Clarke's book, Against All Enemies, and his testimony before the commission spilled into a second week. Mr Clarke also called for Dr Rice's private testimony to the commission to be declassified. "The White House is selectively now finding my emails and selectively leaking them to the press," Mr Clarke said. "Let's take all of my emails and all of the memos that I sent to (Dr Rice) and her deputy, from January 20th to September 11th, and let's declassify all of it." Republicans hope Mr Clarke's more flattering assessment in 2002 - while he was a White House aide - of George W.Bush's handling of the threat posed by al-Qa'ida will limit the potential damage to Mr Bush's re-election chances. The White House's response to Mr Clarke's criticisms has been aggressive, with Dr Rice, Vice-President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld leading the defence against Mr Clarke's central allegation - that Mr Bush had done a "terrible job on the war against terrorism". Mr Clarke said yesterday the White House was "engaged in a campaign to destroy me, personally and professionally, because I had the temerity to suggest that the American people should consider whether or not the President had done a good job on the war on terrorism". Dr Rice's refusal to testify under oath came as Republican commissioner John Lehman said her failure to appear was "a political blunder of the first order" because it was creating an impression that she had something to hide. theaustralian.news.com.au lurqer