Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: T L Comiskey who wrote (41944)	4/9/2004 9:36:40 AM
From: H-Man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Clarke's Credibility: 180 degree difference between his 2002 background briefing and his book and testimony – his explanation of emphasizing positive and minimizing negatives is completely inadequate. We are not talking about shades of grays between the stories, they are diametrically opposed stories. Apparently a completely different characterization between 2002 closed testimony, and his book. Different answers to the same questions under oath compared to his book promotion interviews 180 degrees of difference between his assertions in “Losing Bin Laden” by Richard Miniter and those in his book. Clarke has claimed robust activity on the part of the Clinton administration in the fight against terrorism, and that the comprehensive security document "A National Security Strategy For A Global Age", produced by the Clinton Administration in December 2000, does not even mention Al Qaeda. Numerous factual errors in his book, for instance: - Clarke says in his book that on 9/11 the senior director for defense policy, Franklin Miller, urged Defense Secretary to take a helicopter out of the burning Pentagon, to which Rumsfeld said -- "I am too ... old to go to an alternate site." Miller says he never talked to Rumsfeld at all that day. In addition, Clarke says an official in the White House Situation Room that day yelled -- "Secret Service Reports a hostile aircraft 10 minutes out." But Miller tells the New York Times he doesn't remember that ever happening. - Clarke said in his book, that Rice "looked skeptical" when she was warned early in 2001 about the threat from al-Qaeda and appeared never to have heard of the organization. We know that Rice was well aware of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda and discussed it during the 2000 campaign. And since the very first foreign policy directive from the Bush administration was one to eliminate Al Qaeda, it confirms with solid irrefutable evidence that it was of the highest priority. This is further refutation of Clarke’s story, which says it was not urgent, and that Bush was pre-occupied with Iraq.