To: Brumar89 who wrote (104262 ) 8/1/2007 12:44:03 PM From: Steve Dietrich Read Replies (1) | Respond to 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.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." "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,"
