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Saturday, Mar. 20, 2004 11:19 PM EST
Former Clinton White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke is preparing to tell the Independent Commission Investigating the Sept. 11 Attacks this week that the Bush administration failed to act on a Clinton administration plan to attack Osama bin Laden. And in a "60 Minutes" interview set to air Sunday night, Clarke blasts Bush for doing "a terrible job on the war against terrorism." But just a year ago Clarke was singing a different tune, telling reporter Richard Miniter, author of the book "Losing bin Laden," that it was the Clinton administration - not team Bush - that had dropped the ball on bin Laden.
| Wonder if liberal bloggers like Kevin Drum, Kos and Josh Marshall will remember to include that in their comments? |
Clarke, who was a primary source for Miniter’s book, detailed a meeting of top Clinton officials in the wake of al Qaeda’s attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. He urged them to take immediate military action. But his advice found no takers. Reporting on Miniter’s book, the National Review summarized the episode: "At a meeting with Secretary of Defense William Cohen, Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Attorney General Janet Reno, and other staffers, Clarke was the only one in favor of retaliation against bin Laden."
The list of excuses seemed endless:
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Well, well, look who’s sold his soul in the last year and now pulling a flip-flop. I wonder how many pieces of silver the Clinton cabal had to pony up to turn this one. |