Against Selected Enemies (Richard Miniter on Clarke)

The Wall Street Journal ^ | April 1, 2004 | RICHARD MINITER

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks for the link!

[cyncooper]

Someone found a thread with an article dated September 22, 2001

Looks like Clarke didn't know (as if we ever thought he did) everything the administration was planning and/or talking about.

Notice today that idiotic spin was put out that because Condi Rice was originally scheduled to give a speech on 9/11 that emphasized missile defense, (but also addressed terrorism in the form of suitcase bombs, sarin on the subway and so forth-but it wasn't THE priority), we were invited to conclude that the administration was focusing on "rogue states" and not the REAL threat, Al Qaeda. But perhaps they were (and I am positive they were).

Threat of US strikes passed to Taliban weeks before NY attack

Excerpt

Osama bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York and Washington,

[Eva]

Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen that article. I e-mailed Scarborough again and sent him a paragraph from the article. I also e-mailed Wachovia the article because I had been in communication with them complaining about them advertising on the Chis Matthews show, using our money against us and threatening to remove our money from their bank. They had promised to moniter the show.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the interesting link.

[windchime]

Article: "At worst it will goad Scarborough to turn his attention to relatively apolitical topics like the Michael Jackson scandals."

"I just put on Scarborough Country to see what he was talking about, and it was (drum roll, please) Michael Jackson!"

LOL! And Greta interviewed Karen Hughes. Guess more than Kerry 'flip-flops'.

[windchime]

"I hadn't seen that article. I e-mailed Scarborough again and sent him a paragraph from the article."

Good job! Did you send Scarborough the paragraph that had the following quote in it?

"It’s easy to anticipate that Republican Joe Scarborough will soon be either purged or gelded."

Guess he prefers gelded 'cause he's still there.

[nutmeg]

bump

[NYCVirago]

I sent Scarborough and e-mail and told him that the leftist guests were ruining his show and that maybe it was time for him to move-On. I said that we were, we're going back to FOX to watch Greta.

Cool! It seems to me that if Kaplan were smart, and not just a Clinton-lover, he would have let Joe be Joe, simply to attract conservative viewers turned off by Greta. There aren't that many overall cable news watchers, and the libs are going to watch Aaron Brown. I wouldn't expect MSNBC to be Fox News-lite, but Joe Scarborough was a breath of fresh air on that lineup.

[windchime]

Bump!

[windchime]

Great find, cyncooper!  This needs lots of attention:

Russia's president Vladimir Putin said in an interview released yesterday that he had warned the Clinton administration about the dangers posed by Bin Laden. "Washington's reaction at the time really amazed me. They shrugged their shoulders and said matter-of-factly: 'We can't do anything because the Taliban does not want to turn him over'."

 

[windchime]

"And .. did Clarke know that special ops landed in Afghanistan on 9/12 ..?? I saw it on the History channel. Great story. Brave men!"

Missed it!  Someone linked this old post recently.  Very interesting and establishes an immediate initiative on Al Queda by the Bush Administration.

India joins anti-Taliban coalition  March 15, 2001  Janes- India is believed to have joined Russia, the USA and Iran in a concerted front against Afghanistan's Taliban regime.

 

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post, ping.

[cyncooper]

Well, these old articles predating 9/11 must be false. Richard Clarke has arrived to set us straight. 'Twas Clinton who focused like a laser on terrorism and Bush who shrugged.

/sarcasm

I was especially annoyed by that idiotic Washington Post article yesterday about Rice scheduled to talk about security on 9/11 in a speech she never gave and the main theme was missile defense, though even the article acknowledged and gave examples of references to terrorism in her speech. Excerpts leaked by "former officials" to the Post.

[windchime]

".......Rice scheduled to talk about security on 9/11 in a speech she never gave......"

Clarke is NOT held accountable for words he speaks and Rice IS held accountable for words that never crossed her lips.

We can thank Richard Clarke for his statements which have more emphatically defined the line between those 'for' or 'against' our country.

[cyncooper]

Clarke is NOT held accountable for words he speaks and Rice IS held accountable for words that never crossed her lips.

Well, when you put it that way it sounds unfair to Rice, doesn't it? LOL

I have to laugh or I'll scream at these obstinate press people who blithely go on telling us how "compelling" Clarke was. No, you media morons. He was creepy, smarmy and most important of all---he was LYING.

Thanks for letting me vent.:)

[justshutupandtakeit]

Doesn't the orchestration of this attack remind you how press manipulation on other subjects such as the event of 11/22/1963? Can you imagine what would have happened had there been an internet back then? Fascinating to speculate on that.

[Eva]

Yep, that's the paragraph that I sent.