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Your initials next to your name on a paper is the same as your signature. It takes the place of the open space that was not left for the signature above the name. This is a real signature.

The Washington Post Archives | October 9, 2000 | Vernon Loeb

"Tillie Fowler's (R - Fla.) bill creating a high-level White House coordinating council failed last week in the Senate after administration officials lobbied against it, leaving her locked in debate with the administration's counterterrorism chief over the nation's real ability to respond in the event of a terrorist attack.

Richard A. Clarke, who oversees $11 billion in counterterrorist programs as the National Security Council's coordinator of counterterrorism and computer security, agreed that efforts are fragmented. An interagency coordinating office within the FBI--the National Domestic Preparedness Office--he acknowledged, is "badly broken." But Clarke insists the country is far better prepared to respond to a terrorist attack than it was two years ago. And a new office for interagency coordination, he said, should not reside in the White House, as Fowler proposed.

Looks like partisan politics to me! A Republican asks for more national security and a democrat-leaning federal employee says everythings just fine, or better than ever! Sometimes I really believe that the dems were not so much concerned that the trade centers & Pentagon were attacked, but that the perpetrators didn't do more (take out the WH, etc.) while they were at it! It would be easy to believe some of the conspiracy things about the dems b/c they do hate us all so much!

WOW!

First time I've seen that one.

What an indictment on the Clinton administration AND Richard (czar) Clarke personally!