Do you have any links that will provide information a statement Clarke made today on MTP that he cancelled staff vacations prior to 9/11 because he KNEW a terrorist attack was coming? Everyone seems to have known something was coming. on 9/15 Clarke wrote an email to Condi outlining the warnings that had been given to law enforcement.
Not specific or useful warnings, mind you, but he did have a list of al Qaida members, in case any of them broke any American laws.
Do you have any links that will provide information a statement Clarke made today on MTP that he cancelled staff vacations prior to 9/11 because he KNEW a terrorist attack was coming?I just caught that on the Screaming Faces post, but haven't yet looked into it. On the face of it, it sounds Clintonian- a deliberate lie spun out to damage his enemy's credibility.
I looked over at "Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 28 Mar 2004" and see you are on it, and don't seem to have gotten an answer yet.
I'll see what I can find.
Found this story:
http://216.239.39.99/search?q=cache:dw7-fy2oJI0J:www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0302/S00079.htm+staff+vacations+9-11+%22clarke+%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 "The heightened alert followed a July 5 high-level official meeting convened in the White House Situation Room by Richard Clarke, head of counter-terrorism at the NSC. In a May 2002 account, The Washington Post reported:
"Something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it's going to happen soon," the government's top counter-terrorism official, Richard Clarke, told the assembled group, according to two of those present. The group included the Federal Aviation Administration, along with the Coast Guard, FBI, Secret Service and Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Clarke directed every counter-terrorist office to cancel vacations, defer non-vital travel, put off scheduled exercises and place domestic rapid-response teams on much shorter alert. For six weeks last summer, at home and overseas, the U.S. government was at its highest possible state of readiness -- and anxiety -- against imminent terrorist attack.
That intensity -- defensive in nature -- did not last. By the time Bush received his briefing at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, the government had begun to stand down from the alert." [Id.]"