http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/clarke/ en-us Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:54:35 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337351/posts On the eve of the eight year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an FBI informant who infiltrated alleged terrorist cells in the U.S. tells ABC News the FBI missed a chance to stop the al Qaeda plot because they focused more on undercover stings than on the man who would later become known as 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta. Brian Ross reports on the undercover agent in al Qaeda. In an exclusive interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC World News with Charles Gibson and Nightline, former undercover operative Elie Assaad says he spotted and became suspicious of Atta in early... ABCNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337351/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:54:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2158237/posts Click here for the video. A very funny and accurate view of what the Dems want to do with our money. Clarke and Dawe are a comedy team from Australila who do mock interviews. YouTube.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2158237/posts#comment Sat, 3 Jan 2009 21:56:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2154541/posts BBC Audio: Dyson and Clarke Will life spread out from Earth to flourish in the cosmos? Freeman Dyson has always supported the idea, and with great persuasiveness. BBC Four has created an archive of interviews on its Web site, among which is a clip of Dyson discussing life’s variety and the imperative of broadening its range. The theoretical physicist, who played an important role in the development of the ‘atomic spaceship’ concept called Project Orion, doesn’t believe man’s role is simply to send the occasional astronaut out in what he calls ‘a metal can’ to look out a window.... Centauri Dreams http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2154541/posts#comment Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:03:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099990/posts PRISTINA, Kosovo, Oct. 7, 2008 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates visited with U.S. troops assigned to NATO’s Kosovo Force here today. Gates – making the first visit to Kosovo by a defense secretary since 2001 -- said he wanted to thank the 1,400 American servicemembers deployed here. “We haven’t forgotten about them, and we know how important they are,” Gates said during a news conference with Pentagon reporters. The Europeans and Kosovars depend on the American presence, Gates noted. “There has been a great concern that we might pull out, and what I have reassured our allies is... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099990/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 23:48:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023793/posts WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said Friday he would be willing to comply with a rumored congressional subpoena to discuss the administration’s handling of pre-war intelligence, telling CNN’s Wolf Blitzer he’d be “glad to share my views” if asked to testify. Facing a firestorm over his book, McClellan also confirmed reports that he had apologized to Richard Clarke for questioning his honesty after the former counterterrorism official published his own book critical of the White House. “That was part of our talking points at the time. I didn’t even read the book,” McClellan admitted Friday.... Communist News Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023793/posts#comment Sat, 31 May 2008 00:29:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990733/posts Bush's War Monday, March 24 and Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9 P.M. (check local listings) From the horror of 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq; the truth about WMD to the rise of an insurgency; the scandal of Abu Ghraib to the strategy of the surge-for six years, FRONTLINE has revealed the defining stories of the war on terror in meticulous detail, and the political dramas that played out at the highest levels of power and influence. Now, on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, the full saga unfolds in the two-part FRONTLINE special Bush's War, airing Monday, March... PBS/FRONTLINE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990733/posts#comment Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:40:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987857/posts Science fiction author Arthur C Clarke dies aged 90 Arthur C Clarke at his home in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo Lech Mintowt-Czyz Science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died aged 90 in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, it was confirmed tonight. Clarke, who had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome since the 1960s and sometimes used a wheelchair, died at 1:30am after suffering breathing problems, his personal secretary Rohan De Silva said. “Sir Arthur passed away a short while ago at the Apollo Hospital [in Colombo}. He had a cardio-respiratory attack,” he said. His valet, W. K. M.... The Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987857/posts#comment Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:23:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987781/posts COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — An aide says science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke has died. Rohan De Silva says Clarke died early Wednesday after suffering from breathing problems. He was 90-years-old. Clarke is the author of more than 100 books, including "2001: A Space Odyssey." foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987781/posts#comment Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:09:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972033/posts Another Failed State? Kosovo's declaration of independence isn't likely to solve its many problems—or defuse tensions in the troubled Balkans. Kosovo declared independence Sunday, but it's unlikely any time soon to become the world's 193rd country. What it will almost certainly be is a failed state, unrecognized by the United Nations, unable to govern itself, dependent on Europe for its police and NATO for its armed forces. After eight years as an international protectorate and billions of dollars in aid and reconstruction funds, its economic prospects are grim. Unemployment is 57 percent, and among youths it's more like 70 percent;... Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972033/posts#comment Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:45:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971091/posts A great section of author Kenneth Timmerman's new book Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender is the section about a supposed failing of the Bush administration. That failing being the fact that Bush didn't purge the CIA and other segments of the government of liberal influences as Clinton did of conservative influences when he came in. Who was at fault for this? Carl Levin understood that no president could govern effectively without putting his own highly skilled political appointees into key government positions. Although their numbers were small - the congressional "Plum Book"... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971091/posts#comment Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:35:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963776/posts Did Clarke’s “Almost War” cause The Real One? January 31, 2008 - WND.com © Jack Cashill by Jack Cashill This is the sixth in a six-part series detailing the risks to American national security if Barack Obama (or Hillary Clinton) should ever choose to let Richard Clarke back into government. Clarke is currently one of Obama’s top national security advisors. "If they've been secretive in the past, they'll be secretive as president," Barack Obama said on the stump recently in reference to Bill and Hillary Clinton. But the keeper of the Clintons’ deepest secret now serves not the Clintons but... Cashill.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963776/posts#comment Sat, 2 Feb 2008 16:22:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959898/posts This is the fifth in a six-part series detailing the risks to American national security if Barack Obama (or Hillary Clinton) should ever choose to let Richard Clarke back into government. Clarke is currently one of Obama’s top national security advisors. Half way into his 2004 bestseller, Against All Enemies, former Clinton counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke makes an oddly gratuitous claim. Clarke insists that as a natural skeptic, “always intrigued by the possibility of the unlikely explanation,” he has pushed his fellow analysts to examine all angles in a given case, even those that seemed improbable. As proof of his... cashill.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959898/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:25:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1652863/posts First, you have to frame the problem. How to orchestrate a multiple hatchet job on those men who, in a time of national fear and anxiety, stood a trembling nation back on it's feet, and said, "We will respond, and with vigor. No more swatting flies." At the same time, however, you have to find some magic way of presenting those discredited, terminated and bitter ex-employees of the agency which apparently failed in their duties to faithfully watch at the walls, but yet not expose them as bitter, disgruntled employees. Apparently, no one was supposed to notice your one-sided lineup,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1652863/posts#comment Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:34:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956840/posts Why Bush really demoted Richard Clarke by Jack Cashill This is the fourth in a six-part series detailing the risks to American national security if Barack Obama (or Hillary Clinton) should ever choose to let Richard Clarke back into government. Clarke is currently one of Obama’s top national security advisors. “When George Bush came into office, though he kept Clarke on at the White House, he stripped him of his cabinet level rank.” So lamented Leslie Stahl during the March 2004 60 Minutes profile that would make Richard Clarke ace crowd surfer in the intellectual mosh pit of the anti-war... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956840/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:37:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1952281/posts This is the first in a five-part series detailing the risks to American national security if Barack Obama (or Hillary Clinton) should ever choose to let Richard Clarke back into government. Clarke is currently one of Obama’s top national security advisors. At the beginning of the campaign season, top Democratic candidates scrambled after Clinton national security veterans with almost as much urgency as the U.S. and the Soviets once pursued German rocket scientists. In either case, the winner would corner a certain market on national security expertise, a virtue in glaringly short supply among top Democratic candidates in this year’s... Cashill.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1952281/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:46:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1895950/posts You can tell the man who boozes, by the company he chooses ... and the pig got up and slowly walked away. The poem by Clarke Van Ness warns people that they will be judged by the actions of those with whom they choose to associate -- and even a pig has enough sense to walk away from disaster. Hillary Clinton has a big problem with her associates, and it's self-inflicted. Lost in the Norman Hsu shuffle, the news that Hillary has asked former Clinton national-security adviser Sandy Berger to join her campaign should cause even more questions about her... Captain's Quarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1895950/posts#comment Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:32:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1077877/posts Mohammed Warsame seen in an undated photograph. (The photograph's background has been obscured to protect the source. ABCNEWS independently confirmed that the photograph shows Warsame.) U.S. Attempt to Turn Al Qaeda Suspect Into U.S. Informant Soured by Press Leak By Pierre Thomas Feb. 13 — When a Somali-born computer student was arrested in Minneapolis last December on suspicion of helping al Qaeda, federal counterterrorism officials thought they might finally have found what they desperately need — a way of getting inside Osama bin Laden's shadowy network. The counterterrorism officials developed a plan to turn the man, Mohammed Warsame, into a... abc http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1077877/posts#comment Sat, 14 Feb 2004 04:15:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830734/posts A civil servant and an MP's researcher have been found guilty of leaking a secret memo about talks between George Bush and Tony Blair. David Keogh, 50, from Northampton, has been found guilty of two offences under the Official Secrets Act. MP's researcher Leo O'Connor was found guilty of one Official Secrets offence. It recorded Oval Office talks between Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair about Iraq in 2004, the Old Bailey was told. Sentencing was adjourned for reports........ BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830734/posts#comment Wed, 9 May 2007 15:14:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769501/posts If not the most skillful of embezzlers, Samuel "Sandy" Berger is a far more formidable character than the media would have us believe. When he made his now-storied sorties into the National Archives, he risked his career and his reputation in so doing, and he knew it. Rest assured, he would not have done so were the secrets to be preserved not worth the risk of pilfering them. True to form, the major media refuse to even ask the most fundamental question: Just what secrets would justify so much personal exposure? Having read the report on Berger by the House... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769501/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:21:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576272/posts Paul Pillar Speaks, Again The latest CIA attack on the Bush administration is nothing new. by Stephen F. Hayes 02/10/2006 4:15:00 PM IN A BREATHLESS front-page, above-the-fold article in today's Washington Post, Walter Pincus reports that a former senior CIA official named Paul Pillar accuses the Bush administration of "misusing" intelligence to take the country to war in Iraq. According to the Post account, Pillar uses a forthcoming article in Foreign Affairs to claim that the Bush administration "politicized" the intelligence on Iraq. Bush administration policymakers did this subtly, Pillar says, by repeatedly asking the CIA questions about Iraq, its... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576272/posts#comment Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:16:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1712600/posts Excerpt - WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and former Attorney General John Ashcroft received the same CIA briefing about an imminent al-Qaida strike on an American target that was given to the White House two months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The State Department's disclosure Monday that the pair was briefed within a week after then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was told about the threat on July 10, 2001, raised new questions about what the Bush administration did in response, and about why so many officials have claimed they never received or don't remember the warning. One... McClatchy Newspapers (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1712600/posts#comment Tue, 3 Oct 2006 08:05:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1710017/posts Musings while waiting breathlessly for a reason to care about Terrell Owens’ poor pill-popping technique… - Congratulations to President Bush for declassifying the National Intelligence Estimate and exposing the partisan lies being spread by treasonous leakers in the spook community. Some Benedict Arnold fancying himself (or herself) a modern-day Daniel Ellsworth spewed out some of the NIE over the weekend to the Washington Post and New York Times, which then dutifully proceeded to report that the NIE called the Iraq War a breeding ground for terrorists. Naturally, that was a lie, which is nothing new for the drive-by media –... Family Security Matters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1710017/posts#comment Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:18:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708483/posts In fact, a 1999 Clarke after-action memo - the one top Clinton aide Sandy Berger later stole from the National Archives - identified national-security weaknesses so "glaring" that only sheer "luck" prevented a cataclysmic attack back then. And, as Clarke told the 9/11 Commission publicly, there was nothing the Bush administration could have done that would have prevented the attacks. Sure, he tells a different story now. But that, he admitted, is because of his opposition to the Iraq war, which he believes distracted from the War on Terror. Secretary Rice was a lot more honest, explaining yesterday that there... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708483/posts#comment Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:08:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708393/posts September 25, 2006 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday accused Bill Clinton of making "flatly false" claims that the Bush administration didn't lift a finger to stop terrorism before the 9/11 attacks. Rice hammered Clinton, who leveled his charges in a contentious weekend interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News Channel, for his claims that the Bush administration "did not try" to kill Osama bin Laden in the eight months they controlled the White House before the Sept. 11 attacks. "The notion somehow for eight months the Bush administration sat there and didn't do that is just flatly false... New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708393/posts#comment Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:51:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1707592/posts RICHARD CLARKE: Actually, I've got about seven points, let me just go through them quickly. Um, the first point, I think the overall point is, there was no plan on Al Qaeda that was passed from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration. JIM ANGLE: You're saying that the Bush administration did not stop anything that the Clinton administration was doing while it was making these decisions, and by the end of the summer had increased money for covert action five-fold. Is that correct? CLARKE: All of that's correct. FOX NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1707592/posts#comment Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:20:14 GMT