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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 08:35 AM
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Clinton Aides Plan to Tell Panel of Warning Bush Team on Qaeda
ASHINGTON, March 19 — Senior Clinton administration officials called to testify next week before the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks say they are prepared to detail how they repeatedly warned their Bush administration counterparts in late 2000 that Al Qaeda posed the worst security threat facing the nation — and how the new administration was slow to act

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/20/politics/20PANE.html?hp
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 08:39 AM
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1. I hope all the networks cover this
But, I somehow think they'll report it, and then have on a fire breathing Fright Wing prevaricator on to spew lies and it will die.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 08:47 AM
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2. I believe you are right
Clinton had Hart and Rudman examine the dangers to our country after the first world trade center attack. That report was finished just as Clinton was leaving office. It indicated who and where our biggest rist was, which included Al Queada. This report was given to the Bush administration, who quickly disgarded it, and said they would do their own study, which they didn't...

Artile from Salon.com, by Jake Tapper
Sept. 12, 2001 | WASHINGTON -- They went to great pains not to sound as though they were telling the president "We told you so."

But on Wednesday, two former senators, the bipartisan co-chairs of a Defense Department-chartered commission on national security, spoke with something between frustration and regret about how White House officials failed to embrace any of the recommendations to prevent acts of domestic terrorism delivered earlier this year.

Bush administration officials told former Sens. Gary Hart, D-Colo., and Warren Rudman, R-N.H., that they preferred instead to put aside the recommendations issued in the January report by the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century. Instead, the White House announced in May that it would have Vice President Dick Cheney study the potential problem of domestic terrorism -- which the bipartisan group had already spent two and a half years studying -- while assigning responsibility for dealing with the issue to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, headed by former Bush campaign manager Joe Allbaugh....





http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/12/bush/
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I Thaumaturgist Donating Member (20 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 08:49 AM
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3. as they should
But will the freepers and neo cons believe it? No they will not. For being such "Christians" they sure harbor a lot of hatred for all things Clinton.
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patricia92243 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 09:09 AM
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6. He committed adultry - therefore nothing else he did was correct. By the
On the other hand Bush says he prays, therefore EVERYTHING he says, does, or thinks is correct.

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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 08:51 AM
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4. The people of this country.............
need to find out just how much Bush has "protected" us from terrorism. I truly hope this is reported correctly and with the same zeal that reports of Bush's "strong leadership" are.
We here at DU have known this from day one, but I'm willing to bet 90% of Americans are ignorant of these facts.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 08:59 AM
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5. I emailed the article to CNN
but I am quite sure it will fall on deaf ears
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