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The War on Terror fumbled

Posted by on 03/22/04 at 2:42 pm
Category: Politics

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From americanprogress.org:

Richard Clarke, a Reagan appointee who was the government’s top counterterrorism expert under President Clinton and President George W. Bush, yesterday on 60 Minutes said the Bush Administration “failed to act prior to September 11 on the threat from al Qaeda despite repeated warnings.” The assertion is fully substantiated by newly revealed internal FBI and Justice Department documents that were published today on the Center for American Progress website. As the documents and a companion American Progress backgrounder show, the Bush Administration received repeated warnings that an Al Qaeda attack was imminent, yet underfunded and subordinated counterterrorism in the months leading up to 9/11, and after. The Administration has defended itself by claiming it set up a counter-terrorism task force in May of 2001 – but the task force never actually met. Meanwhile, the Administration “downgraded terrorism as a priority” and ended such key counterterrorism efforts as the “highly classified program to monitor Al Qaeda suspects in the United States.” Among the victims of the Administration’s “downgrading of terrorism as a priority” was “a highly classified program to monitor Al Qaeda suspects in the United States,” which the White House suspended in the months leading up to 9/11.

EVEN AFTER 9/11, STILL CUTTING COUNTERTERRORISM: Clarke said the President was improperly attempting to “harvest a political windfall” from 9/11 even though he has taken “insufficient steps after the attacks” to secure America. Again, Clarke’s assertion is backed up by the record. As the WP reports on the new documents released by American Progress, “in the early days after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush White House cut by nearly two-thirds an emergency request for counterterrorism funds by the FBI.” When congressional Democrats sponsored amendments to substantially increase this funding, the President threatened to veto them, and they were voted down.

9/11 USED AS MEANS TO ATTACK IRAQ: Clarke charged the Administration began making plans to attack Iraq on 9/11, despite evidence the terror attack had been engineered by Al Qaeda. And though Administration officials are now denying it, Clarke’s assertion is consistent with earlier reports. CBS News reported on 9/4/02 that five hours after the 9/11 attacks, “Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was telling his aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq — even though there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks.” Similarly, then-Secretary of Treasury Paul O’Neill said the Administration “was planning to invade Iraq long before the Sept. 11 attacks and used questionable intelligence to justify the war.” When the Administration denied O’Neill’s charges, ABC News reported that his account was confirmed by another White House source.

CONSERVATIVES STILL CLAIMING SADDAM-AL QAEDA TIES: Clarke’s elaboration on how the Administration immediately focused on Iraq instead of Al Qaeda has moved conservatives to a new level of dishonesty. As an American Progress video shows, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) claimed yesterday that “the Bush administration never made any claim that there was a connection between Saddam and al Qaeda.” (See the full transcript and video). But it was President Bush and Vice President Cheney who repeatedly told the American public that there was “no question” Saddam and Al Qaeda were connected. Those claims were never substantiated, and have now been proven completely false.

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Posted by on 03/21/04 at 9:46 am
Category: Politics

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