Richard Clark on TDS

Richard joined Jon Stewart, to discuss his new book which offers up a surprisingly similar plot line to current events.

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King of Zembla: In the November Atlantic, Richard Clarke, counterterrorism chief under Clinton and (briefly) under Bush, raises the distressing possibility that Michael Chertoff is not the only one who has learned a thing or two from his mistakes. Terrorists have televisions as well.

Petrelis Files: Fox News Reporter Plays Lesbian Matchmaker for Condi Rice?

Brave New Coffee Pot: Where is Pat Tillman's Journal?

firedoglake says Libby is the perfect villain. Nobody is going to have sympathy for some smirking, Ivy League, summer-in-the-Hamptons silver spoon clown named Scooter.
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firedoglake says Libby is the perfect villain. Nobody is going to have sympathy for some smirking, Ivy League, summer-in-the-Hamptons silver spoon clown named Scooter.

October, 2001: Iraq War Planning

I found this through Atrios. Richard has the goods: "This afternoon, the National Security Archives at George Washington University released some stunning documents, that seem to further corroborate the Downing Street Minutes, as well as buttress the argument that there was precious little post-war planning in the rush to topple Saddam. Among them is this State Department powerpoint slide...read on"

No surprises there really. Who doesn't know that the Bush administration planned this war from the beginning? Well...maybe some of the right wing apologists, but that's because they refuse to admit the truth. This new/old information only further validates Richard Clarke's assertion that the Preznit had Iraq in mind all along.

(Update)-Michael Scheuer's opinion on The Factor today was that Richard Clarke knew more about Bin Ladin then he let on his book and bashed Clinton over it as well.

AmericaBlog has his own thoughts on the "Blaming of Clinton"

"going back to just after 9/11"

Lott on Meet the Press with David Gregory admitted that President Bush had Iraq in his cross-hairs long before the "last resort" comments were made.

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He talked about the intelligence failures, but Trent made it very clear that Bush had targeted Iraq early on which had been said a long time ago by Richard Clarke.

Roundtable on Iraq and Terrorism

On THIS WEEK, there was an intersting discussion group including Richard Clarke and Martha Radditz.

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As Americablog says: The roundtable is pretty damning.

CNN: Did Bush/Blair blatantly lie about Downing Street Memo?

In a joint press conference today, Bush and Blair were asked if they had "fixed the intelligence to fit the policy" as the Downing Street Minutes has shown.

I listened for the truth but never heard it.

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NewsHounds has their view from FOX: Comment: No reasonable explanation given, just denial and patriotic-sounding babble. We all know, from Richard Clarke, that the Bush administration was fixing to go into Iraq even before 9/11. Hopefully Americans will start to see this mountain of evidence for what it is, evidence, and take action against the perpetrators.

is out pimping for the White House with another press conference today. At the time of the briefing, Ridge said he will not raise the terror alert levels. Do we need to have a press conference about that? He makes repeated statements about how well the administration is protecting us from Osama, but we might raise the idiot color code, if it suits us.

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Another partisan appointee without a clue! Richard Clarke was right as usual. Make sure the people keep Osama in their minds.

Watch this animated spot called "Minister of Fear" about the bogus terror alerts!

In an unusually critical campaign for a government employee, Mike Scheuer has spent much of the last three months publicly criticizing his agency. Most government officials wait until they retire, as former National Security Council aide Richard Clarke did.

In July, Scheuer, head of the CIA's bin Laden unit until 1999, published his best-selling book Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror. Then, he was only identified as "Anonymous