Panel to "Reconsider" Clarke Testimony
From the Washington Times via Blogs For Bush:The September 11 commission will look at the discrepancy between the testimony of Richard A. Clarke that the Clinton administration considered the threat of al Qaeda "urgent" and its final national-security report to Congress, which gave the terror organization scant mention.
Al Felzenberg, spokesman for the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States, said commission members are familiar with an article in yesterday's editions of The Washington Times, which showed that President Clinton's final public document on national security never referred to al Qaeda by name and mentioned Osama bin Laden just four times.
"We're still taking evidence. We know that certain people say many things," Mr. Felzenberg said. "It's not at the point yet where we can resolve apparent contradictions ... but we read all these reports with great interest.
"The commission has Clinton and Bush administration documents and will try to make a definitive conclusion when the time comes for that," he said.
Matt's Chat
Looks like that Clarke Savior thing isn't working out for the Party of Love (tm) afterall... It is becoming more apparent that Clarke is nothing more than a book-toting opportunist.Mark's Remarks
All I can say is---it is about friggin time that the Commission examine Clarke's testimony more thoroughly, and not be sucked in by the Partisan Media's Saviorizing of Clarke....the man has a huge credibility gap, far greater than John Dean ever did during Watergate (heh), and he has lied either to the Commission, in his book, or to Richard Miniter, or to Fox News, or to all of them. Either way, his words cannot be trusted....he may have known some things about terror, and may have had some good ideas; but that has been colored by being a disgruntled opportunist seeking to make bucks off of the tragedy now that he won't be given a job by this administration....and he is probably auditioning for Kerry's Korner of Kronies as well.....remember, his best friend is a chief Kerry advisor...hmmm, smells fishy? Yep, it out and out stinks...thank goodness the Commission is waking up and is going to vet these statements out......maybe now we can finally get somewhere......
