Why the Bush administration went after Clarke

Bush Administration's First Memo on al-Qaeda Declassified

ROEMER: You then wrote a memo on September 4th to Dr. Rice expressing some of these frustrations several months later, if you say the time frame is May or June when you decided to resign. A memo comes out that we have seen on September the 4th. You are blunt in blasting DOD for not willingly using the force and the power. You blast the CIA for blocking Predator. You urge policy-makers to imagine a day after hundreds of Americans lay dead at home or abroad after a terrorist attack and ask themselves what else they could have done. You write this on September the 4th, seven days before September 11th.

CLARKE: That's right.

ROEMER: What else could have been done, Mr. Clarke?

CLARKE: Well, all of the things that we recommended in the plan or strategy -- there's a lot of debate about whether it's a plan or a strategy or a series of options -- but all of the things we recommended back in January were those things on the table in September. They were done. They were done after September 11th. They were all done. I didn't really understand why they couldn't have been done in February.
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el - How many years is the so-called liberal media behind the curve? This was known to readers of this blog years ago that Bush and Condi ignored many warnings and then covered it up and tried to discredit those who gave them the warnings. They are declassifying this after Rice was confirmed and releasing the 9/11 report only after the election. The 9/11 Commision reports that the FAA alone received 52 warnings about Al-Qaeda including their training for plane hijackings that would occur on US soil.