How about a quote from Clarke not from a "background" conversation?
http://www.techlawjournal.com/security/20020214.asp
Quote:
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One of the lessons of September 11 ought to be that we minimized vulnerabilities that we knew were there. We all knew there were vulnerabilities in the aviation industry, from the security perspective. But, we didn't do anything about them. Why? Because there industry and the government couldn't agree on who would pay for it, because it was expensive. And so, we all persuaded ourselves that the possibility of the vulnerabilities being used against us was remote. Well, it obviously wasn't. I think that the lesson we have to learn here is, look at the vulnerabilities. Don't look at who is going to do it. And don't try necessarily to pretend that you have the wisdom of figuring out the probability of that someone will use the vulnerabilities.
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So, it apparently wasn't just Bush who convinced himself planes wouldn't be used in that manner.
And, "don't try to pretend that you have the wisdom of figuring out the probability that someone will use the vulnerabilities" yet that's exactly what he now claims he expected of Bush before 9/11.
Let's look at a speech he made in 1998,
http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/10-...n.cgi.196.html
Quote:
The Iraqis attempted to assassinate former President
George Bush in Kuwait in 1993, and many other people around the world
feel they also have justifiable reasons for revenge against the United States.
Maybe attacks in the United States would be part of a regional war, just as
in the Solar Sunrise scenario, where the United States may be rushing troops
to another part of the world and someone wants to make that difficult to do.
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Imagine that, one of the possible scenarios was that Iraq would stage an attack against the US. And yet now, according to him, it was only Bush who thought there might be ties to Iraq.