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Originally Posted by dc_dux
...and asserting that Clarke's memo was not a comprehensive strategy. (Semantics....so it may not have been a comprehensive strategy, it was an "urgent" memo with specific "action steps" against al Queda, all of which were implemented later...Its a shame that she was not able to explain why were those actions steps were ignored until after 9/11?)
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Yeah, remember the congressional testimony just after 9/11 where she was asked about the warnings they'd received?
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"Do you remember the name of the memo?"
*shrug* "I think it was... like, something silly like, "Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside United States" or something. I mean, you know, isn't that wacky? Who'd pay attention to anything like that? I mean, who could have known that was meant as a
warning?"
All her body language and expression in answering that question told the whole story about how little regard they gave Clarke or his warnings.