March 20, 2004

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Clintonistas warned the Bushies of terrorist attacks
'Tax cuts! Saddam Hussein! Tax cuts!' - the misadministration.

Senior Clinton administration officials called to testify next week before the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks say they are prepared to detail how they repeatedly warned their Bush administration counterparts in late 2000 that Al Qaeda posed the worst security threat facing the nation — and how the new administration was slow to act.
They said the warnings were delivered in urgent post-election intelligence briefings in December 2000 and January 2001 to worthless National Insecurity Advisor Condoleezza Rice.
One official scheduled to testify, Richard A. Clarke, who was President Bill Clinton's counterterrorism coordinator, said in an interview that the warning about the Qaeda threat could not have been made more bluntly to the incoming Bush officials in intelligence briefings that he led.

"It was very explicit," Mr. Clarke said of the warning given to the Bush administration officials.
Well, we all know what happened next: the Bushies were determined to bomb the living crap out of Iraq.

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