July 23, 2004

WHAT DID THE EX-PRESIDENT KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?:

Covering up? (Inside the Ring, Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough, 7/23/04, Washinton Times)

U.S. officials tell us that the FBI is focusing on a single document in its investigation of former White House National Security Adviser Samuel R. Berger. Investigators are trying to determine why Mr. Berger improperly removed a highly classified after-action report by Richard A. Clarke, an aide to Mr. Berger, that was harshly critical of the Clinton administration's response to the so-called millennium terrorist plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport and other targets in late 1999. [...]

U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies have used the millennium plot as an example of a counterterrorism success. But the Clarke memorandum is likely to portray a different picture.


Posted by Orrin Judd at July 23, 2004 8:17 AM
Comments

Pure luck and a savy border guard.

Posted by: genecis at July 23, 2004 9:30 AM

Another case the memo discusses is the refusal to receive Osama from the Sudanese. Clinton has recently been denying that the Sudanese ever offered him, a point the memo likely refutes.

Posted by: pj at July 23, 2004 10:01 AM

I still find it very interesting that both Clinton and Bush say they knew about this thing for a while but Kerry says he had no idea.

Posted by: AWW at July 23, 2004 10:11 AM

AWW:

Kerry wants to be portrayed as being 'out' of the loop - it is the only position he sees as safe with respect to this mess. If he didn't know what Berger was up to, then he can just shake his head and mutter some French expression and move on. Why Clinton claims to be in the know is much more confusing: does he want to pre-empt attacks against his 'legacy' or does he want to appear Presidential (thus above Kerry) or does he want to push back against any attempts to get him to testify? Who knows?

Posted by: jim hamlen at July 23, 2004 5:01 PM

How about the fact, that Mrs. Plame, was outed either by Ames, or conversely the Cuban govt.

Posted by: narciso at July 23, 2004 10:34 PM
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