Heads up! Dick Clarke to be on ABC in 2 minutes!

[hedda_foil]

Change stations.

[CatWoman]

1. Hedda

please, please, please keep us informed.

I'm at work, and don't have access!!!!

[tandot]

2. hedda_foil, I am at work, too. Please tell us what he said. THANKS!

n/t

[hippiechick]

3. Dick Clarke ? American Bandstand ?

:shrug: or do you mean Richard ?


:hippie:

[eleny]

4. thanks!

[icymist]

5. He's on right now!

[spooky3]

10. aaagh--we have LOCAL news!!

[Nite Owl]

6. ABC and CBS

both went to local noon news!

[bookman]

7. Figures..

..here in Houston they switched to local news.

[RoundRockD]

11. Austin switched to local news. What idiots! n/t

[ElsewheresDaughter]

8. we're going hoppin, we're boppin ..on bandstand!

[icymist]

9. Clark: 'Rice admitted that the President had 40 warnings...

of attacks' 'Bush didn't call any meetings'

[rockymountaindem]

12. Local news in Buffalo

[icymist]

13. Clarke: 'time between Jan 25th and Sept. 4th was wasted'.

[icymist]

14. It's over. Clarke interview is over.

Now interviewing a 9/11 widow.

[KittyWampus]

15. Shorthand notes

Would adopting STRATEGY in JAN instead of Feb stop 9/11?

Clarke: No but it MIGHT have effected events.

Rice & Prez needed to act PERSONALLY to shake trees WHEN the threats were occuring in June-July-August.

Prez had 40 meetings with CIA director warning attacks were imminent.

Neither Rice nor Prez convened Cabinet Meeting.

This is different than Sept 99 when Clinton DID prevent attacks.

Rice corroborated that Prez thought it INEFFICIENT to bring Cabinet together and work to stop attacks.

Rice claims structural deficiency in CIA/FBI.

Clarke says to OVERCOME these deficiencies there could have had daily meetings White House meetings under CRISIS MODE where info buried at CIA/FBI could have been brought out.

Rice ADMITS she didn't have thesedaily Crisis Meetings.

Clarke's Memo was supposedly in "Historical Nature" according to Rice and she sez Clarke didn't try hard enought to meet Prez.

Clarke: His documents and attachments from Jan 25 should be declassified. Sez URGENTLY needed to have meeting with full Cabinet to approve strategy.

He presented a strategy but BUSH NEEDED TO MAKE DECISIONS

Sept 4th strategy that WAS adopted same as earlier. BUSH WASTED TIME.

Clarke DID ask for meetings after Transition but was told he couldn't meet with bush til after POLICY DEVELOPEMENT PROCESS was completed

Clarke had Cyber-Terrorism meeting with Prez but was told NOT to talk about Al Qaeda that he would EVENTUALLY ghet to talk twith Prez about it in the future possibly sometime in September.

[GiovanniC]

16. Possibly In September

"Clarke had Cyber-Terrorism meeting with Prez but was told NOT to talk about Al Qaeda that he would EVENTUALLY get to talk with Prez about it in the future possibly sometime in September."

Please, Mr. Clark... All we're asking is for you to wait until after we let 3,000 people die. Then you can talk to the president to your heart's content.

[TacticalPeek]

17. Thanks for info.

Clarke rules. Condi rues.