Bush Administration's First Memo on al-Qaeda Declassified

[CJCRANE]

National Security Archive article on the Jan 25 2001 memo:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB147/index.htm

Excerpt:
"A Comprehensive Strategy to Fight Al-Qaeda"?
Rice versus Clinton on January 2001 Clarke Memo

Washington, D.C., September 27, 2006 - In a series of recent public statements, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has again denied that the Clinton administration presented the incoming administration of President George W. Bush with a "comprehensive strategy" against al-Qaeda. Rice's denials were prompted by a September 22 Fox News interview with Bill Clinton in which the former president asserted that he had "left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy" with the incoming Bush administration in January 2001. In a September 25 interview, Rice told the New York Post, "We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al-Qaida," adding that, "Nobody organized this country or the international community to fight the terrorist threat that was upon us until 9/11."



Direct link to memo:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB147/clarke%20memo.pdf

[blm]

1. Thank undergod for the National Security Archives and their efforts to

keep intact the REAL DOCUMENTED HISTORY of this nation and its governing bodies.

[CJCRANE]

2. I hope the Jan 25 memo

becomes as famous as the Aug 6 PDB.

[Vickers]

3. Hard to believe such qualified people were once at the top levels

of our government, huh? It's truly breathtaking how far we've fallen in just a few years.

[Old and In the Way]

4. "We never expected that anyone would actually check the archives."

C. Rice, at her sentencing hearing, sometime in 2007....

The smoking gun: "Attached is the year-end 2000 strategy on al Qida developed by the last administration to give to you. Also attached is the 1998 strategy. Neither was a "covert action only" approach."

Looks like Condi was lying...

[ljm2002]

5. Wowsers.

Sure puts the lie to Condi's assertion that they were not supplied with a comprehensive strategy, dun'it?