Nothing new under the sun (aka "Operation Ignore")

[Tom Beck]

It's remarkable how little new we have learned about the Bush  
Administration's pre-Sept. 11 neglect of the terrorist threat. I've  
just reread the chapter "Operation Ignore" in Al Franken's wonderful  
book _Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look  
at the Right", which was published last September. Richard Clarke is  
prominently mentioned, as is the Aug. 6 memo that Bush ignored while on  
vacation, the Cheney task force on terrorism that never met, and the  
meeting Rice had with Sandy Berger in December 2000 and later lied  
about by telling Time magazine she couldn't remember meeting him or  
talking about terrorism with him.

Why can't the Bush Administration simply admit that they never took  
terrorism seriously enough until it bit us all on the ass on September  
11? (I know why they can't: then they'd have to face up to the fact  
that they haven't done enough about it _since_ Sept. 11 either.)

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Tom Beck

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"I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never thought I'd  
see the last." - Dr. Jerry Pournelle

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