At 08:54 PM 4/12/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote: >I've heard that misquote one too many times. What he said was that the >steps he suggested the Bush administration should take _in January of >2001_ probably would not have prevented the attack. He suggested that if >the administration had gotten off thier collective asses and beaten the >bushes a bit when they were getting so many warnings of an impending >attack, that it's impossible to tell what might have happened come >September (paraphrase.)
I seem to recall Clarke being asked point-blank by the Commission (paraphrase) "was there any chance that implementation of your recommendations would have prevented the 9/11 attacks?" Clarke: "None." JDG
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