Daily Gusto: Did Bush Fiddle?

March 22, 2004

Did Bush Fiddle?

A veteran anti-terrorism official who served under Bush accuses his former boss of ignoring the threat of terrorism until September 11, 2001. Reagan appointee Richard Clarke described asking Condoleeza Rice on January 24, 2001, to call for a Cabinet-level meeting "to deal with the impending al-Qaida attack." Yet in nearly 100 formal national security meetings before 9/11, terrorism was only the topic twice.

And there was also the Hart-Rudman commission's warning in January 2001. And Newsweek has a story on Ashcroft's Justice Department's curtailing a program to monitor al-Qaida suspects in the United States in order to battle drug trafficking.

Condoleeza Rice gives a very different picture of the administration's activity in an op-ed piece today. Josh Marshall gives a good comparison of Rice versus Clarke and discusses the administration's disingenuity.

Two weeks after Clarke says he called for high-level meetings to deal with the al-Qaida threat and the Hart-Rudman report called for the creation of a Homeland Security Department, George W. Bush said, "My job is to lead. A President should not wait on events. He must try to shape them. And the warning signs are clear." Unfortunately, he wasn't talking about fighting al-Qaida or terrorism; he was talking about giving a tax break.

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