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context. This, too, corroborates Clarke's testimony

"It took months for the deputies (the No. 2 officials at State, Defense, etc.) to grind away at a new plan, and when it was finally presented to the principals—Sept. 4, 2001, a week before the 9/11 attacks—it looked pretty much like Clarke's old plan. White House officials protest that the new plan was more thoroughgoing; that it called, for instance, for a new strategy to transform Pakistan from protector of Al Qaeda to a platform for attacking the terrorists in their lairs in Afghanistan"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4616750/

In any event, if Condi's speech a week later didn't emphasize these items but rather missile defense, then the paper again shows that this brand of terrorism was simply not taken seriously, despite paying lip service in a many-months-later reworked plan.