Is it true Richard Clarke blamed Bill Clinton

[Catherine Vincent]

last year from 9/11 failures? Or is this some freeper wet dream?

[BootinUp]

1. I do not think so

He praised Clinton last night on 60 minutes for reacting to intelligence info and foiling the '99 bombing attempt on LAX.

[WoodrowFan]

2. No

Basically I think he gave Clinton a C+ (or even higher?) for his handling of terrorism and Shrub gets a big fat hairy F-. Of course the freeprs only pay attention to Clinton's grade..

[Catherine Vincent]

6. I read on Yahoo a poster giving excerpts from a David Miniter (sp?)

book that came out blaming Clinton for 9/11. It had quotes of Clarke blaming WJC for 9/11. I didn't know if you guys had heard about that.

[rbnyc]

It's spin.

He praised Clinton for some actions, and said he'd wished Bush admin had acted similarly, but also said that Clinton had rejected one of his ideas. I'm sure someone has better details.

[w4rma]

3. No.

...
Clarke says the last time the CIA had picked up a similar level of chatter was in December, 1999, when Clarke was the terrorism czar in the Clinton White House.

Clarke says Mr. Clinton ordered his Cabinet to go to battle stations-- meaning, they went on high alert, holding meetings nearly every day.

That, Clarke says, helped thwart a major attack on Los Angeles International Airport, when an al Qaeda operative was stopped at the border with Canada, driving a car full of explosives.

Clarke harshly criticizes President Bush for not going to battle stations when the CIA warned him of a comparable threat in the months before Sept. 11: "He never thought it was important enough for him to hold a meeting on the subject, or for him to order his National Security Adviser to hold a Cabinet-level meeting on the subject."
...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtml

[supernova]

4. No, it was more like

disappointment that Clinton didn't immediately want to go into Afghanistan. Clinton said the other day it was because he didn't want to hand the incoming adminstration a hot war like he had been handed Somalia.

Clarke did praise Clinton for the daily terrorist breifings. The exchange of information clearly helped foil the plot at LAX. Remember when all we thought about it was how bizarre it all seemed?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. The opposite is true

Check out this 'newsquax' headline: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/22/05419.shtml

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

7. I heard a snippet of the interview today where

he said something like "There's a lot of blame to go around including myself..." Which is probably true.

I think it says a lot, though, that Clinton and Gore and other people from their administration are willing to talk to the 9-11 investigators and Bush and Cheney had to have their teeth pulled to give one measly little hour to the head of the commission, but won't talk to the panel.

[Tim4319]

8. He gave props to Bill Clinton!

He was saying how Bill Clinton had "shake the tree" meetings every morning. Each branch, with intelligence links, had to give an update on the status of Al Qaeda.