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washingtonpost.com - 5/31/2009

Richard A. Clarke -- Cheney and Rice Remember 9/11. I Do, Too.

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thinkprogress.org - 6/3/2009

Cheney Blames Richard Clarke For 9/11: ‘He Missed It’

— thinkprogress.org — Writing in Sunday’s Washington Post, Richard Clarke, the former counterrorism chief under Presidents Clinton and Bush, slammed Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice for invoking what he called “the White House 9/11 trauma defense” ... (more) Cheney Blames Richard Clarke For 9/11: ‘He Missed It’

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correspondents.theatlantic.com - 6/3/2009

Conor Clarke

— correspondents.theatlantic.com — Conor Clarke is a guest journalist at The Brookings Institution and a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com. He is also the editor, with Michael Kinsley, of " Creative Capitalism ," an economics blog that was recently published in book form by Simon and ... (more) Conor Clarke

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Hullabaloo — Panic Artists by digby I have been desperate for someone other than bloggers to say this for years. Here's Richard Clark: [L]istening to Cheney and Rice, it seems that they want to be excused for the measures they authorized after the attacks on the grounds that 9/11 was traumatic. "If you were there in a position of authority and watched Americans drop out of eighty-story buildings because these murderous tyrants went after innocent people," Rice said in her recent comments, "then you were determined to do anything that you ...

The Trauma of 9/11 Is No Excuse for Lawlessness
Library Grape — Richard Clark wrote a fantastic op-ed in the Washington Post: [L]istening to Cheney and Rice, it seems that they want to be excused for the measures they authorized after the attacks on the grounds that 9/11 was traumatic. "If you were there in a position of authority and watched Americans drop out of eighty-story buildings because these murderous tyrants went after innocent people," Rice said in her recent comments, "then you were determined to do anything that you could that was legal to prevent that from happening again." I have little sympathy for this ...

Richard Clarke smacks down Cheney, et. al.
Brilliant at Breakfast — Richard Clarke has had quite enough of Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, and the rest of the Bush Administration's war criminals' claim that "they kept us safe after 9/11", thank you very much. He reminds us that when the warnings were there, these murderous criminals ignored them. I believe it was that they wanted an excuse to go into Iraq, but Clarke seems to learn more towards simple incompetence: ...

Richard Clarke Reminds Cheney and Condi of Their Incompetence
Firedoglake — ... Richard Clarke, after listening to Cheney and Condi make similar statements for a month, has a similar instinct (and of course, he's in a position to make the argument more strongly than I). Today, he's got an op-ed reminding readers of how Cheney and Condi refused to take terrorism seriously until it was too late. And once they did, they overreacted. ...