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Richard Clarke on Zawahri tape
We spoke to Richard Clarke today who authorized us to pass along the following statement on the tape which I think says it best: "Obama's election has taken the wind out of al Qaeda's sails in much of the Islamic world because it demonstrates America's renewed commitment to ...
Richard Clarke for CIA Director
theyoungturks.com — That might seem like an exaggeration to some, but is it? Who was right on the Iraq War and has been rewarded for their prescience in the pundit class? Among the DC media establishment, who has been punished for getting Iraq wrong? How about getting ... (more) Richard Clarke for CIA Director
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Swampland — ... Ayman Al-Zawahiri has issued, in which the terrorist calls the President-elect a "house slave." If this isn't disinformation--and it would be nice if our intelligence community were clever enough to have forged the statement--it is fabulous news for reasons most succinctly described by Richard Clarke: ...

Richard Clarke: Bush Didn't Save Any Lives
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... were engaged in a war we should not have been fighting and which was sold to the Congress, the media and American people with exaggerated and even false claims. ... Let George Bush keep pushing the buttons on the spin machine. That cannot change the facts. His administration's actions on terrorism, including Iraq, killed many more Americans than U.S. intelligence agencies saved in the past eight years Read the whole thing. Clarke recently said that Barack Obama's election has "taken the wind out of al Qaeda's sails." During ...

Richard Clarke: Bush Didn't Save Any Lives
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... were engaged in a war we should not have been fighting and which was sold to the Congress, the media and American people with exaggerated and even false claims. ... Let George Bush keep pushing the buttons on the spin machine. That cannot change the facts. His administration's actions on terrorism, including Iraq, killed many more Americans than U.S. intelligence agencies saved in the past eight years Read the whole thing. Clarke recently said that Barack Obama's election has "taken the wind out of al Qaeda's sails." During ...

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