[John D Harris]

It seems that Mr. Clarke's book and some of his testimony before the 9/11 commision is not backed up by the facts! Mr. Clarke credits the capture of a terrorist in 2000, in Washington State, to his and the Clinton adiminstration's supposed aggressive attempt to stop terrorism with National warnings. The so called Millenium conspiracy terrorist. The fact is it was good work on the part of 1 boarder patrol officer and not because of any warning that came down from on high. A fact STATED by NSA Rice and BACKED up by former AG RENO! Confirmmed by the officers that were in on the arrest.(I'll leave it up to you guys to find the links) It was Blind ass luck, this terrorist happened to catch malaria and was sweating and nervious. IT was much later that Law enforcement found out he was a terrorist, the officers thought he was trying to smuggle drugs! not a terrorist that they were supposed to be looking out for because High level officials had warned anybody about a creditable terrorist threat!!!

Louis Freeh Slammed the technics(sp?) started by previous administration, "You can't stop people that wish to use bombs and missles with warrants and inditments",(paraphased by me). The pusuit of terrorist by law enforcement ain't going to cut it! These people aren't trying to commit crimes they are trying to KILL us and destroy our country and way of life. THAT IS WAR, not law breaking! Mr Freeh also states He met with President Bush 4 days into his term of office on terrorism, 4 DAYS into a new administration! Sounds like President Bush wasn't intereasted in Al Queada to me! And as has been stated by me before the Bush administration was working on a NEW way of dealing with Al Queada, NEW and differant from before. Things like that take time to impliment(sp?) exspecaily when a new adminstration is JUST taking power here in the U.S.A. President Bush was pursuing the current/former way of approaching Al Queada until a NEW way could be formulated and put into ACTION!

The great much touted PDB of 6 Aug.,2001 turns out to be about looking for U.S. citizens recruited for Al Queada and NOT Foreign Nationals here in the U.S.A.! Looking for EXPLOSIVES! Not Hijacking of Airplanes and flying them into buildings! The hijacking mentioned in the PDB were thought to be the normal MO used of taking hostages(SP?), not using the airplanes was weapons. This Much touted PDB had everybody looking in the WRONG places!!! And since Mr. Clarke seems to, or others seem to credit Mr. Clarke for this PDB, he should be, or others should blame him for sending people to look in the wrong places! He should have apologized, he is a Whiskey Delta and screwed the pooch.
Unlike the memo of late '95 or early '96, while Mr. Clarke HEADED/CHAIRED the NSC on terrorism, that SPECIFICLY stated that Al Queada wanted hijack airplanes and fly them into the Pentagon, U.S. Capital Building, and prominate(sp?) Skyscrapers. Something that was KNOWN at least 5 years BEFORE President Bush became the President of the U.S.A. While he was STILL GOVENOR of the State of Texas!

The fact is 9/11 was a terrible tradgety(sp?) and people want to blame somebody. point a finger at somebody and say YOU are at fault. When there is somebody to blame UBL and Al Queada!!! They are the SOB's that carried out the mass killings on 11 Sept., 2001. Not President Bush, not President Clinton, not even Mr. Clarke!