Doonesbury Say What?

[thewayne]

"You know, Dick Clarke. Dick Clarke, who was the head of the counterterrorism program in the run-up to 9/11. He obviously missed it."
-- Dick Cheney, on Richard Clarke

"Bin Ladin Public Profile May Presage Attack" (5/3/01)

"Bin Ladin's Networks' Plans Advancing" (5/26/01)

"Bin Ladin Attacks May Be Imminent" (6/23/01)

"Bin Ladin and Associates Making Near-Term Threats" (6/25/01)

"Bin Ladin Planning High-Profile Attacks" (6/30/01)

"Planning for Bin Ladin Attacks Continues, Despite Delays" (7/02/01)

-- subject lines of Richard Clarke emails to Bush Administration prior to 9/11/01

And yet Bush/Cheney think that "history" will show they were good?

Comments

[silveradept]

Apparently, when the classified becomes declassified, everyone will be like "Wow! They protected us from so much! We don't mind the land war in Asia or the erosion of freedoms or the torture, we were safe."

Lying to the populace out of the office is just as bad as the lying done within the office.

[kylejcrb.livejournal.com]

A Facebook group I'm a member of says it's best: Dick Cheney, shut the hell up.

[tomegatheron.livejournal.com]

Yup, they missed it too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/17/international/asia/17osama.html

Kinda like Clinton in 96.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Very good article, Tom. Thanks! It's amazing how many intelligence opportunities are lost up and down the lines. I started reading the Wikipedia entry recently on the debate as to whether or not there was sufficient advanced knowledge that Japan was going to attack Pearl Harbor in '41, some interesting stuff there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_advance-knowledge_debate

[deborak]

Maybe he meant American Bandstand's Dick Clark. He certainly missed it.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Well, Dick Clark is over 300 years old. I think we can cut him some slack. ;-)