Re: Caution

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It will be interesting to see if anybody who has been ripping on the credibility of Clarke will pick up that response to Political Wire's post.

It would by hypocritical, but I wouldn't be surprised if I say it.

You can't say somebody is wrong, not in the loop, and just out for attention, and then quote him.

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Then why is the white house fighting tooth and nail against turning over the 8/6/01 PDB to the 9/11 commission? Why on 7/26/01 was Ashcroft warned not to fly domestic commercial aircraft? Why wasn't the flying public warned? Why weren't the cockpit doors directed to be bolted to prevent a possible hijacking?

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Then why is the white house fighting tooth and nail against turning over the 8/6/01 PDB to the 9/11 commission?

Even if Clarke's account is true, which I think it is, any pre-9/11 document that mentions hijackings by Al-Qaeda would be enormously damaging. "Overblown" and "politically disastrous" aren't mutually exclusive, after all.

To your questions about Ashcroft and air safety, I've never heard good answers.

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