Cheney’s Trauma

Posted at 4:27 pm on Wednesday, June 10, 2009, in Bush Administration, and tagged bill clinton, cheney, dick clarke, nine-eleven, rice, terrorism.

Also while I was away, Dick Clarke penned an op-ed, criticizing the excuses being laid down (loudly and all too often) by Dick Cheney…

Yes, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice may have been surprised by the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — but it was because they had not listened. And their surprise led them to adopt extreme counterterrorism techniques — but it was because they rejected, without analysis, the tactics the Clinton administration had used. The measures they uncritically adopted, which they simply assumed were the best available, were in fact unnecessary and counterproductive.

Read his book. (The details are overwhelming.)

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