That's one of the headlines from the
WaPo.
White House Reels From Insider Expose
Monday, Mar 22, 2004; 10:58 AM
The White House is in massive damage control mode today after another searing, book-length indictment from a former insider.
Richard A. Clarke, Bush's former counterterrorism director, says that the Bush White House failed to take the al Qaeda threat seriously before Sept. 11, 2001, and by Sept. 12 was trying to pin the attack on Iraq.
The NY Times:
Debate Grows Over Bush's Handling of Terror Threat
By CARL HULSE 1:17 PM ET
Accusations by the former White House counterterrorism czar promised to reverberate this week as the 9/11 commission conducts a public hearing.
Think this story has legs, kids?
here's the LA Times:
Ex-Aide: Bush Sought Iraq-9/11 Link
By Greg Miller, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON -- Almost immediately after the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes, President Bush ordered Richard Clarke, his top counterterrorism advisor, to search for evidence that Iraq was complicit in the attacks, Clarke said in a television interview broadcast Sunday.
"The president dragged me into a room with a couple of other people, shut the door and said, 'I want you to find whether Iraq did this,' " Clarke told the CBS program "60 Minutes." "He never said, 'Make it up.' But the entire conversation left me in absolutely no doubt that George Bush wanted me to come back with a report that said Iraq did this."
Check any source you want. This (and the Hamas assassination) are the Big Stories. Run, Junior, run. You can't evade responsibility forever.