Friday, August 12, 2011

Did The CIA Try To Recruit The 9/11 Hijackers—And Then Covered It Up?

Richard Clarke. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

An Explosive New 9/11 Charge -- The Daily Beast

In a new documentary, former national-security aide Richard Clarke suggests the CIA tried to recruit 9/11 hijackers—then covered it up. Philip Shenon on George Tenet’s denial.

With the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks only a month away, former CIA Director George Tenet and two former top aides are fighting back hard against allegations that they engaged in a massive cover-up in 2000 and 2001 to hide intelligence from the White House and the FBI that might have prevented the attacks.

The source of the explosive, unproved allegations is a man who once considered Tenet a close friend: former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, who makes the charges against Tenet and the CIA in an interview for a radio documentary timed to the 10th anniversary next month. Portions of the Clarke interview were made available to The Daily Beast by the producers of the documentary.

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Update #1: Clarke airs suspicions over Sept. 11 intel failures -- Washington Post
Update #2: Richard Clarke Makes New 9/11 Coverup Allegations -- The Atlantic

My Comment: Where is the proof? Hmmm .... there is none. By making these baseless accusations Richard Clarke is diminishing his stature.

1 comment:

Philip said...

Mr. Clarke has been doing a pretty good job of diminishing himself over the years anyway.