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Richard Clarke launches new 9/11 charge at CIA
Topic Started: Aug 12 2011, 01:57 PM (540 Views)
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Richard Clarke launches new 9/11 charge at CIA
By Alex Sundby
August 12, 2011 9:03 AM
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/12/national/main20091608.shtml


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Former White House counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke waits for the beginning of a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee Jan. 27, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Getty Images)


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A former White House adviser who has long criticized President George W. Bush on the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks will reportedly be featured in a documentary advancing an admittedly unsupported theory that the Central Intelligence Agency tried to turn two of the 9/11 hijackers into double agents while they resided in the United States in the years leading up to the attacks.


The top counterterrorism adviser to President Clinton and Mr. Bush, Richard Clarke details his baseless accusation of the CIA recruitment -- and subsequent cover-up upon its failure -- in a radio documentary planned for the upcoming 10th anniversary of the attacks, according to a report in The Daily Beast Thursday.


"I've thought a lot about this," Clarke says in the documentary being produced by FF4 Films, in which he describes his theory as "the only conceivable reason that I've been able to come up with" to explain why the White House wasn't informed of the terrorists' presence in the country, the Beast reports.


During the 9/11 Commission's investigation of the attacks, the CIA said it didn't know the location of the hijackers Clarke refers to, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, the Beast reports.


In the documentary, Clarke says his theory, which he says he has no proof to support, concludes that the CIA director at the time, George Tenet, ordered the cover-up after the recruitment effort failed, the Beast reports. In response to that accusation, Tenet released a written statement saying that Clarke has "suddenly invented baseless allegations which are belied by the record and unworthy of serious consideration."


Clarke's accusation against Tenet represents a dramatic shift from the way he praised the praised the CIA chief during a 2004 interview with CBS' "60 Minutes."

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Clarke's take on terror
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-607356.html

Video: Richard Clarke speaks out
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=607658n

Video: Bush White House reacts to Clarke's interview
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=608083n










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Clarke airs suspicions over Sept. 11 intel failures
08/11/2011 By Greg Miller
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/clarke-airs-suspicions-over-sept-11-intelligence-failures/2011/08/11/gIQAx33K9I_blog.html

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Often depicted as allies in the fight against al-Qaeda before the Sept. 11 attacks, Richard Clarke and George Tenet resurfaced this week with new recriminations over intelligence breakdowns and blame.

Clarke, who served in two administrations as a White House counter-terrorism adviser, started the squabble by saying he now suspects the CIA hid its knowledge that two of the Sept. 11 hijackers had entered the United States because the agency had tried – and failed – to recruit them as informants.

Clarke acknowledged his theory is not based on any evidence in a forthcoming documentary, according to a copy of the interview provided to the Post. But he says it is “the only conceivable reason that I’ve been able to come up with” to explain why the CIA failed to inform the FBI or the White House of the would-be hijackers presence.

Clarke goes on to say he believes “there was a high-level decision in the CIA ordering people not to share information,” all but pointing a finger at the CIA Director at the time, George J. Tenet.

Tenet, who has kept a low public profile since leaving the agency, posted a sharply worded statement on his Web site saying Clarke “was an able public servant” but that “his recently released comments about the run up to 9/11 are reckless and profoundly wrong.”

The statement was also attributed to two other senior CIA officials apparently named in the documentary: Cofer Black, who was the head of the counter-terrorism center; and Richard Blee, who served as chief of the agency’s Osama bin Laden unit.

The documentary, called “Who is Richard Blee?” and produced by FF4 Films, is timed to the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The Clarke interview is scheduled to appear for the first time Thursday night, on a PBS station in Colorado and on the Web site SecrecyKills.com. News of it was first reported in The Daily Beast.

The CIA was faulted by the Sept. 11 commission and other investigators for failing to share information about two Saudis who had been observed attending a terrorism meeting in Malaysia, and were subsequently discovered to have entered the United States. The men, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, settled in San Diego before taking part in the plot.

Clarke didn’t mention his theory during his famous testimony before the commission, which uncovered no evidence that would lend credence to his claim.

Clarke did not respond to requests for comment.









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