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What's my position today?
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Originally posted by bilmore
I think that this part:
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JIM ANGLE: You're saying that the Bush administration did not stop anything that the Clinton administration was doing while it was making these decisions, and by the end of the summer had increased money for covert action five-fold. Is that correct?
CLARKE: All of that's correct.
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ANGLE: So, just to finish up if we could then, so what you're saying is that there was no — one, there was no [Clinton] plan; two, there was no delay; and that actually the first changes since October of '98 were made in the spring months just after the [Bush] administration came into office?
CLARKE: You got it. That's right.
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belies his claim that there was a failure of vigor, or at least belies his assertions of those claims now. Seems to me to be directly in opposition to "they weren't doing much about it", which is how I translate his criticisms.
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I don't see a tension between any of this and the excerpts I've seen from his book. It may be inconsistent with the way some people are reporting his book, but it seems to me that when a book comes out and reporters are breathlessly describing the juicy bits, they almost certainly haven't read it. They've had an intern skim quickly for the juicy bits, which then get wrenched out of context.
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