The personal warning from terrorism staffer Richard Clarke could not have been stronger. But he was just frustrated by the bureaucracy, Rice thought.
for saying that there was nothing worth hitting in Afghanistan. He said that the CIA would insist that its priorities were most important and described their bureaucracy as"masterful at passive aggressive behavior."
Condoleezza Rice believed it would take the al Qaeda terrorists three years to carry out their plans. With President George W. Bush in the Oval Office, July 6, 2006.Rice later told the 9/11 Commission that she thought Clarke's memo was a good warning but also thought that after nine years of being on the national security council staff, he was frustrated that he often failed to persuade the principals to set the agenda he wanted or persuade these agencies to adopt his views.
The meeting ended up being dominated by an unresolved question of when Predator reconnaissance drone flights would again be flown over Afghanistan, and whether the drone would be armed. The discussion centered on whether the White House, the CIA or the Pentagon would hold the authority to give permission to fire.
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