Outgoing Clintonites warned incoming Busheviks Al-Qaeda was top threat

Clinton Aides Plan to Tell Panel of Warning Bush Team on Qaeda

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/20/politics/20PANE.html?hp

Senior Clinton administration officials called to testify next week before the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks say they are prepared to detail how they repeatedly warned their Bush administration counterparts in late 2000 that Al Qaeda posed the worst security threat facing the nation — and how the new administration was slow to act.

They said the warnings were delivered in urgent post-election intelligence briefings in December 2000 and January 2001 for Condoleezza Rice, who became Mr. Bush's national security adviser; Stephen Hadley, now Ms. Rice's deputy; and Philip D. Zelikow, a member of the Bush transition team, among others.

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via Atrios at Eschaton:
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_03_14_atrios_archive.html#107976109682326048

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This - along with Bush's 9/13 Bin Laden Family Airlift - gives us the new meme "Republicans soft on terror".