PDA

View Full Version : GOP Moves to Declassify Clarke Testimony



usmc4669
03-26-04, 01:41 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - Key Republicans in Congress sought Friday to declassify two-year-old testimony by former White House aide Richard Clarke, suggesting he may have lied this week when he faulted President Bush's handling of the war on terror.

"Mr. Clarke has told two entirely different stories under oath," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said in a speech on the Senate floor.

The Tennessee Republican said he hopes Clarke's testimony in July 2002 before the House and Senate intelligence committees can be declassified. Then, he said, it can be compared with the account the former aide provided in his nationally televised appearance Wednesday before the bipartisan commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.



Former national security aide Richard Clarke addresses the Indiana Higher Education Cybersecurity Summit in Indianapolis, Friday, March 26, 2004. In a news conference after his address, Clarke refused to discuss his testimony before the 9/11 Commission this past week. (AP Photo/Tom Strattman)