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who says his warnings were a cause for dismissal? wasn't that his job?
'''Richard Clarke''' was an expert in counter-terrorism and former employee of the State Department during the Reagan Administration. He was eventually a member of the 9/11 Commission. In 2001, Clarke was pushed off of the National Security Council Principals Committee because of his frequent warnings to [[Donald Rumsfeld]] about the threat of an [[Al Qaeda]] terrorist attack, which at that time was dismissed as unimportant.
'''Richard Clarke''' was an expert in counter-terrorism and former employee of the State Department during the Reagan Administration. He was eventually a member of the 9/11 Commission.
==Controversies==
In 2001, Clarke was pushed off of the National Security Council Principals Committee because of his frequent warnings to [[Donald Rumsfeld]] about the threat of an [[Al Qaeda]] terrorist attack,{{fact}} which at that time was dismissed as unimportant.
He resigned from his post in 2003, claiming that he was ignored and his credibility attacked by Bush supporters.{{fact}} <ref>However, as [[Condoleeza Rice]] said concerning 9/11: "I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the [[World Trade Center]], take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile." <!-- This statement indicates, despite the Liberal Media frequently questioning the Bush Administration's credibility, that the government had no prior warning to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. --></ref>
He resigned from his post in 2003, claiming that he was ignored and his credibility attacked by Bush supporters.{{fact}} <ref>However, as [[Condoleeza Rice]] said concerning 9/11: "I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the [[World Trade Center]], take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile." <!-- This statement indicates, despite the Liberal Media frequently questioning the Bush Administration's credibility, that the government had no prior warning to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. --></ref>