Then-National Security Advisory Condoleezza Rice stated in a March 22, 2004 Washington Post op-ed, "No al Qaeda plan was turned over to the new administration." The documents posted to the National Security Archive web site today indicate Rice was given robust details about al Qaeda and a plan to attack them by Richard Clarke. Yet Rice did nothing. Well before 9/11, al Qaeda was in the U.S. and capable of launching "military style, large-scale terrorist operations," Clarke wrote. The public should have known about the administration's inaction much sooner.

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