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Article: Bush administration defends al-Qaida plan
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- August 5, 2002
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said Sunday it moved as
swiftly as possible to develop a plan on how to eliminate al-Qaida -
a process that took eight months and wasn't complete until one week
before the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Clinton administration had handed off to the incoming Bush
team detailed assessments of the threat, and offered ideas on how to
counter al-Qaida.
But Bush officials took issue Sunday with a report in the Aug. 12
issue of Time magazine that said the current administration's review
of its predecessor's briefings became bogged down in bureaucracy.
The current White House denied receiving any firm plans for