"They wasted months when we could have had some action," said Clarke, urging that his Jan. 25 memo and the Sept. 4 national security directive be declassified for comparison purposes.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell said, "My bias will be to provide this information in an unclassified manner not only to the commission, but to the American people. ... We're not trying to hide anything."
Powell criticized Clarke, saying, "I think Dr. Rice is getting a bit of a bum rap. It's been set up as, `I told her everything we needed to do and she ignored it all.' That's not accurate. Condi was on this from the very beginning. She took action."
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