{"id":21904,"date":"2004-03-22T07:10:26","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T12:10:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-01-16T14:15:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T19:15:01","slug":"cheney_to_rush_clarke_not_in_the_loop2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/03\/22\/cheney_to_rush_clarke_not_in_the_loop2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney to Rush: Clarke “Not in the Loop”"},"content":{"rendered":"
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT 01:10 PM ET<\/strong>
\nRUSH: We are always happy to be able to talk to Vice President Dick Cheney who joins us now on the phone. Vice President Cheney, thank you for making time. It\u2019s great to have you with us once again.<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, thanks, Rush. It\u2019s good to talk to you.<\/section>\n
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Q All right, let\u2019s get straight to what the news is all about now before we branch out to things. Why did the administration keep Richard Clarke on the counterterrorism team when you all assumed office in January of 2001?<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, I wasn\u2019t directly involved in that decision. He was moved out of the counterterrorism business over to the cybersecurity side of things, that is he was given a new assignment at some point here. I don\u2019t recall the exact time frame.<\/section>\n
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Q Cybersecurity, meaning Internet security?<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Yes, worried about attacks on the computer systems and the sophisticated information technology systems we have these days that an adversary would use or try to the system against us.<\/section>\n
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Q Well, now that explains a lot, that answer right there explains — (Laughter.)<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, he wasn\u2019t — he wasn\u2019t in the loop, frankly, on a lot of this stuff. And I saw part of his interview last night, and he wasn\u2019t —<\/section>\n
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Q He was demoted.<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: It was as though he clearly missed a lot of what was going on. For example, just three weeks after the — after we got here, there was communication, for example, with the President of Pakistan, laying out our concerns about Afghanistan and al Qaeda, and the importance of going after the Taliban and getting them to end their support for the al Qaeda. This was, say, within three weeks of our arrival here.
\nSo I guess, the other thing I would say about Dick Clarke is that he was here throughout those eight years, going back to 1993, and the first attack on the World Trade Center; and \u201998, when the embassies were hit in East Africa; in 2000, when the USS Cole was hit. And the question that ought to be asked is, what were they doing in those days when he was in charge of counterterrorism efforts?<\/section>\n
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Q Well, the media finally has what it wants — I\u2019m talking about the partisan media has what it wants. It\u2019s got an independent contractor, a man whose worked for both administrations, now launching full barrels at the President. And one of the claims that Clarke is making is that — and you just countered it — he said the President didn\u2019t treat al Qaeda as a serious threat before September 11th. He keeps harping on the fact that even before your administration assumed office, you guys wanted to go in and level Iraq.<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Yes, that\u2019s — again, that\u2019s just not the case. The fact is, what the President did not want to do is to have an ineffective response with respect to al Qaeda. And we felt that up until that point that much of what had been done vis-a-vis al Qaeda had been totally ineffective: some cruise missiles fired at some training camps in Afghanistan that basically didn\u2019t hit anything. And it made the U.S. look weak and ineffective. And he wanted a far more effective policy for trying to deal with that. And that process was in motion throughout the spring.<\/section>\n
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Q Why do you think — and he\u2019s not the first, Clarke is not the first — why do you think so many opponents of the President — and what do they hope to achieve by continually attacking Condoleezza Rice?<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well — (laughter) — it\u2019s short-sighted. Condi, is well able to defend herself. She\u2019s done a superb job for us, and is extremely knowledgeable National Security Advisor.<\/section>\n
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Q Well, I guess what I\u2019m getting at —<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: I\u2019ve worked with a lot of them over the years. I suppose he may have a grudge to bear there since he probably wanted a more prominent position than she was prepared to give him.<\/section>\n
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Q Well, I guess what I\u2019m getting at is that whenever it comes to the counterterrorism efforts, foreign policy in general, it seems that elements of the Democratic Party today and their allies attack Condoleezza Rice, which is a matter of real curiosity to me. And, of course, she can defend herself — as she did today in The Washington Post. But it\u2019s just part of the — what to me appears now to be an obvious attack machine at full throttle. You have this book coming out while John Kerry is on vacation so he doesn\u2019t have to say this stuff. The author of this book is associated with Kerry\u2019s foreign policy advisor, up at the Kennedy School. You have a Bob Woodward book that\u2019s coming in a few weeks from the same publisher. Despite all of these attacks, and by the way, I actually think, Mr. Vice President, if you\u2019ll permit me an editorial comment here, you have the Clinton administration — if they had defended the country as eagerly and with as much fervor as they are attempting to defend themselves in all this, we might have — and I don\u2019t expect you comment, I just — we might have escaped some of the attacks that we\u2019ve had. But with this frontal assault, the President\u2019s poll numbers remain up. The administration remains focused. They haven\u2019t taken you off your game. What effect — both in a governing sense and in a political sense — is this full-frontal assault having on all of you in the White House?<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, we\u2019ve got to get on with our business. There\u2019s plenty of work to be done. The terrorist threat is very real. It continues out there every day. The President and I and Condi Rice, Andy Card begin our day six days a week meeting with the Director of the CIA and the Director of the FBI and reviewing intelligence, and working these problems. And you\u2019ve got to be able to continue to do that, even if there is a campaign underway out there. And I think we\u2019ve done that fairly well. We can\u2019t let our guard down. We\u2019ve got to remain vigilant. We\u2019ve still got major issues, obviously, in the sense that terrorists have launched many attacks around the world since 9\/11 in places like Madrid, most recently — but Casablanca, Riyadh, Bali, Jakarta, Mombasa. It\u2019s a worldwide global problem, and it\u2019s got to be dealt with, I think, very aggressively — just the way the President\u2019s dealt with it.<\/section>\n
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Q Do you believe that this policy of dealing with them aggressively has led to more terrorism?<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: I don\u2019t. The fact of the matter is, I think we\u2019re operating, obviously, with a very different policy. Tending to treat these matters primarily as law enforcement problems prior to 9\/11, that in no way slowed down the terrorists. They still launched against us on 9\/11 and killed some 3,000 of our people that morning.
\nThis has less to do with what we do than it does with what we stand for. I think the extremists out there in al Qaeda are bound and determined to do everything they can to try to change U.S. policy and to kill Americans, including innocent civilians and women and children. And the only way to deal with the threat — because you can\u2019t negotiate with them, there\u2019s no treaty at the end of the day here. You can\u2019t deter them. There\u2019s nothing they want to defend. The only way to deal with them is to destroy the terrorists before they can launch further attacks against the United States, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re about.<\/section>\n
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Q Mr. Clarke, to get back to him for a moment, is saying that actually if we would just take some more time and talk to these people, understand why they hate us, we might be able to forge some kind of peace with them.<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: I think that\u2019s totally unrealistic. At least, I fundamentally disagree with his assessment both of recent history, but also in terms of how to deal with the problem. As I say, he was the head of counterterrorism for several years there in the \u201990s, and I didn\u2019t notice that they had any great success dealing with the terrorist threat. I think what we\u2019ve done since, going into Afghanistan, taking down the Taliban, closing the camps, killing al Qaeda, wrapping up a significant percentage of the total leadership of al Qaeda, that\u2019s an effective policy.<\/section>\n
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Q Now, what would you say to people, though, who may be casual — or a bit more than casually interested in this because it does appear to the average observer watching the news that terrorist attacks are up around the world, and yet the administration keeps claiming success in the fight against al Qaeda as evidenced by more of them dead, more of their leaders imprisoned, al Qaeda on the run. How are you defining this success against them?<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, we\u2019ve been defining it in terms of — specifically al Qaeda, in terms of our ability to wrap up major parts of the organization, to prevent further attacks against the United States, obviously. I think all of that — all of those are hallmarks of success. But you\u2019ve also go to measure it in terms of the fact that we\u2019re changing circumstances on the ground in key parts of the world, both in Afghanistan and Iraq.
\nAfghanistan was basically a failed state. Then with the Taliban in charge it provided a sanctuary, a home base, if you will, for al Qaeda to launch attacks not only against us, but wherever they chose. Afghanistan can no longer be used for that purpose because of what our forces did there.<\/section>\n
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In Iraq, a similar proposition there. We were concerned not only about the fact that Saddam had hosted terrorists in the past. He\u2019d stimulated and encouraged them by providing financial rewards for suicide bombers that hit Israel, as well as his past involvement with weapons of mass destruction. And all of that put us in the position where we think now with the process begun both in Afghanistan and Iraq, where we\u2019re standing up new governments. We\u2019ve got constitutions written where we\u2019re going to have governments put in place, here, hopefully, in the not-too-distant future, where those areas will no longer be threats to the United States or anybody else. In fact, they\u2019ll be able to serve, we hope, as models for responsible states in that part of the world.<\/section>\n
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Q Mr. Vice President, one quick one before we go to the break. Clinton administration officials who are now on television, again, attempting to defend themselves in all of this hubbub, are trying to create the impression that this whole al Qaeda and modern era terrorist problem began on January 22nd of 2001. What exactly was it you inherited?<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, I go back to the first attack on the World Trade Center in \u201993, when the man named Ramzi Yousef, together with others, tried to bomb the World Trade Center then. Remember they took a truckload of explosives and set it off in the parking garage underneath the World Trade Center. It didn\u2019t do what they hoped it would do. He eventually was captured. He\u2019s now doing 240 years in a federal pen.
\nBut what we now know, I think, looking back at that, nobody realized it at the time, but looking back at that, was that was perhaps the first al Qaeda attack on the U.S. homeland. Ramzi Yousef turned out to be Khalid Shaykh Muhammad\u2019s nephew. Khalid Shaykh Muhammad is the guy who came up with the idea of using airliners to strike the World Trade Center in about 1996, we believe, when he first suggested that, and who later supervised the attacks of 9\/11.<\/section>\n
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Q You mean that idea didn\u2019t come in February of 2001? The terrorists had that idea in 1996?<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: No. There\u2019s been some evidence that he, in fact, first briefed Osama bin Laden on that in 1996, when he first suggested that.<\/section>\n
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Q Richard Clarke away of that by any chance?<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: I have no idea.<\/section>\n
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Q We\u2019ll take a break and be back in just a second.<\/section>\n
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(Pause.)<\/section>\n
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Q Welcome back. Rush Limbaugh on the EIB Network. And we continue our conversation with the Vice President, Dick Cheney. Mr. Cheney, let\u2019s go to the campaign. Last week, after your appearance in Simi Valley at the Reagan Library, The New York Times and other media outlets the next day immediately posted stories decrying all of the new negativity and partisanship in the campaign. After your appearance. No mention of what the Democrats have assaulted this administration with for three years. It was your appearance and things like it. Now, I realize that this is part of the game. But how does this affect you and your strategy as you go forward toward the election?<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, we\u2019ve got, obviously, a very important election here, Rush. This may be the most important presidential election in many years because of the issues that are going to be decided here, especially with respect to how we defend the country in this war on terror. And it\u2019s very important we get our side of the story out. People talk about negative campaigns starting early. The fact of the matter is, we just recently got started. The Democrats have been out there since last September, roughly — launching attacks against the President and me. And it\u2019s been a good part of what they\u2019ve spent the money on, on their side, has in fact been primarily negative as opposed to what we\u2019ve been trying to do. We haven\u2019t been engaged —<\/section>\n
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Q Well, you ran — your first series of ads were patriotically themed with the 9\/11 images, which were designed to cast the election about America\u2019s future. And those ads were even said to be attack ads. When you criticize Senator Kerry\u2019s record, it is said that you\u2019re attacking him and going negative and this sort of thing. I see it\u2019s not deterring you, and so forth. But how do you plan a campaign against an opponent who will claim to have said or not said anything he\u2019s accused of having said or not said?<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, you\u2019ve got him on tape saying things like, “I actually voted for it before I voted against it,” talking about the supplemental for the war in Iraq. That\u2019s not anything we dreamed up. That\u2019s John Kerry himself, captured on film. So in effect, basically, what we\u2019ve been talking about here is his own record. He\u2019s had 19 years of votes in the Senate. All of us will be judged on our performance in office, certainly, the President will be with respect to his four years. And John Kerry should expect to be evaluated, as well, by the voters based on how he\u2019s performed as a senator and what that tells us about his capacity for the leadership position he aspires to.<\/section>\n
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Q Does it frustrate you when you see Senators Hagel and McCain, Republicans, sort of attack the administration\u2019s attack on Kerry\u2019s voting record and defend it, saying, hey, he\u2019s been here 19 years, we\u2019re all going to have a lot of votes that we couldn\u2019t explain because they\u2019re cast in strange ways? Does it bother you to see what some people regard as Republican defections?<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Oh, I guess, I wouldn\u2019t go that far in terms of how you characterize it. John McCain has been a good guy to work with these last several years. I\u2019ve known John since we served together in the House of Representatives. He\u2019s co-chairman of our Arizona effort. I called him a couple of months ago and asked him to make a run to New Hampshire for us, which he did a very good job on. So I don\u2019t have any criticism to offer at this stage. We\u2019ve got personal relationships involved there, as well, too. And I don\u2019t think we\u2019d be critical of that. John has been a good supporter of ours.<\/section>\n
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Q No, I understand — I understand. I just — we see things in the paper, and it irritates supporters of the President who may not understand in a time like this where the administration is involved in a struggle for the future of the country to see some Republicans not totally on board that struggle puzzles people. They don\u2019t understand it. It just befuddles them, and they don\u2019t quite understand why people would do things that might appear on the surface to undercut the President\u2019s efforts, such as Senator McCain toying publicly with being Senator Kerry\u2019s Vice President.<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, I saw that interview and I didn\u2019t take it that way. I think John McCain was asked if he would entertain such a notion, and he said, well, he\u2019d entertain it, but he didn\u2019t think it was likely and went through all the reasons why. He\u2019s made it very clear he doesn\u2019t want to be Vice President, and that he\u2019s not about to leave the Republican Party. So it\u2019s early in the campaign, and again, as I say, I think it\u2019s a big party. There\u2019s room in it for everybody, and we don\u2019t have any complaints at this stage about Senator McCain\u2019s actions. He\u2019s been very supportive of the President. On occasion, they disagree and he expresses those disagreements.<\/section>\n
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Q What about your health, sir? How are you doing?<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, I\u2019m doing well. I\u2019m getting older year by year, I guess. But I don\u2019t have any complaints, Rush. They\u2019ve been taking good care of me.<\/section>\n
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Q And we have about 45 seconds. Are you planning to stay on the ticket in this election?<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: As long as the President wants me, that\u2019s where I\u2019ll be. And he\u2019s indicated he wants me to run again, so that\u2019s what I plan to do.<\/section>\n
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Q All right, Mr. Vice President, I know that you\u2019re extremely busy. You\u2019ve got many things going on. We always appreciate your time here. It\u2019s always an honor to speak with you. It\u2019s inspirational for a lot of people. And I always say this to you at the close of every conversation we have, just to affirm it because I know you know it, but you really need to be reminded how much love there is and appreciation for you and the President, the whole administration for what you\u2019re trying to do against these long odds. And I speak for all these people out there who love you and appreciate it and wish you continued success.<\/section>\n
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much, Rush. That means a lot.<\/section>\n
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