Richard Clarke calls BS on Al Qaeda NYC subway cyanide plot

Maybe I have just gotten to the point where I don't believe anything this administration, but I though that there was soething very wrong with this scenario, too.

Daily Kos: Richard Clarke calls BS on Al Qaeda NYC subway cyanide plot: (Full article at dKos)

What Clarke said:

There's reason to be skeptical,' said ABC News consultant Richard

Clarke, who is the former chief of White House counterterrorism. 'Just because
something is labeled in an intelligence report does not mean every word it is
true.'

He says the information describing the plot would have been just one
of the hundreds of threats that would have been collected in 2003.

Furthermore, the specificity of the report is suspect, he said. 'Whenever you get reports that are this specific, they are usually made up.'


Clarke noted the report detailed a particular time period for the attack, and that Osama bin Laden's top deputy himself weighed in.

Clarke said Zawihiri and bin Laden are too isolated to have that kind
of direct control over a plot inside the United States. He also thinks the terrorists would have carried out the attack if the plot was as advanced as Suskind reported.

'Frankly if there was a team in the United States that was ready to do this, they would have done it,' Clarke said."