[Shermy]

For Clarke to say something like that is like the 13th chime of the clock. Not only is it bizarre in and of itself, it calls into question, as far as I'm concerned, everything from the same source.

Bizarre? Nothing is as bizarre as Clarke's statement that he thought Condi Rice had never heard of Al Qaeda. And that he could tell this by the expression on her face.

[Howlin]

I've got good money that says tomorrow's going to be worth watching: I think two and a half hours of Clarke is going to be quite entertaining; he may just go nuts on live TV.

[Steven W.]

I read the "expression on her face" in two ways:

1) Condi thinks to herself ... "xyz was right, this guy really is a complete and total idiot. I've got to demote him ASAP!"

2) Condi retains her pose and grace as her nose wrinkles slightly as she slowly draws close some new breath, "this rude & apparently psychotic man has extremely bad breath and body odors! I'm going to x him ASAP!"

[vbmoneyspender]

I'm beginning to get the impression that Clark thought he should have had Condi Rice's job

[cookcounty]

"Bizarre? Nothing is as bizarre as Clarke's statement that he thought Condi Rice had never heard of Al Qaeda. And that he could tell this by the expression on her face."

Maybe it's the Democrats' attiitude of condescension toward folk of darker hue that explains it. Clarke just knew she wasn't up to speed, so he interpreted "her facial expression" as indicating unfamiliarity with AQ, even though the record shows that she was very aware of AQ, and (on tape) had warned that they were menace #1..

[Fledermaus]

Especially since Rice has more intelligence in her little finger than Clarke has in total.

[ravingnutter]

Nothing is as bizarre as Clarke's statement that he thought Condi Rice had never heard of Al Qaeda

Did you watch Hannity last night? He had a tape of Condi talking about Al Qaeda from the fall of 2000, before the Bush admin even took office. Clarke is a liar.

[Mitchell]

Woolsey said in this interview:

Clarke, on page 95 of his book, which I've just been reading, has at least three important misstatements. First of all, he does not seem to recognize at all that one of the major plotters in the '93 attack on the World Trade Center was an Iraqi citizen, went back to Iraq after the attack, was seen by ABC News in Baghdad outside his father's home and was told that he was being taken care of by the Iraqi government. And reports of documents we captured during the invasion indicate that Yassin was on a monthly stipend from the Iraqi government and was given a house. Why would the Iraqis do that with one of the World Trade Center bombers of '93 unless they had some kind of relationship with him. Clarke doesn't even seem to be curious about something like that.

I'm not sure if this list was intended to include all three misstatements, or if he never got around to the second and third misstatements in the Dobbs interview.

But what Woolsey specified here were errors of omission, not misstatements.

Does anybody know what Clarke's misstatements were? Woolsey is careful with his words, and if he says there were three misstatements, we should be able to point to three things Clarke said that Woolsey says are false.