[BigWaveBetty]

More Clarke.

Q: You tried to convince him, it has been written, to take your job. Can you tell me a little bit about that what happened?

RC: Shortly after the Bush administration came into office, we were asked to think about how we organized the White House for a number of issues, including cybersecurity, computer security, homeland security, and counterterrorism. I was asked for my advice, and I proposed that the counterterrorism responsibility be broken off be a separate job, and that the cybersecurity job be broken off as a separate job. I said I had done counterterrorism for about a decade, and I wanted to start working on cybersecurity, which I think is terribly important. That was later approved by the president. Link

Clarke didn't think al Qaeda was enough of a problem to keep him in his counterterrorism position.

Color me naive, I didn't think there was a bigger flip flopper than Kerry.

[Endeavor]

Clarke said the other night on LKL that he asked to be transferred to cybersecurity after he was disgusted with the Bush admin's approach to terrorism and that they didn't value their chief terrorism person (him).

Larry then asked him if it was true that he asked to be given the deputy asst to Tom Ridge and he said that no, he hadn't asked anyone to give it to him, that instead, he had simply told people that he would be open to taking it. This directly conflicts with what Condoleeza Rice has said - that Clarke came to her and asked her to intercede with Ridge for him (Clarke) to get the job.

If this guy were on the level, he wouldn't be seeking to make a buck off of the atrocity of September 11th. I don't know why some of the families of those killed can't see this.