The exquisite orchestration screams Clinton. In one fell swoop, Clinton's legacy gets a boost, and Bush takes a big hit. Make no mistake - this one hurts.I hope you're wrong! ;) I think Clarke may have been too over the top, even for Democrats. You'd have to be drinking the Clinton kool-aid pretty hard to believe that Clinton's No. 1 priority was fighting terrorism.
Clarke's apology was a master stroke. It matters what the commission finds, but it matters even more what the "commission of public opinion" finds. There is a hunger for accountability, and liberal media have anointed the
anti-Bush 9/11 families as the authentic voices, just as years ago NOW was anointed as the authentic voice of women.
The apology emphasized to that audience that the government admits culpability. The fact of it happening, at the moment it happened - i.e. on Bush's watch. Never mind 8 years of ineptitude that opened the door to it.