[muawiyah]

If Mr. Clarke was such a knowledgeable and profound "terrorism adviser" why was it the airplanes smacked into the WTC?

This guy's just covering up his own failures.

[arasina]

If Mr. Clarke was such a knowledgeable and profound "terrorism adviser" why was it the airplanes smacked into the WTC?

From the link at Post #28 on this thread:

In happier times prior to 9/11, Clarke -- as Bill Clinton's counter-terror point man in the National Security Council -- devoted great effort to convincing national movers and shakers that cyberattack was the coming thing. While ostensibly involved in preparations for bioterrorism and trying to sound alarms about Osama bin Laden, Clarke was most often seen in the news predicting ways in which electronic attacks were going to change everything and rewrite the calculus of conflict.

September 11 spoiled the fun, though, and electronic attack was shoved onto the back-burner in favor of special operations men calling in B-52 precision air strikes on Taliban losers. One-hundred fifty-thousand U.S. soldiers on station outside Iraq make it perfectly clear that cyberspace is only a trivial distraction.

Saddam will not be brought down by people stealing his e-mail or his generals being spammed with exhortations to surrender.