[Fledermaus]

Mansoor Ijaz is taking this personally and I like it.

I'd love to also here Dennis(?) Ross' take on this since he confirms Mansoor's version of Osama being offered to Clinton by the Sudan.

[Mr. Mojo]

he has chosen to characterize the Bush White House as indifferent to the threat posed by Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network prior to the September 11 attacks without consideration for the failures on his watch during the Clinton years.

Not just failures on this watch, but his personal failures. Clarke was the guy who was convinced that we should be concentrating all of our anti-terrorist preparations on our enemies' ability to conduct a "cyber war" against us. "Blood and guts" terrorism was too .....20th century for him to waste his time with. .....And he then convinced an equally idiotic Clinton that his position was sound.

So, if Clarke has a conscience at all, it must be pretty heavily weighted down with the deaths of 3000+ Americans hanging on it. And I suspect his "blame (Bush) game" is an attempt to relieve himself of that guilt. ......and to fill his wallet, of course.

[DustyMoment]

Let's put it like this: if Richard Clarke were a doctor, the AMA would have been forced to pull his license to practice medicine as the result of the high number of patient deaths due to his incompetence.

Holding onto a government job for 30 years does NOT make one an "expert", IMO, it just makes one too lazy and too much of a brown noser to look for another job. This guy is NOT to be trusted.

[garylmoore]

Lets face it, this guy is taking revenge, he was demoted by the administration and didn't like it so now the bad mouth.

[samtheman]

One of the things Clarke is saying is that after 9/11 the Bush whitehouse focused on Iraq instead of Afghanistan. I guess he's saying we should have invaded Afghanistan first...

[Right_in_Virginia]

BTTT

[DoctorMichael]

Bttt

[My2Cents]

First it was Paul O'Neill. Now Dick Clarke's American grandstand. It's an election year, so I guess we can look forward to a "flavor of the month" disgruntled former employee of the Bush Administration to provide fodder for the lazy and corrupt news media to chew on for a couple of news cycles.

[Manly John]

This is an interesting article. Especially the part about how the Sudan offered bin Laden to the USA in the fall of 1997 -- a full year after bin Laden had been expelled to Afghanistan.

Interesting, that. I wonder how much of the rest of the article is accurate? LIke, for example, the Abu Dhabi reference? Anybody have a reference to that offer from before Manjoor's article of today? Just curious.