Richard Clarke told author Richard Miniter that Clinton, Albright, Berger, Cohen, Reno, Tenet, and Freeh all refused Clarke's urging to attack Osama bin Laden when OBL was shown on hours of clear video from a Hellfire-equipped Predator in September-October 2000.
On page 227 Michael Sheehan [State Department head of counterterrorism] told Clarke after the Cole bombing, "What's it going to take to get them to hit al Qaeda in Afghanistan? Does al Qaeda have to attack the Pentagon?"
Clarke fails to note the offers of Sudan to deliver OBL on a platter brokered by Mansoor Ijaz major Clinton donor and fundraiser (not agent of the "Republican attack machine").
Ijaz challenged Clarke to a face-to-face, but after this warm, personal letter has been released, Clarke has no face.
His incestuous relationship with Rand Beers and Jean-Fraud is pathetically obvious, as is that between his publisher Simon & Schuster, his chief megaphone CBS, and their puppetmaster, Viacom.
Someone left Clarke's cake out in the rain,
I don't think that he can fake it,
For it took so long to half-bake it,
and he'll never have the semblance of a brain.
And, Dick, Condi thinks you're a twinkie, too, Dude.