[IncPen]

The predictable result has been a furious onslaught aimed at discrediting Clarke and his account. Administration officials have simultaneously sought to portray Clarke as "out of the loop" and yet culpable for the failure to scotch the terrorist menace. They accuse him of hypocrisy for failing to raise his concerns while still in government, partisanship for making them now in an election year, and vindictiveness arising from the fact that he was demoted.

Clarke's response is that such attacks seek to divert attention from the main issue: Bush's performance before and after 9/11. He told ABC that he expects it to go on. "I'm getting a bulletproof vest," he said.

His last quote is telling, and is a response that no doubt has the Clinton Camp thinking that an Arkancide would damage Bush...

[Mr. Jazzy]

"Clarke thus represents Bush's worst nightmare: an undeniable insider with no obvious history of partisanship who has challenged his performance on the one issue that he cannot afford to surrender."

What clap trap! Clarke is trying to say that when he was in charge of this stuff, everything was OK, and when he was demoted then things went to hell because the administration didn't want his opinion.

Any real examination will show that his tenure in office was marked by acts of terrorism against American interests on an almost regular basis!

Putz!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

The first was a new staff report revealing that the previous administration -- the one headed by some guy named Clinton -- had three opportunities in 1998 and 1999 to launch lethal strikes at Osama bin Laden but failed to pull the trigger. Each time, according to the report, senior officials overruled field operatives on the grounds that the intel was uncertain and the risk of "collateral damage" great.

Window dressing, window dressing, blah blah blah. Boiled down to tis essence: Clinton had three opportunities to handle the very same menace Bush's critics claim he hasn't handled... and punted, three times out of three.

Ain't no way in hell to spin that puppy to the 'Rats advantage. :)

[Colonel_Flagg]

WASHINGTON -- When it really needed it, the beleaguered Bush administration found some succor Tuesday

Boy, I sure am glad there's no such thing as media bias, especially in lead paragraphs of important news stories. < / sarcasm>

[NautiNurse]

Followed the 9-11 inquisition live today. If your screen name is faithincowboys, you were screaming that the sky was falling--just like Chicken Little.

Meanwhile, the rest of us savored the tactful responses of Sec'ys Powell and Rumsfeld, while gaping at the likes of a moron named Gorelick and a pin-striped snake named Ben-Veniste who battled for camera face time to spew Democrat talking points.

[cyncooper]

Just as the administration was launching a frantic effort to fend off the allegations of former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke

AKA refuting lies.

"Frantic"? Give me a break.

[MNJohnnie]

WASHINGTON -- When it really needed it, the beleaguered Bush administration found some succor Tuesday from an unlikely and potentially dangerous source: the commission investigating the 9/11 terror attacks.

Just as the administration was launching a frantic effort to fend off the allegations of former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke that it failed to take al-Qaida seriously...

beleaguered?.....Just as the administration was launching a frantic effort?

Isn't it funny how NO one but the DNC "Newsmedia" sees things in these terms? I wonder how they are going to explain why their boy Kerry took an 8 point hit (Pro-Democ rat Newsweek poll) in the polls the last two weeks from this "belegured, frantic" Whitehouse?

[harpo11]

Hey, Senators, I'm giving you this piece of advice down and dirty. It's our lives. It's America's life. It's crunch time. The enemy wants America wiped off the chalk board of your acedemically spoilt minds.

President Bush is huntin' maggot terrorist scum down. Bringin' 'em to justice while all you guys do is whine and talk about it. As if you are helping to win this most vital and critical war on terrorism.

I'm just thankful that one man, our President Bush, has stepped valiently up to the plate and his massive and far reaching bat is blasting these murdering Islamobastards out of the world stadium.

All senators want to do is talk talk us until we are blue in the face and sputtering in aghast amazement at their lack of shock and awe. Well, go but on some cheerleading outfits for once and root and yell proudly for the USA and her brave Troops.

[Lancey Howard]

Let's see: The Scumbag Administration had EIGHT YEARS to deal with terrorism and did little or nothing following a 30' crater exploded by Islamic terrorists in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center, the bombing of the USS Cole, the assassination attempt (by Saddam) of a former President (Bush), and numerous other terrorist actions against the United States and its citizens.

Meanwhile, Dubya was in office a grand total of less than nine months when terrorists took down the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. LESS THAN NINE MONTHS!

But of course the "9-11 Commission" had to be sure to spread the blame out evenly between the Bush and Clinton administrations so as not to offend anybody, and at the same time give the liberal newsroom scumbags an excuse to attack Dubya. This worthless, tax-money-sucking "9-11 Commission" make me want to throw up.

Hey, Bush Administration!!!! DO NOT LET UP!! Go for the throat, relentlessly and mercilessly. BURY the bastards, all of them. Thank you.

[cookcounty]

"When it really needed it, the beleaguered Bush administration found some succor Tuesday from an unlikely and potentially dangerous source: the commission investigating the 9/11 terror attacks. "

Hahahaha. Rope-a-dope bites again. These morons canNOT play poker with W!!!!! .....We DEMAND more hearings ---On the major networks!!

Wouldn't you just LOVE to be the guy grilling Clarke tomorrow? That man has more contradictions than an octopus has suckers.

[shield]

OH come on folks....who is a very close friend of Clark....Rand Beers....Kerry's Sec of State, if he becomes pres....its easy to understand what's really up here....

[Darlin']

"Clarke's response is that such attacks seek to divert attention... -snip- He told ABC that he expects it to go on. "I'm getting a bulletproof vest," he said. "I

He is flattering himself again.

[NYCVirago]

Clarke's response is that such attacks seek to divert attention from the main issue: Bush's performance before and after 9/11. He told ABC that he expects it to go on. "I'm getting a bulletproof vest," he said.

What a drama queen!