[GOPJ]

Clarke doesn't tell what a person has said that's damning, he tells what he thinks they were thinking that was damning.

For instance, if Condi turned and said "nice day", most folks would take her words at face value and assume she meant "nice day".

Clark would ignore the words, look at her expression or her eyebrows, or whatever and "read" bizarre false meaning into her comment.

Clark might say, "she said 'nice day' but I could tell she wanted to tell me she didn't understand her job". Or that "she wanted to fly" or whatever. In other words, Clark doesn't tell us about Condi, he tells us his own projections.

[MeekOneGOP]

Speaking of Condi ... I'm not clear (or maybe I am and it doesn't make ANY sense at all to me) about an allusion to her coming into the administration and not knowing who al-Qaeda is ? Did Clarke say that about her ?? I can't imagine her not know about al-Qaeda and/or ObL coming into the Bush Administration.

When I heard the very first reports that morning on 9-11, I immediately told my co-workers that it was (imho at the time) the work of ObL and al-Qaeda. I was familiar with the earlier attacks on the WTC, the Khobar, USS Cole, and so forth. I cannot fathom Condi not being familiar with them as well.

Clarke is a liar, trying to sell a book.