David Frum: DICK CLARKE'S AMERICAN GRANDSTAND

National Review Online ^ | 3-24-04 | David Frum

[GeorgeW23225]

Unfortunately, what ACTUALLY happened, and what is being reported by the left wing media, is two different things. Someone should have had the guts to call him a liar to his face. They don't play "nice". Why should we ???

[petitfour]

Clarke entered government service in 1973 according to an article I found yesterday. He began in the Defense Department, though I could not find out what he did. He graduated high school from the Boston Latin School. He got his undergrad at University of Pennsylvania, and he got a MA in polisci from MIT in the mid 70s. I think the article is posted here somewhere, but with the site problems, I'm not sure. I found the article via a google search on Clarke. Sorry I cannot be more specific.

[petitfour]

Here's a WP article that gives more details about Clarke. I question much of its accuracy because it says Clarke was an Asst Secretary of State under Bush I. I didn't think his title was so grand.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A36571-2001Nov3