Kerrey should know better. There is a trust when information is provided as background but there is no way that the "backgrounder" should be able to use that trust as a shield to lie - that's right, lie - about the same subject in public. Fox had a right AND A DUTY to expose Clarke's obvious lies. Mr. Kerrey, Richard Clarke is the one who violated a serious trust here.
And by the way, I'm willing to wager that there are HUNDREDS of instances where Members of Congress make public statements that contradict information they have received in classified briefings but they do so anyway, safe in the knowledge that the administration will not break security to out the lying Senator or Representative. You all got so used to that protection, that Clarke assumed he could get away with the lies here.
Let us hope that the freepers who live in Bob Kerrey's state call and email him expressing the sentiments found on this thread.