[PhilDragoo]

Apparently Fox reports Clarke was "too busy to get married".

Who else was "too busy to get married?"

Right, Janet Reno.

But Clarke was not too busy to be Rand Beers' shoulder to cry on when Beers bailed:

In the end, Beers was arriving at work each day with knots in his stomach. He did not want to abandon his colleagues at such a critical, dangerous time. When he finally decided to quit, he drove to a friend's house in Arlington. Clarke, his old counterterrorism pal, took one look at the haggard man on his stoop and opened a bottle of Russian River Pinot Noir. Then he opened another bottle. Clarke toasted Beers, saying: You can still fight the fight.

Published on Monday, June 16, 2003 by the Boston Globe
Former Bush Intelligence Insider Assails Counterterrorism Tactics
Beers says enemy is underestimated
by Laura Blumenfeld

Spinning Dick was not given Tom Ridge's job.

Apparently the only thing to match the fury of a woman scorned is Too-Busy-To-Marry Spinning Dick--but now he's home.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Newsmax story:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/26/143826.shtml

[Shermy]

Given the "June 16, 2003" story in the Boston Globe, @ 322, I'm wondering if the intelligence "officials", plural, are Beers and Clarke?

"...Intelligence officials confirmed to Newsday yesterday that Valerie Plame, wife of retired Ambassador Joseph Wilson, works at the agency on weapons of mass destruction issues in an undercover capacity - at least she was undercover until last week when she was named by columnist Robert Novak..."

BTW, in the Vanity Fair piece about Joseph Wilson there's also wine drinking recounted...maybe a message to overseas...hmmmm...

:)