[petitfour]

This article is fairly old. It does not link directly to the NYTimes, so if it needs to be deleted, then so be it. I'm not sure why cornell is keeping archives of the NYTimes available online, but this article is certainly good background info on Clarke.

[alex]

It has to important tidbits:

1. He was focusing mostly on cyberspace attack as of 2/1999 and he had proved being wrong.

2. He was the only holdover embraced by Clinton administration.

[OldFriend]

Trouble is, under Clarke's watch we lost two African embassies and the USS Cole. The groundwork was laid for 9/11 and this man was...........anyone know if he had an under the desk assistant that kept him distracted?

[mrsmith]

Nice!

Clarke seems to have always had exceptional cooperation from the media.

[jcb8199]

"An attack on American cyberspace is an attack on the United States, just as much as a landing on New Jersey," he said. "The notion that we could respond with military force against a cyber-attack has to be accepted."

"However," he added, "a preemptive strike against a known terrorist and threat to our future security is not acceptable."


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[Jackson Brown]

This article is fairly old. It does not link directly to the NYTimes, so if it needs to be deleted, then so be it. I'm not sure why cornell is keeping archives of the NYTimes available online, but this article is certainly good background info on Clarke.

This should NOT be deleted. The only thing you might have done differently (better?) would have been to have it listed as "New York Times via Cornell University"

[Jackson Brown]

KEY quote from part of article not posted:

[On why Clarke was forced out of State Department]

""In 1992, he [Clark] was accused by the State Department's inspector general of looking the other way as Israel transferred American military technology to China.
"There was an allegation that we hadn't investigated a huge body of evidence that the Israelis were involved in technology transfers," Clarke said. "In fact, we had investigated it. I knew more about it than anyone. We found one instance where it was true. The Israelis had taken aerial refueling technology we sold them and sold it to a Latin American country. We caught them, and they admitted they had done it."

He added: "The administration wanted to put heat on the Israeli government to create an atmosphere in which the incumbent government might lose an election. The bottom line was I wasn't going to lie. I wasn't going to go along with an administration strategy to pressure the Israeli government."

Sherman Funk, the inspector general who accused Clarke, remembered the case differently.

"He's wrong," said Funk, the State Department's inspector general from 1987 to 1994. "He's being very disingenuous. Dick Clarke was unilaterally adopting a policy that was counter to the law and counter to the avowed policy of the government. It was not up to him to make that determination. Almost all the people in his own office disagreed with him. In the end, he had to leave the State Department." "

[Pres Raygun]

Good catch. I like everyone else have been trying to figure out this guy's motivation. The picture that is forming in my mind from this article and other sources is that Clarke is simply a Machiavellian power hungry egomaniacal nutcase.

[Spotsy]

You have found some great articles about Clark!

[Terry Mross]

Well, well, well. He's the one who talked Clinton into sending cruise missiles to try to get Bin Laden. And W called his plan "firing a ten million dollar missile up a camel's butt". I think that upset Dickie a little bit.

And, he got upset that he doesn't get to sit between Colin and Rummy.

Bush the Elder shouldn't have kept him and neither should W. The nut didn't fall far from the tree on this one.