BTTT
How very interesting..... Clarke the big man on terrorism but WTC93, Khobar Towers, the '98 Embassy bombings, and the USS Cole bombing all occurred on his watch (not to mention OKC, but that's a lengthy debate of its own). Not to say Clarke may not have been more concerned about terrorism issues than others in the Clintonista years, but maybe he just wasn't very effective at getting the Clintonistas to recognize and deal with the threats (of course that may have been an impossible task, so maybe Clarke shouldn't be judged too harshly b/c he could not get Bill Clinton to stop thinking every minute of day and night about satisfying "wee willie").
It sounds from one of his quotes as though he was mainly interested in protecting Israel's Labor Party govt in 1992 (it was PM Rabin then, I believe). I am a staunch supporter of Israel, but never on this technology transfer to others..... most especially not to the PRC!!! It's impossible to know all the facts from this thread, but if Clarke's main concern was to oppose everyone in the US govt. who really wanted to pressure Israel to end such illicit technology transfers of OUR technologies, because he didn't want to see Israel's liberal Labor Party govt. fall over it, then that would indeed make him a very typical Clintonista, even before the Clintons took over! It was 1992 and Clarke was trying to prevent the State Dept. from insisting upon strict controls of US defense technologies?? I'd say that would make me distrust the nobel Richard Clarke even more than I already do.