Clarke Known As Abrasive but Efficient

Yahoo! News ^ | 3/27/04 | Nancy Benac - AP

[Peach]

1. Rep. Christopher Shays, chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, said that in June 2000 Clark told the subcommittee there was "no need for an assessment" of the terrorist threat.

Three national commissions concluded the US needed a comprehensive threat assessment and a national strategy. Shays held 20 hearings pre 9/11 and on June 28, 2000 he asked Mr. Clarke, then serving as Clinton's Special Assistant and National Coordinator, Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counterterrorism, when an all source threat assessment and strategy would be completed.

Clark answered "No assessment has been done, and there is no need for an assessment. I know the threat."

2. In 2000, the Department of Defense Worldwide Conference on Terrorism asked Mr. Clarke's assistant when a national strategy on terrorism would be completed. The assistant responded that a strategy was being developed (in 2000 - the last year of the Clinton presidency). However, no national strategy to combat terrorism was every produced during the Clinton administration.

3. 911 Commissioner Lehman noted to Clarke on Tuesday that his 15 hours of private testimony differed substantially from his public testimony. So substantially that Lehman told Clarke he couldn't believe it. As a result of that, the White House is seeking to declassify whether Clarke lied under oath.

4. On page 127 of Clarke's new book "Against All Enemies", Clarke notes that it's possible that al Qaida operatives in the Phillipes "taught Terry Nichols how to blow up the Oklahoma Federal Building." Intelligence places Nichols there on the same days as Ramzi Yousef, and "we do know that Nichols's bombs did not work before his Philippines stay and were deadly when he returned."

And yet, the Clinton administration focused exclusively on homegrown terrorists, and never talked publicly about this matter. Laurie Mylroie, terrorism expert who worked for the Clinton administration, and others, have since talked about the Iraqi connection to the OKC bombing frequently. Yet your news organization has been largely if not completely silent.

5. Despite Clarke's assertion that he is non-partisan, a few moments research into public records indicates that Clarke has only donated to Democrat's campaigns, never to Republicans.

6. Insight magazine published an article in June 2001 (pre 9/11) that reflects exactly what the Bush administration was doing to combat terrorism and provides information that proves Clarke was primarily focused on cyber terrorism vs. the kind of terrorism that kills thousands of people.

[jwalsh07]

Not any more, now he's known as a lying weasel who prifited from the deaths of Americans.

[NormsRevenge]

For decades he was the ultimate inside operator, the person who knew how to tackle the toughest national security problems and overcome bureaucratic inertia with behind-the-scenes guts, arrogance, smarts and hard work.

efficient, abrasive,, But was he effective?

How many attacks have we sustained over all his years and who is really to blame?

Buy MY book and find out. ;-o (just kidding..)

[inkling]

Holy Crap! Did Clarke write this himself?!

Clarke, who is single, is known as a voracious reader, from science fiction to history to the latest tutorial on al-Qaida, and as someone who enjoys relaxing with friends over dinner. The native New Englander loves seafood, follows the Boston Red Sox and the Washington Capitals, enjoys jazz and has a room in his Sears catalogue home packed with duck decoys and prints.

...His measurements are 36, 42, 56. He loves chinese food and long walks in the rain. No smokers, and please, no head games.

GACK!

[vbmoneyspender]

LOL

[formerlytempaussie]

Single, eh? Hmmm, and a high-pitched arrogance and temper. Boy, does this sound like someone a little light in the loafers. This fella sounds like someone who has been spurned.

[LauraJean]

Oh my goodness, I wonder if he goes to science fiction conventions. He sounds like a lot of people I have met at cons. Just think of the cartoon guy on the Simpsons. Obviously I can understand why the man is still single.

[RoseofTexas]

Geez, the RAG rats are trying so hard to paint Smeagol Clarke as mother Teresa. HA! It'll never work!

[trek]

Fellow freepers. I have no evidence for this but I smell Soros behind the Richard Clarke story. I don't know if they have dirt on Clarke or if they have merely bribed him with serious millions to be funneled via a book deal or maybe even a swiss account. This whole business just does not smell right.

Soros is a very powerful and shady figure. Finding a way to turn Clarke is just his style. Don't be fooled by his sudden interest in American politics. Soros hates Bush and the war on terror because they are a threat to his empire. Soros makes his millions manipulating currencies. Opaque banking practices are critical to his business. And that is why he hates the war on terror. The same changes to the international banking system needed to defund the Jihadis are a mortal threat to his "business".

It sure is a shame that the "investigative media" have no interest in this story. I suspect there is a huge scandal here. But I doubt we will ever hear about. The libs have the press on too short a leash.

[NormsRevenge]

Usually they eat their own,, but in this case, .. they want him to appear to be a Repub as long as they can continue that charade.

[Diogenesis]

No suprise reading AP militants helping terrorists.

[wardaddy]

The intensity of the Republican campaign to discredit him as a disgruntled partisan who is out to sell books is a testament to how seriously the White House views his criticism.

Actually Ms. Sherlocke, they might just be angry that he is a baldfaced liar......the Old Pretender.

[shhrubbery!]

...His measurements are 36, 42, 56. He loves chinese food and long walks in the rain. No smokers, and please, no head games. GACK!

Heh, funny post!

The guy is obviously your typical, East Coast elitist. I'll bet that in his not-too-distant past somewhere are (a) leather elbow patches on a tweed jacket, (b) a pipe, and (c) a Volvo.

[kezekiel]

So, he's focused, a hard worker, reads books, and gets the job done.

Such hard-hitting journalism. Thanks for getting to the bottom of this one, AP!

[GailA]

to true

[LADY J]

"This really isn't Dick," said Steven Simon, who worked with Clarke both at the White House and at the State Department. "It strikes me as a pretty clear indicator of the magnitude of his outrage."

Actually this really IS Dick. We have the proof right from his own mouth.

[MNJohnnie]

As anyone figured the ego angle and race angle on this? You have a middle aged ego centric, self important male bureaucratic insider being passed over for an African American female who later is instrumental in demoting this self important stuffed shirt. I think part of the reason Clarke has been so especially verminous in his comments about Rice is his poor little ego is bruised that a Black Woman is so much for efficient and better qualified despite his 30 years of self-purmotion.

[Spotsy]

Roger Cressey, a business partner who also worked with Clarke in government, said Clarke had expected to be attacked, but "even he is rather surprised at the ferociousness and vindictiveness of it."

Clarke is surprised by the ferociousness and vindictiveness? Clarke made this very personal with things like questioning Bush's intellect (for example, "he doesn't like to read") and by pretending not to know about Condi's academic and professional credentials (anyone who didn't graduate from MIT like Clarke is sub-par in his mind).

Clarke has some serious psychological issues.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

On one of the other threads someone had tracked down some of his political donations, all to Demonic Rats.