[CyberAnt]

OMG - did he keep quiet about what he knew - TO SHOW THEM HE WAS RIGHT ..??

I'm stunned to even think this might be true.

[Pinetop]

I think there is some extremely distorted expiation of guilt displayed by Clarke. He disassociates himself from all of the mistakes, even though he was the wonk on counter-terrorism, but then he takes it upon himself to apologize on behalf of the country.

And, then there was some very weird dialogue about his staying on with an administration that he blamed for 9-11 so that his cyber-terror manuscript would be submitted to the president--to the benefit of his own self interests. Yet we are to believe that the timing of the release of his book was free of any self interest.

[Fitzcarraldo]

I speculate that Clarke's 'purpose' while in the employ of Bush was to misdirect by cutting off potentially productive sources of intelligence and presenting bogus or doubtful information leading in the summer of 2001 to a heightened state of national readiness that was called off in August.

At any rate, Clarke's activities need to be investigated further.

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

"OMG - did he keep quiet about what he knew - TO SHOW THEM HE WAS RIGHT ..??
I'm stunned to even think this might be true."


After reading all the responses to this thread and your posting above. I almost got sick! The thought of this guy holding back information or even holding back a hunch to show/punish the administration that they needed him more than they thought they did is something only the truly evil are capable of doing.

If this turns out to be true I hope this man suffers a LONG PAINFUL DEATH! Hell holds a speacial place for people such as these and they suffer above and beyond all others.