Absolutely! Partly because I was in the middle of moving when this story broke, and partly because I didn't want to polute what's left of my brain (post-move) with the blatherings of a bitter Leftist bureaucrat, I've paid virtually no attention to this story. Which is to say I've gotten news about it in the same way the vast majority of Americans usually get their news — in bits and pieces as events of the day sort of wash over them while the TV or radio is on in the background of their lives.
Even paying such sparse attention, the strongest impression that came through to me was that this guy is a mean, bitter, near-anonymous DC bureaucrat who hung around the fringes of power long enough to acquire too high an opinion of himself. I keep wondering if the idea for doing a book was his own, or if someone approached him and offered a fat deal (read bribe) if he'd come up with something to rock the Bush administration.
Doing it on your own can take upwards of a year or more to develop a book proposal, shop it around, get a contract with a publisher, write the manuscript, self-edit it, have the publisher's editor work on it, get it on the publishing schedule, get it printed, bound and out to bookstores, and arrange for a book tour. (Of course, if someone connected to a publisher approaches you to do a book, the first several steps are unnecessary.) When did Clarke leave his government job?