He said his access to senior officials was cut off by the new Bush administration, which he said did not consider terrorism to be an urgent problem.
Christopher Shays sent a letter to Condi pronto, January 22, 2001, to alert her not to depend on Clarke and I'm sure that started the ball rolling when she assessed him and agreed.
In Clarke's world, if he's not at a meeting it didn't happen.
Shays: Clarke Statements Revisionist
See link for Shays' comments and link to pdf files with most interesting remarks to and about Clarke. The media is ignoring his assessment of this lunatic. I'll bet Chrissy flat out ignored them, too.