[Wuli]

He and tenet both should have been sacked on inauguration day and then maybe Negroponte and Porter Goss might have stepped in in time.

[rwa265]

"If you read the papers or watch TV , you’ve probably heard that an Army Intelligence unit called Able Danger (may have) identified four of the 9/11 hijackers as much as a year before they struck – but was unable to pass the information on to the FBI because Pentagon lawyers said it would be a “no-no”…."

It depends on which papers you read or what TV stations you watched.

[kimosabe31]

Interesting analysis.

[Piquaboy]

He had his head up his butt as usual and could not see or hear anything.

[goarmy]

Clarke characterized himself as the "outsider" (career civil servant sans military or political background), and this allowed him to bounce from agency-to-agency and glean the necessary information from his toadies without having to go through the normal chains-of-command. Therefore, he was the ultimate bureaucrat (i.e., he worked himself into the powerful position of head counter-terrorism dude and didn't owe any favors for his position). He further wrote of himself as a person who ruffled a lot of feathers, so you can see what he's trying to establish in his book.

As for ABLE DANGER, if Clarke was, indeed, presented with the data from this operation, I'll bet that he discounted them for whatever reasons, shelved them, and moved on to something that smelled good. Therefore, he could NOT mention Able Danger in his book because the buck stopped with him.

You reap what you sow, and if Clarke made a habit of dissing folks over a period of thirty years as he has indirectly implied, then his sphere of influence became very, very small with each successive year.

[HarleyLady27]

You think anyone with a brain would let Richard Clarke know anything?

The only thing he knows is his name, and maybe the planet, lib-er-us...the one he lives on....

[CyberAnt]

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