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I am no fan of Clark. I have met him personally and have plenty of friends who have seen him in "inaction" at various levels of his career.

However, Farah is playing fast and loose with some facts in his piece and trying to create an unnecessary level of hysteria.

Clark commanded 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood (as a Major General, 2 stars) at time of Waco, but he was not the commanding general of Fort Hood. That is the III Corps Commander, who is a Lieutenant General, 3 stars. Now, it is probably likely that the Bradley Fighting Vehicles used at Waco came from his division, but Farah makes a significant factual error here, as the order would have had to been issued from the FORSCOM Commander (a General, 4 stars) through the Corps Commander. Division commanders do not talk to the AG directly.

Clinton and Clark's Rhodes Scholarship timeline do not intersect. The first time they met was years later when Clinton was the Governor of Arkansas. Rhodes Scholarships are generally 2 years. Clark graduated from USMA in 1966 and Clinton from Georgetown in 1968. Clark was enroute to Vietnam about the time Clinton was getting to Oxford.

There is plenty to hit Clark on, but creating and propagating false conspiracies only creates doubt about any factually legitimate critiques of policies, decisions, and actions of Clark.