[Fedora]

My Anthony Lake hunch was right:

Anti-Terror Pioneer Turns In the Badge

Under Clinton, Clarke had carte blanche from national security advisers Anthony Lake and Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger to blow past bureaucratic turf lines and assume operating and budgetary powers that were nowhere specified by statute or executive order. Berger said he regularly turned down demands that he fire Clarke.

[First_Salute]

Never occurred to me, until now, that actually, it is Mr. Clarke who is most, singularly responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks' penetration.

He did not write the book to defeat Bush.

He wrote the book to cover his ass.

He knows that to refute many of his implications-by-omission, that the President cannot reveal various secrets, especially operational secrets.

[Fedora]

ANTHONY LAKE: JOINT INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE TESTIMONY: Washington, D.C. September 19, 2002

The mastermind of the Manila plot, he had also been the object of a massive search for his involvement in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. (If I may add a personal recollection: I vividly remember my joy as I looked at Ramsi's picture on one of the matchbook covers offering a reward for his capture when our NSC counterterrorism coordinator, Richard Clarke, informed me of his capture in a late night phone call to my home.)

[Howlin]

It's all quite incestuous, isn't it?

Great, great research! This is what FR does best!

[MamaLucci]

Berger said he regularly turned down demands that he fire Clarke.

Is there a "Mrs. Berger"?