Hello Thread,
I just received this response to a query I sent:
Offer my thanks to your respondent. He has consistently maintained this view of Clarke: arrogant, difficult to work with, but amazingly efficient, able to get agencies, beauracracies to do extraordinary things, certainly kept in place because of those abilities.
Ken, you may recall some of us discussed the book on terrorism which came out of the Clinton NSC terrorism staff, Sacred Terror or something like that. Your source talked about, as I recall, Clarke then with us.
Frankly, Clarke's presentation tracks with the 9-11 commission's staff summaries and just about everything else we know. Hard to see why, at this level, the Bush folk are so worked up. At the moment it looks as if it's the old admonition: if you want books to sell try to get it banned in Boston. The Bush attacks make Clarke's book more interesting. |
