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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (554695)	3/22/2004 10:17:58 AM
From: D.Austin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Excuse me Chris, Inside the White House...He retired last month.. He at least excused himself from his post before his book came out. The HONEST OPINION has nothing to do with SELLING a book ?? ****** Vince Cannistraro, former chief of operations at the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, said people at the agency "resented" Clarke "because he was a hands-on bureaucratic guerrilla who rode roughshod over the bureaucracies." Cannistraro acknowledged, however, that such an approach is sometimes useful. Cannistraro knew Clarke during his tenure as deputy chief of intelligence and research at the National Security Council, where Clarke "often came up with questionable proposals for covert action," Cannistraro said. "He was contemptuous of the bureaucracy, and this attitude earned him few friends." Prior to taking his post as cybersecurity adviser (see story), Clarke was responsible for recommending and planning the bombing of the Al Shifa plant in Sudan, which Cannistraro said was probably conducted on the basis of faulty intelligence. The CIA also resented Clarke for airing his views to the press about the intelligence failures that contributed to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, said Cannistraro. "Of course the intelligence community screwed up. But Clarke also screwed up. He was, after [all], the counterterrorism czar when 9/11 took place," he said. -----He was contemptuous of the bureaucracy----- IN WASHINGTON - LOL