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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AuBug who wrote (38294)	7/26/2005 5:57:27 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 93284

Richard Clarke Makes Movie Deal LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Sony Pictures is negotiating to acquire film rights to the first novel from Richard Clarke, the counterterrorism expert who accused the Bush administration of ignoring the terrorist threat before the Sept. 11 attacks. His novel, "The Scorpion Gate," will be published in October by Putnam Adult. The studio hopes the film adaptation will be the first in a series of John Clancy-style political thrillers. The project will be produced by former studio chief John Calley. The realistic geopolitical thriller is set five years in the future as oil-hungry forces in Washington are ready to reshape the map of the Middle East to further their own ends by launching a global nuclear war. The plot involves a fictional takeover of the House of Saud by extremists. Clarke turned to fiction after writing his 2004 best-seller, "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror," which assessed the anti-terrorism efforts of the past four presidential administrations, all of which he worked in. "Enemies" was at the center of a national debate about America's readiness to respond to terrorist threats before Sept. 11. Clarke, who was a counterterrorism expert in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, appeared before the 9/11 Commission in March 2004, coinciding with the publication of his book. During that hearing, he testified that the Bush White House didn't consider terrorism "an urgent issue" in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks. Reuters/Hollywood Reporter