Give it up, Dick.
This has been blogged to death (and then some), but I'm gonna get my licks in nonetheless. Anyone who thinks Richard Clarke's recent book is anything more than partisan, Bush-bashing, bickering, bullshit needs a smack in the head serious reality check. To somehow say that Bush should have done in less than eight months everything that Clinton failed to do in eight years is simply asinine.
Don't hold your breath waiting for the networks to get this story out, but Fox News has the transcript from a briefing with Richard Clarke and a handful of reporters from 2002, where Clarke comes right out and says that the Bush administration's efforts in fighting Al Qaeda in the spring of 2001 were significantly greater than the plan in place at the end of the Clinton presidency.
See Glenn Reynolds' take on this at Instapundit. Clarke might just be the biggest non-news news story of the year.
UPDATE: Here's the latest from the Associated Press on Clarke's testimony to the 9/11 panel today. I think the opening paragraph pretty much sums up Clarke's credibility.
Don't hold your breath waiting for the networks to get this story out, but Fox News has the transcript from a briefing with Richard Clarke and a handful of reporters from 2002, where Clarke comes right out and says that the Bush administration's efforts in fighting Al Qaeda in the spring of 2001 were significantly greater than the plan in place at the end of the Clinton presidency.
See Glenn Reynolds' take on this at Instapundit. Clarke might just be the biggest non-news news story of the year.
UPDATE: Here's the latest from the Associated Press on Clarke's testimony to the 9/11 panel today. I think the opening paragraph pretty much sums up Clarke's credibility.
- The government's former top counterterrorism adviser testified Wednesday that the Clinton administration had ''no higher priority'' than combatting terrorists while the Bush administration made it ''an important issue but not an urgent issue.''
