Against Selected Enemies (Richard Miniter on Clarke)

The Wall Street Journal ^ | April 1, 2004 | RICHARD MINITER

[My2Cents]

This will be "Pres. Kerry's" approach to terrorists as well.

[OXENinFLA]

some idiot ( OXENinFLA )

Hey now.

So instead of keeping this all to one thread you'd rather split it?

[muleskinner]

See, the problem with Miniter's book is the cover. It should never say anything about Clinton, 'cuz the part of the population that see's anything "bad" about Bill on a book cover, will walk right on by.

[My2Cents]

Like most career bureaucrats, Clarke probably feels the politicians are beneath him and stupid for not lapping up their policy prescriptions

Great observation. The value of Clarke's book is that it serves as an example of the arrogant and obstructionist bureaucratic mindset.

[OXENinFLA]

PING..................

[My2Cents]

Has anyone seen any factual data that would either prove or disprove that some of the 911 terrorists trained at Salmon Pak? It would seem that we should know the answer to that very key question by now.

I would guess that that information is sitting in a file drawer in Condi Rice's office. It will come out (it better come out!), but I suspect we're still following lines of inquiry and investigation which would make such a revelation premature.

[Eva]

If you read the discussion, the reason is that many posters do not read the messages, only the recent threads because they do not have time to sort through the messages.

[justshutupandtakeit]

You must be kidding. Clarke was the RATmedia's A-bomb but blew up in their faces.

Remember the principle of Occam's Razor.

[NYCVirago]

BTW, Bob Kerrey on Fox and Friends, said that the committee has a list of questions from "the families" that have to be answered. I bet that none of them are the questions raised by Miniter, here.

And I think we can all guess which "families" will have their questions answered. It's won't be the pro-Bush families, that's for sure. We'll be hearing more from the professional victim contingent -- Kristen Breitweister, Mindy Kleinberg, et al. Did you know that those women have already said that if the 9/11 Commission isn't sufficiently to their liking (read: anti-Bush), they're going to demand *another* 9/11 Commission?

[cyncooper]

We'll be hearing more from the professional victim contingent -- Kristen Breitweister, Mindy Kleinberg, et al. Did you know that those women have already said that if the 9/11 Commission isn't sufficiently to their liking (read: anti-Bush), they're going to demand *another* 9/11 Commission?

I saw Breitweister on MSNBC today, interviewed by the anchor named "Sam". He was more than deferential and they both referred to her pov as representative of "the families".

He asked her many questions, but the one I wish to point to was that she opined that Bush and Cheney speaking privately to the committee might result in them being "less than truthful".

Naturally she has zero concerns about Clarke's representations. It is clear when she says "we want the answers" she means an admission of her own ill-founded and disturbing preconceived conclusions.

It would behoove MSNBC to recognize Breitweiser and her little group that Sam was oohing and ahing over as radical and there are other families who are in tremendous pain thanks to them.

[Sacajaweau]

I agree Clarke is a distraction. The fact that Kerry went off on a ski trip just before the release of the book and now he's looking for surgery "sympathy" kinda puts him in a shadow.

I think the Dems "overplayed this" and they're going to get bit in the arse because the Congressional Hearings, being first, is the other side of the picture being portrayed by Clarke. He's a real egomaniac with illusions of his powers. He sure doesn't come off as a team player.

[nutmeg]

Newsflash: Condi to testify NEXT Thursday!!

THANK YOU for that info! Now I can plan accordingly...

[PhilDragoo]

Clarke was the RATmedia's A-bomb but blew up in their faces.

[Willing To Listen]

Another Ping

[neverdem]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1022083/posts

I think the extensive links between Al Qaeda and Iraq will be advertised in the last week of the campaign, IMHO. If anyone hasn't done so already, may I suggest that you bookmark the thread on the URL above.

[CyberAnt]

Who?

[neverdem]

Oxen, this thread is already in the great beyond and no one can find it unless they deliberately go looking for it. I don't believe you can find it in the Editorial Sidebar any longer. That's why I told Eva and cyncooper that I wouldn't mind if either of them reposted the article. I understand the inconvenience of split threads, and I enjoy reading all the comments of threads to articles that I post as much as anyone. But Miniter's review of Clarke's book should have maximum circulation. The more people know about it the better.

Eva, please don't cast disparaging comments in the future. It doesn't advance any argument.

[jwalsh07]

Dick Clarke.

[CyberAnt]

So .. Cheney's statement to Rush, "He was not in the loop", was right on target - as usual.

So Clarke's statements about what we were doing on terror were really UNKNOWN to him.

[cyncooper]

Yes, I've been focused on keeping this thread bumped.

And here's another one for ya...

BUMP!