[mewzilla]

Some journo ought to buttonhole every 9-11 panel member and ask him if he's read Miniter's book. If not, why not? And if so, what does he/they think about the discrepancies in Clarke's story than and now. Inquiring minds want to know...

[PhilDragoo]

pp 222-229 contain an account of the post-Cole meeting wherein Clarke urged an attack on al Qaeda.

Clarke fails to note in public now what he makes clear in this and other sections of the Miniter book:

That Clinton, Albright, Berger, Cohen, Tenet, Reno, and Freeh opposed any attack on OBL--

--despite the eleven Predator-Hellfire flights September-October 2000 showing clear video of OBL on three occasions.

Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror by Richard Miniter