[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

[cyncooper]

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

I saw the very end of Hardball last night with Clarke as the guest.

Chris asked him to criticize Clinton "to make it fair" (I had to laugh as I could just imagine the Bush bashing that had gone on).

So Clarke cited not taking out the terrorist camps, but he hastened to minimize this as a failure. (and I do mean hastened. He first tried to respond by saying "Let me tell you what they DID do and since time was running out Chris made him come up with his token criticism first)

Then Chris actually asked about the OBL video and do you want to know how craven Clarke is? Get this paraphrase of his response:

President Clinton was 100% (yes, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT, AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HE HAD ZERO INFLUENCE OR DECISION MAKING) not responsible for not doing anything. The fault lay completely and utterly with the CIA.

But he's not a partisan. I don't want you to get the wrong idea....or anything...

[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.