John Lehman is saying today that the Republicans on the commission were blindsided by the publication of Clarke's book, and his public testimony, which was dramatically different from his previous private testimony.
What! You mean Clark....took creative alternatives to the truth? I'm shocked.
See Rich Lowry's article on NRO for the details.
Do you happen to have a link handy?
http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry.asp
The report's evenhanded assignment of blame for pre-9/11 failures makes a hash of Clarke's stilted depiction of Clinton as antiterror hero and Bush as anti-terror disaster. Republican commission member John Lehman blames Clarke's partisan testimony before the commission for the poisonous atmosphere of much of its public work. "We were mugged by Viacom," Lehman says of the company that owns the publisher of Clarke's book and CBS News, which gave Clarke's tome a huge send-off. "They edited his book to make it into an anti-Bush jihad."