"Clarke was head of counter-terrorism, so he HAD TO HAVE KNOWN!"
Wrong. This was a DoD Spec Ops job. General Schomacher(?) was in the know. And, of course, select staff....
Why so long for DoD to get angry? They were hit on 9/11!
"Wrong. This was a DoD Spec Ops job"
and where did you get that idea?
according to the articles I've read the CIA reported on UBL to the State Dept.
"Michael F. Scheuer, who from 1996 to 1999 led the Central Intelligence Agency unit that tracked Mr. bin Laden, said the State Department documents reflected a keen awareness of the danger posed by Mr. bin Laden's relocation.
"The analytical side of the State Department had it exactly right - that's genius analysis," he said in an interview when told of the declassified documents. But Mr. Scheuer, who wrote a book in 2004 titled "Imperial Hubris," under the pseudonym "Anonymous," that was highly critical of American counterterrorism strategies, said many officials in the C.I.A.'s operational side thought they would have a better chance to kill Mr. bin Laden in Afghanistan than they did in Sudan because the Sudan government protected him.
"The thinking was that he was in Afghanistan, and he was dangerous, but because he was there, we had a better chance to kill him," Mr. Scheuer said. "But at the end of the day, we settled for the worst possibility - he was there and we didn't do anything."
"Why so long for DoD to get angry? They were hit on 9/11! "
Interesting. The colonel has to have the blessing of his superior officer who must go up the ladder to the JCS, one would assume, in this particular case. Besides the colonel was just promoted recently to Ltc colonel. So he is not doing anything out of being a disgruntal employee at this point.
He has the DoD's blessings to go on talk shows etc..