This is why Richard Clarke's testimony tomorrow will be devastating!

[trumad]

Fred Kaplan has wriiten a brilliant piece about Clarke..

http://slate.msn.com/id/2097685/

[DemoTex]

1. "Survivor" winner.

Richard Clarke. Sing like a bird Dick, but "check six!" Keep surviving.

[trumad]

2. LOL

edited it..Thanks

[mhr]

3. Reads Like Clarke IS The Smoking Gun

I sure hope it topples cement head once and for all.

[swag]

4. Excellent article

I enjoyed Kaplan's biography of Gore Vidal very much, and this article increases my respect for his finely tuned mind.

[Michael Harrington]

17. His Gore Vidal book is superb

And so is his biography of Henry James.

[indie_voter]

5. WOW!! Thanks.

I liked how Kaplan discloses Clarke hasn't talked with him for 15 years, showing this isn't a buddy defense.

[Maccagirl]

6. Let the truth be told and the heavens fall!

I pray that Richard Clarke does his patriotic duty tomorrow.

[Catherine Vincent]

7. And this is why the Bush people are attacking Clarke.

"Bush did almost nothing to deal with mounting evidence of an impending al-Qaida attack."

"He ignored it."

[samsingh]

16. bush went on vacation for a month

while the threat of an attack was mounting.

President Gore would not have done that. 9-11 would not have happened on his watch.

[Solomon]

8. Somebody tell him not to fly in any small planes.

I'm reading his book now.

[Cronus Protagonist]

9. Do you think he'll still be alive tomorrow?

Might not be, you know.

http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13

[9215]

11. It's too late for that, IMHO.

[9215]

10. This summarizes the essential parts of Clarke's

stories. This could well blast the Bush fascists out of the water. They are in dissarray particularly over how much of an "insider" Clarke was. That is glaring, and shows that at one and the same time the Bush admins wants him to appear in and out, hee, hee. Cheney's little wrap on Limbaugh that contradicts Condi's take was a big fuckup.

when the news cameras start showing the contradicting statements it will look like those of Colon Powell's contradictory statements at the 2003 UN hearings on Iraq as a threat compared to his 2001 statements.

They look like they are coming apart, but.....

[skeptic9]

12. I agree--DEVASTATING. My favorite paragraph is a long Clarke quote ...

... near the very end of Kaplan's article:

"In December '99, every day or every other day, the head of the FBI, the head of the CIA, the Attorney General had to go to the White House and sit in a meeting and report on all the things that they personally had done to stop the al Qaeda attack, so they were going back every night to their departments and shaking the trees personally and finding out all the information. If that had happened in July of 2001, we might have found out in the White House, the Attorney General might have found out that there were al Qaeda operatives in the United States. FBI, at lower levels, knew never told me, never told the highest levels in the FBI. ... We could have caught those guys and then we might have been able to pull that thread and get more of the conspiracy. I'm not saying we could have stopped 9/11, but we could have at least had a chance. That's what Clarke says is the tragedy of Bush's inaction, and nobody in the White House has dealt with the charge at all."

[leftofthedial]

13. Saletan's liinked article, "Fatal In Difference"

is also excellent.

We have to get these fanatical ideologue idiots out of office.

They are not only evil, they are grossly inept.

[Oilwellian]

14. Kaplan did a great job of explaining it

in layman's terms. He also recently wrote two pieces defending Kerry and the charge that he voted against defense bills. Thanks for posting this Trumad...I'll be glued to my seat tomorrow during Clarke's testimony.

[skeptic9]

15. For URLs to some objective EVIDENCE supporting what Clarke is likely to say...

see the documents posted online yesterday at http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=39039 on the Center for American Progress website. Also see http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1276543

[trumad]

18. The American Progress link is excellent

Clarke's testimony is going to be a must see event..