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Posted by Auricle (A) on June 21, 2004 at 06:29:38

In Reply to: Not a Bush lackey though. Richard Clarke voted for Gore in 2000. posted by Ears on June 19, 2004 at 12:38:43:

wanting a high level in the Department of Homeland Security and only becoming critical when
1. he didn't get that position
2. it became clear he had worn out his welcome.
3. It was obvious he no longer had daily access to the president but that George Tenet did.

One might be tempted to say that was a mistake, given the CIA's performance in the decades since the Church and Pike committees although it isn't a mistake structurally, certainly. As to what Richard Clark might have said if given daily access . . . given his reputation for sucking up; who knows?

I suspect (actually, I am told) that such conduct has been his modus operandi regardless of the administration he was serving.

Oh, well. His notoriety certainly helped the sales of his book.