Article: Seeing Red.(Richard Clarke)

There was one moment during the 9/11 hearings last week when everything seemed to stop--the partisan bickering, the blame game, even the media spectacle. All eyes were on Richard Clarke, the hard-charging former White House counterterrorism czar and the man who sparked a frenzy with his shrewdly timed new book. His opening words, directed to the families of the victims of 9/11 sitting behind him, sent chills throughout the room. "Your government failed you. Those entrusted with protecting you failed you. And I failed you," Clarke intoned. "We tried hard, but that doesn't matter because we failed. And for that failure, I would ask, once all the facts are out, for your ...

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