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Article: Against some enemies: Richard Clarke's Against All Enemies doesn't live up to its title. President Bush and his administration are sharply criticized, but other guilty parties are strangely ignored.(Book Review)
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- The New American
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- May 3, 2004
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Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, by Richard A. Clarke, New York: Free Press (a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.), 304 pages, hardcover.
Richard Clarke wasn't "out of the loop," as claimed offhandedly by Vice President Dick Cheney on March 22. Cheney's attempt to cast doubt on Clarke's criticisms came the day after the nation's former counterterrorism "czar" received national attention in the wake of the first of his many televised interviews.
Not only was Clarke in the loop, he was its commander. In his Against All Enemies, Clarke points out that within hours of the 9-11 attack, he convened a video-conference meeting of the ...