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Article: Editorials on Richard Clarke's book.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune
- Article date:
- March 23, 2004
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The following editorial appeared in the New York Daily News on Tuesday, March 23:
PULP FRICTION
Richard Clarke's likely best-seller, "Against All Enemies," makes for compelling reading as a devastating portrait of the Bush administration's response to the al-Qaeda threat _ until you stop to think about the quality of the goods he's peddling.
Clarke, terrorism czar in both the Clinton and Bush White Houses, is an angry and righteous man, the hero of his own life, who recognized that Osama bin Laden had drawn a bead on the United States but couldn't get anyone on the Bush team who mattered to take the danger seriously. Why? Because, well, they ...