Article: 20/40 hindsight.(At War)(Richard Clarke)

RICHARD CLARKE, the former Clinton and Bush counterterrorism official who has become famous by criticizing President Bush, is a complicated case. On one hand, he was one of the more acute officials in the Clinton administration. He consistently warned about the threat of al-Qaeda and pushed for more aggressive action against it. In the early days of the Bush administration, he was also a strong voice for action. On the other hand, Clarke has now made himself an anti-Bush partisan willing to skate over important facts and offer tendentious interpretations of events to cast the Bush team in the worst possible light. The stench of opportunism is unmistakable around Clarke. It ...

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