Clarke's Pique - Bush's Boffle

Clarke's Pique - Bush's Boffle

Mr. Clarke - late of the Bush-Clinton-Bush White House Counter-Terrorism National Security apparatus, has piqued the Bush Administration with his remarks and disclosures in a recent book -explaining the Administration's tethering of counter-terrorism. From the top down - the initial story has been the Bush Boffle on the Clarke vantaged memoire rather than his revelations. A secure White House rebuts and accepts differing criticism and doesn't lager itself - particularly before reading the acclaiming or defaming work. Of the top five - Powell alone; then a near-form by Rumsfeld; responded with an appropriate have not read it yet. Others in the top branch defenseively hyper-reacted. Clarke's main point alone? -- that GW Bush Jr. and his Presidency were so obsessed with finishing Bush I's Iraq leftover (by policy implications) that counter-terrorism was seconded. That co-incided with the Kean 9-11 Commission's review of US pre-9-11 counter-terrorism. Clarke, in testimony, faulted himself and the Administration of which he was a cross-administration part by the simple fact of failed attack prevention - (ie Al Quaeda's cheap success). Instead of joining and focussing - the Administration, caught off guard, hunkered down and stone-rolled. Stone-rolling is like Nixon Administration stone-walling. In stone walling - you become as responsive as a stone wall - you let nothing out. In stone-rolling .. you let it out slowly as if an inexorably slow heavy stone door were being rolled back, slowly revealing the crux and truth. Mr. Clarke, a civil servant in form, for 10 years - specializing in counter-terrorism - should be back in the US national security complex ... Homeland Security or a speciality desk in the executive branch could use him. His speciality would otherwise continue in permitted pubic education or think-tanking or corporate security -- especially financial, telecommmunications and cyber-security. Prescription? Address counter-terrorism: Government -not egos.