In recent days leading congressional Republicans are now
calling for an investigation into Mr. Clarke. As I mentioned earlier,
Secretary O'Neill was also subjected to an investigation. Clarke and
O'Neill sought legal and classification review of any information in
their books before they were published. Nonetheless, our colleagues tell us these two should be
investigated, at the same time there has been no Senate investigation
into the leaking of Valerie Plame's identity as a deep cover CIA agent;
no thorough investigation into whether leading Administration officials
misrepresented the intelligence regarding threats posed by Iraq; no
Senate hearings into the threat the chief Medicare Actuary faced for
trying to do his job; and no Senate investigation into the reports of
continued overcharging by Halliburton for its work in Iraq.
