Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Posted here Tuesday, March 30, 2004 at 9:12:17 AM     Sometimes those who are at a distance can see more clearly. And it is importnat to note that the NYT, printing this, is taking a stand it badly missed the day after Clarke's meeting with the 911 commission, when the Times seemed not to see the significance of Clarke's speech http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/international/europe/29SPIEGEL2.html ichard Clarke, Washington's director of counter-terrorism for many years, has delivered a devastating condemnation of the Bush administration with his sensational revelations. The whole affair reads like a script for a catastrophic film in the best Hollywood tradition: The White House is in panic and a heavily armed Secret Service team quickly whisks Vice President Richard Cheney to a nuclear bunker and command post underneath the White House; its principal tenant, George W. Bush, jets through the skies above the Midwest in his enormous Air Force One, searching for a safe place to land. And this review of Clarke's book this morning's Times http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/books/review/0411books-risen.html    ********