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The Disgrace Of Richard Clarke
By Wiliam A. Mayer, March 26, 2004
The fact that the media is skewed left isn?t debatable, so we will not waste otherwise usable bandwidth arguing that proposition.
To see the frenzy surround the testimony of an incompetent liar before a 911 Commission comprised primarily of Democrat hit-men and gutless Republican fools, is merely another indication of just how much in bed with the left the U.S. media is and how far they are willing to go to deny the President a second term and give succor to the enemies of freedom.
When viewed objectively, Clarke?s campaign is nothing more a vendetta against an administration that denied him advancement; having been ingloriously booted from his previous NSC position by Condoleeza Rice then demoted to a bench warming role, that of cyber virus-boy.
He was thus placed so far outside the information loop with regards to the Bush administration?s planning for Al-Qaeda?s destruction, that at best his views are mere supposition, since he no longer had access or even the respect of his peers.
We find it laudatory that Dr. Rice so quickly sized Clarke up and made the correct determination that he was as personally defective as he has since proven vindictive.
Bottom line - Clarke is a self-serving fabricator, and current ?enfant Terrible of the Kerry/Clintonista/Soros politics of personal destruction unit.
Fact: Clarke?s 2002 background press briefing [cleared for release by the White House] to reporters, including Fox?s Jim Angle, and his statement to the Commission are diametrically opposed and irreconcilable.
He was either lying in 2002 or he is lying now
Either one or the other is a purposeful untruth and since he is now trying to promote a blood money book ? a travesty cruelly wrought upon the ultimate sacrifice made by 3,000 American innocents on September 11, 2001 ? his transparent motives becomes all the more ghastly
Legal truism: a witness once impeached is always thereafter suspect.
During his stint in the Reagan administration, Clark was renown for hatching loopy plans, one of which was constructed to undermine Libya?s Moamar al-Gaddafi by subjecting him to SR 71 induced sonic booms accompanied by mock vessels washing up on Tripoli?s beaches, thus suggesting an imminent attack might follow.
Such idiocy got him laughed at within that administration, and he was hastily shut up.
Clarke was the Clinton team?s go-to terror guy for 8 years, a time during which nothing was done to eliminate Al-Qaeda.
He was the chief implementer of Clinton?s much maligned cruise missile showboat attack on unoccupied Al-Qaeda tents and donkey carts in the Afghan desert after the American embassies in Tanzania and Kenyan were bombed.
In the light of the major media?s current state of malfeasance, it goes without saying that using a meaningless but dramatic foreign adventure in an attempt to shift the public?s focus away from the seamy Monica affair, would never have crossed anyone in the Clinton machine?s mind.
Farther down the ? now bloodied ? primrose path is the belief that bombing the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, precisely on the same day that Monica Lewinsky returned to the Grand Jury - August 20, 1998 - was a mere coincidence.
Things like that always just happen in the District of Columbia - ignore the man behind the curtain!
On the day following Clinton?s haphazard missile stunt, then Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, as much as admitted the entire effort would prove ineffective:
"We recognize these strikes will not eliminate the problem?"
Not only would this action not ?eliminate the problem", but it is now clear that merely rattling the cages of both the Afghan Taliban and Bin-Laden with a single, unfocussed attack - by drones, nonetheless, Clinton/Clarke being allergic to the actual deployment of military force which might result in additional poor PR for the wounded president ? actually emboldened the budding Jihadis and thus set the groundwork for 911.
Clarke was perfectly accommodative and supportive of Clinton?s total disinterest and laxity in even developing intelligence on Al-Qaeda - to the degree that he only met with his Director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet, twice during his entire second term.
Once every two years, just like clockwork; commitment with a capital ?C."
Clarke?s motives are so obvious that even an Inspector Closseau could trace them his March 24 testimony hadn?t even been concluded when the bomb throwers at MoveOn sent millions of Emails out at 2:52 pm PST ? highlighting and spinning the event in an effort to raise money.
The following from our MoveOn mole:
?We're committed to stopping that from happening by making sure that the American public hears Clarke's extraordinary comments. If we can raise $300,000 in the next few days, we can run a hard-hitting ad nationally that highlights his message. You can see a rough story board of the ad and donate to get it on the air?"
Another anomalous coincidence or merely additional evidence of a massively coordinated, Kerry friendly ? anti-Bush, ploy? Of course MoveOn had an advance copy of Clarke?s statement - to believe otherwise simply doesn?t pass journalism?s most basic bullshit test.
The same is true of Clarke?s claim of being a ?hawkish" Republican.
As an Insight magazine search of FEC records reveals:
??According to FEC records, Clarke has been giving his money to Democratic friends -- not Republicans -- running for national office. In 2002, while still on the Bush National Security Council (NSC), Clarke gave the legal maximum limit of $2,000 to a Democratic candidate for Congress, Steve Andreasen, who tried to unseat Republican Congressman Gil Gutknecht of Minnesota. Andreason had been director for defense policy and arms control on the Clinton NSC. In making his donations of $1,000 on July 22 and another $1,000 on Nov. 7, 2002, Clarke listed his occupation as "U.S. Government/Civil Servant," according to FEC records indexed with the Center for Responsive Politics.
Clarke maxed out again in the 2004 election cycle, donating $2,000 to another Clinton White House veteran, Jamie Metzl, who is running as a Democrat for Congress from Missouri. Metzl was a staffer on the Clinton NSC and worked for Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) as deputy staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. With that donation, made on Sept. 15, 2003, after his resignation from the Bush NSC, Clarke listed his occupation as "Self-Employed/Consultant."
What the President?s critics would have us believe is that we should take - as gospel - the claims of a failed policy wonk and jilted office seeker while he is in the midst of a national publicity tour to promote his book, published by Simon & Schuster ? Hillary?s enabler ? and as promoted by 60 Minutes, the same people who resurrected Bill and Hillary from his 1992 bimbo eruption.
Furthermore, we are also asked to believe that, contrary to the evidence, Clarke is not minutely coordinating his media foray with such implacable lefty foes of the Bush administration as MoveOn.org.
What the President?s critics are now demanding is that he should have taken even more vigorous action before 911 than the measures they now, even after the fact and in the wake of the Spanish attacks, so roundly oppose ? a World War II level - unilateral - deployment of force sufficient in size and ferocity to utterly decimate Islamic terror.
That is an absurd proposition on its face, and the fact that it is so loudly being trumpeted in the usual haunts will provide a rich source of analytical grist for political scientists for years to come.
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