http://www.lies.com/wp/2004/04/25/richard-clarke-on-what-were-doing-wrong-on-terrorism/ believe nothing... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:28:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.lies.com/wp/2004/04/25/richard-clarke-on-what-were-doing-wrong-on-terrorism/#comment-62906 The Strident Centrist»Blog Archive » Vulnerability And The Change Of Administrations Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:57:42 +0000 http://www.lies.com/wp/2004/04/25/richard-clarke-on-what-were-doing-wrong-on-terrorism/#comment-62906 [...] Ignoring for the moment such complications as the fact that the new Congress that has the responsibility for confirming the appointees will have convened for the first time less than three weeks before the swearing of oaths on the Capitol steps, how will it be possible to achieve the latter part of the suggested solution when a bedrock belief of most of the leaders of the incoming party is that the civil servants who populate those bureaucracies are at best incompetent or untrustworthy because their world view has been polluted by the outgoing administration? Recall Richard Clarke during the first six months of the Bush-Cheney cabal, reportedly “running around with his hair on fire” trying to convince the likes of Rice and Rumsfeld that al Qaeda was a vastly more imminent threat to America than was Iraq. His reward was the exile of his ant-terrorism coordination group to the bureaucratic outer darkness and Clarke, not surprisingly, chose to seek other employment to which duty he reported days before 9/11. [...] [...] Ignoring for the moment such complications as the fact that the new Congress that has the responsibility for confirming the appointees will have convened for the first time less than three weeks before the swearing of oaths on the Capitol steps, how will it be possible to achieve the latter part of the suggested solution when a bedrock belief of most of the leaders of the incoming party is that the civil servants who populate those bureaucracies are at best incompetent or untrustworthy because their world view has been polluted by the outgoing administration? Recall Richard Clarke during the first six months of the Bush-Cheney cabal, reportedly “running around with his hair on fire” trying to convince the likes of Rice and Rumsfeld that al Qaeda was a vastly more imminent threat to America than was Iraq. His reward was the exile of his ant-terrorism coordination group to the bureaucratic outer darkness and Clarke, not surprisingly, chose to seek other employment to which duty he reported days before 9/11. [...]

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