I didn't see this in any diaries, so sorry if it's been covered.
The New York Times reviewed Clarke's book and it's a very good review.
Discounting the possibility that the White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, is secretly a publicist for the Free Press, one must assume that the Bush administration really is angry at its former counterterrorism czar, and isn't simply trying to help him sell more books. But if President Bush and his advisers were hoping that their loud pre-emptive attacks on ''Against All Enemies'' would make this book go away, they were sadly mistaken. Richard A. Clarke knows too much, and ''Against All Enemies'' is too good to be ignored.
That's a good way to start
Although the writter acknowledges the conflict that has been happening and says that Clarke has an axe to grind, he none the less smacks down those arguments. Saying that the months after the attacks Clarkes access was more limited, he talks about the days leading up to and the day of the attack.
... But the key allegation in the book - that the Bush team was obsessed with Iraq even when faced with overwhelming evidence that it was Al Qaeda that was attacking the United States - can't be dismissed by assertions that he was out of the loop. During those early days, Richard Clarke was the loop.
Some of you may remember the attacks about Mrs. Clinton having too much power in the White House. Well imagine if her name replaced Mrs. Cheney's in this graph.
While Clarke and his aides were holding down the fort in the Situation Room and the president was flying around the country on Air Force One, Vice President Cheney, his wife and aides were holed up in a little-known bunker in the East Wing of the White House called the PEOC, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. At one point that morning, Clarke went to the bunker to see Cheney; navigating his way into the vault past grim, shotgun-toting guards, he found that Lynne Cheney had turned down the volume on the television hooked up to the secure videoconference so she could listen to CNN
That would go over well on the talk radio dial.
Read the review. He also reviews Ghost Wars and says it confirms some of what Clarke says without having an axe to grind.