Last night Richard Clarke was on Charlie Rose -- His 1/2 hour interview was even more devastating than the 60 Minutes interview of Sunday Night.
Here are the new revelations:
- Clarke is a registered republicians who has not been in contact with the Kerry camp, has no desire to work in Kerry administration and will refuse any job in Kerry administration if he is ever offered he said " this isn't about an audition for the Kerry administration this is about the truth!"
- We had the chance to really hit Al Qaeda and it's leadership two years ago in Afghanistan but now that they have gotten away they have morphed into multi headed beast which will be much harder to destroy.
- Clarke said that Pre 911 George Tenet would talk about Al Qaeda threat everyday in his CIA briefing to the President and only one occasion did the President have a "fleeting" interest in Al Qaeda (the "tired of swatting flies" quote).
- Clarke talked about how the Iraq War fell right into Bin Laden's prediction that US would attack an oil rich Country and Occuppy it- This has been a great recruitment tool for Al Qaeda.
- Rose said to Clark "So you are saying in spite of capturing Saddam we are less safe much like Howard Dean said who was widely criticized for pronouncing the same thing." Clarke said" Howard Dean said it the wrong way , but the gist of his statement was absolutely CORRECT."