Clarke: Bush's John Dean?

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0402/p09s02-cods.html

WASHINGTON – There is something disconcerting about the way a single disaffected public official can upset the best-laid plans of his superiors, up to and including the president of the United States.

You will have guessed that I'm referring to Richard Clarke, antiterrorism coordinator for 10 years under four presidents, who exploded like a time bomb under the Bush White House with his charges that the administration, obsessed with Saddam Hussein, had done too little before Sept. 11, 2001, to counter the machinations of Al Qaeda.

But before Mr. Clarke there were others who blew shrill whistles on their superiors. There was, for example, Coleen Rowley, counsel to the FBI field office in Minneapolis, who disclosed the bureau's failure to pursue the so-called 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui.

A generation ago there was former White House counsel John Dean, who started President Nixon down the road to ruin by testifying about the Watergate coverup and how he had warned Nixon of "a cancer on the presidency." (Mr. Dean seems ready to try to bring down another president. He charges manifold abuse of power in his new book, "Worse than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush.")

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[yardwork]

1. The disappointing thing about the * administration is that so few

have come forward. Dean was the counsel to the president. Chimpy's counsel is part of the problem.

Nixon's crimes - as bad as they were - pale in comparison to Chimp's. He's wrecked everything he's put his fingers in, domestically and internationally.

It's hard to believe that one administration could do this much damage in a little over three years.

[molly]

2. This is good news

"The end is not yet"

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. From what I've seen the last few days,

John Dean may wind up being boosh's* John Dean!

[SayitAintSo]

4. His Linda Tripp ?

( in terms of effect only....:) )


Clarke is better looking ....