Instapundit is doing a nice job keeping up with the problems with Dick Clarke’s book and testimony here (and scroll up for more). I agree with Stuart that serious criticisms of the government’s failure to detect and prevent the atrocity of 9/11 should be taken seriously. But many of the “serious allegations” turn entirely on Clarke’s credibility which seems to be imploding based on his prior contradictory statements in a variety of fora. This is looking more and more like a partisan hit by a demoted career staffer who happens to be promoting a book smack dab in the middle of the presidential election season.
And from my brief listen to the hearings while driving from Ann Arbor to Indianapolis yesterday, it seems like some Democratic commissioners are more interested in blasting Condie Rice for not testifying before them under oath and with bolstering the Clinton administration’s handling of terrorism, than they are in the question which they were ostensibly convened to answer. But I must admit that the posturing made me turn off the hearings, and turn on some good driving music, sooner than I otherwise would so perhaps I had a skewed impression of the questioning.
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