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Richard Clarke was the White
House National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection,
and Counter-terrorism on the National Security Council for both the
Clinton and Bush administrations. He provides a history of the
counter-terrorism effort under the Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and the
second Bush administrations. His damning account of how the
second Bush administration ignored the warnings of terrorist
specialists in the beginning of his administration and during the
final months preceding 9/11 are astounding. He has strong criticism
of the Bush administration as it focused almost immediately on Iraq as
the enemy in the days after 9/11. This, despite the fact that it was
Afghanistan that harbored the masterminds of the operation and that
the vast majority of the Arabs on the planes that awful day were from
Saudi Arabia and not Iraq. In addition, he aptly points out that
our justification for going to Iraq was to search for weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) and because of Iraqi ties to al Qaeda - which we now
know - there were none to speak of in either instance.
This book was a New York Times bestseller. |