"The Elephant in the Room"
The elephant in the room? Dick Clarke was Clinton's "terrorism czar." He goes on and on and on about how he warned the Bushies that al Queda was an urgent threat, but they didn't do enough. Why doesn't Leslie Stahl, if she's such a tough, good interviewer, ever ask him what he thinks about the Clinton team's record? Why was the cancer of al Queda allowed to grow under Clarke's watch? Now, you could say, and not unreasonably, that Bush's performance is relevant, urgently so, while Clinton's isn't, because Clinton isn't running for anything. True. Except that Clinton's record on terrorism is essentially Dick Clarke's record on terrorism. And his credibility on this question is partly his expertise and partly this notion that he was a voice crying in the wilderness.
If his charges against this President are to be taken as credible, and not partisan, then we need to know where that voice was for the previous eight years.