The convenience of the dems pretending having meetings about Al Qaeda was actually doing something about Al Qaeda
No wonder Clarke apologized.
Whether he lied more while he was working in counter-terror or now as he sells his counter factual book is beside the point.
His perception of the issue was flawed, his priorities were way off, and if he had the ethics he has demonstrated in marketing his book while on the job, we are lucky only one big set of attacks matured and happened under his watch.
The biggest flaw he shows in his book is that of his own character.
Ed