The NY Post editorializes on Richard Clarke's Shifting Stories
As several commissioners noted, the book's accusations - which he repeated under oath yesterday - are totally at odds with the 15 hours of closed-door testimony Clarke delivered earlier to the 9/11 commission.Ya think?
And they are dramatically contradicted by a press backgrounder Clarke himself conducted in August 2002. Fox News made an audiotape of that briefing public yesterday; in it, Clarke confirms much of what Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld testified to on Tuesday.
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You've got a real credibility problem," former Navy Secretary John Lehman, a member of the federal 9/11 commission, told one-time White House official - now full-time fabulist - Richard Clarke yesterday.
