....yes, I am just fascinated by this guy and what hes doing to take on our modern day version of the Borgias.
I ran across this article from little over a year ago. Its old news, but its a take on Clarke before he became a target of spin. Alot of what we know now (and is in his book) is foreshadowed here...as well as some neat little bio tidbits:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A17694-2003Mar12¬Found=true On Feb. 21, the last day of an 11-year White House marathon, Richard A. Clarke walked into his office and turned in a gear bag fit for a Hollywood spook. From pockets and cases he shed an encrypted mobile phone, a satellite phone, a "priority service" mobile phone, a secure home phone and still another government cell phone.
Then came a .357 Magnum SIG-Sauer semiautomatic with jacketed hollow-points, and the special deputy U.S. marshal's badge that went with it.
Clarke was one of only three White House officials -- in any recent administration -- known to have packed a pistol for protection. There were times, friends joked, when he could have used it in interagency combat. The Secret Service authorized the gun for another reason: Until last year, Clarke coordinated U.S. efforts to hunt and kill al Qaeda's senior leaders, and there was evidence that al Qaeda preferred to reverse the transaction. In 1999, in an episode not disclosed before, Clarke abandoned his house for a month and acquired a temporary Secret Service detail when Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat passed urgent (and ultimately uncorroborated) word that an al Qaeda hit team had been dispatched for him.snip
His style was seldom delicate....
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