"The Clark revelation was more of the same ol' same ol'..."

I have to disagree. The term "national security" has been misused and abused by our political leaders for so long, it has nearly been rendered meaningless. The real danger from that is this very example: of the country's top counterterrorism expert not being believed, because he is accused of being 'political'.

What this man is saying is that we might have been able to prevent 9/11, if the Bush White House hadn't been so mired down in their own ideological agenda. And that Bush invading Iraq as response to 9/11 is akin to if Roosevelt had invaded Mexico in response to Pearl Harbor.

These are the most serious charges levelled at the administration since he took office, by the highest ranking official yet. Despite the Democrats desire to impeach Bush for parking tickets, this charge truly does rise to the level of needing to be investigated as high crimes et al.

The testimony to the 9/11 commission should be interesting. As the Washington Post's correspondent who has been following the counterterrorism story for nearly a decade pointed out in yesterday's edition, despite the virulence of the Bush machine's attacks against Clarke, they have not refuted a single fact. Just disagreed over the interpretation of the facts.