What is your point Teribus?

There is this depiction of Clarke, in a different article in today's Washington Post:

"Most acquaintances do not regard him as a partisan. Clarke was viewed as a hawk and "true believer" by many within the Clinton administration, and Clarke himself says he is an independent who is registered as a Republican.

"You can't accuse him of being passive or too liberal on foreign policy," said Vince Cannistraro, a former CIA official who worked with Clarke in the Reagan years. "He's very abrasive and aggressive and pushes his point of view very hard."

Now, is that the description of a Kerry dove? I think not.

These are damning charges, and as many are beginning to point out, these charges demand answers from the White House, not scurrilous, ad hominem attacks on the messenger. It is ESPECIALLY important that this book be released before the elections in the US in November. Yet, that is just what the White House, through it's inferences that the timing of the book's release is politically motivated, seems to be suggesting. That criticism of the president's handling of the war on terrorism should be withheld from the public until after the election.

Sorry, but that ain't gonna fly.