My point GUEST 23 Mar 04 - 08:18 AM, was that, under the circumstances, what Richard Clarke was asked to do by the President was reasonable, rational and logical.

By the bye, has anyone asked Mr. Clarke, who else he, and his department were asked to check out?

As to timing of publication, Richard Clarke has just retired, he has written a book based on his view of things, he obviously wants it to sell, so now, probably affords him the best publicity possible. All of those factors however, does not guarantee that what he has said in that book is the whole story.