"Pardon me but the administration was studying and making policy decisions without keeping their terrorism czar in the loop?"

Exactly. That is the scariest part of the whole deal, isn't it? The Bush administration hacks thought they were the experts on terrorism. Obviously they were wrong on that count.

As to the silly thing over the resignation letter--please. I put nice things in my resignation letters to employers I left because they were totally incompetent too. So what the hell is a resignation letter supposed to "prove" about Clarke's charges? Not a damn thing.

Haven't seen the video from Fox you are referring to, so can't comment on that. But I don't think this is sour grapes. This sounds like a man who wanted to write his own account, in hopes of influencing his legacy. Lots of high ranking politicos do that when they leave government for good.