Bush `ignored terrorism' in early days, official says

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

He accuses Bush of doing "a terrible job on the war against terrorism."

Clarke, who is expected to testify Tuesday before a federal panel reviewing the attacks, writes in a new book, Against All Enemies, going on sale Monday, that Bush and his Cabinet were preoccupied during the early months of his presidency with some of the Cold War issues that had faced his father's administration.

"It was as though they were preserved in amber from when they left office eight years earlier," Clarke told CBS for an interview to air today on its 60 Minutes program.

Of course, if you've been reading Real Art (and lots of other sources like the Nation, or Eschaton, for instance), you already know this: now it's going to be read into the Congressional record. 'Bout time!

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