Reply #41: There are 3 things that Clarke has said during his

[jdj]

book p.r. that are more innuendo than statement of fact, but each time he said one of them, I noticed that he looked straight in to the camera with a very intense look on his face, as if to imply that he was saying something without coming out and saying it. I can't remember which show, these were three separate interviews, but each comment has stuck in my head.


1) Bush and Condoleeza Rice are "unusually close". (wink, wink, nod, nod)

2) Cheney was "in meetings that vice-presidents had never been in before."

and this one

3) that although Bush was not in the situation room on 9/11, he was on the phone with him and was consulted...here he paused and looked at the camera..."if we needed to make a decision about whether to shoot down a plane." When I heard him say this I immediately got chill bumbs, it was more the way he said it than anything. Of course any decent reporter would have asked "shoot down what plane?" but of course this one (it might have been Russert) didn't pry any further.

I think Clarke's coming out in defense of Tenet the last couple of days shows he's flabbergasted that his innuedo's haven't been picked up on.