John Kerry said "he has asked for copies of a new book in which a former White House counterterrorism coordinator accuses the Bush administration of manipulating America into war with Iraq with dangerous consequences," the AP reports.
"Several chapters are being FedExed out to me here," Kerry said before returning to the ski slopes on vacation. "I would like to read them before I make any comment at all. I have asked for them and they should be out here tomorrow."
CBS News previews its interview with Clarke tonight on 60 Minutes in which Clarke says "I find it outrageous that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he's done such great things about terrorism. He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months, when maybe we could have done something to stop 9/11. Maybe. We'll never know."
Josh Marshall revisits the Bush administration's seemingly odd resistance to answering the 9/11 Commission and asks "Now do you understand why they're stonewalling the 9/11 commission?"
Update: Reuters reports Clarke's charges "drew a detailed point-by-point rebuttal from the White House" in "an unusually detailed statement."
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