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Into the wicked wide web
05/28/2010
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Jonathan Shainin - May 28, 2010, 11:10AM GMT
When that photocopier near your desk bursts into flames after a Chinese cyber-warrior hacks into your office network and causes it to short-circuit and overheat, don't say that Richard Clarke didn't warn you.
Clarke, who served as a top-level adviser to American presidents named Bush, Clinton and Bush, established himself as a Cassandra of the first rank in the months before the September 11 attacks, announcing that al Qa'eda was planning an operation on American soil. ("Something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it's going to happen soon," he is said to have declared at a White House meeting in July 2001.)
He became an unlikely household name in 2004, when his testimony before the so-called "9/11 commission" established that his colleagues in the George W Bush administration, preoccupied with other matters, steadfastly ignored his alarms. He went on 60 Minutes, wrote a best-selling book, Against all Enemies, and survived a handful of sloppy counter-attacks from his former employers, who attempted, without much success, to discredit his testimony.
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