While Clarke was frantically waving his arms at the administration, Gary Hart was also trying to get their attention. Here's a brief excerpt from an interview with Salon:
Did you get a sense that the administration had made any progress on security since you first briefed her, Rumsfeld and Powell in January?No. I think she made some kind of gratuitous statements like, "We've taken your report very seriously, we're looking at it, we're thinking about it, we've asked people to give comments on it."
Reminds me of the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana Jones and Brody (?) were trying to get the government guys to understand what the Ark could do, and were pressing the government guys on what they were doing with it. All the government reps would say is that they had "top men" working on it, when in fact they had just sent the Ark off in a crate to live in a massive warehouse.
Posted by Jason at April 2, 2004 11:52 AM