Dick Clarke's American Bandstand. Another former White House employee. So now there's a guy named Richard Clarke who has a book out about how he repeatedly warned the current administration about the danger of Al Qaeda before 9-11 and was ignored and demoted, and also that Bush and Rice told him to manufacture a link between 9-11 and Iraq. These are pretty serious charges, and I would take them more seriously if they weren't coming from someone who was dissed by that same administration. Wonder why he was demoted. George Smith says that it might have been because he was more of a cyber-terrorist defense advocate, and the actuality of blood and guts terrorism caught him by surprise. His career was not exactly littered with success.
It's interesting that he has waited until now, when his book is coming out, to trumpet his outrage that the Bush administration didn't heed his convincing warnings.

Condi Rice shot back in the Washington Post.
Drudge is reporting that CBS, who broke the story of Clarke's book, hasn't disclosed that they have a stake in the book itself. More here, and here, and here.

Update: An independent commission revealed today that the Bush Administration was indeed taking Al-Qaida seriously in the days before 9/11 and was making plans to invade Afghanistan even before we were attacked. The Clinton and Bush administrations had until that time tried to simply arrest Bin Laden, but tactics had allowed him to elude capture.
Also, my impression of Clarke before he was demoted was that he thought that there would be an attack outside the country, not inside. So even he didn't really predict 9/11. He also admitted that he thought there was WMD in Iraq at the time, even though he couldn't prove a link between Iraq and Al-Qaida.