Motives of Richard Clarke...
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It really ticks me off how Clarke is not examined in a common sense way. For example, he spoke fondly of the Bush Admin while in the Bush Admin. Well, duh. Please, someone, anyone, tell me of some people who have done otherwise and survived.Next, I work in a profession and organization that is completely mismanaged in many ways. Those who make the decisions are in the poorest positions to do so and those who have the most information and ability to make such decisions are always left out. I can understand the frustration of people like Richard Clarke. US News and World Report has a good article on his persona. The man is a workaholic and from all those interviewed, all said good things about his abilities. But it makes those who try want to beat their heads against the wall and scream in frustration.The problem with organizations such as investigative and intelligence ones is that there is NO responsibility for those who make these decisions. They are very rarely held accountable. Here is an illustration. A bright man, now dead, found out that two things are needed in big city crime control. One was great intelligence/crime stats and the other was managment responsiblitly. He found that when hot spots in NY city were found and dealt with, many other problems went away and if the problems were not dealt with, the managers were fired, demoted or moved to less celebrated places. This got the managers off their asses and do their jobs.Wouldn't one think that after 9/11, if all of the direct heads responsible for missing all the signs had been fired, then that might put fear into any ladder climbing remaining bureaucrats?Now, I don't really think Shrub is to blame as others want to blame him. I do think that there are many bureaucrats who are to blame and must be dealt with. And I'm sure that somewhere deep in the bowels of American government that there were many analysts that did have the foresight to think of planes being used as missles. But what is so very sad is that our Defense Dept spends more time and foresight thinking up new and better ways of killing people than it does protecting the American people. We all deserve better...
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It really ticks me off how Clarke is not examined in a common sense way. For example, he spoke fondly of the Bush Admin while in the Bush Admin. Well, duh. Please, someone, anyone, tell me of some people who have done otherwise and survived.Next, I work in a profession and organization that is completely mismanaged in many ways. Those who make the decisions are in the poorest positions to do so and those who have the most information and ability to make such decisions are always left out. I can understand the frustration of people like Richard Clarke. US News and World Report has a good article on his persona. The man is a workaholic and from all those interviewed, all said good things about his abilities. But it makes those who try want to beat their heads against the wall and scream in frustration.The problem with organizations such as investigative and intelligence ones is that there is NO responsibility for those who make these decisions. They are very rarely held accountable. Here is an illustration. A bright man, now dead, found out that two things are needed in big city crime control. One was great intelligence/crime stats and the other was managment responsiblitly. He found that when hot spots in NY city were found and dealt with, many other problems went away and if the problems were not dealt with, the managers were fired, demoted or moved to less celebrated places. This got the managers off their asses and do their jobs.Wouldn't one think that after 9/11, if all of the direct heads responsible for missing all the signs had been fired, then that might put fear into any ladder climbing remaining bureaucrats?Now, I don't really think Shrub is to blame as others want to blame him. I do think that there are many bureaucrats who are to blame and must be dealt with. And I'm sure that somewhere deep in the bowels of American government that there were many analysts that did have the foresight to think of planes being used as missles. But what is so very sad is that our Defense Dept spends more time and foresight thinking up new and better ways of killing people than it does protecting the American people. We all deserve better...
