Richard Clarke KOs the Bushies - The ex-terrorism official dazzles at the 9/11 commission hearings. By Fred Kaplan: "And so now here's Clarke, in an official, nationally broadcast forum, announcing: I failed, I'm sorry, please forgive me. Which, as one member of the panel noted, is more than any official in the Bush administration has said to any victims of the far more devastating 9/11 attacks."

Exactly. The Bush administration has, to my mind, never demonstrated anything beyond arrogance. No sense they might have been wrong at any time. Perhaps that is the nature of politics now, but it stinks.

Evidently, Richard Clarke more than stood his ground against attacks on his credibility. The next few days will be very interesting.