http://www.juancole.com/2004_03_01_juancole_archive.html#108019969815608229
John Lehman, by the way, is the one with credibility problems. He
tried to blame the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 at Aden on a
failure of the CIA and the State Department, and alleged that an
anti-US and anti-Israel state was behind it (read: Iraq).
https://mail.lsit.ucsb.edu/pipermail/gordon-newspost/2000-October/001648.html
In fact, the
USS Cole bombing was a purely al-Qaeda affair in which Iraq was in no
way involved. And, as Clarke explains, it happened in part because the
Navy decided to start refueling at Aden without passing the plan by
any of the civilian counter-terrorism officials, including himself.
Adm. Lehman's brother Chris served in Douglas Feith's Office of Special
Programs, which cherry-picked intelligence so as to manufacture huge
Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs and extensive collaboration
with al-Qaeda, both of them fantasies.
URL: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/feith/feith.php
Lehmann and his brother Chris have been wrong all along the way in
downplaying al-Qaeda and foregrounding Saddam. That is why he has to
now smear Clarke, who has simply told it like it was.