"People are Fungible"

a.k.a., Rumsfeld betting the American voter won't look "fungible" up.

The Memory Hole

I'd like to assemble as big a list as possible of links/resources/whatever that confirm Clarke's story -- for instance, there's a couple of unguarded quotations from the Shrub Himself in Woodward's Bush at War that have been bouncing around blogland, and I ran across more than a few other revelatory stories -- e.g., Bush was heard saying the words "Al Queda" or "bin Laden" between 1/01 and 9/01 exactly zero times -- before I thought to start archiving them. Please send anything you have as comments to this thread, and I'll assemble 'em all for the RPF website. Meanwhile, Slate has some good stuff on who isn't part of the smear campaign -- Tenet and Powell, the ones who are in the best position to confirm or deny Clarke's claims.

UPDATE: Here's the kind of thing I'm looking for: It was 27 months ago that Bob Woodward, writing in The Washington Post, first quoted the president as saying that he "didn't feel that sense of urgency" about Osama bin Laden before Sept. 11. The Bush administration's downsizing, stalling and fumbling of the fight against terrorism in the seven-plus months between Inauguration Day and 9/11 was reported by Time in August 2002. The failure of Rice to advance Clarke's Jan. 25, 2001, memo on Al Qaeda's urgent threat has been recounted (and sourced) in detail in such best sellers as Steve Coll's "Ghost Wars" and Craig Unger's "House of Bush, House of Saud," both of which beat Clarke's own account to the stores. (Still to come is a new Woodward best seller about the ramp-up to Iraq, "Plan of Attack," which "60 Minutes" will herald two weeks from tonight and which Rush Limbaugh is already pre-emptively trashing as being from "the same publisher" as the Clarke book.) From an IHT article on the telegenicity, if that's a word, of various players in the 9/11 hearings, c/o Kos.