I have a new piece on Bill Clinton’s Fox News interview. In that interview, Clinton mentioned the name of Richard Clarke 11 times. Clarke’s account of the Clinton years was, in fact, pretty much Clinton’s entire defense. From the new article:

But Clarke’s book does not, in fact, support Clinton’s claim. Judging by Clarke’s sympathetic account — as well as by the sympathetic accounts of other former Clinton aides like Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon — it’s not quite accurate to say that Clinton tried to kill bin Laden. Rather, he tried to convince — as opposed to, say, order — U.S. military and intelligence agencies to kill bin Laden. And when, on a number of occasions, those agencies refused to act, Clinton, the commander-in-chief, gave up.