Tuesday, 22 March, late evening
I feel the need to speed ahead and get done my Back Story of The Pentagon’s New Map series of posts, because tomorrow night I head down to DC on Putnam’s dime to start interfacing with media people who are checking me out in advance of my publisher’s serious media tour in late April that coincides with the release of the book. So I’ll call this trip the Pre-Meditated Media Tour (Kirkus was right, I do like capitalizing concepts—it’s so very Pentagon).
But before I push ahead with the third post in that series (about selling the book proposal), I cannot help but offer some commentary on Richard Clarke’s “stunning revelations” regarding the Bush Administration’s deaf ear to the intell community’s “staunch warnings” on the imminent 9/11 attacks.



