Charges of Clarke Profiting

A couple of dissenting voices among the 9/11 families have done the rounds on TV, mostly on NBC properties that I've seen today, to say how terrible it is that Richard Clarke has a book and criticism now about 9/11. Of course, this was spurred by Sen. Bill ("No, this is NOT my real hair") Frist's comments on Friday.

But Clarke's book was held up in publication by the White House or it wouldn't be hitting the book stores at the time he testified.

And what of the other people who profited from 9/11?

Frist was one of the first people off the press with a book about terrorism. He promoted it heavily.

David Frum and Richard Perle coauthored a book that touched on the subject and David Frum wrote a book before all about how his killer "axis of evil" term helped Bush win the war on terror (ha!).

Karen (the canine bitch with the jaws of a pit bull) Hughes has just launched a 6 week book tour for a new book in which she waxes ecstatic about her boss, Bushie, related to his conduct on 9/11.

Rudy Giuliani has scored a fortune off 9/11 which is good because his third wife (Republican family values, you know) looks like she's expensive to keep.

Woolsey and a number of others have made oodles off 9/11, too.

So what's the difference between Clarke and all the others? Oh wait. I know. They're Republicans and Clarke was largely non-partisan.