" There was some really great insight at the opening of the book about what happened on and right after 9/11, and also suggestions at the end of the book about how to handle foreign relations and use of force after 9/11. However, the meat of the book was a bitchfest of I-told-you-so's and all the ways that Clinton was better than Bush Jr. Maybe too much about 9/11 is still classified, but this tell-all felt like either a teaser/prequel, or just a way for Clarke to complain about what wasn't done the way he suggested. If things were up to him we'd probably have spent as much money before 9/11 as we do now on ineffective "Homeland Security," so had his advice been heeded we'd all be blaming him for the deficit blown on security measures, but the book makes me feel as useless as our government. Not a compelling argument at all. "
— Micaela, 1/28/2014