Richard Clarke's 'Scorpion's Gate': Fact or Fiction? [73min]

For three decades, Richard A. Clarke worked in the White House, State Department, and Pentagon. His specialties are cybersecurity, counterterrorism and homeland security. As a presidential adviser, he has traveled throughout the Middle East, visiting palaces, military bases and intelligence centers; and has met with rulers, soldiers, and spies. He has now used his experiences to pen The Scorpion’s Gate, a geopolitical novel of terrorism, warring nations, and political treachery. His book takes readers five years into the future when the Middle East and the United States are on the brink of a war that threatens to turn nuclear and spread to Asia and beyond. Clarke served as National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism for President Clinton and President George W. Bush; he was National Security advisor to four U.S Presidents -- Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush; and is author of Against all Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror and The Scorpion's Gate.