There’s no sensation of allegation attached to the book by Presidential advisor Karen Hughes, but Ten Minutes to Normal is evidently sharing a table with Dick “The Answer” Clarke’s Against all Enemies in the downtown Washington Borders books. At least according to USAToday columnist Walter Shapiro.

The column — [LINK] — is about the books, not the stuff, but this part struck me as appropriate:

[T]hey do make cameo appearances in each other’s books.
Clarke’s opening chapter about the events of Sept. 11 and immediately afterward, melodramatically entitled, “Evacuate the White House,” goes out of its way to praise Hughes for drafting Bush’s address to the Joint Session of Congress. Clarke proudly notes that Hughes had “included my questions and some of my answers, (about) who is the enemy, why do they hate us.”
Hughes, who misspells Clarke’s name by dropping the final “e,” credits him with a far more limited contribution to the congressional address. As Hughes tells it, she asked national security adviser Condoleezza Rice for help in describing conditions in Afghanistan. Rice sent her to Clarke and another official who informed her that “little girls weren’t allowed to go to school … (and) even flying a kite or listening to songs on the radio was banned.” That was enough, Hughes says, to plant “the seeds of my passion for the women and children of Afghanistan.”

Okay, Shapiro does get in an arguably inaccurate paragraph or two about the President asking Clarke about Iraq on 9-12, but he presents it in a non-controversial manner.

I think Hughes dissed Clark [sic] intentionally. Mistakes like that are caught pre-publication, if that’s the intention.