The CIA's doing the White House's dirty political work for them --

[Theophylact]

and they're admitting it (on background)! From an MSNBC story:

"Let’s declassify all of it," Clarke said, echoing calls by Democrats familiar with his 2002 testimony, who dismissed the Republican demands as political posturing and said there was no substantive conflict. He said the full record would only prove that the Bush administration neglected the threat of terrorism in the nine months leading up to the attacks, which killed about 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

U.S. officials told NBC News that the full record of Clarke’s testimony two years ago would not be declassified. They said that at the request of the White House, however, the CIA was going through the transcript to see what could be declassified, with an eye toward pointing out contradictions. [emphasis added]

[Mr. Goodbytes]

Oh big surprise... seeing as how the White House called for it to be declassified because it believed there were a number of contradictions from what Clarke says now and what he has said in previous years.

[Theophylact]

Originally posted by Mr. Goodbytes
Oh big surprise... seeing as how the White House called for it to be declassified because it believed there were a number of contradictions from what Clarke says now and what he has said in previous years.

No, it wasn't the White House. It was Senate Majority Bill Frist who called for it to be declassified, because he hoped to show that Clarke had committed perjury. He had to backtrack and admit that he didn't in fact know that there were any contradictions in the testimony; it was a fishing expedition pure and simple.

Clarke called Frist's bluff by asking that all his testimony be declassified, not just cherry-picked.