Ted Bridis is an AP writer with a great nose for juicy intellectual-property stories: he's the guy who was first able to track down someone being sued by the RIAA. He's come through once again with a great new story: MoveOn.org has rolled out an anti-Bush ad featuring Richard Clarke in a Bush-bashing sound clip taken from a 60 Minutes interview.
While Clarke is obviously no Bush fan -- and has been standing by his harsh criticisms of his former boss -- he's not thrilled about being seen as a tool of the MoveOn machine. So he's asked his lawyer to get the clip taken down.
Not that he has much of a shot at it. In the words of Cardozo's Susan Crawford, "No one would assume that Richard Clarke encouraged them to do this," which more or less negates any right-of-publicity complaint he would have against MoveOn. CBS, however, is muttering darkly about its copyright in the clip. As if.
While I'm name-dropping, let me also note that Crawford has just joined Yale's Information Society Project as an affiliated fellow. Go us.