lead them not into temptation

Eli Lake tries to reassure folks that Obama is sufficiently serious about national security by invoking Richard Clarke as a possible presidential adviser:

Both Clarke and Beers are lifelong national security bureaucrats who left the Bush administration in protest of the Iraq war. Both have offered private advice to Obama and might well hold top posts in his war cabinet. Clarke helped draft the campaign’s counterterrorism strategy, and Beers contributed ideas for his August 1, 2007 counterterrorism speech. Both also have the trust of the party’s antiwar base and have, in many ways, articulated the Democratic Party’s most substantive critique of Bush’s war on terrorism.
From some of their criticism of the Bush administration, you might think them soft-power squishes. But, during their careers, they have never expressed much hesitation about working with proxy armies with less than admirable human rights records.

I find nothing reassuring about the thought of Richard “Let’s Have Show Trials for the Neocons!” Clarke with a cabinet position in an Obama administration.