KIRBY: Bill Clinton made some, well to be honest with you, he lied. Not that anything's new, but he lied. And I'll tell you what he lied about in that interview. He specifically said in that interview, and maybe we'll find an excerpt and if so play it for you. But he specifically said that 'I left a comprehensive terror plan with the Bush administration', and 'they demoted the best guy in the country to run it, Richard Clarke.'
As proof that Bush didn't demote Clarke, Kirby refers to Clarke's book and picks out a single passage that describes how Clarke was moved to a cyber-security post at his own request after 9/11. However, this deliberately misconstrues the larger point Clarke makes in the book: when Bush took office, before 9/11, the job of anti-terror czar was demoted from the "Principals Committee" of the National Security Council. That committee included top-level administration officials such as the National Security Advisor, Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense. While in the Clinton administration Clarke had the full attention of the most powerful members of government. Once Bush took over, he was demoted to dealing with lower level staff members.
Anyone who has read Clarke's book or paid the slightest attention to the news over the last few years would be aware of the facts surrounding his very real demotion. Therefore it's safe to conclude that while Clinton didn't lie on this first point, Kirby Wilbur most surely did.
Kirby's second point that Clinton didn't leave a comprehensive anti-terror plan for the Bush administration is disproven by Kirby's often (though selectively) cited 9/11 Commission Report (h/t Think Progress):
As the Clinton administration drew to a close, Clarke and his staff developed a policy paper of their own [which] incorporated the CIA?s new ideas from the Blue Sky memo, and posed several near-term policy options. Clarke and his staff proposed a goal to ?roll back? al Qaeda over a period of three to five years ?[including] covert aid to the Northern Alliance, covert aid to Uzbekistan, and renewed Predator flights in March 2001. A sentence called for military action to destroy al Qaeda command-and control targets and infrastructure and Taliban military and command assets. The paper also expressed concern about the presence of al Qaeda operatives in the United States.? [p. 197]That shouldn't be a very difficult part of the report to find for someone who so often uses it to make his own points. Therefore it's safe to conclude that while Clinton didn't lie on this second point, Kirby Wilbur most surely did.
We're then left with a simple fact: Kirby Wilbur is a liar who uses his lies to falsely accuse other people of lying.