Pentagon's PR Chief Torie Clarke Resigns

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Victoria "Torie" Clarke is resigning from her position as Department of Defense assistant secretary for public affairs. Clarke says she's leaving her top spot as Pentagon spin doctor for personal reasons. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a press release that in her two years of service, Clarke has "developed countless new methods to tell the story of our fighting forces, and bring their courage, dedication, and professionalism into sharp focus for all Americans." As we report in our forthcoming book Weapons of Mass Deception, Clarke is credited with developing the Pentagon's brilliant PR strategy of embedding reporters with troops in Iraq. If investigations are ever held on the selling of the war a key question might become 'what did Torie know, and when did she know it?'