"I'm trying to figure out why Al Sharpton isn't in federal prison for tax evasion" he declared.
Clarke then blasted Sharpton's call for a national police force, saying that national police are a bad idea because of civil liberties and states rights concern, he added "I find it interesting he has so much faith in the federal government, when in the 1960s the FBI surveilled Dr. Martin Luther King during the civil rights movement, and then went on a smear campaign to discredit him, now all of a sudden he trusts the federal government." And "I bet he wouldn't make this recommendation if a Republican president was in the White House, and who had appointed a more conservative United States Attorney General."