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...disturbing that the Bush folks did not act on the outgoing Clinton Administration's warnings about the threat posed by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. The gall of Bush using 9/11 imagery in his campaign when the disaster might have been averted is incredible. Bush is indeed a war President; the trouble is, he fought the wrong enemy. David Litton Austin...
...threats that were setting George Tenet's and Dick Clarke's hair on fire in early 2001 took a backseat to "brilliant" strategic notions like responding to the Cole by "doing something about" Saddam Hussein. Even the Aug. 6 memo to the President from the CIA, which was titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S.," was seen as merely "historical," although it contained the shocking information that the FBI had 70 ongoing full field investigations of al-Qaeda activity in the U.S. and that there were "patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings." Without...
...important as the strategic goal. Iraq was to be liberated. The rest would fall into place. Last week Bush's neoconservative strategists seemed in desperate need of a few good tacticians-obsessive bureaucrats like Dick Clarke who live crisis to crisis, who have no bigger thoughts than chasing down bin Laden or getting the lights turned on in Baghdad...
...issues such as missile defense at the expense of grasping the immediacy of the terror threat. Expect to see discussion about the August 6 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing referred to repeatedly during Dr. Rice's testimony occupying plenty of headline space for some weeks to come - its very headline "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States" suggests that the President was alerted to the general danger by the FBI and CIA more than a month ahead of the attacks. The classified document, which has been shown to the Commission, allegedly also contains an explicit reference...
...claim that the administration's limited focus on Iraq got in the way of an effective campaign against al-Qaeda immediately after 9/11 - a criticism amplified in hindsight by the extent to which the Iraq invasion has boosted rather than undermined support in the Muslim world for Osama bin Laden's movement...