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If Bush ever feels like exercising the powers of the presidency to push some genuine intelligence reforms he might want to turn his attention to the Pentagon, which controls eighty percent of the nation’s $40 billion intelligence budget. The 9/11 Commission Report recommended that Congress create a...
As for Kerry, he was none too keen when his handlers took him off the road for four precious days so that he could go to "debate camp" in Wisconsin. Hadn't he been training off and on all summer? Hadn't he memorized all those briefing books they kept...
Four days before the election, on his way to a campaign stop in Manchester, N.H., Bush learned in his regular sunrise briefing that Osama bin Laden had delivered another video to al-Jazeera. It looked like the opportunity to ride the storyline the White House loved best--right through the...
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That was Kerry’s “pre-9/11 mentality.” Bush’s pre-9/11 mentality—as of 36 days before 9/11—was to ignore a briefing entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside...