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Clinton was also wrong to minimize the importance of governmental agencies, especially that of the CIA. Horowitz made the valid claim that the CIA has been reduced to a weak and vulnerable body of disconnected parts, lacking effective leadership and the proper means to protect the nation...
...from al-Qaeda paymasters through traceable banking channels. Nine of them were singled out for special airport-security screenings on the morning of the attacks, the Washington Post reported, yet managed to slip through. The two hijackers who were on the government terrorist watch list before Sept. 11 possessed valid driver's licenses under their own names and paid for their tickets with credit cards that the FBI could have easily tracked. In some cases, the FBI failed to share information it possessed on suspect individuals with other law-enforcement authorities; in others, the feds simply didn't pay close...
...there are few valid arguments as to why we should be involved in this fight; the justifications offered in support of marijuana prohibition crumble under scrutiny. Rhetoric has eclipsed logic, and the debate over the decriminalization of marijuana has devolved into a farce of political grandstanding and exploitation...
...this current Middle Eastern violence really the result of Clinton unreasonably raising expectations? There has been plenty of valid of criticism in foreign policy circles of his micromanaging of the peace process. Clinton allowed himself to be drawn in as the mediator of first resort, which diminished the gravity of his own interventions - witness the fact that the President spent almost a full week at Wye River in 1998 cajoling Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu into a relatively minor set of agreements. It's also quite possible to make the case that Camp David brought on the moment of crisis...
Seltzer says one of the first priorities for the new site is to figure out how many of the cease and desist letters are valid...