It is soooooo easy when you have the job of a Monday morning quarterback...
The New York Times reports that rather than trying to prevent 9/11 from happening, aviation officials were "lulled into a false sense of security," and "intelligence that indicated a real and growing threat leading up to 9/11 did not stimulate significant increases in security procedures," the commission report concluded.
Why should they?
I mean, it is well documented that President Clinton didn't take Osama bin Laden seriously...in fact, in 1998, President Clinton announced, “We will use all the means at our disposal to bring those responsible to justice, no matter what or how long it takes.”
It has been illustrated that an enormous opportunity occurred during the Clinton administration that would have allowed them to kill or capture bin Laden. Critics call it a missed opportunity.
In fact, one Clinton Cabinet official said, looking back, the military should have been more involved, “We did a lot, but we did not see the gathering storm that was out there.”
This is the stuff that makes people like Sandy Berger stuff classified documents down his pants...
...and in the NYT's article, Sept. 11 commission member Richard Ben-Veniste...former Watergate prosecutor who worked side-by-side with Hillary Clinton to get Nixon impeached...who grilled Condoleeza Rice last year as if she were a criminal suspect...lead Democratic counsel for the Senate Whitewater hearings while he was defending Bill and Hillary Clinton for all he was worth...who defended Terry McAuliffe when he got into legal hot water in the campaign finance scandal of 1997....
THAT Richard Ben-Veniste...is quoted as saying about the criticism of the FAA: "Our intention was to make as much information available to the public as soon as possible."
um...hmmm....
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