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Bill Clinton failed to take 9/11 seriously for the same reason George Bush failed to take it seriously in the eight months of his administration preceding the 9/11 attack: because we hadn't been hit hard enough yet. Clinton should have learned from the attacks America suffered throughout his entire presidency; and Bush frankly should have paid attention to Clinton's disastrous track record on the building terrorist threat.

With the 'Gorelick wall' in place, this wasn't that easy. And people ignore the fact that the Bush administration was impeded in coming up to speed due to an unprecendent attempt to overturn a Presidential election by Gore and the traitorous media. But yeah, sure, with 20/20 hindsight, President Bush could have done more to prevent 9/11. But as noted in the article, the success of this attack was due primarily to a dereliction of duty by the previous 8 years of the Clinton administration that attempted to treat open warfare (e.g., the bombing of the Twin Towers in 1993, the bombing of the barracks in Saudi Arabia, the bombing of the Cole, the bombing of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, etc ... And I still have my suspicions about mideast connections with TWA800 and the OKC bombing) as a minor traffic violation...

I completely agree with you: what we find is that the Clinton administration - particularly through the efforts of the clown who is now our attorney general (Eric Holder) - had separated the FBI from the CIA and other intelligence, such that it was nearly impossible for agencies to share information and put pieces together.

I’m going by the acknowledgments of officials like Cheney and Condi Rice who admit that terrorism wasn’t high enough on their radar (in hindsight, as you point out). And I said that Bush failed by not paying more attention to the series of failures that plagued the Clinton years. He should have learned more from those failures.

But, yeah, Clinton’s eight years of failure were FAR more devastating to this country in terms of 9/11 than Bush’s 8 months when he was trying to put his administration in order.

It’s sad: Clinton had NOTHING together when Bush came. Then Bush suffered a massive attack, puts together a comprehensive system to keep us safe, and leaves a great system for Obama. Then Obama dismantles the system Bush put together and leaves us unprepared all over again.

I often wonder, given intel that “an aerial attack on the WTC was being planned”, what could have realistically been done to prevent it? I’m assuming that the specific date, time and flights were unknowable beforehand.