[Steve_Seattle]

It possibly could have been prevented, but that has nothing to do with all this stuff about budgets and alleged mental attitudes by the White House. The investigation of terror is the responsibility of the FBI and the CIA; more than a year ago, we learned that they dropped the ball on a couple of leads - THAT is where the failure was, but now it's all become politics.

[rocklobster11]

The investigation of terror is the responsibility of the FBI and the CIA; more than a year ago, we learned that they dropped the ball on a couple of leads - THAT is where the failure was, but now it's all become politics.

And the only hope they have to pin it on Bush is to say that if the White House had had more meetings they could have gotten the information to bubble up through the CIA and FBI. Which is what Clarke is trying to do now, and what I head Richard Ben Veniste say on hardball last night.

It's really no different than what Time said in the summer of 2002 right before Clarke gave that awesome press briefing supporting Bush.

[gatorbait]

THAT is where the failure was, but now it's all become politics.

But, it WAS politics, left-wing, anti-American ,Patty Schroeder/Frank Churc/John Kerry politics that lead to the FBI and CIA being barred by law from sharing information.Add to this witches' brew the knowledge that Democrat appointees magically become Senior Executive Service bureaucrats who uphold their masters' desires and you have the mix leading to 9/11.