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James Carville. 'Of course, it was a warning'...

Yes, James. It was a warning to people about the consequences of electing hedonists to the highest office of the nation...

Even Carville knows he is talking nonsense. Given what was in the August PDB, I still don't know exactly what would have been different. How in the world can the US govt completely change their standard operating procedures in one month? Maybe airport security could have gone up, but that would have taken many months to get up to speed. It could have been suggested to form the Dept of Homeland Security and get more people in government talking security, but this would not have been supported by congress. Increased spying on US citizens would have gone over like a lead balloon. FBI and CIA working together? Ha! It wouldn't have happened. Start a war in Afghanistan to eradicate Taliban and bin Laden and terrorists? Again, no way it would have happened. I think the only thing that might have been possible was for the FBI higher ups to listen to more of the lower level reports, but there were thousands of terrorist leads and impossible to know which to follow. If anything was to be done, it should have STARTED decades earlier by giving the CIA more authority, not taking it away.