On one hand people on both sides of the political spectrum know that the murderers were responsible but this doesn't stop some from each side on feeling the need to make this into stupid political bullsh*t that fits their own agendas.
The FACT is that he had the knowledge of what had happened during the previous 2 administrations and the FACT that the attacks were increasing, and he CHOSE to be far more concerned with covering up the oral sex he got from an intern and saving his job than with dealing with terrorism.
My "agenda" is that I resent him waddling around Manhattan a couple of weeks after the attacks, stopping passersby so that he could lecture them all about how he really, really, really, really and I do mean REALLY tried to "get" UBL. I also resent how he and his hideous family did their level best to try to make this all about themselves. I don't recall the Bush and Reagan families inserting themselves into every tragedy, do you?
Now, what is *your* agenda?
What you say is true. This terrible tragedy has been gradually building in America for about 25 years now, and before 9/11 nobody took it nearly as seriously as they should have.
But now we finally do realize the serious nature of the threat and are doing something about it, and a lot of these same people are crying about the methods we're finally using to solve the problem. There's just no satisfying some folks.