[Enchante]

"We must not forget that this sort of mentality can be traced back to Bush I and Reagan. It isn't just Gore lick's wall. It's bureaucratic infighting. Territorial member measuring"

Absolutely - and such problems are endemic to all bureaeucracies - when we have numerous competing bureaucracies in rivalry with each other it just gets worse.

BUT, in my formerly naive state of mind, I well remember how in Feb. 1993 I thought the WTC bombing would be a huge wake-up call to all the intel agencies and to the (new) Clinton administration. I thought it was so obvious that (1) they had to contemplate that much bigger plots could be underway or would be in the foreseeable future; (2) that the threat of WMDs or other mass-casualty events indicated that WTC93 could have been far, far worse than it was; (3) that extensive reform and re-focusing of the intel agencies would be needed to transition from the Cold War to the brave new world of terrorists operating across the globe. The Clintonlites had every reason and opportunity to improve and re-focus our intel agencies, but that wasn't their agenda.

[pinz-n-needlez]

Thanks for the link over to here, Enchante. It paints a better picture in my brain.

I really did skip over most Clinton related stories until after the last election. And I'm pretty irritated that 'those people' have inserted themselves into our lives again and again.

I won't be surprised if we find out in another few years that Clinton didn't really do much president-work day-to-day, but instead goofed off while Hillary and her army of lawyer buddies just tied everything into silly knots.

Remember her Health care plan? I wonder how many departments she organized in a similar fashion behind closed doors...

Pinz