[wideawake]

The FBI was hamstrung by the Carter-era law banning the FBI and CIA from working together.

As Ann Coulter has pointed out, the FBI's attempts to crack down on potential terrorists during the Clinton administration was inhibited by the Reno Justice Department.

The FBI cannot investigate international conspiracies without cooperation from the CIA and higher-ups at Justice.

Certain leads were never followed because legal blocks set up long before prevented them from being followed.

The FBI's hands may not be completely clean, but if blame for 9/11 belongs at anyone's doorstep it is the CIA, State, Justice and Clinton.

[nathanbedford]

Slick referred to his FBI director as F- en Freeh and simply declined to meet with the CIA director for more than a year. His National Security Advisor pled guilty to theft of state secrets and as part of his plea, admitted he lied about it. Slick's other appointee, Deutsch, committed security breeches so egregious that he has been utterly discredited. Clinton loathed his chief law enforcement officer, Reno, as much as he detested Freeh.

But the President of the United States of America was so compromised by his own crimes that he dared not discharge any of these misfits (as he, by all reports, believed them to be) as was his duty. To protect himself, he knowingly risked the security of his country.

What a damning indictment!