Remember that by May, Senator Jeffords switched to Independent (from Republican) and "caucused" with the Dems, so they re-took control of the Senate and slow-rolled the President's transition from that point on. Meanwhile, Clintonoids in the bureaucracy and Administration were burrowing in -- and Clinton had left various time-bombs for the new Administration to deal with:
Do you remember arsenic standards in drinking water? What about the Clinton pardons? Clinton's EPA Administrator stripping her hard-drive so that no record of their last months in office could be recovered or recreated? Just little things like that. Yeah, Clinton really helped out in the Bush Transition... He really provided a comprehensive plan to combat terrorism!!!!! He TRIED, at least he TRIED!!!!!
...Freeh says the former president let down the American people and the families of victims of the Khobar Towers terror attack in Saudi Arabia. After promising to bring to justice those responsible for the bombing that killed 19 and injured hundreds, Freeh says Clinton refused to personally ask Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to allow the FBI to question bombing suspects the kingdom had in custody – the only way the bureau could secure the interviews, according to Freeh. Freeh writes in the book, “Bill Clinton raised the subject only to tell the crown prince that he understood the Saudis’ reluctance to cooperate and then he hit Abdullah up for a contribution to the Clinton Presidential Library.” Says Freeh, “That’s a fact that I am reporting.”