"He said the blame for the failure lay in the 'irrational hatred' the Clinton administration felt for the source of the proffered intelligence."
This explanation is spin. Not a chance in the world such information would be rejected inadvertently, or from "irrational hatred."
There's a reason some powerful people in the intelligence community didn't want to be in possession of it. The only rational (rational, but evil) reason I can come up with is that the decision maker[s] didn't want certain members of our own intelligence community to know who these people are/were because those certain members can't/couldn't be trusted to keep their mouths shut.
There are some loyal Americans in our intelligence agencies; otherwise we wouldn't know half what we do. Leaks from these folks may be our salvation.
And who else do we know has an active presence in the Sudan? Does not pursuing Islamic radicals in the Sudan benefit China, by any chance?
From the Article: They included photographs, and information on their families, backgrounds and contacts. Most were 'Afghan Arabs', Saudis, Yemenis and Egyptians who had fought with bin Laden against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
The rational reason for not wanting the Sudanese dossiers is that the CIA and MI6 already had the information.