This story in Time is sickening in it's baldfaced effort to make cover the negligent rearends of Clinton officials, and in trying to portray GW Bush and his officials as incompetent. The effort of Clinton's formal officials to justify themselves, and the liberal media's effort to be their apologists, makes me conclude that these people are culpable in the intelligence failures that led to the attacks on 9/11. They recognize how vulnerable they are to the negative conclusions of history, and are furiously trying, not to spin facts, but to actually make up, manufacture "facts" or events.
This Time story is the most baldfaced, and most desparate effort yet, to try to infuse the Clinton Administration with a hint of competence.
Time magazine makes allegations against Bush. The networks pick it up to make sure it spreads throughout the land just before the election. The objective is to diminish Clinton's culpability by casting suspicion on Bush. (In other words, Clinton is no more at fault than Bush for the attacks). They also hope this strategy will weaken Bush's popularity. And in turn weaken republican's chances.