Thanks Destro. For quite a while there, it was nearly forbidden for anyone to suggest we should have prevented 09/11. Now I think folks are starting to understand how miserably our intelligence agencies and political leadership failed us.
No, those comments weren't intended as an indictment of Bush. However, Bush stands alone at this time as the most clear threat to this nation trough his ignorance related to controling our borders.
Why are we still allowing immigration from terrorist states? Why are we allowing an open border situation to exist that lets anyone who bears a grudge against this nation to enter? Why is there no visible understanding or concern evidenced by Bush's actions, that reveal his understanding of a central and south American originated gang presence in our nation?
Color me disgusted, from invasion central...
I hold Bill Clinton 100 percent the reason for it The title for it should have been as Bill Clinton staines blue dress
Exceptional book. I recommend to everyone who wants to make the US and the world a better place, not just wave a flag and have a parade. Some bits of it are a bit high-handed, but overall it is really on-target.
Almost four years out from that day, we need to start having genuine discussion. The time for CYA should be over.
It takes an entire book to figure it out?
Just ban all visas (indeed, all entries into the U.S.) from islamic countries, and all islamic names.
Ninety percent of the problem solved. And we can save trillions in not devising ways to abuse our own citizens in the name of "safety".
(I do not consider muslims who abtain citizenship fraudulently actually to be citizens).
This is a red herring valuable to communists, socialists and progressives among us. The enemy within.
The real and permanent damage is the trillions of $ it has taken to adopt the "politically correct" solutions.
If not abandoned soon, it shall take us down as a country.
Weren't we told that an understudy in Janet Reno's justice department, one Jamie Gorelick, wrote a regulation banning cooperation between agencies?
It was done to prevent any processing of William The Bent's earlier un-American activities. It also prevented proper intelligence gathering on the 9/11 perps.
Looks to me like the Clinton administration is the basic problem here.
That can't possibly be true because Murrymom sez -
"[Billy Jeff's] book was a little too short for my tastes. If he could have served the country another 4 or 8 years we might have been spared the unpleasantness of 9/11 and the tens of thousands of innocent human lives lost in its aftermath. Having [the impeached Bubba] in office for another 8 years would have made the extra 500 or so pages worth reading, even if the price of the paperback edition skyrocketed to $15 or so."
Isn't that right - Murrymom?
People hold Bush and Clinton responsible for the lapses in Intelligence organizations and while they can bear some of the blame. I blame the people pointing the fingers. It was Congress, the Senate and the Judiciary that emasculated our intelligence organizations in the 70s and 80s. Now, because of their knee jerk reactions to so called abuses of power, the chickens have come home to roost.
I read that book about a year ago. It was a great read. It is amazing what we didn't do.
Ping for you, pretty lady...
" . . .an unprecedented assault on the Bill of Rights, especially in the areas of privacy and due process."
An oft-heard allegation, remarkably lacking in substantive evidentary proof.
Does he stress Gorelick's role in PREVENTING the FBI and CIA from cooperating? Or was it just "rivalry" which killed those Americans? I do not believe it was the latter and have grave doubts about Posner.