Posted on 02/16/2016 5:04:21 PM PST by Kaslin
GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump blames Bush for failing to stop 9/11 attacks
As Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hammers away at former President George W. Bush for not stopping the September 11 attacks, another factor could be added to the debate: Mr. Bush inherited from Bill Clinton an intelligence community in terrible shape.
This fact comes not from a Republican partisan but from George Tenet, President Clinton's CIA director, a post that at the time made him the country's top intelligence officer.
Mr. Tenet wrote in his memoirs, "At the Center of the Storm," that Mr. Clinton left Mr. Bush with a CIA that was in "Chapter 11." The eavesdropping National Security Agency was "crumbling" and "going deaf," he said.
It is one explanation for why the intelligence community failed to discover and stop the September 11 plot.
Mr. Clinton is an integral part of Hillary Clinton's Democratic presidential campaign. The record shows that, as commander in chief, he shrunk the CIA at the very time al Qaeda was expanding.
On his watch, the Osama bin Laden terror group declared war on the U.S. and carried out the first World Trade Center attack, as well as the bombings of a destroyer and two American embassies in Africa.
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I remember how the clintonistas right after they left office, after taking the White House phones that is, were in a panic telling the new administration that "they" had to take care of the terrorist threat...even though they did nothing about it...treated the first Trade Tower attack as a simple crime, not a massive terror assault...
He isn't going to have time for finesse.
But....But....But.... GWB knew about it....... Trump told me so..... and he never is wrong....... That guy must be a liar!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You get the tar, I will get the feathers, we will teach him not to lie about our Imperious Leader....... End Sarcastic Rant
I already knew this, and I was eight almost nine years old when it happened.
And ‘what’s her name’ prevented the FBI and CIA to coordinate their findings. 9/11 was purely Clinton’s fault.
Huge mistake by Bush after 9/11: Not firing Tenent and Mineta
Go away Bushes.
What does anyone think Bubba was focusing on during his second term - fighting impeachment or thwarting Islamic terrorists?
Jamie Gorlick helped to prevent the FBI and CIA from working together. But the Clintons were behind that policy.
I say Bull on that.
Maybe it was a mess, but if they only read the august alert that was right in front of them they could have done something. Well it is over and done with. Jeb is done. All these dinosaurs coming out to protect little Jeb.....Yuk.
LIAR LIAR LIAR!!!!
BUSH WANTED US TO GO TO WAR SO HE COULD AMASS A GIANT PILE OF SADDAM’S GOLDEN TOILET PAPER!!!
Bkmk
"Stay Out The Bushes."
Clinton’s 90s, a “holiday from history” !
I’m sure all that is true, but I remember hearing about many insiders being aware of clear and present threats on the mainland being discussed for months beforehand. Any new admin has to take that stuff seriously. I haven’t seen any evidence that the new guys did take it seriously, rather they seemed to regard this intel suspiciously.
Yep, her.
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