07055: "Of course not. During its last month, the Clinton administration was too busy selling pardons and issuing executive orders to focus on terrorism."
Time: That made it politically impossible for Clinton to strike—especially given the upcoming election and his own lack of credibility on national security.
Right 07055, lack of credibility on any subject!
Dick Morris:Ah...the Times!!! Nice try.Clinton was removed, uninvolved, and distant where the war on terror was concerned. CIA director Woolsey now reveals that he never had a private personal meeting with Clinton during the first two years of his tenure as head of the CIA - exactly the key period in investigating the 1993 attack.
I had a good illustration of Clinton's remoteness from terrorist issues in 1996 when Dick Holbrooke called me, several months after the terrorist attack on US barracks in Ridyah, Saudi Arabia. Holbrooke, who told me that he had never had the opportunity to speak with Clinton directly during the months that he was negotiating the Dayton peace accords in Bosnia, asked that I get hold of the president to pass along a message. Holbrooke said that he had information that the terrorists were planning another attack in Ridyah and that our troops were highly vulnerable