In this section, we are running the second of four excerpts from Richard Miniter's new book, "Losing bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror" (Regnery). In it, the author describes how CIA Director James Woolsey's repeated requests for funds for Arabic linguists were rejected by the Clinton administration and Sen. Dennis DeConcini, Arizona Democrat, who was then chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, which had oversight responsibility for the agency. As Mr. Miniter writes, the dereliction of duty by the White House and the senator "kept America blind and deaf as bin Laden plotted." This egregious indifference...
