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N THE AFTERMATH of September 11, more than several former national security and intelligence officials fashioned new careers as critics of the Bush administration's war on terror. Among the more prominent of these former officials is Daniel Benjamin, who worked for the National Security Council from 1994 to 1999. Benjamin's criticism flows from his belief that prior to the war in Iraq, as he wrote in Time magazine earlier this year, "there was no pre-existing relationship between Baghdad and al-Qaeda." Still worse, the invasion of Iraq has made us "less safe" and "above all, the invasion and occupation of Iraq--have...

Well, it appears that Messrs. Clinton and Bush have [much] in common.... Both have warned -- Mr. Clinton first, of course -- that the nexus between rogue states like Iraq and terrorists like al Qaeda poses the greatest threat to America. On this point, in fact, Mr. Clinton has much more in common with Mr. Bush than he does with John Kerry. According to 9/11 Commission co-chairman Thomas Kean, Mr. Clinton believed with "absolute certainty" that Iraq provided al Qaeda with weapons of mass destruction expertise and technology in the 1990s. He believed it as president when he ordered the...

The man being touted to become the proposed Department of Homeland Security's intelligence czar is deeply involved with many of the Clinton administration officials who share much of the blame for the massive intelligence failures that led up to 9/11 - a blame he must share as a former top official of the CIA in the Clinton years. According to the Washington Times, John Gannon, a former top CIA official, is believed to be in line to become the intelligence chief of Homeland Security when it becomes a reality. During the Clinton administration, Gannon served as deputy director for...