October 01, 2002
From the Glass Houses Department
The Howell Raines Gazette has an article about how two Clinton era national security aides are saying that Bush wasn't tough enough on terrorism during the 8 months before the Atrocity. They also blame the eight years before that on the fact that Louis Freeh believed the Saudi Ambassador more than he believed the president.
Three things come immediately to mind: First, why did the director of the FBI have so little contact with the rest of the law enforcement, intelligence, and national security apparatus in the Clinton Administration that he was forced to rely on the Saudis for information? Second, if the Administration was trying to persuade the Saudis, why didn't they pressure them at all by withholding visas, persona non grata a low level diplomat, or other means of expressing diplomatic displeasure? Finally, if the Pentagon had a plan for launching a propaganda campaign against the Taliban, why didn't Clinton approve it when he had the chance?
The article is par for the course. Yet another attempt by members of the Clinton administration to obscure the fact that they had eight years to do something about al Qaeda, and they didn't do a damn thing.
Posted by John Bono at October 1, 2002 07:09 AM | TrackBack
