Salon/Conason: The president who took bin Laden seriously

[kskiska]

Republicans are trying to blame 9/11 on Clinton, but the official report shows that he responded to al-Qaida threats far more effectively than Bush.

While the nonpartisan members of the 9/11 commission have sounded excruciatingly even-handed as they issued their final report, the Republican congressional leadership -- which has always tried to thwart the 9/11 investigation -- blatantly insists on blaming Clinton for the intelligence failures that resulted in the fateful attacks.

Two days before the report appeared, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and his leadership team exploited a briefing on the report to mount a partisan assault.

Their script, repeated by Hastert and his whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., suggested that "eight months of the Bush administration" couldn't make up for the policies established during "eight years of the Clinton administration."

Readers of the report will also note its sharp criticism of the inadequacy and inattention to the real "gathering threat" during the '90s in Congress, where the "overall attention ... to the terrorist threat was low ... not impressive." Of course, the Republican caucus has exercised iron control over the nation's legislative agenda since 1995

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http://salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/07/24/911_report/index.html

[Spinzonner]

1. Which, of course, ignores the fact

that they didnt even pay attention, much less try ...

[2Design]

2. bush CO STILL IS NOT taking the THREAT serious....he is

again vacationing in texas.....no one seems to care their was a book put out with a sense of urgency to do something.....bush CO want to do things their way which is what they did when CLINTON told them osama was someone they would be dealing with a lot....

SOP for bush co is to do nothing.....they are doing more of the same now.