Originally Posted by jjacobs43

Like you are saying, this article is backed up by many other sources. Especially in light of the inside accounts from Richard Clarke himself and things that have come to light in various commissions. The bottom line is that this administration blew off anybody who took the threats from Al Qaeda seriously. Rice summed it up herself when she said that they "didn't want to be swatting at flies". They were convinced that they needed to take a more military view instead of a policing view that included tracking the terrorists. I'm pretty confident in saying that if Gore was our president, 9/11 would not have happened because he would have let the Richard Clarkes continue what they had been doing. They, obviously, were onto what was going on.