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(54,256 posts)Incoming Bush admin was WARNED by outgoing Clinton admin that bin Laden was the #1 terrorist threat to U.S.
Gore would have pursued recommendations of the Hart-Rudman Report.
January 31, 2001: Bipartisan Commission Issues Final Report on Terrorism, but Conclusions Are Ignored
The final report of the US Commission on National Security/21st Century, co-chaired by former Senators Gary Hart (D-CO) and Warren Rudman (R-NH), is issued. The bipartisan panel was put together in 1998 by then-President Bill Clinton and then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Hart and Rudman personally brief National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and Secretary of State Colin Powell on their findings.
The report has 50 recommendations on how to combat terrorism in the US, but all of them are ignored by the Bush administration.
Shelved by White House - According to Hart, Congress will begin to take the commissions suggestions seriously in March and April, and legislation is introduced to implement some of the recommendations. Then, Frankly, the White House shut it down.
The president said, Please wait, were going to turn this over to the vice president
and so Congress moved on to other things, like tax cuts and the issue of the day.
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=commission_on_national_security/21st_century