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In reply to the discussion: On today 9/11 please remember that both w bush & Cheney were warned about the attack on 8/6/2001 [View all]Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)how much Bush was lionized for his response to 9/11 but never really attacked for his obvious negligence before the fact. Now, we'll never know for certain whether 9/11 was absolutely, unequivocally preventable (former Senator Bob Graham I think discussed in a book some points at which it may have been thwarted), but, based on what know, at the very least, the Bush team clearly did not have the laser-beam-like focus on terrorism and Al-Queda that Clinton had in the later years of his Administration and FFS if you get a PDB like the one he got on 8/06/01, you should at least be a little more concerned than they seemed to be. Al Franken, in one of his books, laid things out pretty well in terms of how the Bush WH handled things leading up to 9/11/01, which was pretty damning ("Operation Ignore" .