Bin Laden was #1 on the FBI’s most wanted list for years. Everyone knew he was a threat. And 9/11 wasn’t the first time that al qaeda trained militants attacked the World Trade Center… it was bombed during the Clinton / Gore administration. Years later they attacked US Embassies, and instead of sending troops in to try to get Bin Laden, instead they launched missiles at an al qaeda training camp. Then all qaeda attacked the USS Cole, and again the US government under both Clinton / Gore and Bush did little to nothing as a response. Clinton/ Gore had 8 years to go after all qaeda and did very little… Bush had 8 months.
The issue wasn’t that the US government (under either administration) didn’t take it seriously, the issue was that the FBI, NSA and CIA weren’t communicating the information they had… and that’s what the Department of Homeland Security was supposed to help resolve. The mission of DHS was good… the (lack of) guardrails, was not.
Bin Laden was #1 on the FBI’s most wanted list for years. Everyone knew he was a threat. And 9/11 wasn’t the first time that al qaeda trained militants attacked the World Trade Center… it was bombed during the Clinton / Gore administration. Years later they attacked US Embassies, and instead of sending troops in to try to get Bin Laden, instead they launched missiles at an al qaeda training camp. Then all qaeda attacked the USS Cole, and again the US government under both Clinton / Gore and Bush did little to nothing as a response. Clinton/ Gore had 8 years to go after all qaeda and did very little… Bush had 8 months.
The issue wasn’t that the US government (under either administration) didn’t take it seriously, the issue was that the FBI, NSA and CIA weren’t communicating the information they had… and that’s what the Department of Homeland Security was supposed to help resolve. The mission of DHS was good… the (lack of) guardrails, was not.