Hillary Clinton also trying her hand at revisionism, man I really hope she runs for president.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/746wewfh.asp
Apparently referring to the August 6, 2001 presidential daily briefing, which was entitled "bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US," Senator Clinton suggested that her husband did not receive the same type of warnings that President Bush did.
In fact, President Clinton signed a similar classified document--which contained an explicit warning from the U.S. Intelligence Community that bin Laden intended to strike inside the United States, more than two years prior to leaving office. And the U.S. intelligence community collected numerous pieces of intelligence concerning bin Laden's determination to strike inside the United States during President Clinton's tenure. In addition to the failed plot against the World Trade Center in 1993 and the failed al
Qaeda plot against LAX airport in 1999, there were clear indications that bin Laden's terror empire intended to strike targets in the continental United States.
The warning signs collected during the Clinton administration are outlined in the bipartisan "Report of the Joint Inquiry into the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001," which was jointly published by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in December 2002.
The Joint Inquiry outlines a number of U.S. government failures in the years leading up to September 11, 2001. Among the report's findings, the committees concluded that prior to September 11, 2001: The "U.S. Intelligence Community was involved in fighting a 'war' against Bin Laden largely without the benefit of what some would call its most potent weapon in that effort: an alert and committed American public."
The report goes on to list three examples of "information that was shared with senior U.S. Government officials, but was not made available to the American public because of its national security classification." This information was "explicit about the gravity and immediacy of the threat posed by Bin Laden" and included "a classified document" signed by President Clinton in December 1998, which read in part:
"The Intelligence Community has strong indications that Bin Laden intends to conduct or sponsor attacks inside the United States."
This conclusion was based on numerous threads of evidence. Beginning in 1998 the U.S. intelligence community received regular reporting concerning not only al Qaeda's determination to carry out attacks in the United States but that the terror group also planned to hijack civilian aircraft. Some of the reporting even specifically referenced the World Trade Center.
I guess hope springs eternal in my heart that someday, DISers will be able to have an intelligent political discussion, without name calling and nastiness. I will probably die without ever having my dream realized. 
This is exactly what I've been feeling. Too bad we can't discuss without getting out of control. There are some on this board who seem to be sooooooo angry. I keep telling myself NO to political threads here, but I can't help it. But....it leaves me so stressed. 
The conservatives do not want to discuss Tora Bora or the fact that the war in Iraq has made the world and America less safe. Bush took troops who could have caught Bin Ladin and sent these troops to Iraq to get the man who tried to kill his poppy even though there was NO evidence that Saddam was a threat to the US.
