Reply #2: I believe you are right [View All]

Clinton had Hart and Rudman examine the dangers to our country after the first world trade center attack. That report was finished just as Clinton was leaving office. It indicated who and where our biggest rist was, which included Al Queada. This report was given to the Bush administration, who quickly disgarded it, and said they would do their own study, which they didn't...

Artile from Salon.com, by Jake Tapper
Sept. 12, 2001 | WASHINGTON -- They went to great pains not to sound as though they were telling the president "We told you so."

But on Wednesday, two former senators, the bipartisan co-chairs of a Defense Department-chartered commission on national security, spoke with something between frustration and regret about how White House officials failed to embrace any of the recommendations to prevent acts of domestic terrorism delivered earlier this year.

Bush administration officials told former Sens. Gary Hart, D-Colo., and Warren Rudman, R-N.H., that they preferred instead to put aside the recommendations issued in the January report by the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century. Instead, the White House announced in May that it would have Vice President Dick Cheney study the potential problem of domestic terrorism -- which the bipartisan group had already spent two and a half years studying -- while assigning responsibility for dealing with the issue to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, headed by former Bush campaign manager Joe Allbaugh....





http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/12/bush/