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“You write, `Clarke’s tone strongly implies that no one in the Bush administration took any serious action in the summer of 2001 when terrorist “chatter” increased, in marked contrast to the Clinton team’s on-the-ball response to similar chatter around the time of the millennium…’
One thing I haven’t heard talked about is the difference between trying to prevent something that could happen in any of 365 days in a given year (9/11) versus something that was planned for a definite date that only happens, oh I don’t know, every 365,000 days (12/31/99).”