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Originally Posted by Staff Statement 11 p.10
On December 4, 1998 DCI Tenet issued a directive to several CIA officials and the DDCI for Community Management stating: “We are at war. I want no resources or people spared in this effort, either inside CIA or the Community.”
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So what you are saying is, that the Clinton administration, regardless of the warning from the DCI, neglected to protect the citizens of the US? |
Well, that's a tad watered down but I'll grant you it - with the disclaimer that every other president for the past 20 years has also been neglectful to protect its citizens from Islamic terror. Clinton is probably the worst for the attacks that occured during his administration and the weak responses to them, but as he was lambasted for supposedly using the 1998 strikes on OBL as diversions from his, er, personal issues I'm not sure he could have gotten away with much else (there is an excellent paper out there by Hendrickson which explores this further).
But of course when GWB took over, those warnings did not just disappear - certainly not right on the heels of
Cole. I find it more comforting to accept the 'institutional/bureaucratic failings' argument rather than believe that these presidents simply didn't care about these threats
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Originally Posted by Skybird
...the CIA funded the MAK both with money, and arms... etc etc
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Of course this is true; it's extraordinarily naive to believe otherwise. The Soviets were the bad guys at the time - it was just another of those fun little proxy wars that characterized the Cold War. Being in the shoes of the U.S. leadership at that time - and lacking the foresight we have today - I would probably have done the same. Good idea at the moment (the enemy of my enemy is my friend, right?) but not so great in the long run (
blowback!)