[windchime]

Great find, cyncooper!  This needs lots of attention:

Russia's president Vladimir Putin said in an interview released yesterday that he had warned the Clinton administration about the dangers posed by Bin Laden. "Washington's reaction at the time really amazed me. They shrugged their shoulders and said matter-of-factly: 'We can't do anything because the Taliban does not want to turn him over'."

 

[cyncooper]

Well, these old articles predating 9/11 must be false. Richard Clarke has arrived to set us straight. 'Twas Clinton who focused like a laser on terrorism and Bush who shrugged.

/sarcasm

I was especially annoyed by that idiotic Washington Post article yesterday about Rice scheduled to talk about security on 9/11 in a speech she never gave and the main theme was missile defense, though even the article acknowledged and gave examples of references to terrorism in her speech. Excerpts leaked by "former officials" to the Post.