No, the clinton administration wasn't listening.
behold the xlinton legacy.
Clinton was more focused on seeing California go from a bastion of European based civilization, to a polyglot residential mess. (Remember his smirking announcement in his last State of the Union Message.)
To Clinton, terrorism was seen as a potential benefit, that could be used to enlarge Clinton's powers.
We will be paying a price for those Clinton years for generations. Don't expect any instant remedy for all that he accomplished in undermining our heritage and values.
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Lemme see now, if memory serves, that would have been under the auspices of the Klinton/Reno Justice Department lady, just like the attack on the Cole.
We are all to blame for this, since we have sit back on our fat @sses and let other people look out for our safety.
This reminds me of an interview I heard up here in Canada with a juror in the case of a child killer a few years ago. This juror (a man in his 40s) apparently held out for an acquittal until the last minute, but finally relented and agreed to convict the defendant.
"Your fellow jurors couldn't understand," the interviewer said, "why you held out for so long when the evidence against the accused killer was so overwhelming."
"To be honest," the guy replied, "I would have convicted on Day 1 based on the evidence in the case. My problem was that I really wanted to see him acquitted. That bastard is going to spend the rest of his life in prison, whereas I was hoping he would be acquitted so I could kill him myself."
Wow.
That said, I think there's another important note in this. Had I been on that jury, I certainly would have voted for the death penalty. But, having served on many juries (in New York and California), I can tell you that many people get on juries by lying. That is, they have already decided how they are going to vote, and they lie to get on the jury. In this case, these people had decided that if they had to go for a guilty verdict, they were still going to vote against the death penalty, although of course they responded in the jury interview that they had no objection to the death penalty. It's a real problem - I have been on juries with people who suddenly announce that they "can't find anybody guilty because God told us not to judge," etc. They should have been eliminated in the first round of questions to prospective jurors, but they didn't answer honestly. Jury nullification is no joke, and anybody who suggests it or practices it for any reason is not a good American and should suffer whatever consequences there may be. Unfortunately, in many cases, the people who suffer the consequences are those later attacked by the criminals these people set free.
We are either against the terrorists (with all that implies) or we are aiding them and abetting them.
Any middle ground that you think you see here is sheer mirage.
Then I read #19 below by sonofliberty2 and he said it all. So ..... Bump.
Oh yeah, yes it is clintoon's fault but the CIA and NSA and FBI and most of the rest of the alphabet BLEW it. Heads should roll. But they won't. There is no accountability in gubmint.