[risk]

"In December 1999" said Clarke, "every day or every other day, the head of the FBI and the head of the CIA and the attorney general had to go to the White House and sit in a meeting and report on all the things they personally had done to stop the al Qaeda attack."

And tell us why then didn't the president unleash the furies? Oh right, that would have required courage and conviction. So the severity of that LAX threat was possibly not conveyed to the next president?

[Belisaurius]

The same head of the CIA who never met with Clinton?

Am I missing something here?

[BigSkyFreeper]

They wanted to treat each one of these terrorists like criminals who were wanted on drug charges, jaywalking, and drunken and disorderly conduct. Put it simply, they were going to put them in jail.

[Alamo-Girl]

Indeed, risk! They had 8 years and were still in office in late 2000.