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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (6647)9/3/2003 5:40:26 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (3) of 793575
 
An excerpt from "Forbes" review of Miniter's book

Losing bin Laden gives us head-shaking accounts of paralyzing bureaucratic infighting between the State Department, the Pentagon, the CIA, the National Security Council, the FBI, et al. This infighting hampered our antiterrorist efforts, despite irrefutable evidence of terrorism's growing menace to U.S. security. Missed opportunities to destroy bin Laden and his accomplices abounded. One particularly ghastly instance, which preceded the 1998 bombings of two of our embassies in Africa, involved Sudan, where bin Laden had his headquarters for a few years. The Sudanese government badly wanted our economic sanctions removed and went out of its way on numerous occasions not only to try to share its detailed intelligence on bin Laden and his operations with us but also to just about deliver the devil himself to us on a platter. Sudan's efforts were repeatedly rebuffed.

President Clinton never forcefully cracked bureaucratic heads to achieve an effective coordinated antiterrorist undertaking. He and his Ad-ministration were never fully engaged; antiterrorist efforts were haphazard, half-hearted. Why? It wasn't as if the Administration was oblivious to the threat. Miniter speculates that there were a variety of factors, prime among them Bill Clinton's deep ambivalence about the use of American power, a holdover from his anti-Vietnam War days.
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