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To: RetiredNow who wrote (56056)	10/23/2001 4:08:05 PM
From: Dennis Doubleday	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

If Dubya was going to stengthen our intelligence capabilities, shouldn't he have started before Sept? A fifth of his term was already gone. He did nothing but blather about a pie in the sky missile defense. He didn't even nominate a Saudi ambassador until the week after. How hard was that?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (56056)	10/23/2001 5:39:48 PM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

OT I cannot buy that a President with Clinton's skills couldn't have led this country on a bin Laden hunt after the two embassy bombings if he had chosen to do so. That would have been enough provocation for a number of Presidents, in fact, as I think about the last several - probably all of them would have acted.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (56056)	10/23/2001 9:00:38 PM
From: Jerome	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

>>>Clinton and his administration were tree-hugging pacifists who emasculated the CIA to begin with. <<< You make some good points but the rules that govern what the CIA can and cannot do were carved in stone by congress during the Johnson Years. The CIA was getting too ambitious in its killing of foreign leaders (a quick problem solver) that the American Government did not like. Even the President cannot order or request that the CIA assassinate foreign leaders. Remember the Bay of Pigs, and the attempt on the life of Castro? That stupid action put the legislative handcuffs on the CIA. Clinton could not reverse it even by Presidential Order. Clinton may have hugged a few trees, but Americans wanted it that way because they elected him twice. Regards, Jerome