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To: LindyBill who wrote (48508)	10/1/2002 11:34:01 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Pretty funny on the "rules", LindyBill. SI's lamo search works ok for the past month or so, not much use for most things. But plug in "Clinton" on FADG, the 80-odd post limit only takes us back a week to Sept. 24. siliconinvestor.com . There's some favorable posts, but from a spot check I'd guess a good 75 or 80% at least are from the united war advocates of America, with the usual views on anybody not to the right of Colin Powell in political terms. Clinton hatred might die somewhere around the time that the 42nd President passes away. Then again, maybe not.

To: LindyBill who wrote (48508)	10/1/2002 2:35:12 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This leaves one side open to jump all over Bush and Co, with no retaliation, but they need the handicap. :^) An award winning comment. Do you spend your waking hours trying come up with these things?

To: LindyBill who wrote (48508)	10/1/2002 8:44:40 PM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

Those interested in knowing what the Clinton administration actually knew and did with regard to al Qaeda--or at least what solid mid-level professional administration staffers say they knew and did--should check out another new book from Random House called "The Age of Sacred Terror": amazon.com The authors, Dan Benjamin and Steve Simon, worked the issue at the NSC during the late 90s; they were key aides to Richard Clarke, who was the chief anti-terror guy in the White House. One of the authors, Benjamin, had an op-ed in the Times the other day pointing out--correctly--that the Iraq-al Qaeda linkage has traditionally been thin to nonexistent: Message 18056853 Although I haven't read the book through, I know the authors and have read out-takes from it, and think it's pretty solid. Certainly far better than the vast majority of other stuff being published, not least because these guys were really there, and were indeed--just as they claim--screaming about the danger long before 9/11. (A lot of the rest of us--including me and Pollack--were not convinced that the threat from bin Laden was as grave as proved to be the case.) As happened on more than a few issues in the Clinton years (e.g., Iraq), the mid-level staffers were pressing for a tougher policy for a long time but were stymied by bosses not willing to devote a great deal of capital to the problem. tb@Ireport,youdecide.com