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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (220103)	2/21/2007 6:11:52 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 281500

Not after 9/11. Of course, prior to 9/11, Gore probably WOULDN'T have cut the anti-terroism budget, would have been LISTENING to and not demoted Richard Clarke, and might well have "shaken the trees" and smoked out the 9/11 terrorists before they ever struck. A policy wonk like Gore would have READ all the PDB's. The FBI had the data they needed to do the job, buried down in their system. Bush had anti-terrorism back-burnered before 9/11. It was a silly, low priority, "Clinton" concern. Gore wouldn't have..