Bin Laden was a threat????
Ever since Bin Laden was killed I have wondered where the outrage was. He was found with a treasure trove of intel. and he was found to have command and control of the Al Qaeda network right up until his death. Why wasn't this a huge story?
For years we were told he was living in a cave and no longer mattered, he was no threat. Then we find out he was not only a threat, but he was the greatest threat to American security there was. He was involved in planning attacks that killed and would have killed Americans. I have a pretty good idea why his role had been downplayed for 8 years, because the Bush Administration wanted to downplay their total failure to kill or capture Bin Laden both at Tora Bora and in the years following. I have a hard time believing that our Intelligence leaders didn't know that Bin Laden was still our biggest threat and every day that he was free or alive put American lives at great risk. We were lied to in order to make us feel safe, that's a dynamic story that has been totally ignored by the press.
This should have been on the cover of every newspaper in the country in the days after Bin Laden's death, the outrage should have been earth moving and there should have been subsequent investigations as to why were lied to for 8 years and even if we weren't lied to, how on earth could our intelligence be so poor that we didn't even know who was in charge of Al Qaeda. I am at a loss as to why none of this happened.
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should IMHO be the fact that Bush didn't even take the threat posed by Bin Laden/Al-Queda seriously during the first few months of his (P)residency and was lackadaisical about adopting Clarke's recommendations or even following up on that fateful August 2001 PDB. Instead, he and his whole team were hyper-focused instead on Iraq and non-existent Cold War-era threats.
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A robed man in a cave did 9/11? 
You win. 
