Did any of you catch Gary Hart on Newsnight, re: 9/11? Replaying now.

[Wonk]

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I think on 9/11 if the president was not warned then heads should have rolled and if the president was warned and did nothing then perhaps the presidential head should roll.

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I also must say I think it's very disingenuous to say no one told us what day, hijacked airplanes, what buildings. That's not sufficient for the people who have taken a constitutional oath to defend and protect the security of the United States.

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I think the Pearl Harbor analogy works in a way. If Franklin Roosevelt had been warned by 14 reasonably, well in fact present company excepted, deeply experienced people in national security that the Japanese were going to attack America sometime, someplace, somehow and had done nothing to get ready for that I think he would have been held very seriously accountable.

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[Wonk]

1. That segment is on again now. Hart coming up soon. nt

[Melodybe]

2. He spoke at my college on Wed. night and I got to shake his hand.

Before the lecture I got to meet him, he was very nice. He is tall with big hair and he is a very open and friendly guy. I thanked him for everything that he is saying and I begged him not to change a thing. It was a real honor.

The lecture was great too.