September 22, 2002
From the desk of Jane Galt:Remember how Clinton turned over
Remember how Clinton turned over a "War Plan" against Al Qaeda to the Bush Administration? Turns out that the top guys from the Clinton Adminsitration deny it when they're under oath. Not, as I've said before, that I think that Clinton should have known -- but that Time piece was a credulous dictee of some farfetched spin that should have embarrassed the editors when they printed it.
On a related note, these inquiries are ridiculous. Not because I think the intelligence community is being all they can be -- I have absolutely no idea whether they're doing the best they can with what they have, or dropping the ball in the big game. But there's no context. So there were twelve pieces of intelligence about planes flying into buildings. How many other pieces of intelligence were they mixed in with? Thousands? Hundreds of thousands? How credible was the threat? How many pieces of intelligence do we have suggesting that Malaysian separatists are planning to infect Denny's hamburgers with e. coli and thereby kill of an entire generation of young men who drink until the wee sma' hours?
I get the feeling that we're being presented, triumphantly, with the needles, without getting a look at the size of the haystack out of which we expect our intelligence services to pluck them.
Posted by Jane Galt at September 22, 2002 11:09 AM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound links