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Article: Knowledge (and Power).(foreknowledge of terrorist attacks and national security)(Brief Article)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- June 10, 2002
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For Senator Clinton to flourish a copy of the New York Post--the paper that has called her pretty much everything from Satanic to Sapphist--merely because it had the pungent headline "Bush Knew" is not yet her height of opportunism. (The height so far was reached last fall, when she said she could understand the rage and hatred behind the attacks on the World Trade Center because, after all, she had been attacked herself in her time.) But the failure of her husband's regime to take Al Qaeda seriously is the clue to the same failure on the part of the Bush gang.
Clinton's only "serious" move against Osama bin Laden came in 1998, with his wag-the-dog missile ...