The 9/11 Commission: the Clinton Administration's Response in 1998 versus the Bush Administration's Response to 2001
After the Cold War, the state of American intelligence was in incredible disarray. The Cold War had ended. The purpose of all of American intelligence efforts had been shifted from a Cold War focus on the Soviet Union to a more chaotic, diverse, and internationally and ethnically divided world. The 9/11 commission, when comparing the Clinton Administration's response to the 1998 Al Qaeda bombings of American embassies, admitted that during this period of world history the Clinton Administration was still in a difficult and transitional world period, and domestically, the nation was uncertain as to how to go forward. The Clinton Administration made a cautious response that did not fundamentally reconfigure the systems of intelligence gathering in the nation, or the bureaucracy of the intelligence agencies in the United States. This was difficult to do in a short period of time, true, bu
t such caution, the commission stresses, without attacking the Clinton administration, is no longer warranted. However, the commission also allowed that the negotiations going on between Israel and the Palestinian representatives made a strident response difficult, as if the United States were to respond forcefully, it could not with good moral conscience criticize Israel for doing the same, when Israel was attacked by terrorist bombings on its territories. One way to facilitate communication is through the creation of a post for a single National Security Director to act as an umbrella administrator of all the intelligence related and law enforcement connected areas of government. Although one can never know if this could have potentially thwarted both the embassy bombings and the attacks on the Trade Towers, it would enable a more unified study of potential terrorist 'chatter.' The cre
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