Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11

by David N. Bossie

Eight years before 9/11, on February 26, 1993, Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda terrorist network declared war against the United States with a deadly attack on the World Trade Center. Al Qaeda continued to wage war on the U.S. throughout the Clinton Administration, attacking Khobar Towers in 1996, two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, and the U.S.S. Cole in 2000. How could these attacks happen? How could Al Qaeda wage these assaults against the strongest, best-defended nation in the world? Intelligence Failure is the definitive account of Bill Clinton's greatest failure as president. Using exclusive research and previously unreported findings from congressional investigations and other sources, David Bossie details how Clinton's poor leadership and denigration of both the U.S. military and intelligence services exposed America to terrorist assault. "September 11, 2001, may have happened under Bush's watch," Bossie declares, "but it will always remain Clinton's legacy."

272 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Chris]

If you are into predictions, then David Bossie will convince you that 9/11 was a perfectly predictable events. He states that the first bombing on the World Trade Center in 1993, the Embassy bombing in Kenya & Tanzania in 1998 plus other terror activities were enough signals that Osama Bin Laden was planning a major terror activity to harm the US.

In his conclusion, 9/11 was a preventable event and it's success can be blamed on former president Clinton on his lax stand on terror plus humanistic and political ideologies that weakened the intelligence gathering capabilities of the CIA & the FBI.

The book though lacks depths to explore all the issues mentioned as failures that led to 9/11.