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

David N. Bossie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 10, 2004

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."

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson; 1St Edition edition (May 10, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785260749
• ISBN-13: 978-0785260745
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,923,189 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars More info than 9/11 report Caution: NOT P/C, September 21, 2004

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EL Wrenfroe (ICW southeast USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11 (Hardcover)

Bossie has written a well documented, well organized inclusive chronology of events of massive intelligence/national security emasculation by Clinton. A this is a 'what happened' book, not analysis, opinion or qualitative verbiage. Example: Marvin Cetron, professional futurists, wrote scenarios for Dep of State in 1992 forecasting crashing planes into buildings naming World Trade Center...multiple simultaneous attacks. Marvin is not in 9/11 report. Why listen to Marvin? He is the guy who forecast that Saddam would invade Kuwait...three years before the fact. Thank you Bossie for a complete record. Would be better if jacket cover did NOT have pejorative picture of Clinton on it...Bossie's book is not a personal attack on Clinton...just the facts, Mam, the sad murderous facts.

Rene

29 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truth in Print at last, July 8, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11 (Hardcover)

This is such an important book, and you should ignore the previous ad hominem reviews in which the writer is attacked rather than his assertions.

Clinton cannot escape blame for endless carelessness in tending to our national security. As President, he never once took the bully pulpit to convince Americans of the danger; had he done so he could have declared war on our enemies, and taken the problem out of the hands of the Justice Department. He could have insisted upon implementation of the CIPRIS project to track foreign students (which would have flagged Mohamed Atta), he would have fully implemented the recommendations of the White House Commission on Airline Safety. He would not have cut the budget of the Department of Defense in order to balance the budget. He would have strenthened the intelligence forces rather than ignoring and weakening them! Reducing the Deficit became such a compulsion with him that he did this on the backs of our military.

He will suffer in history for these mistakes; and if we had a fairer press the details outlined in this book would be known by all.

19 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'd reccommend it, June 23, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11 (Hardcover)

Thanks to the spineless strategy of the Clinton Administration and its indecisiveness, America was ambushed. September 11 was a wake up call and so is David N. Bossie's new book.

--Major Bob Bevelacqua, FOX News Military Analyst and former U.S. Green Beret