66. Jack wrote:
In my thinking, it was 8 years between successful attacks last time (no credit given to Clinton of course), so we are due.
Peter writes: And that is where your thinking is wrong. Things progressed almost exponentially during the Clinton years, starting with the first WTC bombing in 93, and with each incident that Clinton did little or nothing after, al Qaeda got worse and worse…
25 June 1996 – Khobar Towers Attack.
7 August 1998 – African Embassy Bombings.
12 October 2000 – Attack on USS Cole.
As you can see, each incident bolder and worse than the one that preceded it, and each that Clinton did nothing to either retaliate or prevent. All leading up to 9/11, the majority of the planning for which took place during the Clinton presedency.
Attacks on US targets since 9/11: None.
Attacks averted on US targets since 9/11: Unknown, because Obama will not declassify the information that would tell us this in detail. The only information we have is leaked by people who had access to that information at the time, who have stated as publicly as they can without breaking the rules of confidentiality that an attack on LA was averted precisely due to the special methods of interrogation legally used by the US in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
