So, State was Ringing the Bell on bin Laden?

It’s starting to appear that maybe our intelligence community wasn’t as screwed up before 9/11 as we’ve been led. In fact, it looks as if the Pentagon and the State Department were doing exactly what they were supposed to be doing.

State Department analysts warned the Clinton administration in July 1996 that Osama bin Laden’s move to Afghanistan would give him an even more dangerous haven as he sought to expand radical Islam “well beyond the Middle East,” but the government chose not to deter the move, newly declassified documents show.

In what would prove a prescient warning, the State Department intelligence analysts said in a top-secret assessment on Mr. bin Laden that summer that “his prolonged stay in Afghanistan – where hundreds of ‘Arab mujahedeen’ receive terrorist training and key extremist leaders often congregate – could prove more dangerous to U.S. interests in the long run than his three-year liaison with Khartoum,” in Sudan.

The declassified documents, obtained by the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch as part of a Freedom of Information Act request and provided to The New York Times, shed light on a murky and controversial chapter in Mr. bin Laden’s history: his relocation from Sudan to Afghanistan as the Clinton administration was striving to understand the threat he posed and explore ways of confronting him.

Maybe it wasn’t the intelligence community that was dysfunctional, but the Clinton administration – the one group that completely avoided criticism from the 9/11 Commission and the MSM in general.

If you add this revelation to the Able Danger revelations, it sure looks like our intelligence people were doing just what they were supposed to be doing and that the administration was doing a fantastic job of either ignoring or misusing the information it was given.

Looks like we have another group of people to add to the Congressional subpoena list.

Nothing less will suffice.

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