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sources and methods" and "inhibits our ability to find and deal with the terrorists who commit
this kind of act." Thanks, Orrin.
So if it hadn't been for Hatch, we probably would've gotten bin Laden right away. The
disclosure that al Qaeda was responsible did allow Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)
to identify the "root of the problem" just hours after the attack: "We had Bill Clinton backing
off, letting the Taliban go, over and over again." The right-wing media followed suit. The
Washington Times blamed Clinton. The New York Post blamed Clinton. You know who Rush
Limbaugh blamed? Clinton. The National Review's White House correspondent Byron York
wrote that Clinton's "record is a richly detailed manual of how not to conduct a war on terrorism."
Within two days, Newt Gingrich was blaming Clinton for the attacks because of his
"pathetically weak, ineffective ability to focus and stay focused." You really got to give Gingrich
credit for how hard he tried to disrupt Clinton's focus: His Republican-run House conducted
dozens of hostile investigations against the President.
But it had kind of been a waste of Gingrich's time. Clinton, as I will demonstrate below,
focused more on terrorism than any previous president. A month before Clinton left office,
his administration was praised by two former Reagan counterterrorism officials. "Overall,
I give them very high marks," Robert Oakley, who served as ambassador for counterterrorism
in the Reagan State Department, told the Washington Post. "The only major criticism I
have is the obsession with Osama, which made him stronger." Oakley's successor in the
Reagan administration, Paul Bremer, disagreed slightly. Bremer, who is currently the civilian
administrator in Iraq, told the Post he believed the Clinton administration had "correctly focused
on bin Laden." Notice the word "focused" next to the words "on bin Laden." I'm talking
to you, Newt. And all of you "Blame-Clinton-Firsters."
Right-wingers like to call us the "Blame-America-First Crowd." But they've blamed
Clinton, who's not just an American, but was the President, virtually nonstop. And Clinton
was not just the President. He was the last elected president, who received more votes than
any other candidate running against him. In two straight elections! So who's blaming America?
The left, which is blaming the terrorists? Or the right, which is blaming a twice-elected
President of the United States?
But, you know what, I don't want to get into a whole partisan politics thing here. Not
in this book, anyway. We'll leave that for my next book, I Fucking Hate Those Right-Wing