"There's such as thing as being right too early"

No there's not, Strick. That's a cop out of the highest order. Clinton recognised the threat in '96... he said so almost verbatim to the way I have written it above.
This line... "You don't blame Clinton for not recognizing that Al Qaeda represented a quantium leap in terrorist activity" was me quoting you, remember.
I don't blame Clinton for not recognising the quantum leap.... for the simple reason that he did recognise the quantum leap.

What argument are you defending here? That 9/11 could have been prevented, but 'what the hell, people make mistakes'?

Jim