"Is it any wonder why the FBI/CIA/ etc. would play it the same way and not talk to each other?"

Chief, if it were for the ample evidence that these organizations did not suddenly stop talking to each other and have been like that for years, I might agree. In reality, it's a continum that changed gradually, sometime for the better, sometimes for worse, over many, many years.

"I myself, upon hearing that Al Quiada was looking to hit a target in NY City and/or Washington would have imediately thought of the World Trade Center that an attempt had already been made on."

Odd, when I hear someone's scoping out federal buildings as the PDB described, I think of Oklahoma City. Nothing in it would have put me in mind of using airplanes as missles. Truck bombs, which didn't work against the WTC the first time, but not airplanes. I understand a few people thought of that, but even the ones who did never described how they would defend a whole city like New York, espeically not over extended periods of time.

"Strick, I like to read the brief and hear the brief. I to like to look in the eyes of the person briefing me. Unfortunately when you have seen a prediliction in your boss not to want to hear views that oppose his (and Bush has fired quite a few that weren't wearing their prescribed rose colored glasses)and you like your job and need the money to pay for things, like the rest of us, you tell him what he wants to hear."

Neither of us have any information on how that briefing took place or why so much information was left out of the PDB, do we?

"And with the intelligence that netted us 1 milk factory and a Chinese Embassy (as well as an empty terrorist camp), I don't think Clinton can be held responsible for not 'Killing him when he had the chance'."

You forgot the aspirin factory. I'm not willing to blame the Clinton administration, either. I just don't see how not making radical improvements in policy and intelligence gathering and analysis immediately after coming to power warrants blame, either. On Bush's watch, yes, blame? Look to Ben Laden.