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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

W. and the damage done

President Bush inherited a peaceful, prosperous America. As he exits, Salon consults experts in seven fields to try to assess the devastation.

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 08:14 AM

    @Groenhagen

    Are you familiar with FBI Agent Coleen Rowley's attempts to prevent 9/11?

    I gather the new protocals engineered by Clinton's real AG, Jamie Gorelick, prevented the FBI from communicating with CIA and other intelligence agencies. She discovered that an alarming number of Arab men on student visas were suddenly learning to fly large airplanes. She wanted wire taps and email surveillance on them and was rebuffed.

    However, some of the usual suspects over at Glennnnnnn's got mad (they are always mad mad mad) when I brought this up, and even found a way to blame this intelligence failure on Bush (of course). Seems like Bush gave the senior FBI agent who shut Rowley up a raise (which is a rather bizarre claim, don't you think?)

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