If the 9/11 Commission weren't a political sideshow these are the questions they'd be asking Dick Clarke. Mr. Clarke is performing on the pundit circuit and promoting his new book placing most of the blame for 9/11 on the Bush Administration, even though he himself was in charge of counter-terrorism under President Clinton from (I think) 1997 to 2001, and involved in counter-terrorism for many years before that.
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Though it's true that our CIA should have an anonymous killing department, the United States has had throughout the Cold War and into present day, the tendency toward the Pretense of Nobility. We want to look like we don't bother people without good reason. We fear that if we are proactive or heavy handed other countries will react badly (see France's reaction to our invasion of Iraq.) It really boils down to that. We let those people go because it is our policy not to grab jerks like bin Laden just because they are evil. We have to wait till the snake has bitten before we chop its head (even then we first stare in disbelief that the snake would do such a thing.)
I don't really care who was responsible for letting al Qaeda go in the past. I'm only really interested in who chops our snakes in the future.