When people from the Clinton Administration come out to criticize TB for not acting on the al Qaeda threat, there's both validity and hollowness to their claims. Bush didn't do shit to go after al Qaeda and other terrorists, and he had no real intention of doing so. This is just like every other administration that came before, both D and R alike, including Clinton's. TB obviously only stepped things up because they had to - period. Of course, it didn't hurt matters that 9/11 gave them an excuse to do all sorts of things they had already planned - USA PATRIOT, Iraq, etc. Still, they probably would have sat on their hands if they could have.