What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share
It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share
I call George W. Bush a radical because he is undertaking a fundamental transformation of our Constitutional system of government and of our longstanding… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share
George W. Bush has deliberately polarized and divided America for political purposes, politicizing the most basic questions of war and peace for partisan advantage. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share
What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share
The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share
Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share
The incubator for terrorism, after the Middle East, is Europe, partly because of proximity, partly because of the existence of large Muslim communities there. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share
The Bush Administration, and particularly Bush's chief political strategist and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, have been expert in both galvanizing and mobilizing… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share
Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share
