months, you look at, for instance, what richard clark, who is the counterterrorism czar under george bush, what the cia have said, and we have a lot of material about this now. they were trying fervently to try to get the attention of top officials in the bush administration about the al qaeda threat. and there was a very lackadaisical attitude. the bush administration was focused in iraq, on missile defense. it was not focused on al qaeda. that s not to say bush could have stopped the attack, but did he do everything he reasonably could? not even close. a lot of pundits on both sides of the aisle have been saying this is territory you don t touch. i just think they re completely wrong. to say bush orchestrated 9/11, of course, that s craziness, but to ask the question, did bush was bush as vigilant as he could have been? the answer is, there were 36 times, according to the book the angler that the cia