Even, according to Peggy Noonan, the presidential administration presiding on 9/11:
...The Bush administration made a great point of saying, when they were explaining what U.S. intelligence is up against, that the challenges are constant and we only have to be wrong once, fail once, for the consequences to be deeply painful. What the Bush administration was doing, in part, was admitting that they might be in charge when something happened....September 11? Osama? Jet planes? Bygones. The GOP takes a mulligan, thankyouverymuch. Which is another case that nobody but nobody could have predicted...
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