Free Speech, Democrat Style

If you can pressure the historians to leave it out, it didn't happen. Unfortunately, most of us remember it more clearly. All that needs to be pointed out is how many terrorist attacks went practically unanswered during Clinton's years in office, leading Al Qaeda to conclude that we were wimps. Does he really think that changing a docudrama five years after the fact will change that conclusion. These are the people who are always comparing America to Orwell's novel, 1984, but they're the ones insisting on redacting history.

Don't they realize what message these tactics send to the rest of us? And can you imagine any network doing this for any Republican?

Sandy Berger's complaint is not quite a claim of strong leadership:

In no instance did President Clinton or I ever fail to support a request from the CIA or US military to authorize an operation against bin Laden or al Qaeda.

Nor did they ever treat the repeated attacks by Al Qaeda as anything serious enough to demand anything beyond their cursory attention. All his statement amounts to is an admission that the CIA knew better than to ask or or that it even considered Al Qaeda to be a serious threat.