Hillary Clinton coming to her hubby’s defense:

“”I think my husband did a great job in demonstrating that Democrats are not going to take these attacks,” Hillary Clinton said. “I’m certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled ‘Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside the United States’ he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team.”

Damn, another case of “FactChallengeItis”. Yo Hillary, your husband DID receive such a report, in fact a Presidential Daily Briefing in 1996.

“The following is the text of an item from the Presidential Daily Brief received by President William J. Clinton on December 4, 1998. Redacted material is indicated in brackets.

SUBJECT: Bin Ladin Preparing to Hijack US Aircraft and Other Attacks

1. Reporting [-] suggests Bin Ladin and his allies are preparing for attacks in the US, including an aircraft hijacking to obtain the release of Shaykh ‘Umar ‘Abd al-Rahman, Ramzi Yousef, and Muhammad Sadiq ‘Awda. One source quoted a senior member of the Gama’at al-Islamiyya (IG) saying that, as of late October, the IG had completed planning for an operation in the US on behalf of Bin Ladin, but that the operation was on hold.A senior Bin Ladin operative from Saudi Arabia was to visit IG counterparts in the US soon thereafter to discuss options-perhaps including an aircraft hijacking.

IG leader Islambuli in late September was planning to hijack a US airliner during the “next couple of weeks” to free ‘Abd al-Rahman and the other prisoners, according to what may be a different source.

The same source late last month said that Bin Ladin might implement plans to hijack US aircraft before the beginning of Ramadan on 20 December and that two members of the operational team had evaded security checks during a recent trial run at an unidentified New York airport. [-]

2. Some members of the Bin Ladin network have received hijack training, according to various sources, but no group directly tied to Bin Ladin’s al-Qa’ida organization has ever carried out an aircraft hijacking.Bin Ladin could be weighing other types of operations against US aircraft.Accord-ing to [-] the IG in October obtained SA-7 missiles and intended to move them from Yemen into Saudi Arabia to shoot down an Egyptian plane or, if unsuccessful, a US military or civilian aircraft.

A [-] in October told us that unspecified “extremist elements” in Yemen had acquired SA-7s. [-]

3. [-] indicate the Bin Ladin organization or its allies are moving closer to implementing anti-US attacks at unspecified locations, but we do not know whether they are related to attacks on aircraft. A Bin Ladin associate in Sudan late last month told a colleague in Kandahar that he had shipped a group of containers to Afghanistan. Bin Ladin associates also talked about the movement of containers to Afghanistan before the East Africa bombings.

In other [-] Bin Ladin associates last month discussed picking up a package in Malaysia. One told his colleague in Malaysia that “they” were in the “ninth month [of pregnancy].”

An alleged Bin Ladin supporter in Yemen late last month remarked to his mother that he planned to work in ‚Äúcommerce‚Äù from abroad and said his impending ‚Äúmarriage,‚Äù which would take place soon, would be a ‚Äúsurprise.‚Äù”Commerce‚Äù and ‚Äúmarriage‚Äù often are codewords for terrorist attacks. [-]

What did your husband do for the next 778 days of his tenure after recieving this briefing?

NADA…….

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin with links on the NIE Key Judgements that was just released. Reading simply the first paragraph you see that for all the Democratic attempts to thrwart our National Security, the fact is that our methods have worked.

“United States-led counterterrorism efforts have seriously damaged the leadership ofal-Qa‚Äôida and disrupted its operations; however, we judge that al-Qa‚Äôida will continue to pose the greatest threat to the Homeland and US interests abroad by a single terrorist organization. We also assess that the global jihadist movement‚Äîwhich includes al-Qa‚Äôida, affiliated and independent terrorist groups, and emerging networks and cells‚Äîis spreading and adapting to counterterrorism efforts.”

Thus our efforts worked. But there is still work to be done because the terrorists - as any enemy in war - are constantly changing their tactics. Imagine now how much time energy and ingenuity has been wasted because Democrats have chosen “power” over our security. Like I said and I know it’s sad, but it’s almost like they’re are praying for another 9/11 before November.

UPDATE II: Hot Air with a Video of Hillary (Don’t view until at least 20 minutes after eating).