| − | The intelligence communities of many countries warned the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush that 9/11 was coming as Bill Clinton missed opportunities to capture and kill Osama Bin Laden.
| + | Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both deliberately ignored the many warnings from various foreign intelligence agencies about the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and the former missed multiple opportunities to take bin Laden out before he could strike. Once 9/11 had occurred, Bush then falsely labeled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan as being the government which bore ultimate responsibility (the actual guilty party was Saudi Arabia, who Bush continued to prop up as an ally). |