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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mugsy" data-source="post: 2003311" data-attributes="member: 18914">The Bush administration almost certainly had knowledge that Bin Laden, and others, wanted to directly or indirectly attack US assets and personnel including in the homeland.  However, that is a far cry from having specific information about a particular time/place/method of attack.The key issue is not about whether the US can attacked under a given President - it can if the enemy is smart, determined, resourceful, and careful enough.  The issue of Benghazi was whether despite knowing the source of the attack the Obama Campaign machinery purposely, to avoid election upset for the incumbent, hijacked the assessment process to protect their "messaging".  In my opinion that is clearly what happened.  There is a separate issue of whether requests for additional security in Libya were turned down so as not to interfere with rosy US assessments about the Arab Spring.  At least in the Bush administration Rumsfeld eventually paid, with his job, for the mis-assessing he did over Iraq.  In the Obama administration no responsibility is ever laid anywhere except at a political opponents doorstep.</blockquote>