Let's Review, Shall We?

Just a few details, summing up what we know:

1. Clinton Administration met weekly on counter-terrorism, left incoming Bush Administration a comprehensive counter-terrorism strategy, plus recommendations to make counter-terrorism a top-priority.
2. Bush Administration ignored counter-terrorism strategy left by Clinton Administration, focused on missile defense as the most "urgent threat"; Cabinet met only once where Al Qaeda was on the agenda prior to September 11, 2001.
3. Then-CIA Director George Tenet requested a meeting on July 10, 2001, to warn then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice of "a potentially catastrophic attack by Al Qaeda, possibly within American borders." No follow-up.
4. Bush Administration does not follow up on Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) of August 6, 2001, which had the title "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.," according to the 9/11 Commission Report, which "found no indication of any further discussion before September 11 among the President and his top advisers of the possibility of a threat of an al Qaeda attack in the United States" after receiving the PDB.
5. October 2, 2006: Rice "does not recall" meeting on July 10, 2001 with Tenet, but finds it "incomprehensible" that she would have ignored reports of an impending attack on the United States.
6. October 2: July 10 meeting is confirmed.

This may be an incomplete list of incompetence, but it's not incomprehensible.


(Thanks to ThinkProgress for their archives.)