The hot seat played host to many high level backsides yesterday. In this week’s 9/11 commission hearings, former and current secretaries of defense and state testified about what they knew about America’s vulnerability to terrorism in the years and months preceding September 11th. As a bipartisan panel peppered the witnesses with questions both affable and accusatory, most of the queries focused on whether Presidents Clinton and Bush had the “actionable intelligence” necessary to use military force against Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network.
Guests:
Peg Ogonowski, widow of John Ogonowski, captain of American Airlines Flight
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Larry Johnson, former deputy director of the State Department’s Office on Counter-terrorism under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton
David Frum, co-author of “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror.”