Weldon: Clinton Official Ignored Program

... "It goes back to the very heart of the political leadership, goes back over the previous administration as well," said John Martin, a former FBI counterterrorist specialist and retired chief of internal security at the Justice Department, who added that even after the World Trade Center terrorist bombing in 1993, some top officials wanted the FBI to focus on abortion-clinic violence, street crime and the like.

"We were not preparing for this kind of attack," he said.

[Rep. Curt] Weldon [R-Pa.] said that even if the intelligence community was absorbed with other issues, it missed at least one public and maddeningly obvious clue that until now had gone unnoticed.

"In August of 2000, an Al Qaeda member had been interviewed by an Italian newspaper, and (it was) reported that Al Qaeda was training kamikaze pilots. The intelligence community and enforcement agencies don't read open-source information," he said.

Now here's an example of what some people knew and when they knew it.