It happened one night on Fox News Channel; Bill Clinton finally flipped out.  He showed the world he had a human side, and it wasn't below his belt.  When asked if he could have done more to catch Osama bin Laden during his presidency, Blowjob Bill responded, "At least I tried."  He then proceeded to detail how in his eight years in office he had been unable to catch bin Laden, and that really it was the fault of those right-wingers who'd been in office for eight months before 9/11.

Personally, I don't blame Slick Willy for 9/11.  It wouldn't be fair.  And frankly, there's so much one can blame him for.  No, it wouldn't be fair to blame him for 9/11.  The systemic failures in the intelligence community that led to the "Planes Operation," as its mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad called it, were deeply entrenched over 30 years ago.  There was a certain naivete that converged on Washington, DC in the late 1970s.  Jimmy Carter called it "malaise".  I call it stupidity.  For whatever reason--perhaps because Carter was taking advice from his wife, who knew nothing whatsoever about politics or policy, and his daughter, who was seven or so at the time--the President decided to put Stansfield Turner in charge of the CIA.  This is where the decline began.  Turner 'turned' the CIA off of HUMINT (human intelligence--something Carter lacked) and on to TECHINT and SIGINT (technical intelligence and signals intelligence).  I suppose Carter forgot there was a Cold War going on.

It's true that Turner was removed from office almost as soon as Reagan was elected (oddly enough, that's also about the time the Iranian Hostage Crisis ended with the return--alive and intact--of the hostages; go figure).  At any rate, it was already too late.  Turner's reforms, combined with William Colby's anti-intelligence attitude (he was DCI from 1973-1976, right before George H.W. Bush) had done the damage.  Because of the first, there were less and less agents in the field.  Because of the second, the CIA lost a great deal of respect in the eyes of Americans.  Even Reagan's military spending couldn't fix the problem.

Now, fast forward twenty years.  William Jefferson Clinton becomes President of the United States.  Somewhere along the line, probably mid-coitus, he cuts funding to intelligence, military and otherwise.  Failing to see the growing problems of Islamic Fascism and terrorism (even after the 1993 WTC bombing, the 1998 bombings of US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the 2000 USS Cole bombing) he focuses more and more on the so-called Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process; a process he made up so he could get that Nobel Peace Prize he wanted so badly.  The chance for peace was slim to none.  But he worked on it tirelessly, bringing Israel to her knees and sending James Carville over to make sure that Labor's Ehud Barak became PM. 

The point is that it wasn't Clinton's fault directly for 9/11.  It wasn't even Carter's.  9/11 happened because of a failure of leadership on the parts of all our presidents from Ford up until W, some less than others.  On the other hand, I think it's safe to say, at least in regard to Billy Boy, that "methinks the lady doth protest too much."  He could and should have done more.  And he knows it.