Yah, this is the time to build consensus.
I do not think it productive right now to focus (politically) on which admin did or didn't do what. Plenty of 20-20 hindsight available to see the errors of the Republican administrations preceeding Clinton. No way we should be blaming "liberals" or whatever for this failure of our govt to preserve and protect its citizens. Reagan, Bush 1st, Clinton all missed the signals.

However, I will say that may be a good political opportunity to shine light on the far right and far left (not conservatives and liberals, note the adjective FAR) which should help build a rational consensus. We've hit the Falwells, Robertsons (our religious radicals) and Chomskys here pretty hard here and I think that's the right thing to do.

-phil