Please don't forget that the 911 plot was years old as well
The question is, do we do a Kerry/Clinton and react after the fact, or do we secure the targets and seek to get in front of their plot and then back off only when the facts get sorted out? The cost of the passive approach is what Pres. Bush, and most of the country, learned on 911.
Please don't forget the 20/20 hindsight calls to have reacted to the chatter of summer 2001, etc. Kerry and the dems still don't get it.
Ed