” ‘You replay everything in your mind, and you ask, *Was there anything else that could have been done?* ‘ [President Bill] Clinton said later [in a speech he made to the Washington Society of Association Executives on October 9, 2001]. ‘I tried to take Mr. Bin Laden out of the picture for the last four years-plus I was in office. …I don’t think I was either stupid or inattentive, so he is a formidable adversary.’ “
– Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 542