The misstatements and misinformation that followed were not "honest mistakes made by people with a lapse of good judgment. Their misstatements and misinformation were deliberate efforts to cover stupid, colossal mistakes. The sound military plan to "block and sweep at Tora Bora was rejected for a simple reason -- by the time bin Laden was located in Tora Bora they simply didn't care about him. He was an afterthought and his existence was of insignificance relative to far bigger plans brewing at the Pentagon, for which they would need every man they could spare. When the military blunder was exposed, the political response was to deny a mistake ever occurred and provide excuses. Classify documents that stated otherwise and refuse to release them for reasons of National Security. It worked because the oversight and accountability that should have existed in Congress to address these issues was deemed less relevant or important than party politics. Too many congressional members were far less interested in their obligations and responsibilities to the public than their commitment to their party.
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