Because revising history is what Clintons do best.

YESTERDAY, in the wake of President Clinton’s interview on Fox News, Senator Hillary Clinton defended her husband’s counterterrorism track record. Reacting to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s assertion that the Bush administration “was at least as aggressive” in the eight months preceding September 11, 2001 as the Clinton administration was in the years prior, the former first lady remarked:

“I’m certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled ‘Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside the United States’ he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team.”

Apparently referring to the August 6, 2001 presidential daily briefing, which was entitled “bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US,” Senator Clinton suggested that her husband did not receive the same type of warnings that President Bush did.

In fact, President Clinton signed a similar classified document--which contained an explicit warning from the U.S. Intelligence Community that bin Laden intended to strike inside the United States, more than two years prior to leaving office. And the U.S. intelligence community collected numerous pieces of intelligence concerning bin Laden’s determination to strike inside the United States during President Clinton’s tenure.

Doh.