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He wasn't in charge on the US intelligence community... he got information from them. Interestly in his book he talks about the attempts to take out bin Laden during the Clinton administration and the problems with timely/accurate intelligence.

He knew enough at the beginning of the Bush administration to hound Condi Rice for a high level meeting on the subject of bin Laden and al quada. His requests were ignore until just a week or so before 911. Post 911 his correct opinions were ignored again. The fact is that the Bush administration had reports about bin Laden threat and ignored it. Then post 911 tried to pin it on Iraq when Iraq had not been involved at all.

Much of this account is backed up by the book The Price of Loyalty which is largely based on information from Paul ONeil... another life long Republican asked to be part of the Bush administration who left in disgust... and when he tried to speak out was trashed Rovian style.