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What Bush Knew.

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The hundreds of readers responding to our May 27 cover story-on what George W. Bush knew in advance of the September 11 attacks-debated whether Washington could really have averted the catastrophe. Many suggested ways in which the government could have been more watchful.

A Tragedy Of Missed Signals

The articles in your May 27 cover package, "What Bush Knew," are the most illuminating of any I've read on the subject (U.S. affairs). How is it that this common-sense, realist, straight-talking, no-nuance administration morphed into one that now does so much word-parsing on its own account? It seeks sanctuary in familiar expressions like "I don't recall." It ...

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