The Washington post hardly ever gives context for its stories - in fact, I’ve never seen them put a paragraph like this after a story, until today:
Editor’s Note: How much effort the Bush administration made in going after Osama bin Laden before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, became an issue last week after former president Bill Clinton accused President Bush’s “neocons” and other Republicans of ignoring bin Laden until the attacks. Rice responded in an interview that “what we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years.”
The story in question suggests that the Whitehouse may have had a warning about the possibility of the 9/11 attacks that they foolishly did not reveal to the 9/11 commission.