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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.

— Gore Vidal

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✓Similar Perspectives

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

— Barack Obama

The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.

— Kay Granger

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

— Cofer Black

Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

— Leon Panetta

Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker as a nation because we have overspent and over-focused on Al Qaeda? Yes. I think that would be the conclusion that people seem to have come to and that I tend to agree with.

— Richard Engel

Any American who joins al Qaeda will know full well that they have joined an organization that is at war with the United States. Any American who did that should know well that they in fact are part of an enemy... and that the U.S. will do anything that is possible to destroy that enemy to save American lives.

— John O. Brennan

Public discussion of how we determine al Qaeda intentions, I just - I can't see how that can do anything but harm the security of the nation.

— Michael Hayden

All around the world one heard or read that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.

— Peter Schuyler

✗Opposing Perspectives

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein brutally repressed all forms of opposition to his regime, and before the Iraq War, al Qaeda had no presence in Iraq.

— Peter L. Bergen

The idea the president of the United States was warned that Al-Qaeda was going to attack the United States and did nothing about it - really? Do you think any president of the United States, if he had even an inkling there was going to be an attack, they wouldn't have moved heaven and earth to try to stop it?

— Condoleezza Rice