Osama bin Laden Not Found in National Security Adviser's Speech

By Alex Kingsbury, Washington Whispers

National Security Adviser James Jones did something this week that would have been unthinkable during the Bush administration. He gave a major policy address on national security without mentioning either Osama bin Laden or 9/11. The name al Qaeda came up only once during his speech to the Atlantic Council. In it, Jones offered a comprehensive rebuttal to former Vice President Dick Cheney's recent media blitz alleging that the current administration is making the country less safe. In a speech earlier this month to the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Cheney evoked 9/11 more than 25 times.

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