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Freeh Continues Criticism of Clinton Terror Record
New York Times ^ | October 16, 2005 | By BRIAN KNOWLTON, International Herald Tribune

Posted on 10/17/2005 4:46:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

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To: kcvl

Thanks for posting the interview. I was wondering what was said.


41 posted on 10/17/2005 7:26:35 AM PDT by hawkaw
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To: kcvl
From my files:

Vice Adm. Thomas Wilson, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, wrote to all DIA personnel this week to explain the protest resignation of a DIA analyst in October. The analyst, Kie Fallis, quit the day after the USS Cole was attacked by suicide bombers in Aden, Yemen. Mr. Fallis charged that a report he had written on the threat of a terrorist attack in Yemen was suppressed by senior DIA officials.

Mr. Fallis' resignation letter stated that he had "significant analytic differences" with DIA superiors over a terrorist threat assessment produced in June.

U.S. intelligence officials said there were warnings, but they arrived too late. The National Security Agency issued a report shortly after the Cole was bombed warning of attacks in the region —too late to be useful.

Adm. Wilson said he asked the Pentagon inspector general (IG) to investigate Mr. Fallis' charges. In an awkwardly worded statement, the three-star admiral said on Wednesday the IG "found no evidence to support the public perception that information warning of an attack on Cole was suppressed, ignored or even available in DIA." What about the private perception?

The admiral's statement drew smirks from several intelligence officials. It relied on a dodge often used by intelligence analysts to dismiss unwelcome information. Saying there is "no evidence" —like that presented to a court of law — is often used to mask the fact there is lots of intelligence to the contrary that spooks would rather not talk about in public.

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The MSM keeps citing defense lawyers as the culprit in Able Danger...however...

Shaffer says he was trying to broker a connection between SOCOM and the FBI. Shaffer told Spencer that one reason that Able Danger got denied permission to brief the FBI on their findings was that there was a fear not just among Pentagon lawyers but among Special Ops command that if things went badly with any FBI operation to take out the al Qaeda cells they had identified, it would be “another Waco."

Spencer says, “He didn’t blame the DoD lawyers so much, but the command” (for blocking the team from sharing their findings with the FBI). “Not Schoomaker…. It rose to the level of a 2-star, 3-star general,” who he didn’t name...

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VADM Wilson was a Three Star General.
42 posted on 10/17/2005 7:31:49 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: kcvl; Yellow Rose of Texas

Thank you for the post, it appears that Russert is far more interested in covering clinton's butt than learning about terrorists.


43 posted on 10/17/2005 7:39:45 AM PDT by razorback-bert
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To: STARWISE

Let me guess, Russert went after Freeh on Sunday morning, but let that lying piece of garbage, Aaron Broussard get away with lying and lying on Meet the Press?


44 posted on 10/17/2005 7:43:37 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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To: kcvl
"made incredible counterterrorism cases during that period. Kansi was brought back..."

I would like him to elaborate more about Kansi. Will he say if this was a hit on a specific target at the CIA?

45 posted on 10/17/2005 8:13:55 AM PDT by Deguello
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Wonder why Russert didn't mention the 46 federal indictments against the Klinton Kabal.

Because the liberal elite do not like egg on their faces..they prefer payback..indictments of every person in the Bush admin. they can set their cameras on..to do less would be to admit they were wrong..cant have that in the Media!

46 posted on 10/17/2005 8:14:42 AM PDT by Iron Matron
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To: Jim Robinson

Tim Russert took on the role of Defense Attorney for the Clintons. Pathetic.


47 posted on 10/17/2005 8:37:35 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ScaniaBoy
I'll bet that it was NOT "misdelivered". It was delivered so as to sabotage it. The Clintons are devious, evil people and their followers are also.

Podesta makes my skin crawl....what a sleezy guy.

48 posted on 10/17/2005 8:41:37 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: kcvl

Wonder how much the Clintons paid Tim Russert, their new Defense Attorney?


49 posted on 10/17/2005 8:43:53 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: lepton

bookmark bump


50 posted on 10/17/2005 9:10:41 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Ann Archy
I'll bet that it was NOT "misdelivered".

I wouldn't bet against you - but whatever the cause of the misdelivery, these tidbits from the White House and State Dept under the Clinton years do not improve his "historic legacy".

Podesta makes my skin crawl....what a sleezy guy.

I've never seen him, so I can still sleep soundly.

:-)

51 posted on 10/17/2005 9:38:43 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Ann Archy
All the Clintonistas are out trying to polish a turd - tough job.
52 posted on 10/17/2005 4:32:33 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: nw_arizona_granny

I indulged and bought Freeh's book this weekend. I had a hard time finding it in the bookstore as it was on the bottom shelf almost hidden. Of course, most of the bookstores are run by liberals in our area so that shouldn't surprise me.


53 posted on 10/17/2005 5:23:04 PM PDT by jer33 3
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Of course, most of the bookstores are run by liberals in our area so that shouldn't surprise me.

Bookstores nationwide are run by the Libs, just like our institutions of higher learning. We have an entire couple of generation of mush heads amongst us now.

54 posted on 10/17/2005 5:59:52 PM PDT by p23185
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To: Jim Robinson

"Mr. Freeh, appearing on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press""

The amazing thing is that NBC considers this "news". Weren't all those things he's taking about actually Bush's fault? Isn't Freeh just a disgruntled failure?

It's all interesting because it impacts Hillary (even when its about Bill), so it's serious stuff.


55 posted on 10/17/2005 8:50:44 PM PDT by strategofr (The secret of happiness is freedom. And the secret of freedom is courage.---Thucydities)
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To: kcvl


"FBI director Louis Freeh, and those around him, began to suspect that the administration didn't care that much about finding the perpetrators because if connections with Iran were established it would be forced to take, or at least consider, action against Iran. This meant that getting to the bottom of the case would present what the administration hated most: a difficulty, a risk."

I believe Clinton is a traitor who aided and abetted the terrorists. Too many convoluted excuses like this. Everything points the same way.


56 posted on 10/17/2005 8:53:51 PM PDT by strategofr (The secret of happiness is freedom. And the secret of freedom is courage.---Thucydities)
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To: ScaniaBoy

Podesta said "there was no wrongdoing"

Earlier, former White House chief of staff John Podesta, former White House counsel Beth Nolan and former deputy counsel Bruce Lindsey were joined by Jack Quinn, another former White House counsel who served as attorney for Rich, whose presidential pardon is the focus of the hearings by the House Government Operations and Reform Committee.

Rich fled to Switzerland 17 years ago to avoid prosecution on racketeering, wire fraud, income tax evasion and illegal oil trading charges. His was one of 140 pardons that Clinton granted in his last hours in office on January 20.

Denise Rich has been a major contributor to Democratic campaigns and the Clinton presidential library foundation. Dozoretz has pledged to raise $1 million for the Clinton presidential library. The House committee is looking into whether those actions had any impact on Clinton's granting of the pardon for Rich.

Podesta, Nolan and Lindsey all said they recommended that the pardon be denied, but supported Clinton's decision-making process.

"I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits," Podesta said.

57 posted on 10/17/2005 9:21:18 PM PDT by kcvl
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John Podesta is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for American Progress. Podesta served as Chief of Staff to President William J. Clinton from October 1998 until January 2001. A frequent guest of Sunday morning news programs, Podesta is known for his straight talk, acerbic wit, and fierce defense of the Clinton Administration – which he also served from 1997 to 1998 as both an Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff. Earlier, from January 1993 to 1995, he was Assistant to the President, Staff Secretary and a senior policy adviser on government information, privacy, telecommunications security and regulatory policy. Additionally, Podesta is currently a Visiting Professor of Law on the faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center, a position he also held from January 1995 to 1997.


58 posted on 10/17/2005 9:28:09 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

It's absolutely mind-boggling. For over twenty-six years the regime in control of Iran has been involved in terrorism and mayhem and murder both inside and outside the country -- all over the world, in the farthest corners of the world -- and what have the governments of the world been doing about it? They've been busy protecting and whitewashing and HIDING the mollas' murderous deeds.

Will Freeh's book make a difference? Absolutely not.


59 posted on 10/17/2005 10:28:43 PM PDT by parisa
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