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Posted on 09/11/2001 11:04:05 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
On October 11th, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick appeared before the Council on Foreign Relations’ Policy Impact Panel on Terrorism to outline the Clinton Administration’s record on combating terrorism. According to Ms. Gorelick, the Clinton terrorism policy involves these three core elements:
• To do “everything we can to deter and to prevent terrorist acts.”
• To “respond quickly, decisively, and with a full range of law enforcement and other options that are available.”
• To “work with our friends around the world to interdict terrorists and to assure that they do not go unpunished.”
As with President Clinton’s September 24th warning to drug traffickers and terrorists that “you have no place to run, you have no place to hide,” Gorelick’s election-year boilerplate is not likely to strike mortal fear into the hearts of terrorists anywhere. Likewise, Clinton’s September speech to the United Nations declaring “zero tolerance for aggression, terrorism, and lawless behavior” must have set new highs on global laugh meters. Let us consider the real Clinton record on terrorism and national security.
Administration Appointments
While the problem of security risks occupying sensitive government positions is not unique to this Administration, President Clinton has set a record for recruiting hardcore radicals from Marxist outfits such as the terrorist-friendly Institute for Policy Studies. Undoubtedly the full extent of this scandal will prove to be far worse than the already frightening facts of which we are aware. Most of the subversive iceberg remains hidden because Mr. Clinton has not conducted the required security checks on many of his appointees. Among the most visibly dangerous of the Clinton appointments are:
• Warren Christopher (CFR). According to this Secretary of State, “rogue states” such as Libya, Iraq, and Iran are beyond the pale. But terror regimes such as Russia, China, Syria, South Africa, Angola, Vietnam, Georgia, Armenia, North Korea, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, etc., are worthy of lavish largesse under the rubric of “engagement.”
• Anthony Lake (CFR). A longtime associate of the IPS, Lake was involved with Gelb, Halperin, Warnke, and Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers leak. He also worked at the IPS’ Center for International Policy with Orlando Letelier, the Chilean communist and Cuban DGI agent — just the sort of pedigree one might expect for Mr. Clinton’s Assistant for National Security Affairs.
• Strobe Talbott (CFR). One of Bill Clinton’s Oxford roommates and fellow pilgrims to Russia, Talbott translated Khrushchev’s memoirs into a glowing English hagiography for Time magazine in 1970 — with roommate Clinton’s help. That first exercise in Soviet propaganda no doubt served well in preparing them both for their present roles. In a July 20, 1992 Time essay entitled “The Birth of the Global Nation,” Talbott wrote that the time is quickly approaching in which “nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th-century — ‘citizen of the world’ — will have assumed real meaning....”
• Derek Shearer. Shearer is a founder of the radical Campaign for Economic Democracy and one of the IPS network’s leading apostles for the subversive theories of Italian Communist Party strategist Antonio Gramsci. One of his major claims to fame was the popularization of “economic democracy” as a replacement term for the “s” word: socialism. Such creative subtlety first earned Shearer a slot as economic adviser to the Clinton campaign and then an ambassadorship to Denmark, where he is undoubtedly happy as a clam living next to Mother Russia.
• Robert Borosage. An IPS director who traveled to Nicaragua and praised the Sandinista communists, Borosage also was co-director with Morton Halperin of the IPS’ Center for National Security Studies in its subversive attacks on police, the FBI, the CIA, and congressional investigative bodies. Admitting that the IPS intended to “move the Democratic Party’s debate internally to the left by creating an invisible presence in the party,” Borosage became a foreign policy adviser to Jesse Jackson and then senior policy adviser to Mr. Clinton.
Globalist Advance
With assistance and counsel from CFR elites in key White House positions, the Clinton Administration has openly embraced and helped legitimize some of the most blatant terrorist nations and groups, including:
• Syria. This totalitarian dictatorship has been for many years one of the most dangerous villains on the U.S. State Department’s list of nations engaged in state sponsored terrorism. Damascus is a veritable Terrorists-R-Us bazaar, providing permanent residence to dozens of murderous groups with thousands of fanatic assassins. Fronting for the Soviets, Hafez Assad and his Al-Kassar crime network made Syria the premier narcotics trader in the Middle East. Damascus also possesses a major chemical and biological weapons arsenal, which Washington conveniently overlooks, even though it makes a point of nailing less favored regimes on the same issue. No matter, the Clinton Administration insists that Assad must be part of the phony “peace process” and has shamelessly courted Damascus with over 30 excursions by Warren Christopher to this ruthless, two-bit narco-terrorist prison-state.
• Iran. While continuing the illegal UN arms embargo against Bosnia, the Administration gave its tacit approval to Iran’s secret arms shipments to Sarajevo, thus guaranteeing that Teheran’s virulent, anti-U.S. influence would infect Bosnia’s Muslims. At the same time, it has done nothing to stop Russia and China from providing Iran with nuclear reactors. Nor has it attempted to halt Beijing’s delivery of poison gas facilities, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles to Iran, or stop “ally” Syria from collaborating with North Korea on new missile development.
• Northern Ireland. President Clinton has repeatedly welcomed the Irish Republican Army’s Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams to the U.S. and to the White House, even as the IRA has stepped up its terror bombings and riots in Ireland and England. Britain’s MI5 and MI6 and other Western intelligence agencies have been tracking the travels of IRA terrorists to Iran and Libya for years and the smuggling back to Britain and Ireland of drugs, arms, and explosives by IRA operatives. In November 1993, IRA bosses flew to a secret Teheran summit featuring terrorist leaders from all over the world which was a springboard for a new global offensive. While Adams did not attend that convocation, he has been to Teheran as an honored guest of Iran’s terror regime.
• Russia. Despite the fact that the Soviet KGB and GRU have been for decades the premiere trainers and supporters of terrorist organizations worldwide, the Clinton coterie and its media allies perpetuate the fatal fantasy that Moscow has gone out of the terror business. In recent months, Russian Foreign Minister and KGB veteran Yevgeny Primakov has been making the rounds of the pariah states, cementing old ties he developed decades ago as the Kremlin’s Mideast terrorist paymaster. Mr. Clinton has romanced and endorsed Yeltsin in spite of revelations that members of his government armed and trained the Aum Shinrikyo cult for its deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.
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Does anyone else remember thinking when Pakistan released a press release in '97 or so letting us know that they had developed and tested a nuke: "Holy cow, this traitor has put us in deep sh*t trouble by allowing our intellegence community to go to crap"?
who dismantled our military intelligence and allowed this to happen.
Gorelick bump.
Nice find. Sandi, is there anything here that you can use?
Thank you so very much! Indeed, this is very helpful.
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