Dog posted this back in 2003
AP: FBI Sent Hamas Money in Clinton Days
JOHN SOLOMON Associated Press WASHINGTON
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/996224/posts
[And Janet Reno approved it.]
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While President Clinton was trying to broker an elusive peace between Israelis and Palestinians, the FBI was secretly funneling money to suspected Hamas figures to see if the militant group would use it for terrorist attacks, according to interviews and court documents. The counterterrorism operation in 1998 and 1999 was run out of the FBI’s Phoenix office in cooperation with Israeli intelligence and was approved by Attorney General Janet Reno, FBI officials told The Associated Press. Several thousand dollars in U.S. money was sent to suspected...
2002
Reno speaks [Washington Times]
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/628494/posts
That paragon of rectitude and competence, former Attorney General Janet Reno, disapproves of the way her successor, John Ashcroft, is doing his job. Speaking to university students in Minnesota Monday, Miss Reno suggested that Mr. Ashcroft had questioned the patriotism of critics of the Bush administration’s conduct of the war on terror. “It is important that we bring people to justice according to the principles of our Constitution,” Miss Reno declared. “The day we start giving up our freedoms, the bad guys have won.”
[Just the opposite happened in more ways than one. Reno led a lawsuit to give foreign terrorists the same rights as US citizens — in some ways more rights. Even though she supported the Patriot Act. And she got her way. Now look at how the war on terror has been going. A disaster.]