(Clinton) Holdovers in addition to Clarke) Held Up Security Strategy ("MUST READ")

Insight Magazine ^ | March 29, 2004 | J. Michael Waller

[cynicom]

With people like Lehman on their team, the democrats cannot lose.

[ravingnutter]

Congress had a hand in this too...according to the articles I have found, the budget blueprint to beef up intelligence was unveiled by Bush in Feb 2001. The following article indicates that Congress did not act on it until Sep 14 2001.

The FY 2002 Intelligence Budget: A Five-Year Plan

The budget request submitted by the President includes a substantial increase for programs funded in the National Foreign Intelligence Program. The Committee believes this funding increase should represent the first installment of a five-year effort to correct serious deficiencies that have developed over the past decade in the Intelligence Community.

In this budget, the Committee seeks to highlight four priority areas that must receive significant attention in the near term if intelligence is to fulfill its role in our national security strategy. Those are:

Revitalizing the National Security Agency (NSA)

Correcting deficiencies in human intelligence

Addressing the imbalance between intelligence collection and analysis, and

Rebuilding a robust research and development program.

The budget lays out a five-year plan for addressing each of these areas.

Source (warning: slow loading .pdf file)

[MeekOneGOP]

He's giving $$ to 'RATS, and it's possible he's even lying about voting GOP.

Is Clarke trashing President Bush for partisan reasons? He says he isn't. He implies he voted Republican in 2000. But what about the years since? According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records, Clarke has been giving his money to Democratic friends - not Republicans - running for national office.

In 2002, while still on the Bush NSC, Clarke gave the legal maximum limit of $2,000 to a Democratic candidate for Congress, Steve Andreasen, who tried to unseat Republican Rep. Gil Gutknecht of Minnesota. Andreasen had been director for defense policy and arms control on the Clinton NSC. In making his donations of $1,000 on July 22 and another $1,000 on Nov. 7, 2002, Clarke listed his occupation as "U.S. Government/Civil Servant," according to FEC records indexed with the Center for Responsive Politics.

Clarke maxed out again in the 2004 election cycle, donating $2,000 to another Clinton White House veteran, Jamie Metzl, who is running as a Democrat for Congress from Missouri. Metzl was a staffer on the Clinton NSC and worked for Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) as deputy staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. With that donation, made on Sept. 15, 2003, after his resignation from the Bush NSC, Clarke listed his occupation as "Self Employed/Consultant."

FEC records show that Clarke reported no political contributions when he worked in the Clinton administration in the electoral cycles of the 1990s and 2000, when he said he was a Republican.

[wingster]

It's also a textbook case as to why no one should ever trust a dim!

"Clarke listed his occupation as "Self Employed/Consultant."

Now he's an unemployed douche bag with zero credibility, no integrity, and a capital "L" tatooed on his forehead!

[wingster]

Outstanding piece BTW! It should be required reading for anyone voting.

[wingster]

"When do Algore and Slick Willie testify under oath?"

Slick Willy only "testifies" under desks! Can I get an AMEN!

[wingster]

Perhaps the most damning part of all:

"For months, Sen. Levin personally had held up the confirmation hearings of Bush's appointees who were to design the U.S. antiterrorism strategy - Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Programs J.D. Crouch and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Peter W. Rodman - refusing for apparently partisan purposes to allow them to take office until late July 2001. While Levin was holding up their appointments, the incoming Pentagon policy team had no legal or political authority to do their vital jobs - a fact that helps explain why it took eight months for the Bush administration to draw up a strategic operational plan to destroy al-Qaeda."

[Joy Angela]

The tragedy of this Rice Lynching is that truth of this
event is only known to those who are able to see the
flock of Democrat Vultures pulling at the rope!

The Democrats, led by Head-Vulture Hillary Clinton
are smelling blood and gleeful about it, too.

But, most of us, who are getting our propaganda from the Main Media are unaware. The "Media Whores" are shouting spin-bits designed to prompt "outrage" from the common person who knows no better.

Poor souls who don't realize they are being used for the sake of America's Enemies!

The Battle for Freedom
is being Played Out
on TV and in our Living Rooms.

Will TRUTH Prevail?

President Bush has met
the Ultimate Enemy in Hillary.

And that Enemy is called EVIL.

[piasa]

Congress has a lot to answer for. They not only slacked off, they were and are an integral part of the problem.

[mtntop3]

This is an excellent article indeed. Thank you.

[fly_so_free]

Thanks for posting that. Anyone reading the thread, make sure you read all the comments too. Lots of interesting information here. BUMP

[Howlin]

In his testimony before the hearing, Clarke IMPLIED he voted Republican - by saying "He asked for a Republican ballot" -- but it later came out that in Virginia you don't ask for a ballot, so he had to change his answer.

Russert asked him this last Sunday and he said he voted for Gore.

[krunkygirl]

bump to save and read

[Howlin]

Okay, now is the time to DEMAND that Gore and Clinton testify in public under oath.

[AFPhys]

Clarke made a comment, I think before the committee, that he "picked up a Republican ballot" --- that was in a North Carolina (I think) primary election, where a voter is allowed to vote for any party's candidate. He gave the impression that he was supporting Republicans and Republican principles.

Turns out he was not, and as he admitted at a later time (not sure when)

He picked up a Republican ballot so he could vote for McCain, and against Bush.

In addition, in an even later interview by Russert he admits that he voted for Gore in the 2000 pres.election.

He in fact voted against Bush twice in 2000. He gave the impression in the public forum that he is a Republican. The man is not to be trusted.

There has been much research done demonstrating that he has contributed solely to Demodogs.

This man is not a Republican, but is instead a practiced liar, who realizes that the most devastating lies are 90% based on truth.

[MEG33]

Why?Our President and VP are not going to.It's the Office not the people in them that get the courtesy to testify in private and unsworn.

[fly_so_free]

"Are you referring to the Rockefeller memo?"

Yes, that's the one.

"They were planning to selectively declassify information that they could then use against president Bush in the election"

Exactly. It shows how far they are willing to go to defeat Bush (i.e. using any means, maybe even a 9/11 "investigation").

Most of all, I think the voters need to be reminded , in light of all the testimony at the 9/11 hearings, of what democRATS really mean when they say they are "concerned" about terrorism and would be better than President Bush and his team at dealing with it. The Rockefeller memo tells the true story. I also think the fact that they trashed the White House speaks volumes about them too.

[Helms]

Logan International Airport to be renamed Kennedy-Kerry International airport.

Preferred by hijackers overwhelmingly. " We chose Logan for its ease of exploitation and its inherent corruption":

[Howlin]

They are not IN office anymore; why shouldn't they testify in public?

[EternalVigilance]

I believe if you look back at the FR threads from the 2000 election, it was predicted by Freepers that the Clinton hold out people would turn out to be nothing but trouble, especially considering all the corruption of his administration. How could anyone even trust them?

You have a good memory.

This was certainly a contentious subject here throughout 2001.

Many of us said it quite loudly, and were trashed for it by some.