Posted on 04/14/2004 9:08:47 AM PDT by MindBender26
A new, direct link to Clinton’s major contribution to the 9/11 tragedy - - - -
As we all know, and is now being quietly discussed in even the mainstream media, CIA and FBI resources were cut drastically during the Clinton presidency. In order to fund his domestic agenda, Clinton severely cut both manpower and technical resources within America’s two agencies tasked with fighting terrorism. The cuts were needed to pay for the give-aways Clinton promised minority groups when his numbers faltered during his election drive.
But the Clinton blame goes far beyond just budget and manpower cuts or his widely-reporter abandonment of the chance to get Bib Laden form Sudan.
During the Monica Lewinski fiasco, Clinton knew his presidency was in deep trouble. To shore up sagging public support, he turned to a powerful and trusted friend, the far-left Hollywood elite. Soon the very liberal Hollywood notables where echoing Clinton’s line that Monica was just a private matter, that perjury was ok, because it was a private matter, keeping Yasser Arafat waiting in the Rose Garden while Monica serviced him in the Oval Office was ok, because it was just a private matter….
The list of excuses and excusers was endless. In those days, the “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy” was as popular a Hollywood topic as “The Racially-based Needless Persecution of Michael Jackson” is today.
Hollywood supported Clinton throughout his impeachment, but then the movie moguls demanded their payment in return.
The issue of software piracy was an increasingly severe problem for the movie studios. Their affiliated record companies were also feeling the pinch from counterfeit copies of songs and videos. Hollywood’s complaints about illegal copying of movies and music were much greater than the recent uproar over unlawful music downloading on the Net.
In every major city, and everywhere on the Internet, copy pirates were selling bootleg copies of theatrical releases. The problem was costing Hollywood billions of dollars a year. But Hollywood had bought a friendly ear in the White House, and Clinton was about to pay off his debt to his Left Coast liberal friends.
In a Washington meeting with the heads of various FBI , CIA, Sate Department and Department of Commerce divisions, Clinton completely redirected America’s intelligence services away from the fight against terrorism. The indebted President declared that software piracy was the greatest threat to America. He directed the agencies to shift their focus away from anti-terrorism toward protecting the business interests of his Hollywood friends.
With just one Presidential level meeting, the nation’s most powerful agencies were told stop worrying so much about terrorism and direct their attention to protecting the bank accounts of the Hollywood producers.
Instead of worrying about Saddam, the FBI and CIA were to concern themselves with the fortunes of Sunset Boulevard. Wahabbi sect terrorism was now less important than Warner Brothers. If they had to make a choice between pursuing Al Queda or copyright pirates, protecting SKG and the other the movies makers got the nod.
So the US committed its resources to the battle to save the song, video and movie profits of the Hollywood few, terrorists were all but ignored, and soon the many in the World Trade Center suffered. But that was ok to the Clintonistas, because the corporate giants’ rap recording revenue was protected.
Clinton’s debt to the Hollywood elite who helped him avoid responsibility in the Lewinski case was eventually paid in full…. paid in full by about 3000 New Yorkers and other citizens of the world who happened to be in the World Trade Center that Tuesday morning.
Prior postings here on FR have given additional information about this meetings, dates, details, etc Perhaps, just perhaps, this is something the mainstream media and the 9/11 commission might look into…..
This had been forgotten.... but not any longer
http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/executive_orders/1998.html
or
Or in this pdf file, which discusses implementation
href=http://www.bsagovernment.com/downloads/guidelinesForImplimenting.pdf
However this EO deals with computer software piracy, not that of movies, music and/or video games. It basically says that government agencies are to take measures to insure that they do not purchase pirated software.
Unlikely, that a Kennedy EO involving a strike at Republic Aviation. (Long gone, it first became Fairchild-Republic, and then died. After producing the A-10 Warthog, and then having a new trainer contract canceled due to poor performanc of it's engine, which was not built by Fairchild-Republic).
This one's new to me!--good thread. I do have stuff on Gore's telecommunications ties to Internet service providers (Gore pushing the V-Chip and educational software in what appears to have been a quid-pro-quo exchange for donations from telecommunications/software firms) and Clinton's Hollywood connections (the Peter Paul case, etc.), and I wonder if either of those things factor into it.
Yes it has, although it was while I was on active duty in the USAF. It can be read here. (among other places) I've linked to the "Restrictions" section for convenience.
remember this one?
nope, "could not be found", not for me anyway
bump!
read this ping!
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