[macsmind76]

This story shows the "coverup" of the 9/11 commission of important information reqarding the inaction of the Clinton Administration during the late 90's. This is the "blockbuster"; "smoking gun"; that libs have been looking for and will do anything to not let the public know - until now. More and more the fabrications of Clarke's book are coming to light and his irresponsibility as well.

[SkyPilot]

I cannot believe a reporter from the Associated Press wrote this. Their liberal partisanship is usually so slanted they make themselves a parody of bias.

I wonder if this means the "begining of the end" for this sick, sad 9-11 commission?

But one senior U.S. intelligence official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said the 1997 National Intelligence Estimate "identified bin Laden and his followers and threats they were making and said it might portend attacks inside the United States."

As a Democratic staffer told the Wall Street Journal last week:

"Gorelick is not on the 9-11 panel because of her brilliant legal mind. She is there to go after the Bush administration and to protect the Clintons."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Clinton had his hands full with other affairs, remember ?

[norwaypinesavage]

It seems that more should be made of the declaration of war binLaden made against the US on Aug 23, 1996. Some might consider that to be a pivotal moment.

[TomGuy]

If most of the 'classified' documents were open to the public, the citizenry of the US would buttkick every politician out of Washington, DC. Every politician who served during the last 20 years is complicit--both in knowing foreign terrorism posed a significant threat and in covering up many of the acts of foreign terrorism committed against Americans.

Ashcroft 'declassifying' the Gorelick document shows just one example of political mismanagement and potential corruption. One document. Just one ice crystal out of a huge iceberg.

[xzins]

The CIA most frequently provided these individual and highly detailed analyses to the White House Counterterrorism Security Group charged with formulating anti-terrorism policies and responses, the official said.

The above from the article: The bold under-lined would be Clark

[PogySailor]

< LLL Moonbat >

What you fail to realize is that our hero, Bill Clinton, spent his entire presidency gathering all the information he could on Bin Laden so he could turn it over to his successor. He even set Bin Laden up by making our defenses and intelligence so weak that Bin Laden couldn't resist taking a shot at us. Then we could spring the trap (after our hero left office of course) and start rounding up Muslims who might be envolved. Of course we on the left would have had to scream about that to keep the plan hidden.

But Bush dropped the ball and didn't take the actions that the great Bill Clinton had thought about everyone of those 8 years of hard work.

So you see, it's all Bush's fault

< /LLL Moonbat >

[Homer1]

Those warnings, and that "chatter" apparrently preceded the Oklahoma City bombing.

link

Separately, the General Services Administration received a warning from the FBI and asked hundreds of federal buildings it operates to increase security details, including the Murrah building, officials said.

``We were told there was a fatwa threatening to target federal buildings,'' GSA spokeswoman Viki Reath said this week. ``We increased our patrols to 12-hour shifts.''

More than two dozen current and former intelligence and law enforcement officials interviewed by AP said the period of spring 1995 was a time of heightened ``chatter'' among terrorists seeking to strike the United States.

The warnings became increasingly specific as to the possible location, type of attack and likely dates. ``These strikes are most likely to occur either in the immediate future or in the new Iranian year — starting 21 March 1995,'' the congressional task force predicted.

[Lunatic Fringe]

The writer went out of his way to avoid the name "Clinton."

[alloysteel]

Six years before 9/11. Mmmm, let's see, that would be about 1995? Who was in the Oval Office then (for those of you who think the "buck should stop" somewhere)? Naw, THAT would just be mean-spirited and small-minded.

The tactic is called "kicking the can down the road". Perfectly logical, if competency is ever a problem. Some people just cannot handle a crisis, not even of their own making. In this situation, especially not of their own making.

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

Great information! Thank you for the link!

The very sad fact is that most actual voters won't even hear about this news. It amazes me how few people are informed. They only watch nbc, cbs, and news like that. They think they are really *informed* if they watch CNN or MSNBC.

[raybbr]

Thanks for the post, but, why didn't you post the original headline?

CIA Warned of Attack 6 Years Before 9/11

[mass55th]

"CIA Warned of Attack 6 Years Before 9/11"

Bush knew!

/sarcasm

[gg188]

The Clinton administration reacted to intelligence like this with, for example, requiring that airlines single out no more than two arabs per flight for search. Think about it---you get intelligence that terrorists will use airliners to attack NYC targets and you react by making it more difficult for airport security to protect planes.

IOW, the intelligence that the Clinton administration had was not met with corrective action, was not met with inaction. INSTEAD it was met with actions to FACILITATE terrorist.

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[Thom Pain]

OK, I'm warning everyone! Something very bad is going to happen somewhere in the world sometime in the future! So, get ready and guard against any event, at any time, at any place. If you don't, I am personally going to blame you for not preventing it. Whatever it is... sigh.

[Lucky2]

Again, it's all pointing back to the one man who's pants were probably around his ankles at the time all of these memos were written and read. History is finally catching up with clinton. Too bad we can't try him for treason.

[Condor51]

This article is fish-wrap. Anyone with an IQ above that of a Gambian Tree Frog, KNEW that eventually OBL/UBL would eventually attack us here on our soil.

Binny's attacks constantly escalated in 'boldness' from the embassy bombings to the attack on our warship, Cole. Now gee, what'ya think would or could be next? A dam tea party in Keokuk! But without actionable intelligence what was Bush to do? Arrest and/or roundup all 'suspicious' muslims? Oh yeah, the ACLU and the demoncRATS would've loved that.

Anyway, if this Gore-LICK skank doesn't resign from the 9-11 commission, it'll have all the legitimacy of the infamous Warren Commission. In english, that's ZERO. And IMHO, it's already at that point. They found the pristine 'magic bullet' that defied all laws of physics and this commission found Dick Clarke & the Aug 6th PDB.

No offense meant to Keokuk OR Gambian Tree Frogs.