THE 9-11 CREDIBILITY GAP...
Posted on 05/02/2004 1:33:29 PM PDT by commiefighter
The infamous CIA briefing for President Bush from August 6th, 2001, which Democrats intimated was a smoking gun revealing Bush inaction against terrorist threats, is rather a clear indictment of the Clinton Administration. Clinton took little action against terrorism, and prioritized national security in general far below Globalization (open borders) and diversity. The title of the briefing is “Bin Ladin (sic) Determined to Strike in US.” It credits mostly unclassified and foreign sources from 1997 and 1998 for insight revealing that al Qaeda wished to “bring the fighting to America.” Bin Laden also issued an unauthorized “Fatwa” (he is not a religious leader) in 1998 which said the same thing, but no one in the Clinton Administration was interested. In fact, the only Democrat who noticed was Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, who imprudently said we should declare war right back. Bob Kerrey, who is now on the 9/11 Commission, is no relation to the presumptive Democrat presidential candidate, John Kerry of Massachusetts, who believes the US should never take any military action without UN approval. One plotter, Ahmed Ressam, attempted to blow up the Los Angeles Airport. However, an alert border agent, who thought he acted suspiciously, intercepted him on his way into the US from Canada. Rassem open his car trunk to reveal explosives. Had there been no explosives, and Ressam had filed racial profiling charges with the Clinton Administration, the alert border agent might have been job hunting. Interestingly, in 1996, Clinton convened the White House Commission on Aviation Safety chaired by Al Gore. After a $400,000 donation to the Democrats from the airlines, the commission found that little would be gained from further airline security.
The August 2001brief continues: “A clandestine source said in 1998 that a Bin Ladin cell in New York was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.”...and...”Al-Qa’ida (sic) members--including some who are US citizens--have resided in or traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks.” So, since at least 1998 (and, realistically, since 1993), the Clinton Administration had known about al Qaeda cells in the US. Yet, the FBI was specifically discouraged from using penetration agents to work undercover. Minority neighborhoods were considered protected zones wherein multicultural sensitivity outweighed national security considerations, and source recruitment therein was a demonstration of “stereotypical cultural bias.” By contrast, the New York Times reports that the Bush Administration issued a memorandum to all FBI Field Offices in July, 2001, ordering them...”to increase their surveillance of terrorist suspects and contacts with informants.” Unfortunately, Clinton had negated such politically incorrect tactics. Instead, the FBI was focused on “gun-owning angry white males,” a stereotypical cultural bias that hampered the “Beltway Sniper” investigation. This could also explain why foreigners taking one-way flight training was unimportant. Jamie Gorelik, who should be answering questions from the 9/11 Commission, instead of sitting on it, was Clinton’s deputy attorney general. She created an unnecessary impediment to CIA-FBI cooperation by a May, 1995 directive that she admits went..”beyond what is legally required.” The Patriot Act overruled Gorelik. Bush also issued a warning to the FAA in August 2001 to tighten airline security, but this had little effect due to the earlier Gore Commission failures. Two recent books; “Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House” by Gary Aldrich; and “Dereliction of Duty” by Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, a Clinton military aid, expose a cavalier attitude towards national security. Wherein Bush was meeting daily with the CIA director and security principles by August 2001, Clinton had not met with his CIA director, Jim Woolsey, in the first 2 years of his administration. And why did Clinton deny, before the 9/11 Commission, Sudan’s 1996 offer to turn over bin Ladin--when a 2002 audiotape has Clinton saying he reneged on Osama due to a lack of “evidence?” Will the Commission probe whether Clinton’s inaction cost 3,000 American lives on 9/11/01?
commiefighter.
Me too.
Don't know exactly when but according to Mr. Ijaz, he definitely will testify. Like I mentioned before, the only problem is that he wants to testify in public and under oath, but the commission members want him to testify in private only.
Those clowns wanted the sitting President and Vice-President to appear before them in public and under oath, yet Mr. Ijaz is practcally begin to make his testimony public, and they refuse. Only the democrats give credibility to this commission because it serves their purpose to bring down President Bush and at a time of war. Like Mr. Wolf would say "They are without honor". Me, I say they're scum!
When are these clowns going to stop underestimating W.
Imprudently? Kerrey is acting like a shmuck on the 9/11 Commission but he had it exactly right. When states, organizations or jihadists declare war on America, we declare war right back and find them and kill them.
In fact, imprudent is what Kerrey's Congressional colleagues were fro NOT declaring war on Al Qaeda.
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