Posted on 07/19/2004 7:24:23 PM PDT by wagglebee
A sensitive after action report on the foiled Millennium bomb plot, portions of which were allegedly pilfered by former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, sounded the alarm that al Qaida operatives had entered the U.S. and were preparing to strike.
In testimony before the 9/11 Commission in April, Attorney General John Ashcroft detailed the highly classified March 2000 document, saying it contained a set of sweeping recommendations on how to combat the al Qaida threat that were completely ignored by the Clinton White House.
"The NSC's Millennium After Action Review declares that the United States barely missed major terrorist attacks in 1999 -- with luck playing a major role," Ashcroft told the Commission.
"Among the many vulnerabilities in homeland defenses identified, the Justice Department's surveillance and FISA operations were specifically criticized for their glaring weaknesses."
"It is clear from the review," declared Ashcroft, "that actions taken in the Millennium Period should not be the operating model for the U.S. government."
The Millennium plot review warned the Clinton administration "of a substantial al Qaida network and affiliated foreign terrorist presence within the U.S., capable of supporting additional terrorist attacks here," the Bush attorney general said.
"Furthermore, fully seventeen months before the September 11 attacks, the review recommends disrupting the al Qaida network and terrorist presence here using immigration violations, minor criminal infractions, and tougher visa and border controls," he explained.
Ashcroft's comments suggested why a former Clinton national security official might not want the information contained in the Millennium review to ever see the light of day.
"Despite the warnings and the clear vulnerabilities identified by the NSC in 2000," he told the Commission, "no new disruption strategy to attack the al Qaida network within the United States was deployed. It was ignored in the Department's five-year counterterrorism strategy."
No, they always say they did something stupid and "didn't know" so they can deflect from their flaunting of the law.
Not unlike Craig Livinstone, et al.
So typical.
Bless you!
What useless scum.
This is the true Clinton Legacy.
OK. Now this needs to be capitalised upon. Do what the Dems would do if it were the other way around. Lets start a freeper e-mail campaign to start congressional hearings. This coulkd be almost as big as Watergate. I'm e-mailing my senators today. Get on board.
BERGER, SAMUEL
WASHINGTON,DC 20016
STONEBRIDGE INTL/PRESIDENT/PRESIDEN
10/11/2002
$1,000
Andreasen, Steven Peter
Does anyone here have a copy of the front page and can tell us what the NYT considered MORE important news?
>> But there comes a time when even the nicest of guyz has to stand up and fight.
Agree. If President Bush is the Christian he claims to be he will follow James 4:7, which reads, "...Resist the devil, and he will flee from you".
Yes, that's why I used the words "much of."
The dems are still trashing President Bush for the low down dirty campaign he ran against Gore. Everyone and their dog (think Helen Thomas) reported that the campaign contradicted the "new tone" claim. Their biggest gripe - that then candidate Bush had the audacity to state that he and Cheney would bring honor and dignity back to the White House. Can you imagine the uproar if Clinton's cornucopia of national security failures were even mentioned much less completely exposed?
No. It's not FBI files or such hogwash. Not every single Republican congressman or administration official is being blackmailed. That's nonsense. What I am talking about extends across the board to all of them. It's really very simple. They're all intimidated by the left controlled media. They go on a talk show and it's two to one. They were briefly confident after 1994 but it disappeared with the the government shutdown fiasco.
Right. The Republicans aren't supposed to say squat and just act like neutered pups. Even FReepers on this thread are scared to death of what Helen Thomas is going to say about Bush's "new tone" and thus don't want him to fight back for fear of offending the media. It's cowardly.
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