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."
Here's some key media to contact/freep:
I got these addresses from Media Research Center,
http://www.mediaresearch.org/MediaAddresses/mediaaddresses.asp#If%20the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
e-mail: conedit@ajc.com
Houston Chronicle
e-mail: viewpoints@chron.com
Miami Herald
e-mail: HeraldEd@herald.com
The New York Times
letters@nytimes.com
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
e-mail: letters@post-gazette.com
USA Today
e-mail: editor@usatoday.com
The Wall Street Journal
e-mail: letter.editor@edit.wsj.com
The Washington Post
e-mail: Letterstoed@washpost.com
The Washington Times
e-mail: wtnews@wt.infi.net
I didn't say "every single one."
It doesn't take "every single one."
It only takes a few key whores to be kept in check. Once they're doing as instructed, they'll keep the rest in line.
And don't forget the rest of the picture -- craven political animals like Master Rove, who'd "triangulate" their mother's to perdition if it'd move the numbers the right way on the projected graphs.
This appears to be a motivation.
In case no one else has mentioned it to you, the drafts (copies) likely had margin notes. Some of those may be incriminating...that might be why Clinton wanted them taken out.
Pure BS. Prove it.
*chuckle*
You're quite the piece of work.
YOU prove it's "Pure BS", hotshot.
Until then, I shall consider you an annoying party flack, or -- LOL! -- perhaps just a "party flack wannabe"! LMAO!
Bye now Chum.
(Good grief, I'm supposed to "prove" that Master Rove is a (*gasp*) triangulatin' political animal??? Now HOW on earth could I prove THAT? ROFLMAO!)
Yeah, prove it or STFU. Any idiot can claim anything.
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