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Bin Laden Expert Steps Forward
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/12/60minutes/printable655407.shtml ^ | November 14, 2004

Posted on 11/17/2004 10:59:58 AM PST by Howlin

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This article ought to scare the living hell out of everybody on this forum.

Read ALL of it; this guy was IN CHARGE of finding bin Laden and he thinks it's FINE if we dump Israel.

If this is what the CIA is like, Porter Goss needs to burn Langley to the ground and start over.

1 posted on 11/17/2004 10:59:58 AM PST by Howlin
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To: 1stMarylandRegiment; 1Mike; 3catsanadog; ~Vor~; ~Kim4VRWC's~; A CA Guy; A Citizen Reporter; ...
In a letter to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees earlier this year, Scheuer says his agents provided the U.S. government with about ten opportunities to capture bin Laden before Sept. 11, and that all of them were rejected.

These TEN OPPORTUNITIES were NOT during the Bush administration, as he did NOT work there then!

2 posted on 11/17/2004 11:01:41 AM PST by Howlin (I love the smell of mandate in the morning.)
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To: SJackson; dennisw

FYI and can you ping some people?


3 posted on 11/17/2004 11:02:28 AM PST by Howlin (I love the smell of mandate in the morning.)
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To: Howlin
Michael Scheuer is the senior intelligence analyst who created and advised a secret CIA unit for tracking and eliminating bin Laden since 1996.

In other words, this guy's been an abject failure.

4 posted on 11/17/2004 11:02:38 AM PST by My2Cents ("The bombing begins in five minutes...")
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To: Howlin
Un f'believable. These traitors would murder our President
and get "single bullet Spectre" to get them off.

OUT OUT OUT

5 posted on 11/17/2004 11:02:52 AM PST by Diogenesis ("Then I say unto you, send men to summon ... worms. And let us go to Fallujah to collect heads.")
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To: Howlin

I believe that this POS is gone from the CIA. Rush just said that he appeared on Chrissy Whine Matthews without his picture being blacked out.

He is typical of the Carteristas and those hired by the Carteristas.


6 posted on 11/17/2004 11:03:05 AM PST by Grampa Dave (FNC/ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps are the Rathering Fraudcasters of America!)
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To: Howlin

let me guess - he has a book to sell and *** imagine that *** it's Bush's fault! When does he appear on 60 Minutes?


7 posted on 11/17/2004 11:03:48 AM PST by epluribus_2
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To: Howlin

From Can't Believe Squat News???


8 posted on 11/17/2004 11:04:01 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th% (Bush wins!!!)
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To: Howlin

I heard him on Matthews..CLEAN UP THE CIA


9 posted on 11/17/2004 11:04:26 AM PST by MEG33 ( Congratulations President Bush!..Thank you God. Four More Years!)
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To: Howlin

If this is our OBL "expert", I can see why we haven't caught him. This guy's intellect is about equal to the average 7th grader. Must have been a Clinton promotee.


10 posted on 11/17/2004 11:04:42 AM PST by pissant
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To: Howlin
Of course this comes from CBS. Does any conservative or even moderate believe any garbage from CBS?

Note to the left wing maggots in charge of CBS phoney news. We have our eye on your eye!

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11 posted on 11/17/2004 11:04:52 AM PST by Grampa Dave (FNC/ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps are the Rathering Fraudcasters of America!)
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To: Howlin

12 posted on 11/17/2004 11:05:05 AM PST by rightwingreligiousfanatic (Celebrate Unity! One Nation Under God.)
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To: Grampa Dave

I heard the clip Rush played with this guy on Matthews show last night.

Matthews says "Suppose we were a good country, would bin Laden leave us alone?".

At least the CIA guy had the sense to say back to Matthews "WE ARE A GOOD COUNTRY".


13 posted on 11/17/2004 11:05:38 AM PST by Republican Red (A Global Freak'n Test ???????)
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To: Howlin
Ahh, another Clintonite criticizing an aggressive policy. Surprise surprise.
14 posted on 11/17/2004 11:05:43 AM PST by BlueNgold (Feed the Tree .....)
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To: My2Cents

He quit last Friday because the CIA wouldn't let him go on TV to promote his book.

Note he quit AFTER Goss got there.

Do not fail to read this one, too:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1281603/posts

by David Frum and he NAILS this guy.


15 posted on 11/17/2004 11:06:16 AM PST by Howlin (I love the smell of mandate in the morning.)
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To: Republican Red

and "suppose we had an evenhanded ME policy"


17 posted on 11/17/2004 11:07:22 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter
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To: My2Cents
No, He isn't....

One of the last proposals, which he described to the 9/11 Commission in a closed-door session, involved a cruise missile attack against a remote hunting camp in the Afghan desert, where bin Laden was believed to be socializing with members of the royal family from the United Arab Emirates.

Scheuer wanted to level the entire camp. "The world is lousy with Arab princes," says Scheuer. "And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book."

"You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince," asks Kroft. <

"Probably not. Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.' That if those princes were out there eating goat with Osama bin Laden, then maybe they were there for nefarious reasons. But nonetheless, they would have been the price of battle."

You'll notice 60 Minutes chose not to date this incident (though it is misleading to call it one of his last proposals...). the 9/11 Commission did.

Bill Clinton is the Abject Failure.

18 posted on 11/17/2004 11:07:38 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: Howlin

This Kroft guy looks and sounds like a product of the Clinton's fair and balanced CIA. Before we came to appreciate the importance of intel people were being hired and promoted for their political beliefs rather than their competency. Good to see these people finally throwing in the towel. Whatever this guys says I take with a huge grain of salt. He's a political officer not an intelligence officer. Just like Wes Clark and that Polish guy were political generals, not military generals. No way they get fast tracked if Bozo wasn't there to fast trach them.


19 posted on 11/17/2004 11:07:43 AM PST by kinghorse
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He left last Friday after Goss wouldn't let him go on the lecture circuit; thinks he can do more "outside" than "inside."

Read David Frum's piece I just linked.

This is STARTLING stuff, even to me.


20 posted on 11/17/2004 11:07:44 AM PST by Howlin (I love the smell of mandate in the morning.)
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