Posted on 08/10/2005 7:05:39 PM PDT by dila813
I second that!
Certainly seems likely this is what Sandy stuffed down his U-fronts.
This is what Sandy Berger was after.
It is a huge scandal, and Hill isn't happy.
Sandy is president of his own D.C. think tank now. Wonder if Hill and Bill donated the start-up money.
What's the name of the think tank, do you recall?
Is it Stonebridge International?
No mention of the Gorelick "wall"
No mention of the dates.
The Clinton butt covering is in full swing. Standby for the blame to be shifted to Republicans because of the impeachment "distraction".
Negelected, my derriere. Thank heavens for the New Media.
I don't remember the name of the think tank. I caught a glimpse of Sandy being interviewed on C-Span two weeks ago or so, and there was a banner on the wall behind him with the name on it. The alligator crawl underneath explained that Sandy was president. Perhaps a Google search would work. I'll try and find it.
"... [T]he Commission should study carefully the National Security Council plan to disrupt the al Qaeda network in the U.S. that our government failed to implement fully seventeen months before September 11.
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. 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 that actions taken in the Millennium Period should not be the operating model for the U.S. government.
In March 2000, the review warns the prior Administration of a substantial al Qaeda network and affiliated foreign terrorist presence within the U.S., capable of supporting additional terrorist attacks here.
Furthermore, fully seventeen months before the September 11 attacks, the review recommends disrupting the al Qaeda network and terrorist presence here using immigration violations, minor criminal infractions, and tougher visa and border controls.
These are the same aggressive, often criticized law enforcement tactics we have unleashed for 31 months to stop another al Qaeda attack. These are the same tough tactics we deployed to catch Ali al-Marri, who was sent here by al Qaeda on September 10, 2001, to facilitate a second wave of terrorist attacks on Americans.
Despite the warnings and the clear vulnerabilities identified by the NSC in 2000, no new disruption strategy to attack the al Qaeda network within the United States was deployed. It was ignored in the Department's five-year counterterrorism strategy.
I did not see the highly-classified review before September 11. It was not among the 30 items upon which my predecessor briefed me during the transition. It was not advocated as a disruption strategy to me during the summer threat period by the NSC staff which wrote the review more than a year earlier.
I certainly cannot say why the blueprint for security was not followed in 2000. I do know from my personal experience that those who take the kind of tough measures called for in the plan will feel the heat. I've been there; I've done that. So the sense of urgency simply may not have overcome concern about the outcry and criticism which follows such tough tactics." John Ashcroft to Lee Hamilton et al during 9/11 hearings.
Curt Weldon says he came across the info while doing research for his book. His timing to release the info close to his book release is suspicious but the fact that the information was found is not.
He revealed the information on the House floor in June 2005. Apparently we weren't listening, and the MSM didn't want to bring it up unless it had to since it wasn't Bush's fault.
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I think he might have done an interview or two on Fox as well in June, because I saw him discussing charges that seemed so outrageous, I reserved judgment on whether he was just hyping a book.
Now I believe that he had to publish in order to bring any attention to this stinking mess.
Looks like you found it! Stonebridge International. Thanks! Now we know exactly where to find Sandy and the rest of the usual suspects.
BTTT
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