I thought that some of the headlines of articles that proclaimed the Commission "knew" were false because then the articles made it pretty clear that only the staffers knew.
Even the Able Danger people Weldon has spoken with only say they spoke with staffers. Pentagon officials say they notified staffers.
I haven't heard anyone who has been able to definitely say they spoke to anyone on the Commission.
However, I find it nearly impossible to believe that SOME members of the Commission knew. Gorelick surely knew as she was IN the administration at the time of the Able Danger operation.
I'm nearly 100% positive the entire reason the Wall was created anyway was so that Clinton didn't have to do anything about all the terrorist attacks on this country.
Clinton didn't want intelligence agencies putting together some things that a lot of us have long suspected. For instance, Kerry and some others in the Democratic party, have let it slip that the plane that went down over Long Island (I'm having a memory lapse on the flight # -880?) was shot down by a missile used by a terrorist.
Also, the Oklahoma City bombing was almost definitely carried out with the help of an Iraqi Republican Guard who has been identified by Jayna Davis in her book The Third Terrorist. Before you think I'm completely nuts, you should know that in that book and in public on television, Clinton's CIA DIrector, James Woolsey, has said that he believes the research in Jayna's book and "the world will owe her a debt of gratitude when the truth is known" about OKC. I have the sourcing for that in my files.
Clinton ignored the terrorist attack on the WTC in 1993.
If Clinton had let the various intelligence agencies talk with each other, this would have all slipped out and Americans would have demanded action which would have resulted in war and we all know how much Clinton didn't want that.
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The staffers had to know what to hide. Only the commissioners could've told them that if they, the commissioners, wanted plausible deniability. In other words, saying to the staffers, here's what I don't want to know.
Correct, read FrontPageMagazine.com ^
He craved both the Nobel Peace Prize and a place in history among the greatest of American presidents. He wanted either destination far more than he wanted the tasks and trials and stops that were the necessary work to actually get to either place.
He is the only president I am aware of for whom the establishment of legacy was actually mentioned as a primary activity during his service.
Reagan had the class to wait for history. Clinton is and has always been impatient to be great. He is not now ready and he likely never will be. Greatness stems from achievement not positioning.
Peach, I respectfully have to disagree with you on this:
"Americans would have demanded action."
The mood in the country under Clinton was that he could do no wrong. Everyone was fat with their tech stocks. His approval ratings through impeachment stayed up around 65, and that was his second term. I think too many of the American people neither comprehended nor cared about national security matters until the buildings came tumbling down ... and that lasted maybe six months, then it's back to business as usual. Our purposeful ignorance will be the end of our civilization as we know it.