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To: petitfour
"but could they do the job of the Defense Department and defend the US from enemies?"

The DOD and the CIA are prohibited by law to do any 'surveillance' on people once they are on American soil.

That is the job of the FBI, which was not privy to the information.
16 posted on 08/12/2005 7:47:24 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Bigh4u2

Well, that just stinks to high heaven! Sounds like we need to clean out the Senate of all the boneheads who enacted the laws (and reaffirmed them year after year by doing nothing) that allowed such a disconnect to occur. This has happened over years and years of neglect and politics.

I don't know why I've been in quite a foul mood of late, but it gets worse and worse each time I drive by a gas station and see the price of gas going up, up, up! I think about how there are folks out there who could barely afford gas when it was $1.50/gallon, and now it's a dollar more/gallon. Who controls the price of oil? (I know this has nothing to do with the Gorelick Wall, but I'm just fed up!) This Gorelick Wall stuff fuels my foul mood.


26 posted on 08/12/2005 8:19:30 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: Bigh4u2

"That is the job of the FBI, which was not privy to the information."

True and according to the article:

Information about the terror cell was not handed over to the FBI, although Able Danger repeatedly requested that the FBI be told. Sen. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) says Pentagon lawyers in the Clinton administration refused to tell the FBI, because the four terrorists were in the country legally.

If "Able Danger repeatedly requested that the FBI be told", them that makes me wonder if the FBI were told 'informly'..


84 posted on 08/15/2005 1:15:51 AM PDT by SeaBiscuit (God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
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