Posted on 08/14/2005 5:44:37 PM PDT by linkinpunk
I'd laugh if this story weren't so nauseating.
People used to post a picture of Clinton playing his saxophone against a backdrop of the burning towers. I'd post it if I had it, because it's quite fitting on these Able Danger threads.
"rebuffed by government lawyers who feared possible legal complications of using military spying techniques to keep tabs on foreign visitors in the United States with legal visas even though they might be terrorists."
Same reason the Janet Reno legal "experts" did not allow Bin Laden to be extradited by the Sudanese government. After the first WTC attack in 1992, I have no doubt that if Reagan were POTUS, we would have found and completely destroyed Bin Laden and his nutty followers before they grew in capabilities. That Clinton did nothing makes him the worst president in US history in my opinion.
After reading that other thread, part of me still really, really, really, really (did I mention really?) wants blood. I wanna see heads roll. I wanna see donk operatives dragged out & put in stocks, so I can throw rotten tomatos at 'em & spit in their eyes...
The adult in me jumps in here & says, I think I would prefer to let data mining go back underground, if it's gonna keep our country safer. What's the best way to allow that to happen? Think a big ol' public, "boy did I screw up, cuz Able Danger never had what I thought it had", would do it?
Maybe, just maybe, the MSM will quit with the absurd refrain of "It was an Intelligence failure!"
Nah, too much to hope for. But I rest easy knowing that my fellows in the intel world did their jobs well, and had Atta and his swine in their sights. But they were told to back down. Next time the Intel comunity issues a warning, maybe the next Admin will listen...
"The intelligence operatives tried to sound an alarm but were rebuffed by government lawyers..."
Sounds like the whole Clinton administration was a bunch of incompetents! Guess they were mimicking their leader.
What did Bubba know? and when?
I would be open to cleaning the slate and forgiving this kind of stuff if only the truth could come out.
It's the Democratic aversion to sunlight that makes me want to know.
Don't forget Jimmy Carter.
Is silence a form of incompetence or it is just the way things are? --- that is a quote from the article. And you are right.
Click the picture...
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