Posted on 08/17/2005 12:32:44 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
What remains of the former Clinton administration's facade regarding its malfeasance in dealing with the terrorist threat posed by bin-Laden is crumbling faster than one can parse a Bill Clinton denial.
Recent revelations by Curt Weldon [R, Pennsylvania] that military intelligence had identified parts of a New York based terror cell led by 911 mastermind Mohammed Atta - but were blocked from disclosing the information to the FBI by WH lawyers and Justice Dept. second in command Jamie Gorelick's "wall" - were preceded by allegations [substantiated in a June 16, 2004 article for PipeLineNews The Clinton Administration And The Extradition Of bin-Laden - The True Story by former registered agent for Sudan and key player in the affair, Janet McElligott] that the Clinton team refused on three separate occasions the Sudanese government's offer to extradite bin-Laden to the United States.
Now a July 18, 1996 declassified State Department document shows that the Clinton administration was warned that allowing bin-Laden to "set up shop" in Afghanistan would have grave consequences:
His prolonged stay in Afghanistan - where hundreds of Arab mujahadin" receive terrorist training and key extremist leaders often congregate could prove more dangerous to US interest in the long run than his three year liaison with Khartoum. - Declassified State Dept. Report Terrorism/Usamma Bin Laden
Of note is the apparent quickening of revelations regarding the defects in Clintons almost non-existent policy on Islamic terror [former Clinton officials are steadfastly refusing to comment on the new developments, not a good sign for the man from Hopes" tattered legacy] with principles in Abel/Danger now coming forward we must conclude that this story is now just starting to assume critical mass.
I was one of them making the complaint. Wasn't meant to be an understatement so much as a reminder.
BTTT
Beyond the possibility that this story may prevent such negligence from ever happening again, the entire nation pf Republicans, Democrats, Greens, Libertarians, Socialist Workers etc stand to gain....their lives, which is something.
Not everything is purely political, though a certain amount of enjoyment when the shoe is on the other foot is not inappropriate.
the repubs may not gain a thing . however as this unfolds we the peeps will come up big.
Lots of stuff going on in the summer of 1996.
ping
Anybody been commissioned yet to decomission the 9/11 Commission?
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
We now know what having an Islamic Jihadist Enabler as President will do for us. We are just now (general public) discovering how the enabler was able to assist the jihadists within the US. The Gorelick wall. What we have no clue as of yet, is what having a Chicom Enabler as President will do for us. It may be imperative to our future to discover what Clinton has also enabled the Chicoms with. The Chicom Enabled Hammer has yet to fall and might still be preventable.
Especially now that the Chicoms are getting together with the Russians...
And both are supplying the Iranians.
Can't wait for Cindy Sheehan to say about Clinton, in that nasally-whiney voice, "YOU-oooo LIEeddd to us".
Bravo!
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