"Now this really p!sses me off. Why did they cover for the Clintons? Why did they keep Tenet around for far too long? Why didn't they honor the dead with the truth? Why do we have wide open borders to this day? Why do we have the silliest excuse for airport security, maximum inconvenience and minimal profiling?"
You raise some good points but I'd like to point out some things.
I've seen a lot of ranting and raving about similar operations proposed by the Bush administration. It wasn't but a year or so ago that the Bush administration was under ferocious attack by the 'real conservatives' about monitoring communications and using data mining software to make connections and track terrorists. They backed off these proposals.
I'm not defending Bush or attacking Clinton only pointing out that there are a lot of 'real conservatives' who would have been all over any administration that used this kind of operation. There was a hundred or so threads here on free republic criticizing the Bush administration for even thinking of doing this.
I know. It's a fine line. I am not a fan of the Patriot Act, for one reason and only this reason- eventually, another Janet Reno is going to come along. Then what?
The point remains, though, that action against our domestic enemies as well as our foreign enemies should have happened. The best way to do it is to suspend habeas corpus according to Article 1 Sec.9- not pass unconstitutional laws that can be used against citizens in the future.
However, Bush's loyalty to failures like Tenet, when it was glaringly obvious to a Joe Nobody like me that he needed to be fired ASAP, is mystifying.
Now we know that Able Danger was disclosed to the WH right after 911, and that eventually, that stupid 911 Commission was allowed to proceed anyway. THEY KNEW IT WAS A WHITEWASH THE WHOLE TIME. All of them. The Clinton AND the Bush folks.
Who the hell do we trust anymore? The GOP is really pushing it. This type of info will trickle out eventually. Right now, it's only floating around among us blog geeks, but it will have fallout. What are they thinking?
Not only that, some slimy Democrat is going to throw this back in the face of their opponent during 2006, and the MSM will back them, making it look like only the GOP is dirty. It's stupid politics.