Posted on 08/23/2005 10:51:56 AM PDT by Peach
Rumsfeld is having a press conference. Under the Fox News Alert the big banner read:
Rumsfeld says that Able Danger briefed the 9/11 Commission.
Did anyone hear his remarks on this matter; all I've seen is the banner.
Thank you...may I suggest you post it as a separate thread...under NEWS..it's the best way to let people know about something good...and it's NOT considered a vanity..regatrds..
I tell ya, I've got maybe three presidential elections left in me and I'm getting tired. The ruling class will always protect their own.
"The new Counterterrorism Division will consolidate all FBI counterrorism initiatives under a single person. "
There is some much crap posted in throw away lines like yours "Even today the judicial activist on the Supreme Court are using UN laws instead of the American Constitution." This is totally false and helps undermine those who would actually tell the truth about the misdeeds of the Court.
In NO way does the Court use "UN laws" (whatever those are supposed to be). To "consult" International Law on questions does not mean it relied upon on it or even accepted it. Stick to the truth and ditch the hysterical hyperbole.
Kristen Breitweiser came out steaming on Hardball with David Gregory. She seemed to be understanding quite clearly on that show that it was Clinton who was responsible. But silence from her ever since, I guess.
I could have sworn she was going to come out strong now against the 9/11 Commission. We'll see.
She doesn't like to be made to look like a fool, and she certainly has been foolish.
The guys sitting at their desks at the DoD in late January 2009 might argue differently.
But we all know that OReilly says that Rummy should be replaced cause things aren't going right.
That makes me so mad when OR says crap like that! Thank God OR isn't our Commander in Chief. Also, some retired general gave OR a big slap in the face by saying "We ought to thank our lucky stars that Rummy is in charge." OR words to that effect. I guess he expected to hear the same Col. Hunt philosophy out of this guy but didn't and we was surprised.
I've lost respect for Col. Hunt but not for Rummy.
great find. Now what was Gorelicks, and Renos position in hthis new security plan??
The Supreme Court shouldn't even consider International laws with national cases. They don't apply.
To each their own opinion, aye?
I think there was one person on the committee that never gave an outside interview or was a camera hog like all the others on the committee. He was a Republican but I don't know his name. He's the ONLY one that impressed me.
Can you imagine Janet Reno with the Patriot Act?
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That's one reason I don't like it. I would rather have a formal war declaration, and a suspension of habeas corpus according to Article 1 Sec. 9.
I heard on ABC radio last night "President Bush was met by protesters today in Idaho. A state that went republican by a wide margine in '04". Clearly, the newsreader was trying to lead us to believe that there's been a shift in that state. Sneaky leftwing bastards.
There was nothing wrong with considering the laws of other nations wrt the teenage killer sentencing after all not all of our own states have the death penalty for ADULTS. Determining the current meaning of "cruel and unusual punishment" seems to be an appropriate activity.
The dinosaur press is trying to make the left wing sheenan cult look like the Vietnam protests. They just can't find enough anti-Americans to get away with it, though. It's hard to create a story that just isn't there.
Why don't you go listen to the LEFTISTs then? Kommie Katie is available for you to listen to instead of Sean.
November 11, 1999 Washington D.C.
FBI National Press Office FBI Director
Louis J. Freeh today announced a major restructuring of FBI Headquarters, which will establish two new divisions and reconfigure two others. These changes respond to the changing threats from espionage and terrorism; the need to enhance analytical capacities, especially across program lines; and to make more effective use of existing resources. This restructuring also further implements the FBI's Strategic Plan.
The new Counterterrorism Division will consolidate all FBI counterrorism initiatives under a single person. Counterterrorism was formerly the responsibility of the National Security Division, which continues to handle counterintelligence matters. The new Investigative Services Division will coordinate the FBI's international activities, integrate and substantially strengthen its analytic capacities, and oversee the Bureau's crisis management functions, which in the past were part of the Criminal Investigative Division. Both new Divisions will be run by Assistant Directors, who are now being selected.
Director Freeh said that: "Protecting America from terrorism and ensuring our national security are the FBI's highest priorities. The FBI's responsibilities in both of these areas have grown significantly in the last six years. Given the complexity and difficulty of these threats, I have decided that counterterrorism and national security should be handled separately. I also believe that our operational support functions -- such as our international and analytical programs, as well as our crisis management team -- would benefit by grouping them together in an independent entity instead of operating as parts of other divisions. The Attorney General, the Office of Management and Budget, and the appropriate Committees of Congress agreed with this assessment." The reorganization was approved by Congress during the week of October 29, 1999.
"The FBI's new structure will help enable the Bureau to face the challenges of the next millennium," said Attorney General Janet Reno. "The plan reorganizes and appropriately prepares us for the types of threats facing our nation. I commend the Director and his staff for the hard work that went into creating this new plan." In proposing the reorganization, Director Freeh noted that "the FBI must respond to changing threats and needs that involve foreign counterintelligence, espionage, terrorism, domestic preparedness, and infrastructure protection. Especially, we must improve our ability to identify emergent trends and national security concerns by extracting and analyzing existing information from field office files and other records. Our international responsibilities, which affect an increasingly wide spectrum of policy issues, require central coordination. These imperatives underlie my initiative for a new structure at FBI Headquarters. I appreciate the support of the Attorney General and Congress as we continue to implement the changes necessary for the FBI to meet emerging challenges."
The reorganization is a direct outgrowth of the FBI's Strategic Plan, which was adopted in 1998. The Plan identifies counterterrorism and national security as top FBI priorities; it focuses on the need to improve the FBI's capacity for information analysis; and it stresses the importance of active Headquarters management in core concerns, such as espionage and criminal programs. In reorganizing its Headquarters operation, the FBI is giving effect to the principles underlying the Strategic Plan.
For example, the FBI has significantly expanded the number and scope of its counterterrorism efforts in recent years. Before the reorganization, the National Security Division oversaw all of those programs, together with the National Infrastructure Protection Center, the national domestic preparedness initiative, and the Bureau's counterintelligence and counterespionage operations. Although the dramatic increase in resources for counterterrorism programs was consistent with the serious threat that terrorists pose to the safety and property of Americans at home and abroad, the buildup strained the capacity of the National Security Division to adequately support and oversee both the counterterrorism and counterintelligence/espionage programs. Additionally, increased attention to terrorism, while clearly warranted, had the effect of diluting senior management oversight given to the very real, systemic threat posed by espionage to our national security and our technological leadership. In assigning counterterrorism responsibilities to a new division, the FBI will effectively increase the resources applied to managing the FBI's counterintelligence and counterespionage programs. The FBI's national foreign counterintelligence/espionage program will receive the undivided attention of the Assistant Director for the National Security Division. This move is necessary given the growing extent and diversity of traditional and economic espionage threats.
The reorganization will assign the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) and the recently approved National Domestic Preparedness Office to the new Counterterrorism Division. Although incidents involving weapons of mass destruction or attacks on our critical infrastructure have not, to date, originated with terrorist organizations, our contingency planning has identified the threat from terrorism as having the potential for posing the gravest risk to our communities and our infrastructure. Preparing to prevent or control worst case scenarios in the context of counterterrorism has therefore become necessary. The reorganization will place the critical assets involved in potential terrorist events under the operational command of one Assistant Director.
The Investigative Services Division will house a new Information, Analysis and Assessments Branch, drawing on existing components that were previously part of the National Security Division and the Criminal Investigative Division. The new branch will broaden the perspective of its predecessors, extracting information from case files and other existing sources to identify future trends and means of preventing crime and threats to national security. The FBI intends to increase its reliance on information analysts and to devote additional efforts to recruiting highly qualified persons to perform this function. Recent events have demonstrated the need for enhanced analytical capabilities that extend across program lines. This new structure is designed both to maximize the use of existing information for prediction and preventive purposes and to ensure that senior FBI officials are fully cognizant of information critical to fulfilling mission requirements. This will not change any applicable policies, guidelines or laws pertaining to the collection of information, and it preserves all privacy protections presently in place.
The FBI regularly reassesses its capacity to deal with current and future crime, terrorism, espionage, and national security problems. As new challenges arise, we are compelled to reconfigure the resources at our disposal to ensure their best and most efficient use. For example, in 1961 we created a Special Investigations Division to concentrate on organized crime. That division, which remained in existence for 16 years, worked closely with the Department of Justice to dismantle the major organized crime families in America. Its establishment reflected a considered judgement by the FBI that the threat to American society from organized crime merited high-level attention. Based on our assessment of the potential harm from terrorism and foreign intelligence activities, and of our need for improved analytical and international support for our operational divisions, we have concluded that it is essential to establish these two new divisions at FBI Headquarters.
Please, take off the blinders-- we are in an un-Civil War and we don't even know who is on our side!
Too make it even more like George Carlin and his monologue about taking "stuff" wherever you go. FOX NEWS showed the Presidents mountian bikes being offloaded from Air Force one stating that it looked like he planned on doing some Mountain biking.
Who picked those awful out-of-work RINO's? Didn't Daschle choose the Dems supposedly? If so, did Frist or Lott pick the Republicans?
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